Thursday, October 9, 2014

Web vs. TV

Three stories based on soccer fanatic, Indie Cowie, give an audience a "wow" appeal with an interesting story on a young prodigy. Indie was gifted with an incredible soccer ability and a drive to be the best. Based on three stories: one created by ESPN, the other by NY Times, and the last by a high school tv network, the best was the longest.

The second web story was easily the best story. With much thought into it, greater detail and a story the viewer can grasp at all directions, it blew the other two out of the water. However, the videos all share certain qualities. They all compose video of her practicing and doing many tricks, it appears her answers on all interviews are very similar but detailed and well said, and they mainly focus on her incredible focus that takes place and how she sacrifices so much.

They all are different in certain ways as well. They all take completely different angles for each story. The ESPN takes a lighter approach for entertainment. The NY Times gives a full story in depth. The TV story is up front reporting and very "newsy".

Basically web videos are meant to portray a story and have different effects to it. You can easily see how the tv segment used standup reporting and went from report to interview as if you were watching the six o'clock news. The web stories took either a "pizazz" route or the in-depth story route. Tv jumps from story to story and then back to the anchor, but as a web story, it can take on any angle and it is a single segment meant for the website only.

Certain elements, such as the standup report or the great attention to detail could be added into packages or stories for my own personal work. A lot of natural noise threw it together and I believe emulating that into a package can be essential. Different shots along with detailed interviews describing what the person is doing in the shot. For instance, Indie describes her tricks and the amount of time it took to master them and then the shot of her doing the trick would display along a caption. Little attention to detail becomes very important to a package.

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