Den 27.11.2006 kl. 03:39 skrev Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm not sure what you mean here. How could that video show anything > but the truth. (You don't believe it to be a fake do you?) While a video camera records what it sees it rarely shows The Truth, and assuming so is dangerous. There is always the matter of perspective when recording a video. In the very simplest of terms the camera was turned on at a specific time and turned off at a specific time, and while it was turned on it was pointed in one direction and not in other directions. After that comes the issues regarding editing and other post-production work. The choices made when shooting or editing need not to be malicious to be misleading and the question of interpretation is just as important with video as with reading a written account. A video can never show The Truth (as in 'how did this event transpire'). Video is not omnipresent, it can only show a situation as it happened from one perspective and that's the important thing to remember. For an easy intro to this kind of stuff I can recommend Rasmus Dahl's article "Disctinctions in Documentary Television" (in "The Aesthetics of Television", Aalborg University Press, 2001) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ >
