Images are choices

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Images are choices
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Picture divisions
Detect the Foreground/Background Structure Give
directions and guiding lines
(At the) Top left (corner)
(At the) Top right
(In the) background
Centre Focus
(On the) Right
Left
(At the) Bottom right
(in the) foreground
Bottom left
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Try to identify the tools used by film makers and
photographers to fictionalize reality, and what
for
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A military parade under Gaddafis rule
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Verbs to pay tribute to to show deep
respect Notions (repression forces) (oppression)
(personality cult) Details (cap) Interpretation
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Cinema
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Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, 1941 Xanadus
enormous fireplace. (a film inspired by the
powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph
Hearst).
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Eyes wide shut, Stanley Kubrick,1999, Warner
Bros Tom Cruise as Dr. William Harford during
the night street pursuit.
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Eyes wide shut, Stanley Kubrick,1999, Warner
Bros Tom Cruise as Dr. William Harford during
the night street pursuit.
Warnings
A guiding line
Empty
Blocked
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general shots Général paysage Densemble Ind
ividu(s) dans environnemnt
Downward view Upward view
Sans être systématique, le plan général et le
plan d'ensemble ont une valeur descriptive, les
plans moyen, américain et rapproché, une valeur
narrative, et les gros et très gros plans, une
valeur " psychologique ".
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In cinema, juxtaposition of varied-scaled shots
creates tension
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Modern Times, Charles Chaplin, 1936. Charlot
screwing the machines bolts in the mass
production line.
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Business also uses images to portray the world
and to sell goods
An ad an advert an advertisement
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A washing powder advert.
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Tourism in China representative images? Of what?
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Politicians create posters and icons
A Republican poster, US political campaign for
reelection of President, late 19th c.
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To seduce the masses The construction of a
public image.
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Constructing  reality 
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Media
Are media neutral?
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Sept. 2, 2005. After Hurricane Kathryna
devastated New Orleans, Black poor people were
still living in the streets and malls.
To inform
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To alert or to make audience?
Sensational / emotional treatment of
information?
Severely malnourished girl in a Doctors Without
Borders feeding clinic in al-Junaynah, Western
Darfur.
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Three visions of water in Africa
Plastic cans
To analyze is to describe to interpret
Bottle top / cap
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Rupert Murdochs empire
http//www.acrimed.org/article3322.html
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French bashing in the US
To neuter châtrer. Neuter neutral too
To coddle dorloter, choyer. To cower se tapir,
se recroqueviller.
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Can ideas be convincing without images? Is
reason better than emotion?
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So are media neutral?
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How do propaganda posters work?
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• How propaganda posters work
• Individual identification with the situation
• Political / civilian involvement experienced or
  targeted
• Use of positive emotions
• Use of negative emotions

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Factory workers who can't keep secrets
are hurting the Third Reich's war effort.
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The diversion of original sources How is it
composed? What for?
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The diversion of original sources How is it
composed? What for? If you had to draw one -
Find an original source - Name the idea / concept
you want to put forward - Build a representation
that fits the story
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