It really depends on the video. Some are exemplary. Some not so much.

And the writer's skill. The writer can add emotion, the videos are sterile in comparison (though that sterility has its own beauty).

All communication takes skill.

The value of the montage here is editing down a large set of images and footage to the critical and suffient element.

As is writing, or audio, or anything else.

I see far too many people who think recording is synonymous with authoring or creating. As Stephen Colbert commented some time back (and many others before him), steganography isn't news.

I've been kicking around a lot of ideas concerning narrative, the thread that organises a story -- fictional, expository, explanatory, whatever. P.D. James' quote on what the heart of a novel is, bringing order to mystery, is apropriate as well.

Are you sure we shouldn't take the idiom 'a picture is worth a thousand words' literally?