Exploring Multi Media

One audio that I particularly enjoyed while I was exploring the web was on the web site, Hearing Voices. It was called Mahmoon Palace and it was a short story on soldiers in Iraq that live in a palace in a town where Saddam Hussein lived. I thought that this was a powerful because when the audio first begins, it is with the tour of the palace and you can hear them walking through the palace as they begin to speak. I also liked the way they ended the audio with the same walking sounds. I thought that when the Sargent talked about "boredom" and how that is their biggest threat was so interesting, which leads him to talk about video games and how the video games teach them about real life combat. I thought that the background music corresponded with the subjects that were being discussed. It was a powerful piece because the Sargent talks about how they are just visitors of this palace, even though they live in it everyday, and how the Iraq government will let it continue to fall apart.

When I was looking at the photos in the New York Time's Lens website, I thought that the Egypt and Cairo pictures did a great job at showing views every side of what is going on half way across the world. There were photos of demonstrators fighting back, of police riding in the trunk of police cars, a birds eye view of all the thousands of demonstrators and a powerful picture of people all praying and one man standing up in the crowd. I thought that with everything going on in Cairo, Len's did a good job portraying the whole picture.

The multi-media project that I enjoyed was the USAtoday Five Years Later piece. I thought that it started off the project with a perfect quote, and then moved into the video, which showed us before, during and after still pictures that really captured what had happened during hurricane Katrina. I also thought that the next video about nature reclaiming New Orleans after humans did not return. I thought the footage of the houses being taken over by vegetation was a different aspect of Katrina that I did not know existed. I thought the then and now pictures were not only incredible to see, but they too were unique. It shows you that a lot has been done in New Orleans, but more things still need to be done. I thought that is was also a good idea that they included the interactive maps so you could learn all about the areas and the progress that is being made.