Great video and touching story...

I found this video on the New York Times' website by accident the other day...

Apart from just being a good example of video, the story is interesting and heart warming--good example of a human interest story and very unique. The video is about a 17-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh named Harunur Rashid. He has had a long and trying journey to get to where he now is with his life in the U.S.--this video tells his story.

I'm sure there are some things that could be improved--mainly small technical aspects. For example, there are a few frames that are zoomed in around Rashid's teacher a little too close. In a still frame, we would say that the crop "scalped" her. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but I don't think I like it. The volume is on different levels in some frames as well which kind of bothered me--I'd like to hear the volume for different frames close to the same level.

I do, however, love the story and the way that it's told. It's similar to the video we watched the other day in class about New Orleans shrimping in that the photographer uses different narrators to tell the story, successfully. If it were Rashid or his guardian telling the entire story it may take the whole piece down a few notches because they are difficult to understand.

Just thought y'all would enjoy this...Hope you like it!