Before attempting to comment on these video essay. I found a youtube informatonal page in which lectured me on what exactly it was. Here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXKGNQg0M7c
After watching it and seeing the few videos in class. I became instantly interested in what they were. Listening to a plain ole essay from someone in front of a class is becoming obsolete in our growing technological society. The idea of having moving images, people speaking, words backed up by words draws our viewers/ listeners in stronger.
Watching Reading by Delillo was compelling to my attention because it was exciting to know this family or friends of an astronaut was proud of their son's accomplishments, but it went down hill after the explosion. Now having visuals and people crying in the background, to me, is stronger than having a person read off paragraphs. It's stronger now because as we listen, we feel the emotion of the pain of what went on that day. We probably would have never felt the same realism from reading it on paper.
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