Friday, November 21, 2008

On the Boston.com education section there are many interactive features. They have a lot of stories that you can look at and go through the different parts, and for many of them there are videos to accompany them. There are also slide shows of for stories like the English High one.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/gallery/022108_englishhigh/

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

NY Times Videos

We watched several videos on the New York Times website and looked at the shot composition, narration,and editing.I picked one called America's Disappearing Forests http://video.on.nytimes.com/. It's about a tree epidemic caused by the mountain pine beetle. It has lots of different shot like one zoomed up on a worker cutting a tree and then it zooms back out as the tree falls. It has a narrator almost the whole time and some interviews like one where the camera is focused on something he's holding instead of his face.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

New York Times- The Election

The New York Times web site has many different features for it's coverage of the 2008 election. It has time-lines for Obama's and McCain's lives that you can click on and look and videos of them and read about their lives and accomplishments. My favorite feature is a map of all the states that show which ones were won by which candidates. If you click on a state, you can zoom in and see which counties voted for which candidate. It also shows the same thing for the past four elections.