you have felt the same?
She felt that the kentucky community was trying to voice its opinion, and that the journalists did not understand their situation and their life. The whole community rallied together when Harold shot Hugh, and his daughter saw and understood where they were coming from.
I would definitely have not felt the same way. If someone shot my father who was doing absolutely nothing wrong, he was simply taking a picture of a man he had permission to do so, I would be enraged. Harold shot Hugh because he was an outsider, a stranger. I would never be able to forgive someone who took someone so close to me if there was no valid reason for the killing. People can not go around shooting people they do not know just because they are stepping on their land.
2. Barret says that some filmmakers "wanted to show that contrast [between
those who prospered from coal mining and those who didn't] to bring about social
change. Others mined the images the way the companies had mined the coal."
What does that say about the power of the visual image? What (if any)
responsibility do filmmakers have toward their subjects?
2. Barret says that some filmmakers "wanted to show that contrast [between
those who prospered from coal mining and those who didn't] to bring about social
change. Others mined the images the way the companies had mined the coal."
What does that say about the power of the visual image? What (if any)
responsibility do filmmakers have toward their subjects?
Visual image can certainly speak for itself. It is very powerful and it gets its point across by not using any words. As someone said in the documentary, one cannot take a picture of something that's not there. Filmmakers have to make sure that they high light both the good and bad aspects of their subjects to present them in a non-biased way.
3. Colin Low, director of the Canadian Film Board, said the camera is invasive,
exploitive and like a gun because it's threatening (42:23). What does he mean by
that statement? What are some specific steps you can take as a
photographer/filmmaker when photographing a sensitive subject or social issue
to make the camera less exploitive and invasive?
3. Colin Low, director of the Canadian Film Board, said the camera is invasive,
exploitive and like a gun because it's threatening (42:23). What does he mean by
that statement? What are some specific steps you can take as a
photographer/filmmaker when photographing a sensitive subject or social issue
to make the camera less exploitive and invasive?
This statement reveals that people often fear cameras because they expose the truth- there is no fabrication what-so-ever. However, a camera can capture perhaps one bad moment of a person's life, and then that person's life will be forever marked and represented by that one bad moment. Some steps that could be taken would be to photograph both the good and bad shots of a sensitive subject, such as a picture that conveys the raw truth, and then take another one with the people smiling (for example) to represent that even though they are in a hard time, they are still a fine human being content with their life. Also the angles and positioning of the shots could be arranged so that the touchy subject is not the harsh vocal point, but rather just adds to the whole of the picture.
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