The Volunteers

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The Volunteers from GOOD.is on Vimeo.

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This is an example of a video of information graphics that I found on Vimeo about volunteering. It is showing the number of volunteers in 2009. It is unclear which country the information is specific to. Perhaps it is England or maybe America. From the information about the various organizations that people have been volunteering within, I think it is clearer that the country is America because of some of the American spellings e.g. organizational.

I think that the info in the video can be quite a lot to take in, particularly in the short time that it is on the screen for. The quick shots that show different organisations as well as age groups that have volunteered can be quite a lot to take onboard. Maybe more time for each set of information could have been allocated to the video. Also this is true for the large section of text at the beginning of the video giving an explanation of what the video is about. I didn’t read all of it because it had gone on to the next piece of info before I had time to finish reading it.

I think that the use of the people, which each represented 100,000 volunteers, was good as a visual representation because obviously the volunteers were people. However, perhaps the sheer scale of one person representing so many people was quite difficult to measure, particularly when only part of the person was there. It is quite difficult to judge exactly how much this may be as a figure. Perhaps text is needed here to clarify how many people it did represent.