SpikeyEm

Emily Sweeney, reporter for the Boston Globe, came to talk to Reinventing The News on Wednesday, November 5. Sweeney, a former Northeasern graduate, is a master video editor and has honed a niche at the Globe doing so.

Her videos are fun and definitely appeal to a certain audience. In fact, with the effects and sound, they remind me of early MTV videos. I particularly enjoyed Boston Slang, not only because I could identify with many of the words used (I could always stop conversations during my time at the University of Kentucky with one usage of the word wicked as an adverb), but also for the complex video techniques used during the video. It kind of makes me want to try doing a video like that on my own (it seems like you take a lot of b-roll and match up the vocal to an image that matches it.)