Category Archives: Film & TV
A brief history of title design
Because I’m eager for the movie to begin, I don’t fully appreciate the creativity and effort that goes into making the title for a film. I promise to pay closer attention.
“The world has moved on”
“One has only to watch US TV for 10 minutes to conclude that America’s communicators no longer have the intellectual resources and political literacy to mount successful, well-informed propaganda. The Fox Channel is for home-turf idiots. And besides, what would the state-subsidized propagandists be able to boast about? Predator raids in Afghanistan? Guantanamo? Thirty million on part-time work or jobless in the Homeland? America is not the sell it once was, when the economic growth rate was headed up and capitalism seemed capable of delivering on its promises.”
From a post at CounterPunch.org on the growing influence of Al Jazeera
Dave (Cutting the budget scene)
Journalism in the Age of Data
I keep reading how data visualization is the future of journalism but it didn’t sink in very far. This documentary (?) turned on the light bulb in several ways.
I remember (sort of) the first time I inserted some audio into a story that aired on the radio station I worked at. Zowie! How cool is that? Well, better than no sound at all (maybe).
As I watched this, I realized how little understanding is communicated by the sound bite or some TV Ken/Barbie sticking a mic in someone’s face. Real depth, real insight and understanding will happen online (although we’ll soon stop making that distinction if we haven’t already).
I was also struck by the really smart men and women featured. They are not pretty faces. You don’t get on TV unless you look good. I sure hope J-Schools are paying attention to this.
The news organizations (if in fact it turns out to BE news organizations) the bring these skills to the party will win and we’ll all be better informed.