Monday, November 8, 2010

Good Video Story

Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/1004/She-recruited-Facebook-friends-to-save-Gulf-Coast-s-hermit-crabs

This human interest piece has all the makings for a compelling one or two minute news video. First of all, it's primary setting is the beaches of Grand Isle on the Gulf Coast so it offers up oodles of natural sound, tide rolling in, seagulls, all of that ear music. Visually it would be just as appealing with, our heroine, in this case Leanne Sarco who recruited volunteers through Facebook to help save neglected hermit crabs, the crabs themselves scurrying to freedom and all of the volunteers helping out in whatever way they can. It's definitely a video segment you could see at the end of a nightly news segment about people making a difference. These altruistic stories almost always make for good eye candy, and anytime a beach and plenty of human and animal actors are involved, it screams video.

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