Posted on 09/14/2008 9:07:51 PM PDT by Reagan Man
I'm a Director in Hollywood. I've also created visual effects for movies and commercials for 23 years. I'm not disclosing my name at this point, because frankly I've already suffered enough job loss because I was "outted" as a conservative. But enough about me. I caught a commercial teaser for the Charlie Gibson interview of Sarah Palin and something caught my attention as a Director immediately: The use of the position and choice of lenses to minimalize Governor Palin.
To be objective to see if I was jumping to conclusions, I immediately reviewed Mr. Gibson's interview with Senator Obama. Take a look below at how wide and then how even the heights are between the two. Yes, in real life Senator Obama is taller than Mr. Gibson. The shot was never tighter than the framing on the right.
Now take a look at Sarah Palin's interview below. Funny how all the shots are no wider than the one on the left. There's a reason for this. While it's true that Governor Palin is of less stature than Mr. Gibson, the deliberate choice of the camera's height, framing and the use of telephoto lenses all serve to make Mr. Gibson look overpowering and Governor Palin the weak prey. This is common shooting technique we use to make a villain appear more ominous. How intuitive of ABC News to correctly portray themselves.
To illustrate this further, I utilized some storyboarding software I normally use to figure out what shots need to be set up when I shoot a movie. Notice that by merely adjusting the height of the camera and using a telephoto lens we can manipulate the shot to make either subject we want larger or smaller. The characters themselves were not scaled up or moved at all. Obviously ABC, along with Mr. Gibson and his producers chose to make her look as tiny as possible.
So, it's just one more bit of evidence on the pile of news media's bias against conservatives and women. Oh wait...what about Senator Clinton's interview....
Huh. Guess it's just conservatives. Mr. Gibson is in good company with Oprah.
Since this the first blog, let me give you a glimpse of what's in store for future articles. I'll be giving you a first hand account of such stories as puppeteers chanting to Satan behind-the-scene of a kids film and self professed co-workers of tolerance and diversity launching in to fist-pounding-on-desk, veins-bulging-in-forehead tyraids over soft spoken questions asked of them.
This is your inside look at the real Hollywood and those you give your billions to in ticket sales.
Very interesting technical and tactical insight...
Kudos to anonymous in Hollywood for sharing.
Charles Gibson was in the room?
He gave her a serious look and asked if she thought she had enough experience. I was pretty disgusted at that. Obama has experience working with the corrupt “community organizer” group: ACORN; Mrs. Clinton was first lady to our first teenage president, and Joe Biden is a noted plagiarist and US Senator. As the reform minded governor of Alaska, she beats all of them in the real executive experience department.
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Thank you for your wonderful exposé. It is professionals like you, and we have many who post here regularly, that keep Free Republic such a great place for information about communication media and politics in general. Your input is really appreciated. Hope to read more from you!
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They were almost knee to knee. He was IN HER SPACE. That’s called just plain nasty in my book.
Bingo
Great find!
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Me too.
I guess all the libs - including the media - are just plain scared of Sarah!
If ABC news thought they could get away with superimposing a Hitler mustache and a swastika on her forehead they would have done it....
Oh, and fangs.... Don’t forget fangs.
That’s the nature of “Journalism” these days. I guess it’s all acceptable when you’re trying to communize a nation, huh, MSM?
Fascinating stuff and right on the money.
Oh no doubt it’s deliberate. Same as putting someone in a short chair with the boss behind the big desk in the big chair is meant to intimidate.
Interesting shots you chose too - look at the sneer on his face when talking to Palin.
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This comparison is the one that is oh-so-telling, considering the height of both Gov. Palin and Clinton. One other thing I noted in the Gibson interview, the terrible lighting making Gov. Palin look older, harsh and pale -- not the vibrant woman we've all seen on the stump.
Thank you very much for posting this.
As the others have noted, I also felt this way, in fact, I was rather pleased that Gov. Palin's first interview was not going to be with Katie Couric, I wasn't interested in having a *Today Show* type of introduction to America, thought Gibson would be much more *newsy*, reasonable and fair. Hoo boy, was I ever wrong. I understand the governor is going to have a sit-down with Katie now, seeing the distortion ABC perpetrated, along with that shameful Atlantic Monthly business, I would tend to believe Katie won't be nearly so transparent.
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