Baghdad Tour

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Melissa Worden

“Baghdad Tour,” part of Washingtonpost.com’s “America at War” series, shows readers what it’s like to patrol the streets of Baghdad via five video vignettes (the longest is 3:19) and a video introduction.

I love that this is map-based so I better understand where these locations are and in relation to each other. Each of the videos is quite interesting to watch (you can resize them to be bigger, too), and I appreciate being able to see each of these snippets of their lives — some shot/edited in an intimate way, such as the home-movie quality of Camp Victory.

One nitpick: All the text at the beginning of the video is mostly repeated underneath it when on the smaller size setting. Too many words. I’d rather see the text to the bottom/side of the video only.

Credits: Reporting by Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post; video editing by Jonathan Forsythe and Chet Rhodes, washingtonpost.com; design and production by Nelson Hsu, washingtonpost.com.

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Success for reporter-shot but mostly tell, not SHOW | News Videographer on July 13th, 2007 1:06 pm

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