Bees!?

I recently watched a MSNBC video about a hotel that uses honey from three bee hives it keeps on the roof. The bees are cared for by hotel staff and the chefs go up to the roof top to collect honey for the hotel kitchen.

Overall I though it was a pretty decent package. It had some good shots of the bees on the roof and set the background in the beginning with wild bees. The story had a beginning, middle, and an end. I also liked how they tied it into healthy eating and local food. I also liked how they had a bee expert confirm some things the reporter and the chefs were talking about.

There were some things I did not like about the package, or some things I would have done differently. For example, I would have liked to see a customer get interviewed to see if they really liked the fresh honey. I also did not like how the second and third interviews were framed. The bee researcher was framed the wrong way, there was too much space on the viewers left and not enough on the right. The third interview had shadows on his face, it look soft, and look like the camera man was shooting up at him. I also would have tried to make the reveal about bee hives on the roof a little more dramatic or funny.




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