Slug & Lede

The video I watched was about Geocachers in Nevada who hide and find treasures using GPS coordinates. Geocachers may hide a “cache” of something, be it a small treasure or box filled with things, then punch in the GPS coordinates of where they hid it and post it online for other people to find. This video focuses on a group trying to find a cache that someone else had posted on the internet. The video is fairly short and I was disappointed by that. I feel as though it did a good job explaining what it was, but it didn’t give us much of the experience of doing it.

The video does have good wide shots of people trying to find treasures and does some nice tilt shots from the rocks looking up at people cascading the mountains and also looking down at a woman talking to another man. The wide shots really capture how cast the wilderness is in Nevada and the territory they are working with. The also do a nice panning shot of people walking along a ridge after an interview.

The closest shots are those of the people they interview. The interview a man named Lynn Storton who is the Geocacher coordinator and the camera does a nice job of framing him sitting on the rocks while he speaks. It gives the viewer a good feeling of the atmosphere and surroundings. The other interview is with a woman named Judi McDonald, a geocacher in the group. They focus on her a bit throughout the video, but I feel the footage of her giving the interview is too shaky and doesn’t frame her well. While she is in the first “third” of the shot, her head is a bit cut off.

The do eventually show what a cache looks like, but it’s a mere few seconds towards the end of the video. I wish they would’ve shown us more of the entire process. The interviews were good from the coordinator’s stand point to a person who is just a fan of participating in the fun. Overall, it was a nice video.