Just Another Camera Angle Commentary

Ok, same topic here with my previous post (Reporter's Notebook)but in different situation. This time, in TV news program in all TV stations.

This usually happens when a reporter "scoops" an incident where someone is dead and family members are around and crying. The more during burial where almost all relatives are present.

It really disgusts me when a family member is crying, the cameraman takes a focus on the person's face. All of the fluids flowing to the person's face is so clear that, again, makes my viewing experience UGLY.

The more it becomes disgusting when the camera is focused on the person's face and the reporter stops talking and all you can hear are the screams of the crying person.

I usually transfer the channel every time there's a news especially burials.

Reporter's Notebook of GMA-7

I salute the people behind this TV program. They talk things of great importance to our society. They also have an equally qualified personnel that brings credibility to the show.

In fact, they receive citations and awards not only int he Philippines but also from international award-giving bodies as well.

I watched last night and again I witnessed another interesting story. It's about the nationwide random drug testing for high school students and the implementation of sanitary landfills in the country.

But anyway, I'm not going to talk on those topics. They're really competent in detailing those issues.

What I have observed are the angles of their camera as they interview their resource persons. They're focusing too much on the faces of every resource person they interview. The face is so close that the face alone fills the whole TV screen. Every granule of the face is so clear and you can see everything, the pimples, the laughlines, and everything.

To make the story short, it's not good to view their faces in the full screen of the TV. It's ugly. It's so disgusting that the director is trying to put some artistry into his shoot, but instead makes a mockery of the person being interviewed. They don't even put make-up; to make it realistic? Oh I hate to see it.

If it's Marian Rivera, Roxanne Guinoo, Angel Locsin, Luningning Ara Mina or KC Concepcion , then it would be fine to put those faces in our TV's full screen.

I hope they will try another angle when they interview resource persons. Not the entire face on the full screen, its UGLY.