When a viewer watches the show they
When a viewer watches the show they
This cuts to a dark medium-wide shot of what appears like a silhouette of the character. With a pan, it remains dark until a desk light is turned on, revealing a crowded and seemingly disorganized office space. Another cut reveals a medium-close shot of the main character with overhead lighting that is supposed to be coming solely from the desk lamp. This relatively stationary shot, only panning when the characters moves, focuses on the distraught character trying to comfort and make sense of the proceeding events to the clip. This relatively dialogue free shot reveals not much to the audience; only that this character would like to record observations. This shot is very crowded with visuals which also add to the confusing theme being portrayed. One final cut to a close up shot with similar lighting finally gives the audience insight into the mind of the character as they begin noting their observations. This shot is clear from distractions and gives the audience some relief and closure that has been build up with the proceeding cuts. Altogether there are 5 different shots being presented, all of which have very distinct length and composure that proceed to confusion and closure to the audience, as well as a smooth development…
Staring at Alice through her television screen was a mugshot. The mugshot of the man she had taken the picture of the day before. “What?” Alice replied, completely stunned. No one answered. They all just stared astounded at the television.…
that goes on with several occasions dealing news and war with several camera located on…
Discoveries can lead individuals into facing ramifications as it permits them to change their perspectives of themselves and the world around them. The theme discoveries can be sudden and unexpected is highlighted in the prescribed text Go Back to Where you Came From in the scene where two participants of the show, Raquel and Raye, are sitting on a bed in the Masudi family’s home next to the mother of the family, Masara, as she tells them her violent story back when she lived in Congo before she seeked asylum in Australia with her family. With the use of a medium shot camera angle, it captures both the characters’ Raquel and Raye’s body language showing their reactions and how they feel while Masara tells them her story. The shot shows Raquel is very shocked with her mouth wide open while Raye has her…
Nelson reveals how the news programs have succeeded in creating the illusion of presentness. She begins by writing that the only time that a news…
The director uses special effects to persuade his audience his message by using distance from the subject. He displays this when he is interviewing teachers is it a close up on the teacher to show that what they have to say is important. He also uses point of view, by having the camera outside the scene creating an objective effect. I believe the special effect contribute to an emotional appeal in this documentary because it is real life stories. The happy and sad moments are all captured to show it is not an easy life for these children.…
The very first shot of the film is a pair of hands desperately grasping a ladder rung in extreme close up. This connects the audience from the beginning with the desperation and fear that comes from hanging from a great height. This pulls back to reveal a shot of a cityscape, focused on the top rungs of a ladder leading to the roof of a building, as we follow the resolute climb and pursuit of a criminal by Scottie and his partner. This shot establishes the faces of the characters and establishes the stakes; the criminal is panicked, and Scottie and his partner are determined and aggressive. The next shot in this scene is a wide shot of the rooftop where the chase is occurring; the blurry, obscured background indicates great distance, and the dull blue lighting indicates dusk. Combine that with the heights at which this chase is happening, and the scene carries the same unease that is placed in the audience during this…
For the news assignment, I viewed the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. This aired on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. I am going to describe the top news story presented at the beginning of the segment. This story is about sexually abused female Olympic gymnasts. Two female gymnasts come forward to Congress and plead their story about their coach in the Olympics sexually abusing them in their hotel rooms when they were just teens. The women are much older now, but still come forth with their mournful story.…
PBS Newshour is a public service program with daily updates on national, political, and foreign issues. Only on the weekends do they shorten their coverage to twenty-five minutes, to observe the possibility that people don’t want to eat a larger portion of their educational vegetables. Tuning in from my laptop at pbs.org to examine both one of these broadcasts, January twenty-second and the twenty-forth, I noticed certain aspects of an institutionalized quality that advocates to a more knowledge based demographic, though not as extreme as Sorkin’s example above. What does emerge are some placating ideologies of what is considered professional and authoritative, as if to advocate for an unaffected, fact-driven achievement that stand out as a…
CBS Evening News covered a series of news within around a twenty one minute time frame. In the beginning, there were short preview clips of the various news topics that were to be discussed in the segment. Scott Pelley was the main newsman for the show, but the segment went back and forth to various other newsmen in relation to each topic being discussed. In terms of access to reliable information, CBS news includes a lot of reliable sources, as shown in the clips in the news piece. They personally send people to interview first-hand sources such as governors (Dean Reynolds) and effected workers, retract information from political directors (John Dickerson), and capture video clips of protests at the actual site. What CBS did that kept viewers watching was they knew how to…
We see subject talking on camera and we see and hear the interviewer asking questions in the same shot- a journalistic basis of reporting.…
On a more personal note I, Bekah Gehrke, was walking through the town of Ellensburg, Washington and I was asked by a reporter to be a part of an interview concerning local forest fires and how the smoke was affecting others and myself. I agreed to participate and asked this one reporter, who was filming and producing his own work by himself, how he liked his job. To which he responded along the lines of, “It is stressful most days and requires a lot of hard work. Sometimes I feel underpaid but I realize that I’m doing something I love.” I realized that, after visiting the KIMA television station on October 19th, these local reporters are seeking stories, interviewing, filming, and editing their content into stories all by themselves; as opposed to bigger television stations where there are separate writers, videographers, and reporters who work together to create stories for their audiences. I can honestly say that after this field trip, I have gained a new respect for local radio and television stations.…
Recently a fifteen year old girl named Abigail Hernandez has gone missing from her North Conway home in New Hampshire. Her name is now known around the world, not for a great reason in any way, but it's still known around the world. This teenage girl's story has affected so many people, but she is not the only teen to have gone missing before, why has hers? The answer is the media, the media took this story and blew it up, focused on certain (attention grabbing) facts of the case, and in the process affected many people across the world and in New Hampshire.…
Everyone within this segment is shot up close rather than at a medium distance, which gives the impression of wanting the audience to not only have a personal connection with the piece but to feel the emotions, as well. The reporter seems to be in control throughout the piece. Bill Whitaker and the people he interviews are shot together then shot separately while asking and answering questions. With hard questions prepared, the interview was very vulnerable and honest.…
Since the television was invented in 1924, news and current affairs programs have surly become one of our main media sources. With this in mind, reporters and stations alike are able to manipulate their audiences through a variety of techniques, to make them believe a representation of reality as opposed to the true fact. This is evident in the current affairs story "Video Game Violence" and the standard news story "Music Video Ban". These similar stories both originated from Channel Nine and represent violence in society's youth today, stating children are at risk if exposed to such material. Through a selection of techniques, the audience is lured into supporting the told story and agreeing with the general attitudes promoted.…