2008.04.11
Video portraits: One year later
Multimedia editor Seth Gitner showed me a few of Richard Avedon's portraits one day and I was struck by their power and intimacy.
We wanted to try something similar using video to tell the story of how people are doing one year after the Virginia Tech shootings.
Working with photographer Justin Cook and a number of reporters in our New River Valley bureau - Greg Esposito, Anna Mallory, Tonia Moxley, Donna Alvis-Banks, Tim Thornton and others - we set out to capture people's thoughts and emotions, "in the spirit of Avedon," for this interactive project.
I edited the video with no cuts and no b-roll. We wanted to hear the words and see the people the way they carried themselves, by how they stood, sat and spoke, for a minute or two. Their eyes looking straight at the camera, we wanted them to have a conversation with you.
