Thursday, March 12, 2009

Video Story Response - J.T. Burns

The video I watched was "National Guard Prepares for Duty" on KOMU.  

I thought this story was very well suited for the video format.  It dealt with some members of the National Guard who were being deployed to Afghanistan.  It was beneficial to the story to be able to see the faces of the soldiers and their families as they were preparing to say goodbye for a year overseas.  If this was simply a text story, this emotional connection between the reader and the story would be gone.  Although I enjoyed this story, I would have liked to get a few more perspectives from soldiers, as the story only had a couple.  Overall, I did get an emotional response from this story, and I thought it was presented well. 

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