The video we watched in class yesterday, which was about a young woman and her family’s experience after she got caught up in sex trafficking, really showed me how creative you can get with video even in a journalistic setting.

In particular, the animation used to tell the young girl’s story (which clearly was not captured on video) really resonated with me. It reminded me a lot of the animation sequence used in one of the last Harry Potter movies…honestly it could even be the same director or artist.

I think it’s a genius idea on how to recite a story without hiring actors or others to reenact it, which connects with viewers on a much less effective scale. The dark figures, which are also in the video, represent the darkness that occurred during the terrifying four days that the girl was separated from her home.

I have always considered myself a creative/artistic person , and therefore it’s a challenge sometimes to keep my mind in a “journalistic” mode. This video gave me hope that I could find a career doing something artistic or innovative, but still in journalism, which inspires me but leaves out some of my true passions. I can’t find the video to embed in this post right now, but I wanted to write about it since the directing intrigued me.