Minesota Stories: an interesting look at the Twin Cities
Check out this story here: http://www.mnstories.com/archives/2006/09/keith_ellison_v.html
On the web site"Minnesota Stories", Vlogers from all over the country, but mostly Minnesota, post their video blogs. The one thing these varying vlogs have in common is that they all have some relation to Minnesota and the Twin Citiees area.
The Vlog I watched was titled "Keith Ellison Victoy". Fort those of you who do not know Keith Ellison, he is the State Representative who won the Minnesota Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives 5th District on September 12th. The most distinguishing characteristic about the man is that he is a Black Muslim. If he wins race, he would become the first Muslim ever to serve in the House of Representatives.
The vlog details his victory party with news articles from various news websites, a streamed broadcast of his victory speech and a view from someone in the crowd at his victory party.
I thought the still frames of the news articles telling of his victory were a nice, classy way of adding hype to the message to the audience.
The streamed Internet footage the author used was filmed with a hand cam. This gives the footage the effect of being older than it is. The sound is a bit distorted as well as the picture. When I saw this, it reminded me of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech". It seemed like that might have been the author's intent: to compare Ellison to King, both of whom are black (obviously).
The first person, Point-of-View footage used by the author gives the viewer a look at what it could have been like to be at the event.
The vlog ends with scenes from a bar in downtown Minneapolis. The scene is full of happy dancers and other celebrators
I thought the vlog was a good way to give viewing audiences a feel for the moment of the victory of Democrat Keith Ellison. The overall quality isn't the best, but you shouldn't expect too much from amateur A/V enthusiasts.