.. further to that, there is also the question of whether there could actually be "a truth" (The Truth) or whether there are multiple "truths".... or merely representations...
;-) On 11/27/06, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > 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/ > > -- +++++ http://www.davidandtrine.org +++++
