Photography

Question 1

What are the Five Questions of Media Literacy

Answer 1

1. Who created this message?
2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
3. How might different people understand this message differently than me?
4. What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
5. Why is this message being sent?

Question 2

Photography

Answer 2

Photography has played an important role in mass media.
Photographs convey powerful messages through imagery.
The placement and choice of photographs can influence the public’s perception of a story.

Question 3

Historical Development of Photography

Answer 3

Camera obscura was used by Leonardo da Vinci to draw scenery

Some chemicals changed by light known in 1700s

Question 4

Daguerreotype

Answer 4

developed 1839: Louis Daguerre, based on his work and that of Joseph Niecpe,

Question 5

Historical Development of Photography, cont.

Answer 5

Daguerreotype was positive image on a metal plate—very high-quality.
Bulky, complex equipment
Long exposure times
No ability to make copies
Calotype was paper positive, but much lower image quality.

Question 6

Historical Development of Photography, cont.

Answer 6

1851: Wet collodion process made photography easier, but still needed specialized knowledge and bulky equipment
Mathew Brady and Civil War photos

Question 7

Further developments in photography

Answer 7

Roll film on celluloid
Helped make cameras smaller and more portable and let public use cameras easily
Color film
Digital photography
Image quality still poorer than film, but improving
Uses no film and images easy to manipulate

Question 8

Movies

Answer 8

Film is simply a series of still photographs taken in rapid succession and shown at a speed as to appear that there’s motion.
Movies mostly entertain, but in doing so can also transmit culture and educate.
Used cross-cutting scenes in narration to show simultaneous action in different places