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.