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10-16-2009, 12:32 AM
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If you can't think of an answer don't blame the question.

It's entirely subjective. What does the Media mean to you?
The answer isn't a strict yes. To me the answer is a no. But I work with video compositing software.

The people on the TV may or may not exist, they existed when they were recorded perhaps but they might not now, for example: Tommy cooper.

They are dressed up and not natural, they are also mic'd up and Made up, put under hot lamps and given a script. Everything you see on TV is engineered to an extreme extent.

Given existing technology its becoming harder to tell what is CGI and what is 'natural' (Scenery made up by the prop guys, on a location picked out by the location team.) It's all put together to make you think the walls are solid.

Then you have the point that all the properties of the objects are lost apart from the visage and audibility, so you can't touch it, smell it, taste it... These are properties of things that are definably real. The main point being made is after the pre, during and post production, How much of what you see in your given media is the original artifact. The answer is obviously none of it, its just a shrunken down representation of what it once was.

The concept they are showing is manufactured.
What the characters say is a minute fraction edited down further still.
The camera can only see so much and the lighting has to be accounted for and changed to fit if necessary.
Narrative devices are added like non-diegetic music
On the worlds most easily editable, alterable and manipulative media you could say of course something is real.

Besides, You still haven't given an example of what is real in the media.

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