Bullhorn Guy part 2

Periodically, as Bell continued to talk, the camera would return to images of the man I had seen in the office at the beginning. I was still curious as to what he had to do with anything. Bell had been talking about Bullhorn Man, and I wondered if this might be him... At one moment, Bell addressed Bullhorn Man as if he was speaking directly to him, and at this particular instant, there was a shot of the man from the office in his car, turning his face away from the camera, as if looking out the window. This was a powerful shot that showed me that the man from the office was indeed Bullhorn Man, and that Bullhorn Man did not want to hear what Bell or anyone else had to say.

At the beginning of the video, after the camera had zoomed in on Bell, he had been slightly to the left of the center of the screen. As time went on, the camera moved slightly, and by the end, Bell was more to the right. Bullhorn Man was almost always on the left. I'm not sure if this is really significant or if I'm reading into something that's not there, but I think it's possible that the placement of these two people was intentional. Both Bell and Bullhorn Man are Christians, and any negative feelings that a person had towards what Bullhorn Man was doing would most likely be applied to Bell (guilty by association--they both serve the same God, right?) But, as Bell talked, he began to distance himself from Bullhorn Man with his attitude and words, so that by the end of the video, we know that the two men really don't have the same things in mind.

Nooma videos are interesting, because if you take away the pictures, what you have left is not much different than your typically Sunday night sermon. However, the makers of these videos employ different film techniques to get their points across in a way that I believe is much more effective than words alone would ever be.