Monday, June 2, 2014

Chapter 4: Working in the Digital Age

Image By: Leigh Diprose 

35 mm film is the most common and widely used film gauge in motion pictures and chemical still photography. The film uses a standard negative to develop its images. The first discovery of 35 mm film can be traced back to 1889, which is remarkable considering that people still use it in 2014. It is not the first option since mostly everything has become digital, but it is not technically obsolete. You still have to develop the film, which takes time.
Looking at the digital age, online newspapers come as a fairly new way of reaching an audience. An online newspaper is different than an app on your phone as a news source, online newspapers are generally their own source and sometimes just an online version of a printed paper as well. The Republican is the Springfield area’s printed newspaper, but it has also gone online as “masslive.com.”

Essentially, going online creates more opportunities for news outlets. It competes with broadcast journalism in presenting the news in a more-timely manner, rather than hearing about it the next day through print, you are hearing it as it happens through updates online. The ability to do this has also cut down production costs as a lot of news outlets are beginning to focus their efforts on their online division of themselves, or even going completely digital. 
Below is a good example of a sort of "time lapse" image where it shows how newspapers have evolved over the past years. Essentially, working in the digital age.   




Image By: Kit Eaton



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