terça-feira, novembro 21, 2006

"Framing" através do fotojornalismo

Um exemplo claro de alteração de sentido através do enquadramento pode verificar-se aqui: Anatomy of a Photograph - An analysis of a single seemingly innocuous photograph, and the pervasive media bias it reveals.
Parece que o autor do trabalho tem também a sua "agenda" político-ideológica, o que não tira, aparentemente, pertinência, aos factos que apresenta.
As conclusões do autor acerca do uso das fotod em jornalismo são estas:
"Newspapers and other mainstream outlets run photos that almost always fall into these four categories:

a. Wide shots of the crowd at a distance, in which individual messages aren't clearly visible. A good example is this photo in the Chronicle (oops, I mean: on the Chronicle's Web page).

b. Close-ups of individuals' faces, with no message visible -- as in this example from the Chronicle.

c. Human-interest images of people, in which the political aspect is peripheral or cut off, as in this photo.

d. Mid-range shots of people displaying "safe," non-controversial messages, like the one visible here."