The Visual Record

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The Visual Record

• Is Seeing Believing?

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Journalism

• One of the foremost tenants of the news industry
  is that a picture tells the story
  
• Picture worth 1000 words
• Stories killed without images
• Some stories (Hindenberg crash) the image IS the
  story

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Can Images be Trusted?

• For nearly a century, a photograph has been
  considered proof.
  
• Court cases won or lost on evidentiary images
• Newspaper sales depend on good pictures
• TV News is all pictures
• Are pictures real?
• Faking pictures isnt new
• Usually pretty easy to detect.

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Movie Magic

• Creating images of the unreal
• Stop Motion
• 1905 Melies (The Mermaid)
• Armature Models
• 1965 Valley of the Gwangi

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2001 A Space Odyssey (1969)
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Star Wars (1977)
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Terminator II (1989)
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These are Fake

• Of Course!
• But the same tools can be used to create realism
  that cant be distinguished from the real thing.

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Forest Gump
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Yellow Journalism
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Faked Images

• Can be created
• Easily
• Inexpensively
• Seamlessly
• BY Anyone!

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But How?

• A Digital Camera
• A Reasonably Good Computer (2000)
• A Good Graphics Package (Photoshop)

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A Young Siren
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GPRCs Little Mermaid
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Pacific Sunrise
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What About Video?

• Other Packages
• Poser (3D people and animal models)
• Imovie (Home movie editor)