One day, all news will look like this
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He's probably right this will start to creep in. I completely hate it. None of the videos are at all accurate or particularly ethical. They all tip right over in sensationalism and bad journalism.
Besides; we already use animations on western news - for legitimate things (like the oil leak). Dramatizing events we don't know about? Bad idea.
It's this specific sort that I dislike; badly researched and, essentially, fiction made for mass consumption (and feed our voyeuristic needs :)).
Don't get me wrong; if they did the proper research into all of those things and showed a realistic interpretation (the sinking boat, for me, was the closest to this) then good, that's enriching.
But I suspect it won't happen like that... :(
News media has so far been vastly deficient in how they present technical and scientific matters and stuff like this will only exaggerate that problem.
The other side of the coin is that it's easier for people who spot fabrications to spread the word on popular blogs and such. When 60 minutes broke a story on what were supposed to be memos about a politician from the 1970s, bloggers who thought they looked suspiciously like they were typed in MS Word (and not on a typewriter) were able to link up with typography experts, do some solid analysis, and force CBS to issue a correction/apology. I've seen several bits of photoshopped "news" coverage exposed in recent years.
a) Personally, I found that really informative, as well as entertaining. I didn't know the backstory of their feud.
b) I (still) have no idea if it's 100% true.
Yep, we'll probably see more of this.
Incredibly tasteless. This is still the first thing that comes to mind when I see the name CNET, although I'm sure nobody else even remembers it.
The simulated sinking of the Korean ship in the article has nothing on this. :)
I'm not too worried by the idea that one day all news will look like this, though. These sort of animations are always going to be labour-intensive.
Just think of some sort of Machinima based "gaming" program. Have your basic set of gestures for the actors, write up a little script, have someone control a camera, some voice-to-mouth animation.
Forget about twenty years from now, you could probably rattle off something in an hour or two with a modified game engine.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2004/crash-at...
I did get a good laugh out of the Gordon Brown video. At around the 0:40 mark he punches some guy out in the corridor then throws a woman out of a chair and onto the floor, both accompanied by sound effects.
How about a GTA mod?