The International Gossiper IN VIDEO

Video allows for a familiar combination of images and sounds.  When images and sounds are combined, the viewer is put directly into the world of the video.  It's the similarity to real life that makes video so successful; people want the closest experience to real life.  The closer a medium gets to conveying all five senses, the more popular it will become; as audio involved one sense, hearing, as video involved two senses, seeing and hearing.  Now I think that it would be quite humorous how a new medium would incoporate smell, touch, and taste!  Not sure that would be all too successful.  But the point is that video perfectly blends sounds and images allow for the most amount of information to be sent to the viewer's brain to be processed.

In my video I decided to let the collage of images and audio to tell the story.  In the beginning of my video I thought that I would continue on the theme of gossip and how it relates to Julian Assange and the Wikileaks controversy.  In the 60 Minutes interview with Julian Assange, the interviewer tells Assange that he has "made some of the most powerful people in the world your enemies"  This relates clearly how gossip causes enemies in the way that Assange's exposure of government officials can cause enemies.  From here on the video shows various government leaders who happen to be criticised heavily by the Wikileaks information.  I showed some strong reaction from U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, the Australian foreign minister, and talk show host, Michael Savage (during the still images of the Iraqi helicopter attack).  I ended the video by having Assange defend his case that the leaked documents from Wikileaks have not harmed anyone in any way. 

The video makes full circle by starting with Assange justifying his point, then by hearing a warning that he's making enemies through his information, followed by showing the international leaders that may become he enemies if they're not already are, and finally closing by having Assange defend his documentation of the leaked information.