Monday, April 3, 2017

Framing: Women's March Highlights

Both Time and Fox News both did reflective articles on the highlights of the Women's March. Both articles did so through videos without commentary from newscasters, but in very different ways. The videos are examples of two different ways to frame the same event through pictures/videos.

Fox News:
The Fox News video, titled, Highlights from the Women's March in Washington frames the celebrity activists participating in the Women's March as the highlights of the event. The video is made in a way that it clips portions from speeches that are particularly strongly worded and focus on one stage at the D.C. Women's March.  The video features only 3 speakers and is 1 minute long. The first speaker in the video is Madonna who's clip begins with "Yes, I am outraged" framing Madonna and the women at the march in a particularly angry light. The video is meant to be the "highlights" from the march but only shows a small portion of it. Leaving out the many cities and many non-celebrity participants in the march.

Time:
The Time video, titled, This is What the Women's March in Washington Was Really Like is silent with no commentary whatsoever, there are only photographs of the Women's March and no video. The way this video is framed is to highlight how expansive the march was. Each photo is of a march in a different city in the world. While only including photos this video is almost two minutes long. The photos are presented in black and white, with the city names in written largely and in pink at the bottom of the photo. This framing focused on the large groups participating in the march and what their signs said, rather than speeches given or the D.C. march alone.

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