Video from NYTimes.com

Thanyarat Doksone


I watched a video report produced by NYTimes.com about how the dry northern region of China attempted to make use of the excessive water supply in the South. The piece was neatly created, the clips flew with the script and additional still images were added when necessary.

In video, you can what is going on in real size without having to use your imagination, which can frequently be wrong. Like this report, the reporter talked about a water transfer project from the North to the South of China, titled to be the biggest one in the history of the world. Had I not seen the construction site shown in the video, I could hardly estimate the immense size of the project. While the text script only described the effect they faced from a toxic water resource, the video also gave visual images of the way the villagers in the dry North lived.

I also think the reporter did a great job in adding some map images to explain the river directions and the project line to let the viewers understand the story better. I think it is really important that this type of clarification presented to the viewers in the context they may not be familiar with.