WRIT 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Preemptive War, Camera Angle
9 Nov 2017
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What are the values upheld? (ideas, ways of behaving, etc. ) Video and lm discourse: few ethical guidelines for choices of. Photographs to accompany online or print stories. Videos (online, tv: do not deceive by staging or re-enacting without labelling as such, no retouching, no omissions (removing objects, cropping is allowed, writer usually has no choice of illustration. Journalists" images in the news: mediate events for us, we are distanced, but feel we are there, raw vs. edited and clipped, frames events for us, professionals aim to tell a story, text ensures context. Camera angle: shooting down (high angle): power in beholder, vulnerability of subject. Lighting from beneath usually reserved for villains in horror lms. How do police look and why is that important?: zooming, close-ups (more movement, angle of shot (sometimes can"t be helped, who is included; who is omitted. September 11, 2001: media coverage drew on history:
