Barber Tales and Linking Gaza To The Outside World Comparison.

The two videos, “Linking Gaza To The Outside World” and  “Barber’s Tales” both are new with interviews to bring the story forward, however, there are several differences between the two videos, regarding how they are portrayed to the audience along with the interviewee being present or not. Starting with the Gaza video, it is portrayed as a piece of news that has been formatted with the traditional news story settings. There is an interviewer that we cannot see, who is describing to the viewers who he is, what his job is and what he is doing, narrating all the while as the story goes, showing the underground tunnel and the smugglers, who are working to bring goods to those who need it in Palestine. The tone of the news is serious with no dressing up of the facts as they are being given. It is informative and straightforward. Pace is steady with a beat between the narrator speaking as the video goes on from scene to scene, each four to five seconds before switching to another scene.

With the barber’s video, it is polished and dressed up to entertain as well as to inform viewers. It is like light news with the invisible narrator. There is no self-introduction and there is music in the background, giving this video a commercial like feel. There are not one but two or several narrators, some being male and others female, as it is difficult to tell if the accents are the same or not. The news is given with the interviewers hidden as they narrate their stories. A sense of lightness is given and even humorous as each barbershop’s owner gives the background as they talk about their business and its significance to them and the community. Pacing is slow and becomes slightly faster as each interview passes, with the last one in Hong Kong, China being slight longer than the Beirut interview. It is almost like advertising the places as well as introducing and informing the public about the barbers.  It is a nice way to present light news to the public.