Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute, an amazing center for journalists, shared about this video in today's "Morning Meeting" - his daily online newsletter for journalists. In his introduction he wrote:
I think we get so hung up on high production that we forget how powerful "talking heads" can be, if they are saying something compelling.
Look at this riveting example passed along to me my by my colleague Meg Martin.
It was produced in 2005 for Reel Works Teen Filmmaking by a high school student named Kiri Davis. It is seven and a half minutes of young African-American girls talking very frankly about their own impressions of race and beauty. It's called "A Girl Like Me."
Look and listen...
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