To photograph someone is a subliminal murder
Throes
of Death: And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is
what you were trying to escape. (Surah Qaf 50:19)
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing
them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can
never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.
Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a
subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography
― Susan Sontag, On Photography
Allah
speaks about reformation of character and social ettiquettes in Surah Hujarat.
"O
you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they
may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may
be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other
by [offensive] nicknames.
"O
you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some
assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like
to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah
; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful".
The Baby -Propaganda against Pakistan
Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:01
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As part of psychological warfare, besides supporting subversive
acts in Pakistan, India has already started cultural penetration in Pakistan
through movies, dramas, shows and advertisements which are being displayed on
our TV channels.
In this regard, Baby is a propaganda movie recently released by Bollywood to directly target Pakistan. It is focusing on operation Baby which was supposedly conceived by the Indian secret agency, RAW as a test case, launched by a group of five trained and dedicated RAW operatives to apprehend head of Pakistan’s banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)/Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) through a sting individuals.
In fact, the movie was sponsored and produced by Indian Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence. The project was undertaken by Santosh Astana (Media Incharge/Director Indian Affairs, Public Relations), while three Pakistani actors are also included in the cast. The theme of the film tries to propagate that Pakistan-based LeT/JuD is responsible for orchestrating Mumbai attacks in September 2008, financed and facilitated by Pakistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
But, the movie, Baby revolves around the activities of LeT in the backdrop of Mumbai attacks, 2008. This is a sequel to the perennial propaganda campaign conceived by Indian authorities to malign the image of Pakistan and its primary intelligence agency ISI.
In this respect, after Mumbai attacks, Indians had resorted to electronic media campaign, followed by TV channels and written articles, focusing on the activities of Jihad organizations, allegedly sponsored by LeT/JuD.
In order to spread disinformation, New Delhi arranged a series of articles (about 140) which were also published in the US and other international media in which LeT/JuD has been portrayed as a terrorist origination much larger than Al Qaeda with global reach, having affiliates and sleeper cells all over the world.
In this connection, Indian point of view was further augmented by Arif Jamal (Pakistani born UK national) in his book “Call for Transnational Jihad: Lashkar-e-Taiba 1985-2014”.
Using the pretext of Mumbai terror-attacks, reportedly, on December 14, 2008, as a retaliatory action, India violated Pakistan’s air space in Kashmir and Lahore in a failed attempt to attack LeT/JuD offices in Azad Jammu Kashmir including Muridke.
And, in May 2009, RAW made an attempt to kill Hafiz Muhammad Saeed when he came to attend the Lahore High Court (LHC) hearing, but the attempt could not materialize.
As a matter of fact, the purpose of deliberate propaganda campaign through Indian print and electronic media—launched by Indian agencies was to induce public perception against Pakistan in order to favour Indian false stance at global level.
It is of particular attention that on July 19, 2013, the Indian former home ministry and ex-investigating officer Satish Verma revealed that terror-attacks in Mumbai in November 26, 2008 and assault on Indian Parliament in January 12, 2001 were carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-terrorism laws. But, Indian top officials and media are still blaming Islamabad and LeT for those attacks.
Similarly, on January 20, 2013, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde confessed the nexus between BJP and the RSS, disclosing that organized training camps run by these Indian fundamentalist parties were promoting Hindu terrorism. They also revealed that these parties were behind the Samjhauta Express, Meccca Masjid and Malegaon blasts including Gujarat and Babri Masjid incidents. Earlier, New Delhi was accusing Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI for blasts in Malegaon and other cities.
However, it is perceived that the movie Baby has been conceived and launched also to weigh and see the public reaction regarding Indian agenda, before conducting some major sting/hot pursuit operations against Pakistan.
As regards the film, three Pakistani film stars were also included in the cast i.e Rasheed Naz as head of Lashkar, Meekal Zulifqar as a RAW conduit and Hasan Noman as a Police Chief of KSA.
While, Pakistani film actor Hamza Ali Abbasi said that he was offered a role in the Indian film Baby last year which he did not accept due to the movie’s anti-Pakistan slant. He elaborated that he was in favour of Pakistani artists, working in Indian films in general, but not in a film that even has anti-Pakistan themes. He added, “Please think like a Pakistani first and then an artist”.
Nevertheless, Akshay Kumar starrer Baby movie has been banned by the censor boards of Pakistan, because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film—also has Muslim names. CDs and DVDs of the film have also been banned.
Fakhr-e-Alam who is the Chairman of the Censor Board took to Twitter to share his views about the board’s decision, stating, “The movie has been banned in Pakistan, as it shows Muslim community in a bad light. The characters used in the movie also represent Muslim community. He added, “A poor propaganda film basically saying all Muslims are terrorists & Pakistan harbors them…disappointed, Ban it”.
Besides, Indian contradictory approach in this regard is also mentionable. In an article, director of the movie Neeraj Panday claimed that the movie does not hurt Muslim sentiments, nor it has been made on any specific nation. But the producer Bhushan Kumar was still wondering why, actor Anupam Kher emphasised the need to move beyond borders and look at the universal problem of terrorism. He said, “The film is about anti-terrorism. Sometimes it is important to go beyond territories and understand who is the enemy—is it a country or a bunch of people?”
Nonetheless, the movie Baby which largely focuses on terrorism issues is part of Indian continued propaganda against Pakistan so as to distort the image of the latter and ISI in the comity of nations.
Therefore Pakistan’s media must counter Indian propaganda, unleashed against Pakistan in the Indian movie Baby.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
In this regard, Baby is a propaganda movie recently released by Bollywood to directly target Pakistan. It is focusing on operation Baby which was supposedly conceived by the Indian secret agency, RAW as a test case, launched by a group of five trained and dedicated RAW operatives to apprehend head of Pakistan’s banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)/Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) through a sting individuals.
In fact, the movie was sponsored and produced by Indian Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence. The project was undertaken by Santosh Astana (Media Incharge/Director Indian Affairs, Public Relations), while three Pakistani actors are also included in the cast. The theme of the film tries to propagate that Pakistan-based LeT/JuD is responsible for orchestrating Mumbai attacks in September 2008, financed and facilitated by Pakistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
But, the movie, Baby revolves around the activities of LeT in the backdrop of Mumbai attacks, 2008. This is a sequel to the perennial propaganda campaign conceived by Indian authorities to malign the image of Pakistan and its primary intelligence agency ISI.
In this respect, after Mumbai attacks, Indians had resorted to electronic media campaign, followed by TV channels and written articles, focusing on the activities of Jihad organizations, allegedly sponsored by LeT/JuD.
In order to spread disinformation, New Delhi arranged a series of articles (about 140) which were also published in the US and other international media in which LeT/JuD has been portrayed as a terrorist origination much larger than Al Qaeda with global reach, having affiliates and sleeper cells all over the world.
In this connection, Indian point of view was further augmented by Arif Jamal (Pakistani born UK national) in his book “Call for Transnational Jihad: Lashkar-e-Taiba 1985-2014”.
Using the pretext of Mumbai terror-attacks, reportedly, on December 14, 2008, as a retaliatory action, India violated Pakistan’s air space in Kashmir and Lahore in a failed attempt to attack LeT/JuD offices in Azad Jammu Kashmir including Muridke.
And, in May 2009, RAW made an attempt to kill Hafiz Muhammad Saeed when he came to attend the Lahore High Court (LHC) hearing, but the attempt could not materialize.
As a matter of fact, the purpose of deliberate propaganda campaign through Indian print and electronic media—launched by Indian agencies was to induce public perception against Pakistan in order to favour Indian false stance at global level.
It is of particular attention that on July 19, 2013, the Indian former home ministry and ex-investigating officer Satish Verma revealed that terror-attacks in Mumbai in November 26, 2008 and assault on Indian Parliament in January 12, 2001 were carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-terrorism laws. But, Indian top officials and media are still blaming Islamabad and LeT for those attacks.
Similarly, on January 20, 2013, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde confessed the nexus between BJP and the RSS, disclosing that organized training camps run by these Indian fundamentalist parties were promoting Hindu terrorism. They also revealed that these parties were behind the Samjhauta Express, Meccca Masjid and Malegaon blasts including Gujarat and Babri Masjid incidents. Earlier, New Delhi was accusing Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI for blasts in Malegaon and other cities.
However, it is perceived that the movie Baby has been conceived and launched also to weigh and see the public reaction regarding Indian agenda, before conducting some major sting/hot pursuit operations against Pakistan.
As regards the film, three Pakistani film stars were also included in the cast i.e Rasheed Naz as head of Lashkar, Meekal Zulifqar as a RAW conduit and Hasan Noman as a Police Chief of KSA.
While, Pakistani film actor Hamza Ali Abbasi said that he was offered a role in the Indian film Baby last year which he did not accept due to the movie’s anti-Pakistan slant. He elaborated that he was in favour of Pakistani artists, working in Indian films in general, but not in a film that even has anti-Pakistan themes. He added, “Please think like a Pakistani first and then an artist”.
Nevertheless, Akshay Kumar starrer Baby movie has been banned by the censor boards of Pakistan, because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film—also has Muslim names. CDs and DVDs of the film have also been banned.
Fakhr-e-Alam who is the Chairman of the Censor Board took to Twitter to share his views about the board’s decision, stating, “The movie has been banned in Pakistan, as it shows Muslim community in a bad light. The characters used in the movie also represent Muslim community. He added, “A poor propaganda film basically saying all Muslims are terrorists & Pakistan harbors them…disappointed, Ban it”.
Besides, Indian contradictory approach in this regard is also mentionable. In an article, director of the movie Neeraj Panday claimed that the movie does not hurt Muslim sentiments, nor it has been made on any specific nation. But the producer Bhushan Kumar was still wondering why, actor Anupam Kher emphasised the need to move beyond borders and look at the universal problem of terrorism. He said, “The film is about anti-terrorism. Sometimes it is important to go beyond territories and understand who is the enemy—is it a country or a bunch of people?”
Nonetheless, the movie Baby which largely focuses on terrorism issues is part of Indian continued propaganda against Pakistan so as to distort the image of the latter and ISI in the comity of nations.
Therefore Pakistan’s media must counter Indian propaganda, unleashed against Pakistan in the Indian movie Baby.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
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The Purpose of Sound effects
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The function of sound effects is three fold...[1]
In a western barroom fight our hero is hit over
the head with a whiskey bottle.
The bottle is fake. It
becomes real with the addition of an actual glass bottle crash from the sound
editors library. In gun battles the weapon actually is actually
loaded with blanks and what is called quarter loads which means one-fourth of
normal amount of gunpowder contained in a real bullet. The actual sound is just
slightly louder than a cap pistol until the sound editor has completed
work.
These are but two of the
more obvious examples of the sound effect taking a fake bit of theatrics and
making it real by adding a real sound.
You see it - you hear it - you must believe it!
Creating illusion was one of the biggest additions to the art of film
by sound.
A man and a
woman walk into a café. Several other people are sitting at various table in
deep conversation. The main couple sits at a table and a series of close ups
for their conversation are presented.
By adding the sound of the
off-scene diners the audience is convinced that they are still in the café.
Obviously, the producer does not want to pay a group of extras to sit off
camera. The sound editor places them there with his crowd walla for the
sound (Walla
is an industry term for the sound of people talking without hearing specific
words)
A woman is
sitting in her living room. The door opens and her husband walks into the room.
With the addition of a
few sound effects, it is possible to inform the audience that he has driven up
to the house, parked his car, walked to the door, and used his key to unlock
the door. None of this was shot. It was an illusion created with effects.
A safari makes
it through the jungle.
The sound editor cuts a
lion roar. Not has he placed a lion in the film where none exists but he has
also placed the safari in danger.
A cowboy sits
around a small campfire. The mood of a campfire is warm.
- Add an off-scene owl and
it becomes lonesome.
- Add a wolf howling in the
distance and it perhaps harken danger.
- Cut a gunshot and you are
telling the audience that another human is nearby. Is he friend or foe?
Anticipation, possible danger, fear, joy - all
are being evoked. Which should you be feeling? Move forward in your seat
because surely the film will soon tell.
A pair of
lovers is caught in the midst of an argument. Suddenly, the woman turns, walks
to the phone, and lifts the receiver.
- You can cut the first phone ring just ahead of the
reaction and there is nothing unusual.
- Cut two or three rings
before she reacts and you are telling the audience that she was so
involved in the argument she did not even react to the phone until the
third ring. That is revealing about her mood and depth of
involvement.
A leading lady awakens in the
morning snuggled in her bed.
- The sound of a distant
train whistle make is a lonesome scene.
- Replace the train whistle
with the sound of kids playing outside, and the audience perceives an
entirely different emotion
The leading man drives
up to a house.
- As he parks, we hear the
sound of a small dog yapping. No particular danger is perceived. Inside is
probably a child or an old lady.
- Change the small dog
yapping to the sound of a vicious Doberman, and the mood is again
changed.
The sound effect is a major part of the magic of
Hollywood. The plywood wall becomes real when the sound of a big wood crash is
added. The avalanche of large boulders (actually foam rubber or styrofoam is)
real and menacing because of the sound effect.
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The sound effect
is not only a mechanical tool ( e. g., fire a gun, cut a shot), it can also be
employed creatively and artistically.
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1. In
his text M Kerner also makes the conclusion that
effect = illusion + mood (page 12)
effect = illusion + mood (page 12)
Edited excerpts from Kerner, Marvin M: The Art of the Sound Effects Editor (1989),
p 11- 15
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