I will admit that before today I couldn’t say I had a favorite multimedia piece. Maybe I just have a poor memory, but no audio slideshow or video clip has made it into my long-term memory bank.
So, for this assignment, I set to work searching for a new favorite, and after pouring over what felt like upwards of 50 videos and slideshows and audio clips, I came to the conclusion that this class has made me extraordinarily critical. Everything I saw I criticized, which made it difficult to find a favorite.
Some were too long, even for me, and I have a passion for news and images. Some were poorly put together. I don’t like when the sounds of children don’t match up with the pictures of them playing. Some had no ambient sound at all, which left the pieces feeling dry, even with incredibly interesting subjects.
All said and done, I did pick a favorite. It is this story called “Praying for the Rain” by duckrabbit, which I discovered is a journalism/multimedia organization in the UK. This piece has its imperfections (like I said, nothing meets my standards anymore), but I appreciate the art and the power of it. I also like the quality of the images, the use of ambient sound, and the recurring piano music, though I’m not quite sure where the music comes from. It’s way too long, some parts of the audio are hard to understand and should have been edited out, and at times the sequence of narration is hard to follow. But I do like the way it shows a reality that a mere print story would never be able to.
No comments:
Post a Comment