ABSTRACT
This chapter offers you advice on how to make effective and ethical choices with technical framing. Your choices determine how subjects and objects are incorporated in specific shots: both directly and indirectly. For text-based media, selection of headlines and words become framing determinants. Technical framing choices always produce specific readings. Shot size, camera angle, composition, lighting and exposure, static or moving images determine patterns of inclusion and exclusion. In all media forms, technical framing regulates what the audience will see, understand, and experience.
With a hidden 16mm Aaton camera wrapped in a jacket and using available light, documentary director Stephanie Black and cinematographer Maryse Alberti sneaked into a Florida sugar cane plantation to document deplorable living and working conditions of Jamaican migrant workers.
