Thursday, March 12, 2009

visual and audible stories.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/globalfoodcrisis/marginsvideo.html

This video approaches the themes of food crisis which swept in the early of last year in a very simple way. Fox illustrated the food shortage happening in the global by depicting the one family's struggle caused by the lack of food. The family's daily life is so affected by the food crisis that it is very certain what this reporting is about. Father in this family sells the last goat he owns to purchase food. Even thought the narration of the videographer interrupts the emotional impact on me, the variety of the pictures and interviews still influence me to recognize how badly the food shortage occurs. 
 I think that it is hard to figure out how this story would be different if it were 'text only' story because obviously there is no same 'text only' story which we can. Instead of saying how the 'text only' story would be different from the visual story like this, it is said that the visual and audible story makes audience think that the story made by video can't tell a lie due to their understanding that the video can't be manipulated intentionally by the videographers. 
And, the emotional effect created by the visual and audible story sometimes makes it easier for audiences to understand the story. The emotional effect occurs immediately after the story is heard to audiences. Without the interfere of the rationale processing in human's brain, the instant effect goes into the perception of what the story is presenting. 

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