The visual reconstruction of an event about which you have scarce details —zealously kept by the Army, an open ongoing investigation that happened on a military base, is a tremendous challenge. A challenge that requires a good amount of resources. Here you have the result. In an upcoming post I will talk a little bit about how we handled this one.
It is for that reason that I see the lack of honesty when producing visual reconstructions as a curse for our profession. Horrifying. The following examples are real gems.
MSNBC’s includes details of the room, highlights the dead soldiers —sequentially— in red, wounded in purple, and shows Major Hasan with two semiautomatic guns in his hands, shouting shooting rounds —visual effects included.
He gets in —wearing combat fatigue— through the door of a building under a giant sign that reads “Soldier Readiness Center”, knees kneels down and shoots from the door.
A bit of ethics … Please?
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Snabba kommentarer « Kenneth Eriksson commented this on Nov 12 09, at 10:53 pm[...] Where’s the ethics? Visual reconstruction of the Fort Hood shooting- Diskussioner om etik är alltid intressanta och frågan har blivit aktuell efter dödsskjutningarna i Fort Hood. Share this post! Twitter Digg Facebook Delicious StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks LinkedIn Technorati Favorites This entry was posted on November 12, 2009 at 23:52, and is filed under Kommenterat. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. [...]
