In an extremely moving piece, Matsui uses audio, interviews, video and photography to focus on the informational side rather than personal stories. The project was well mixed with video and photography starting out with a video and title text that I would like to incorporate into my final project.
For more dramatic text throughout the story, white letters appeared on a black background. The words were statistics, countries, or info clips. While this was extremely effective for the dramatic mood of the presentation, it is inappropriate for my project. The music throughout the piece was also fitting as was the speed of the photographs in accordance with the music.
Aside from the video at the beginning, the only other video was interview clips. To be honest, watching someone talk is much less appealing than having audio superimposed over pictures or other video. I will have no direct interview video in my project. The only part of this story I disliked was the too-quick transition from a sad story to happy, to sad again. Feeling a bit bipolar, at the end, I didn’t know if I should feel hopeful or cheerless. I will make sure my transitions in my project are clear.
Technically, the ability to hide the play/pause buttons and status bar is something I would like to learn. As a naturally distracted person, I catch myself looking at status bars instead of focusing on what I am watching. Is this possible in Flash?
The design of the story is very simple, with a white background and logo at the top of the page, and a small, informational sentence at the bottom of the page.
