Rescuing A Bird

Link: World Vision Report "Rescuing the Bird"

Title of Feature: Rescuing the Bird

Who produced the Feature: Kelsey Timmerman-World vision report



Length of the Feature: 4 min, 19 sec


Describe Feature:
This feature is mainly about a Buddhist tradition in Cambodia where releasing a bird and giving it its freedom is meant to take away all the sorrow a person may feel. The reporter watches a bird seller as he takes money from a lady and in return gives her a black bird she prays and sets the bird free. The reporter watched the bird afterwards until he saw the bird falling into the sea so he looked for the man who sold the bird who at that time had sold another bird and had just released it and as the reporter watches, the bird man stalks the bird with a stick in his hand and some kind of glue over it. The man sticks the stick to the bird, takes the bird, and puts it back into the cage. At that point the reporter decides to give some kids a dollar if they would save the drowning bird and they agreed but as the reporter turns the bird man is right in front of him and at that moment the bird man goes into the sea, swims, and saves the bird by sticking it onto his head where it wont move and swims back. 
Both of them thank each other and then the bird man gives the reporter a bird as a “thank you” for the dollar the reporter gave the little kids.


Was the feature interesting?
To me the feature was very interesting as I am very eager to know about small details that cultures have. Not only that, I am as well a big fan of Buddha so such information fascinated me. Moreover, the fact that the bird man reuses the birds was quiet funny like in my opinion that act of releasing sorrow by releasing the bird is psychological it would just help psychologically.
That feature not only had interesting text, but music as well it felt like I could see how it looks like even though I have never been to Cambodia.

Quality of Sound/ Nat Sound:
Using bits and pieces of improvised Cambodian music was very influential. Not only that, the kids playing and the water splashing however the water splash did not sound real to me the whole story had Nat sound that made me have a clear picture of how its like there and it as well made me feel like I am there.


Quality of the Announcer’s voice:
The announcer’s voice was very compatible to the mood of the story. For example, the pace is the same throughout the story but it goes with the story and the music. However, his articulation is not as good because there were words that I couldn’t hear after the forth time of listening to it. Like for example when he said, if the woman cares the bird she just released. Not only that, it was not also clear to me when he described the process of putting the bird down off of the tree.

Was the Feature too long/ short?
For me the story was neither long or short as all information I had in mind were given all answers to my questions as well and before I got bored the story was in its last second.
If the story was shorter it would have been too short and vise versa. By far this is the best story time wise I have read recently.