Newspaper Video Assignment.

I critiqued theday.com because it is a paper that we get every Sunday back home in CT. I went to the tab that says "multimedia" and the first video that came up upset me. Not in the way that the content was horrifying, but in the way that it was an opinion piece of American Idol and how it is supposedly "driving some to drink". I don't personally think that this video should have been on this newspaper site, maybe more like YouTube.

The next video on this site that I saw was Voluntown Honors a Fallen Marine, Tyler Griffin. I really liked this one. It was just symbolic and it really captured the emotion of this ceremony. I liked that there was only nat sound, and no V/O because it just added to the whole calmness of the video.

I then went to the Norwich Bulletin.com and just happened to find another video of the same topic above; it was another ceremony for the fallen Marine, Tyler Griffin. I watched it and came to the conclusion that I liked it even better than the one on theday.com There were more scenes and more nat sound that I thought fit the topic better.

The next video that I watched was also related to the Voluntown death. This lady talks about how her son died in Vietnam and how she is going to go to the ceremony for Tyler Griffin. This one is really hard to watch because unlike the other two that are just videos of the cars and of the hearse and flags and what not, this one actually has the victims mother in it. You can see her trying to hold back tears, you can see the picture of her son that she is holding. It brings tears to your eyes at the thought that this woman, Grace MarcHurele lost her son at the age of 20.

All in all, I think that the Bulletin has the better videos in their multimedia section and it is the site that I will go to when I need to see a video of some current event.