Did ABC & Gibson Use Camera Trickery To Belittle Gov. Palin?

NewsBusters ^ | September 13, 2008 | Warner Todd Huston

[ishabibble]

This is a shot that a moonbat photographer took for Atlantic magazine. It didn't appear in the issue, but it makes McCain look very scary. Read the comments, they are hilarious!

http://minx.cc/?post=273385

[autumnraine]

I want to point out the left shot of Gibson with Obama while Obama was obviously talking. Notice how his mouth is relaxed while he is listening.

Now notice the right shot with Governor Palin, notice the pinched mouth while listening to her.

Gibson is a jerk and I’ll never see him the same again. I hope he just Dan Rather’d himself. When will the fools learn?

[ronnie raygun]

Pictures are worth a thousand words. This tactic is also used on the all of the Presidential debates.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Oops! I forgot to ping you, bud!

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

i don’t think it is coincidence that she was made to look small... it was one of the first things i noticed

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The seating arrangement is different also.
Notice the space between the chairs in the interviews of Obama/Hillary and the interview of Palin....
Gibson and Palin's chairs are much closer in that interview than the other interviews..... why would they do that ?
They even got a table between Gibson and Obama to appear that they are just sitting down to a fireside chat.
The impression I got from the Palin interview was that it was more of a interrogation by the seating arrangement and fast attack questioning by Gibson.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" The “footage” I’ve seen , had the speech a little ahead of the video, made for a semi-bizarre situation for an interview. I’m sure many have witnessed this. "
That's why both versions of the interview should be saved if any one recorded it.

[Bobby_Jones]

False:

This is a result of news photographers shooting off of a tripod. The “Lazy Photog” Syndrome.

Set-up becomes so complacent that it’s like setting up a
machine gun shooting, and then saying, “Let’s Go!”

The Lighting gets far more attention than the Standard Overlap of a two Camera Shoot.

The Most Important Goal in such a shot composition is trying to get everyone to fit in the picture in the most attractive manner. If you take into account the Body Mass? You will notice that both interviews were shot exactly the same, with exception of focal length to compensate for the various “Body Mass” of each of the participants included in the Shot.

Palin’s smaller frame cannot be made to look huge compared to the much larger Charlie Gibson without using an extremely Wide-Angle Lens which would distort the Image far to much to appear acceptable for broadcast.

Barack frame is much closer in stature to Charlie Gibson, So the photographer has to Widen Out a bit to include Charlie and Barack in the Same Shot, So Charlie appears to be a bit farther away.

Tripod Height

Focal Length

Distance from Subject

Symmetry of Shot Composition

[Robulus]

Charlie Gibson will encounter great difficulty in his public life because of his compromise. He will not be able to go anywhere without receiving derision from the many millions out there that will always remember how he treated Sara Palin in that interview. The remainder of his life will be miserable, and then the judgement. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.

[Free Descendant]

I noticed this immediately when I saw the video.

[RetSignman]

COMPARED TO WHAT THEY WANTED TO USE TO DISTRACT HER, WHAT THEY DID WAS MILD.

[Grampa Dave]

“Right On! The snarky bast___ was positioned do he could look over his glasses and down his nose at Governor Palin like some prima donna school teacher berating a popular student... “

Charlie’s behavior was typical of the elite white liberal male Chauvinist hog, (Charlie is beyond being a pig).

[avenir]

What does it matter? By the end of the interview it looked like Sarah had wiped that smirk off of Charlie’s face, and he seemed to have succumbed to her charms (the last scene in the high school).

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I just read a bio of Mr. Gibson. He went to the Sidwell Friends School in Washington (elite college prep school that Chelsea went to; 2008-2009 tuition $28,400-$29,400) and then to Princeton. Apparently he wanted to go to law school but didn't get in. To me this says that he came from a wealthy enough background to be sent to a high profile college prep school, and this probably played a huge role in getting in to Princeton (the Ivy League schools love the high profile prep schools). Despite that, he didn't get into law school, from Princeton? He either was lazy or isn't the scholar he is personified as.

[dforest]

That is exactly what I noticed. Meant to make it look like she was weak and had poor posture.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

I’m not a TeeVee tactics expert but I did notice the height difference right away.
It was absolutely intentional.

[brytlea]

David and Goliath. We all know how that turned out.
susie

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

This begs the question why did the Palin handlers let this happen?

OR, did her handlers know this was going to happen and knew we would all notice it and call the rest of the world's attention to it and snooker Gibson and the pukes in MSM?

Or should I just have more coffee?

[McGruff]

What do you think?

I think you are right on. What a despicable interview. Charlie Gibson I have lost all respect for you and I have a very, very very long memory.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So I see that you just signed up this morning and this was your first post ever.