Video Analysis: Photojournalism Connections by Stolte - Essay Example

While photojournalists are assigned the task of “recording current events or situations to preserve them for the future» (Stolte, 2005, p.32), they need good reporting skills to capture the most informative and meaningful moments that would eventually ‘speak’ for themselves. In the documentary clip devoted to the community festival aimed at fundraising for the local radio in Perth, we see the balanced interplay of photojournalistic elements and recorded narration of the radio presenter, with the latter’s speech receiving immediate visual support of the photo material created by the photojournalists – from the studio environment the character from the video works into the outdoor community festival photos.

The viewer would be able to obtain rather sufficient information about the event even with the smaller amount of speaking on the part of the radio presenter: the range of pictures has an organized sequence and well-captured moments: dancing, martial arts demonstration, singing, food fair and so on. However, audio support provided by the speaker adds more information and raises the informative value of the video clip, for the radio presenter gives detailed comments on what is going on in the pictures.