Motel Manor

This slideshow did a very good job of combining the narrative with natural sound and pictures. The pictures depicted what the people were talking about without being distracting or repetitive. The sound was good as well: I think it worked to have noises like someone knocking on the door and the baby crying, just to put the listener in the right mindset. It helped to set the scene for discussions about families and life in a motel. The overall tone was sort of depressed and hopeless, and I think that the audio and the photos helped to highlight that tone.


On Patrol with "America's Battalion"

This was another well put-together slideshow. I think that the background noises, the helicopters and shouts, etc. were essential to placing the audience in the context of the story. It was good to have a couple different people talking so that you had different viewpoints. I think that perhaps the most compelling part of this piece for me was when they were showing all the close-ups of the different people in the battalion. It just hit home that these are real people that the enemy is shooting at. It gave faces to the voices in a powerful way.