Unit 57- Notes on Video

What was the task? 

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We had to make notes on a photography video.



How will this help you in the future of this course? - Gives me the pros and cons of becoming a photographer.


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Negative Effects

• Oversaturation: Some critics believe technology has led television and the Internet to focus on images instead of information. They note that reports from correspondents in the field provide only "tiny microviews" of the war. Seeing small slices from the frontlines could lead to misunderstandings about the big picture.

• Desensitizing: Some photojournalists fear that oversaturation of the war tends to distance viewers from the reality of war. For example, the bombing of Iraq was shown on network and cable channels night after night.  Photojournalists were given the task of capturing as many bombs and missiles in the U.S. arsenal as possible. Consequently, some critics argued that this continual bombardment of weapons photos contributed to the notion of war as a video game and thus stripped the conflict of its humanity.

• Graphic footage: Some television photojournalists were mandated to sanitize their shots so they could be shown to mass audiences. A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism of war coverage by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox early in the Iraq conflict found that about half the reports from embedded photojournalists showed combat action, but not a single story featured pictures of severely injured military personnel. Casualties were shown from afar on television, but a number of newspapers and magazines featured graphic still photos of wounded soldiers on the frontlines.