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In this video is about Nyalat Biliew coming from a Sudan at a young age , and balancing her life in America with the customs that she has grown up around that come from her family tibial backgrounds that was brought to the United States called the Nure tibe. In the short film that is narrated by Nyalat she is self aware of the differences between the two cultures and has said in the video that she feels that she is losing a part of her culture, because she does not relate to them on a deeper level that people like her mother and the Elder Nour can.I found it interesting that in the film that Rebecca Wal talks about how different american kids are from their own and how they can “do whatever they want” because we are taught we have freedom to do this. This quote …show more content…
The audio as crisp and clear with no type of background disturbance, and no music was needed to fill the air of the video because the words she spoke was compelling. The angles was pretty good, but based off of my personal preference I did not enjoy the close up on her face, i believe it was too close and that it cut off a part of her forehead in some of the shots for that, and we can tell that was where most of the audio overview was done. I liked how they were able to incorporate still shots of her and her family and other events that were going on. In some cases with the titles they were needed to understand where the video was going in the background, but I wonder how important was the one of the meeting where the interviewer was not present nor did it really connect to the filmmaker overall goal to show how Nyalat is balancing two different cultures and creating that unique tie between both of them. I loved the film and the different insights there were in the film, and how they gave a greater insight for another perspective on how this two cultures tend to clash and that enhanced Nyalat

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