Today when I was choosing which C-SPAN video to write about, I was going to choose some videos that are more related to my ethnicity. However, I ended up choosing this video, Retirement and Health Care Issues, to write about. Why? It's not specific to any ethnicity, and I have not even started working yet, which makes the issue of retirement seem too far away for me to concern. Well, what really interests me is not the content of the video, but how this video was produced as well as how its elements were presented.
To begin with, I chose this video because it's a call-in video. None of the C-SPAN videos that I watched before contains this element. I found that the call-in period of this video very interesting because anchors and people in the show never know what will happen and what those call-in people will say. For example, the first call-in audience in this portion that I embed was forced to hang up because his dog was barking and made his questions hard to hear. Maybe some people will say watching this is completely wasting their time because we could hardly hear what the person was saying. However, in the setting in which everyone addresses his or her opinion so expressively and clear, a call-in portion in which a dog was barking in the background makes the video more humanized, and it further demonstrates that it's live.
Also, as I watched this video, I noticed that the editor made this video more comprehensive by adding a lot of visual aids. Take the portion that I embed in here for instance. While the anchor and Lawrence Hunter taking the second phone call, Hunter found that he was not able to explain why the audience's brother received the money from the State government, but he suggested that people who had the same questions could go to their website and look for answers. When he mentioned the website, we saw a video shot of the real website in which the pictures were still moving.
Compared to other C-SPAN videos that I watched before, the content of this video may not seem so interesting to me, but the format and the call-in element more than enough make up for it. I learned a lot from this video, mostly about the call-in portion and the visual aids. If I'm editing a video in the future, I will definitely consider what I learn today from this C-SPAN video.
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