The power of the photograph and movie
I think that photographs are terrific for propaganda. And if photographs are good, then movies are ten times better. Our broken human brains see those images and full-motion-video-with-sound and go straight into "wash me!" mode.
There was a recent episode of "CSI" in which a reporter used faked ("fauxtoshopped") images to push a point of view that he wanted pushed.
A commenter on a blog left his thoughts about the episode, and here they are:
The scary thing about this phenomenon is that photos are no longer worth the proverbial '1000 words'. It might be worth a 10-word sentence, at best.
These days, a photo is more easily manipulated than the CG we see in hollywood FX masterpieces like King Kong, et al. To stage a murder, a political coup, an assassination (see "Death of a President") is so easy to do that the photograph's power to convince and sway a people is quickly diminishing.
Huzzah! Isn't it true that we now becoming more conditioned to doubt the photographs and movies that we see and highly-"edited" forgeries? The ability of photographs and movies to influence is going will diminish, and, ironically, the more people that make "documentaries" designed to influence, then the more true this will become. This means that the written word will become more powerful, and this is a good thing.
There was a recent episode of "CSI" in which a reporter used faked ("fauxtoshopped") images to push a point of view that he wanted pushed.
A commenter on a blog left his thoughts about the episode, and here they are:
The scary thing about this phenomenon is that photos are no longer worth the proverbial '1000 words'. It might be worth a 10-word sentence, at best.
These days, a photo is more easily manipulated than the CG we see in hollywood FX masterpieces like King Kong, et al. To stage a murder, a political coup, an assassination (see "Death of a President") is so easy to do that the photograph's power to convince and sway a people is quickly diminishing.
Huzzah! Isn't it true that we now becoming more conditioned to doubt the photographs and movies that we see and highly-"edited" forgeries? The ability of photographs and movies to influence is going will diminish, and, ironically, the more people that make "documentaries" designed to influence, then the more true this will become. This means that the written word will become more powerful, and this is a good thing.
posted by Jimmy Gatt at 9:31 AM
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