Link: “Empty Justice: Crime on Montana’s Reservations”

Anne provides us with this link to a multimedia feature produced by an honors student at the UM journalism school called "Empty Justice: Crime on Montana's Reservations."

In Anne's words:

I was immediately drawn in by the sounds and text in the first shot, and I thought the young father who spoke on camera next was really compelling. I also thought it was interesting how this piece mixes audio, video, still shots, and text. Ultimately, jumping back and forth between these different techniques was distracting to me personally, and I'm curious what others think. Would it have been better to choose just several formats and stick to them throughout the piece, or did this eclectic format work for others?

(To clarify, Anne's commenting on the video about the Blackfeet. There appear to be similar videos for all of the groups and tribes listed in the navigation bar at the top of the site.)

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One Comment

  1. Posted June 10, 2009 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

    I actu­ally found quite a few things to say about this video. First of all, I liked the inter­view scenes, espe­cially the one with the for­mer police­man. I thought that in the sec­ond time we see him, the closeup of his face was really good.

    I have to agree about the still pho­tog­ra­phy. In the mid­dle of a piece that’s been entirely video, the stills were jolt­ing and out of place. I can under­stand that maybe they couldn’t shoot video that day or that per­haps the video wasn’t com­pelling enough, but I still think includ­ing the stills through off the rhythm of the piece.

    Now for the titles, the onscreen text... Too many! I didn’t remem­ber much of that infor­ma­tion after watch­ing. I remem­bered the stuff that the peo­ple on cam­era told me, but the text flew by, seem­ing unim­por­tant. Plus, the way the film­maker tried to punc­tu­ate using the text on a black back­ground almost par­o­died the somber mood I think he was going for.

    Any why is the drum­mer talk­ing at the end? He doesn’t have much of a con­nec­tion to the story, and if he does, it wasn’t fleshed out enough for me to want to hear him speak. Better, I think, would have been to just let him play and note him in the end credits.

    In all, good length. Good sub­ject mat­ter but the onscreen titles were a crutch for the sto­ry­teller here.

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