Think/Point/Shoot Media Ethics, Technology and Global Change

Introduction

Establishing Shot #1 - Practice - Danto

Establishing Shot #2 –　Theory - Hashmi

SECTION ONE: THINK　 Introduction to Section One: Practice and Relevant Theory - Danto and Hashmi

1. Conceptual Framing - DANTO
2. Target Audience-ISABEL
3. F-Stop: Power Differentials - GOLD
4. Identities: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class Privilege -RICHEN
5. Funding and Agendas -CHOY

SECTION TWO: POINT AND SHOOT Introduction to Section Two: Practice and Relevant Theory – Danto and Hashmi

6. Challenges For Ethical Cinematography - SINKLER
7. Technical Framing - DANTO
8. To Zoom or not to Zoom? - ALPERT
9. Hidden Camera - CHOPRA
10. Sound Recording and Ethics - GURRIN

SECTION THREE:　 POST PRODUCTION Introduction to Section Three: Practice and Relevant Theory – Danto and Hashmi

11.　 The Ethics of Editing - SHROPSHIRE

12.　 Censorship Ethics - HARIHARAN

13. Digital Distribution Ethics - HASHMI

14.　 Copyright and the Right to Copy - DANTO & GOLD　

Biography

Annette Danto is a filmmaker and Professor in the Department of Film at Brooklyn College. A three time awarded Fulbright Scholar in Filmmaking, Danto holds degrees from McGill University, Columbia University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film, Television and New Media.

Mobina Hashmi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College, and the Director of the Center for Global Television. She has a BA from Dartmouth College, and a PhD in media and cultural studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her work has been published in Economic and Political Weekly and in South Asian History and Culture.

Lonnie Isabel is a reporter and Former Deputy Managing Editor of Newsday and Newsday-Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Isabel is a 30-year veteran of the newspaper business and has worked as a political reporter, investigative reporter and editor for Newsday, Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Oakland Tribune. Isabel joined the newly-created CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in 2005.

Documentaries have ethical, moral, and social implications. What we shoot, how we shoot it, can lead to painful or dangerous consequences. As makers, we focus on our aims and are apt to miss what is unseen or unimagined, especially when working under pressure. But audiences and participants see our work from a multiplicity of perspectives, and quickly spot our lapses. Think/Point/Shoot is the collective experience of filmmaking, journalism, and academic professionals. It offers a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. So, if you work in actuality filmmaking, or want to, make use of the book and prepare for the pitfalls and creative possibilities of the media currently in use.　

Michael Rabiger, author of Directing the Documentary

"...manages to provide some clarity to a subject shrouded in the murkiness of competing political agendas...The liberal use of case studies and real-life examples throughout the book is particularly effective. Each chapter ends with a summary of "Take-Home Points" and extensive bibliographies for additional reading. The real-life example on the final page is about the personal ramifications of "Twitter Shaming." This one lesson would qualify Think Point Shoot as recommended reading for teachers and parents dealing with all those thousands of kids running around with smartphones in their hands, making media."

Cynthia Close in Documentary Magazine