Sunday, October 18, 2009

2.Camera lenses as our eyes




We have already known that newspapers for reading. However most of people prefer to glance at just photographs rather than reading in detail. (Maybe they take the easy way out.) Thus, to be reflecting the truth news and to be understood them clearly, photographs should be very objective. In my view, news' detail can be distorted or changed according to writer but photographs can be quite clear to explain the event. I like the way that photographer Kent Gavin explains ideas about professionalism: ' I consider my camera to be a window through which the public can look at the world. Sometimes they will be entertained, sometimes they will be horrified and provoked into action some kind...' and I think this window or camera lenses liken to represent our eyes even we are not where the event occupying. They should not be very pink or very black. It only shows us what the real is.

Monday, October 12, 2009

1.Reality TV



Concept of reality TV firstly appears in 1940's. However in 2000's it has widespread popularity among most of the countries. As we know that most popular ones are ‘Big Brother’, ‘Survivor’, ‘American Idol’, and ‘Fear Factor’ in American television. Due to the fact that reality programmes topped the ratings, Turkish channels also bring out them. This brings out term which is voyeurism. Watching reality shows seems to be only watching TV but it turns out to peeping ordinary people since people do not mind constant having a bath or sleeping.

Why do people watch these programs despite the fact that there are lots of strangers in these programs? Maybe it is related to arouse curiosity so people can not avoid watching and gossip about them after the day or maybe they want to watch these people to find something which is in common so they do not feel alone about it anymore. Also usually people like making criticism even if they do not know anything about these constants or even it doesn’t interest them. All of these notions lead to continuousness of reality shows. I hope channels find really different concept from that we can get rid of it :)