Journalistic Video

Valerie Chew

‘Aceh: One Year Later – Childless Village’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/12/22/CU2005122201141.html

This video by Travis Fox on the aftermath of the tsunami is thought provoking. It has excellent shots. However, more interviews with people who have lost their children would serve to paint the situation better. I could not help but wonder what life in this village of Blangme was like before the tsunami. Was the village filled with children? Or was it a small village with little children to start of with? Perhaps a ‘text only’ story could contrast the situation before and after the tsunami better. Then again, without video, we would have missed the expressions on the people’s faces and the sounds (or the lack of) that come from a place without children.