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Reflection on Digital Story
Zamid Al Amin has created a compelling story about the rise and fall of his dream. The six-minute story weaves a gantlet of emotions, starting off as a triumph of drive and determination to follow his on path, breaking with family tradition and securing a position as a journalist in his home country. This life long passion enabled Zamid to achieve his goal, only to see his dream of becoming a journalist destroyed in the blink of an eye. The rise, climax and subsequent fall of Zamid resonates a tone of familiarity. Similar to popular stories from our youth, the evolution of an event and it is subsequent demise; provide a formula that engages the audience.
The true beauty of Zamid’s story is not the harsh reality of the events, but the tonality of its delivery. Zamid is viewed as beaten and suppressed not pathetic and weak. The imagery of flowing water helps the story convey a sense of natural progression, a commentary on the world that Zamid resides in. Glued together by a musical score that invokes the internal pain and struggle that Zamid must feel, the narration and corresponding imagery presents a strong persona, echoing the initial theme of the story of never give up.
A masterpiece. Zamid has taken the medium of digital story telling, coupled it with compelling journalism and comprised a commentary on the drive of personal achievement and its relationship with the world around him.
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