A Photo J Student

Here’s a slideshow profiling the Twice As Nice resale shop off of the square.

This Washington Post piece is well done.

I guess some might grumble about the lack of natural sound, but I think it was edited that way intentionally. The eerie stillness of the environmental shots (both movement-wise and sound-wise) helps the viewer get the point quickly: it’s a dead neighborhood. I think somber piano music, like in some pieces I’ve seen, would have made it moodier, but I think that would be manipulative. The silence does a good job of telling the story.

The story kind of meanders and doesn’t really move forward, but it adds to the feel that this lady has an uneventful, wandering over to the one neighbor’s house kind of life. If this was the reporter’s intention, then this works well.

What doesn’t work well is the shaky-cam shots. They’re a bit distracting and come across as shoddy camera work.

True, not much happens in the piece, but isn’t that the point?