Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
team 5
Here is the link to our final project, Weird and Wacky Sports of Austin.
http://2010.texasangle.com/5/
http://2010.texasangle.com/5/
Sunday, November 7, 2010
National Geographic's Capture of the Festival of Lights
"In India, one of the most significant festivals is Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. It's a five-day celebration that includes good food, fireworks, colored sand, and special candles and lamps."
Monday, November 1, 2010
Chupacabra
This is a pretty simple video, but I think did an all-right job with the video and audio. They do a pan shot and some establishing shots of the animal and scientists before they zoom in on the animal. This happens as they reveal more to the story (the part about the scabies). As they wind up the story, they show pictures of the chupacabra on the poster and then a sign that illustrates their point about the answer of what the chupacabra. This is a pretty basic video, but they include the basic fundamentals of video.
The screen shots, on the other hand could be improved. They don't use very photo/image quality. They don't really use any creative shots that play with dimension and most of the shots are centered on the frame. The still images leave a lot to be desired.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
VBS video on Aokigahara Forest in Japan
As a magazine, I find Vice to be too overbearingly "hip." I feel like it tries too hard to be gritty and in-your-face. However, the news content is pretty remarkable. Vice has a knack for finding stories you really wouldn't find in any other news forum, and for tackling subjects that are obscure but fascinating. Vice's online "channel" is home to mini-documentaries and interviews on topics and with people you've never heard of before, but are mesmerized with by the time you're done watching.
The following video is on Aokigahara Forest in Japan, the site of a startling number of suicides. It's an incredibly unconventional topic for a news-feature video, but it's humanizing and gives you a glimpse of a part of the world you might never otherwise have seen. It's a really tragic story, and it brings into stark light a subject that is usually ignored or not discussed.
The website wasn't allowing me to embed the video, so here's the link: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news/aokigahara-suicide-forest-v3--2
The following video is on Aokigahara Forest in Japan, the site of a startling number of suicides. It's an incredibly unconventional topic for a news-feature video, but it's humanizing and gives you a glimpse of a part of the world you might never otherwise have seen. It's a really tragic story, and it brings into stark light a subject that is usually ignored or not discussed.
The website wasn't allowing me to embed the video, so here's the link: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news/aokigahara-suicide-forest-v3--2
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
A 200-pound mess of a video
So this is an example of a bad video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/09/30/sotvo.ia.huge.melons.kttc
First of all, there's no clear point to the video.
Yes it's a HUGE watermelon and that's cool, but why should we care? Does he plan to eat it with a hundred people, enter it at the county fair or hurl it at something? Is he trying to break a world record? There's no context in the video.
Then there's the technical aspects of the video. What of that awkward white noise while there's a closeup of the fruit? Also, there's sudden breaks in dialogue and therefore sound, all throughout the video. The quality itself of the video is also not good, the camera shakes too much. I thought the absence of noise was just on my computer but turns out, it's part of the video.
But the end is by far the worst characteristic of the video. It ends, just like that, in mid-sentence รก la Sopranos series finale, which is very unprofessional.
After looking at the accompanying article, it's clear that this story was better fit for print and pictures rather than a video.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/09/30/sotvo.ia.huge.melons.kttc
First of all, there's no clear point to the video.
Yes it's a HUGE watermelon and that's cool, but why should we care? Does he plan to eat it with a hundred people, enter it at the county fair or hurl it at something? Is he trying to break a world record? There's no context in the video.
Then there's the technical aspects of the video. What of that awkward white noise while there's a closeup of the fruit? Also, there's sudden breaks in dialogue and therefore sound, all throughout the video. The quality itself of the video is also not good, the camera shakes too much. I thought the absence of noise was just on my computer but turns out, it's part of the video.
But the end is by far the worst characteristic of the video. It ends, just like that, in mid-sentence รก la Sopranos series finale, which is very unprofessional.
After looking at the accompanying article, it's clear that this story was better fit for print and pictures rather than a video.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Video
I looked for awhile, but I can't find the original source for this video. I stumbled across it on Youtube. The story told in the video is remarkable, but if the man was standing in a crowded street and interviewed I don't think it would have been nearly as touching. The different camera angles and portion of video where he plays his trumpet really highlight the video. Also, the director uses the rule of thirds throughout the clip.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
News Video: New York Times
New York Times News Video called "Taming the City of God"
-I really enjoyed this video because it had a great number and variety of interviews. I especially liked the interview with the man who's brother was killed by the police. It was really great reporting that they found him and then showed how he has come full circle to trust the modern day police.
-The story is well told giving the viewer background and history of former police violence in Rio De Janeiro. Then it gets into the full story, provides interviews to support it (along with matching broll) and leaves the viewer thinking with a question at the end of the story.
-I also think the broll is excellent! There is a wide variety of shots that capture the element of the story and supports what the interviewees are saying.
The Power of Design: Do you like Gap's new logo?
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/companies/gap_logo/
Marka Hansen, president of Gap North America, defended the logo on The Huffington Post Thursday, writing in a blog post that the move brings Gap into the modern age.
"We want our customers to take notice of Gap and see what it stands for today," she said. "We chose this design as it's more contemporary and current. It honors our heritage through the blue box while still taking it forward."
Marka Hansen, president of Gap North America, defended the logo on The Huffington Post Thursday, writing in a blog post that the move brings Gap into the modern age.
"We want our customers to take notice of Gap and see what it stands for today," she said. "We chose this design as it's more contemporary and current. It honors our heritage through the blue box while still taking it forward."
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
News Page- GMAD
GMAD
I picked GoodMusicAllDay because I visit it every day for new music. The layout is clean and simple with a menu bar at the top that is easy to navigate. Also, once you scroll down you see the music which you can skip around on with the music player.
I like the website because it has free songs for download and a ton of mix tapes that come out every week.
News Page--NME
http://www.nme.com
This is the website of the NME (New Musical Express), a very popular British music magazine. They are known as a source for online music news and are very reputable.
It's one of my favorite websites, but because of the content more than the layout. Look at how many links, pictures and videos are on the main page. There's a lot of information, but an overwhelming amount of it.
Overall, I like the font choices and layout structure of the page, it just needs to have way less content on the homepage. It makes it cluttered and hard to find information.
This is the website of the NME (New Musical Express), a very popular British music magazine. They are known as a source for online music news and are very reputable.
It's one of my favorite websites, but because of the content more than the layout. Look at how many links, pictures and videos are on the main page. There's a lot of information, but an overwhelming amount of it.
Overall, I like the font choices and layout structure of the page, it just needs to have way less content on the homepage. It makes it cluttered and hard to find information.
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