Week 5, Day 1 & 2

This term is seeming to fly by, week 5 already, unbelievable, doesn't time fly when you're enjoying yourself. Monday, cinema movements. Andy was talking about how then audience read the screen. Being interested in cinematography this class 'caught my eye.' (that was terrible, the pun I was talking about) We were learning about syntax filming, where the film has some sort of structured meaning instead of just shooting anything until the film ran out as they did in the early film days. We also looked at saccadic vision where the eyes roam over an image to compile a complete picture. There are many different cinematography elements like deep focus, shot selection, character positioning and so on which the film communicates an unconscious meaning to the audience. I found this class interesting and will apply these techniques when filming.

Tuesday, Factual programming. Ethics, a principled sensitivity to the right of others. My opinion, if information which does not add to what you are actually documenting about, then leave it out. If it absolutely needs to be mentioned, then mention it, it might put your life in jeopardy, but that's journalism for you. If it's completely unnecessary then leave it out. If the situation was extremely disgustingly inhumane then I would discuss it with the interviewee, make sure I had researched it deeply and yes if true I would mention it in my documentation. I believe I would have the right to document it, freedom of speech. I believe, the more controversial a documentation is the more audience you'd attract.