Week 12 – Workshop

In week 12’s workshop (PB4 Group work) :

Failure to produce rough cut of video essay

Consolidated sources and information

Completed script and audio recording for video

Video editing

Supervision & delegation of documents for project dossier

We disscussed a lot of example for our video essay, such as:

Antonio Olmos is a middle-aged photojournalist from Mexico who has been working for almost 30 years. He is one of many photographers who sees this century old industry as under threat of being dismantled by smartphones. With the ease of capturing and uploading images, more traditional cameras may not be needed anymore, thus possibly decreasing the income of many photographers.

Another example, Robert Capa is a world famous war photographer known for his iconic photos taken in the Spanish Civil War and WWII. His camera of choice was a Leica SM 35 mm camera; it’s not a large model, but heavy and complicated. If the film inside was waterlogged or ruined in any way, the whole camera would be disabled. Tinkering with the technical aspects of the camera would more likely place Capa in a dangerous situation; winding the film, adjusting the aperture, shutter speed and ISO manually, then releasing and winding the film again, all requires time in a war zone.