Frontline Video

After watching the two Frontline videos on Bush and Obama’s war, I feel like our own video essay could be structured in a similar way. One thing I noticed initially that could help the production of our own film is that even though each of the episodes addressed the president and the actions that they took in response to war, there was not a sole focus given to their character or story alone. Similar to our thesis, we will not be only addressing the issues in Vietnam but rather using them as evidence to support our overall argument on the textbook controversy.

I also noted that there was a variety of video footage, pictures, interviews and commentary throughout the film to really give viewers a full and unbiased perspective of how each war progressed. In regards to this, I think that we could also consider including more than just interviews and John Stewart-like clippings to argue our point. Even still shots with corresponding music or voiceovers in the background would be an effective way to reach our audience.

Since our topics are obviously being interpreted in a different way where we are taking a more satirical approach, I think that we need to make our interviews a little more light-hearted yet hard-hitting at the same time. At times in the frontline videos i felt like there was a little too much evidence provided in terms of information and details; since we are making this video with different motives, we need to consider keeping things consistent with out message and audience to have the most impact.