2008 Memorial Day video

Posted: May 27, 2008

Here is a video I did this weekend for The Alligator. I’m kind of upset that I haven’t been proactive enough to get more of these done so far, but I have a LOT on my plate for this first half of the summer—lots of work, lots of school and lots of Alligator.

This video was about a memorial the Gainesville, Fla., chapter of the Veterans for Peace and some volunteers put together for memorial day. The memorial consisted of rows of four cardboard graves. Each row was 48 inches apart. All together, the memorial came out to be a mile long—more than 4,000 dead.

The video came out alright. My thinking behind the way I edited it was that I started off with a shot of me and my cousin driving down this mile-long memorial to all the soldiers that have been killed during the war on “terror.”

It took a little more than a minute to drive down and see the entire memorial, so I edited the video around that. I made that shot my base track, so that it pops back up from time to time. The idea was for the viewer to see how long the memorial was by realizing that all those interviews were seen in the span of time it took me to ride along the entire memorial. It was a fun idea, I thought. Let me know if it translated well.

There was a print story that went along with my video that my classmate, Chris Hayes, wrote. He’s also going to be working in the online department at the Alligator this summer.

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