Yeah, thanks for posting, a lot of good information in there.

I like Vice's news presentation. I do wonder about the practicality of shooting with shallow depth of field in news gathering contexts though... it's obviously a style that sets Vice's news coverage apart, but there's also a lot of sloppy focus hunting in their clips and I think it can work against the overall informative value of the piece at times, or simply means they miss certain things. Especially when you combine that with the compression to get stuff up online presumably from in the field, it can look pretty rough by the end. I think it's an aesthetic that was fresh a few years ago but is getting a little long in the tooth now.