Radiolab and NPR Present Words

Our class viewed this a few weeks ago, but I still find this a remarkable video.

There are transitions in each shot, from word to word. But when we watched Graphical Film Editing in class, there were also connections between the visuals as well.

Each shot only lasts a few seconds long, but convey so much and connects to the next. This was cleverly created, and when there seemed to be no connection with the words, there was one with the visuals. An example would be at around the 1 minute mark, there's a man who splits a piece of wood from the word 'break' and the next visual is of a girl doing the splits. It smartly uses the visuals and connections in order to introduce the next word.

Words is such a vague idea of meanings. What made this such an interesting and strong video is the different interpretations of each word that can connect to each other.