Video Story

I watched a video on the New York Times webpage about the upcoming democratic primary in Ohio, (this was on Sunday before the primary took place) where an incredibly close race between Clinton and Obama is going on. This video looked at different aspects of their campaigns, as well as their families’ speeches and campaigning. It focused a lot on how each candidate is campaigning and showed footage from each of their advertisements and speeches. This piece worked as a video story because the reporter was able to talk about advertisements, for example, and then is able to literally show a part of the advertisement he was referring to in order to fully emphasize his point. The only problem I had with this story was that I think there could have been a way to make this issue more compelling to the audience, because this is an issue that has been covered and will continue to be covered for months, so it would have been nice if the reporter found a more interesting angle to focus on. This story would be a different story if it were a text story, because many of the aspects that made this piece work would not have been present.