Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Staged, Staging, Stages

Valerie Chew

Wertheimer makes good effort to avoid staging, but I wonder just how ‘natural’ captured moments can be. Deciding where to shoot, who to shoot and what shots to include in a video does not exactly conform to what Wertheimer calls, ‘capturing moments and events as they happen’. Besides, how do journalists retain audience attention if people get bored watching the scene unfold on its own for a whole five minutes? How then do journalists strike a balance between ‘showing it as it is’ and producing something interesting that people want to watch?

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