Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost and the comparative scarcity of the playback equipment, general-interest magazines on tape are a prospect for the future. But trade magazines, aimed at a specialized audience, can be justified both as a business expense and as an efficient way to get across what may essentially be visual information. A new camera will look much better going through its paces on tape than being described and diagrammed on a page...
...Russell has never been one to do anything halfway. Propelled by a flamboyant visual imagination, the British director, 54, has shocked audiences with his horrific The Devils, astounded them with his psychedelic imagery for the rock opera Tommy and scandalized them with his racy, irreverent looks at mighty composers, such as Lisztomania...
Such a photographic blackout is rare in this highly visual age. In response, the photo editor declares a kind of all-out war of his own. In New York, TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin and Picture Researchers Peter Kellner and Robert Stevens assigned photographers to wherever they suspected a picture might conceivably develop. In England, Picture Researcher Brenda Draper posted photographers to the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, the Ministry of Defense, and places like the naval shipyards in Portsmouth and Plymouth. From Buenos Aires, Picture Researcher Nina Lindley positioned photographers in key locations throughout Argentina...
...well as the actions. Even the set design is bland and tiresome: the first father-daughter confrontation is filmed in an annoyingly dull light. The audience's attention is directed away from the screen and toward the repetitious soundtrack. Director Ross ignores the fact that film is a visual medium--more so than the stage on which I Ought to be in Pictures was originally performed: he seems to put his own work on a secondary level to the screenwriter's. This is not a Herbert Ross film: the opening credits and the advertisements, in fact, refer...
Laurence's opening report condemned what may be TV's biggest weakness, one discussed on every episode of Viewpoint to date: obsession with the "visually sensational." Seconded Jennings: "The producers in New York say, 'You have got to have bang-bang [pictures of violence].' That is a sad rule." Yet Viewpoint introduced its Middle East segment with shot after shot of bang-bang, some of it several years old. And Laurence, who works in London, reported the unremarkable results of a poll of American viewers' attitudes toward foreign reporting while he stood in front...