Sunday, March 9, 2008

Body Found on Dry Ice

I watched a video on cnn.com about a body that was found in a hotel on dry ice. There was little variety of shots in the piece. They kept showing shots of the hotel, and the sign of the hotel. There was also one interview, and some random footage of a man walking near the hotel. A voice over describing the suspect was being done as the back of the head of a random man was shown walking near the hotel. I thought it was kind of a weird way to tell the story, as if to suggest that this man was the suspect. It was obvious that there was little to shoot in this story, and I think the story could have been told better in print. Video footage of people talking is not that interesting, and neither is the same shot of the same building being shown in almost the same way. The piece was less than two minuets long, but I was already bored within the first 15 seconds. 

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