Show:
Logos / Supporting Cast
Kairos / Context
Ethos / Cast Credibility
Ethos / Venue
Film Elements
100
Teen hacker of bigtime Silicon Valley software firm, Jukt Micronics.
Who is IAN RESTIL
100
"Janet Cooke had done it in 1980 in a Pulitzer Prize–winning piece for The Washington Post. Nik Cohn, 21 years after the fact, blithely admitted to having made up most of the New York story that inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. More recently, Boston Globe columnist Patricia Smith was fired for making up parts of her columns. But none of these journalists approached the sheer calculation of his deceptions."
Who is BISSINGER ("Shattered Glass")
100
Washington Post reporter whose fabricated story resulted in a Pulitzer and a thwarted career
Who is JANET COOKE
100
“Founded in 1914 as a journal of opinion which seeks to meet the challenge of a new time. For over 100 years, we have championed progressive ideas and challenged popular opinion. Our vision for today revitalizes our founding mission for our new time [by] promoting novel solutions for today’s most critical issues. We don’t lament intractable problems; our journalism debates complex issues, and takes a stance. Our biggest stories are commitments for change.”
What is THE NEW REPUBLIC
100
Sound that can be accounted for within the storyworld; usu. sound that can be sourced visibly in the shot.
What is diegetic sound
200
One half of the famed Washington Post journalism duo who wrote the earliest Watergate stories.
Who is BOB WOODWARD
200
“'The paper absolutely changed that moment,' says Donald E. Graham, the Post’s publisher at the time, scion of the family that owned and ran the paper for eight decades, until its sale in 2013 to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."
Who is SAGER ("The Fabulist Who Changed Journalism")
200
TNR writer whose relentless fakery tainted a hundred-year-old exemplar of U.S. journalism.
Who is STEPHEN GLASS
200
“…features in-depth reporting, gripping narratives, and world-class photography, plus heaping doses of Oscar-blogging, royal-watching, and assorted guilty pleasures. Every month, the magazine commissions the best writers and photographers to explain the pressing issues of the day and take the pulse of the culture. Consistently delivering crucial reporting on business and finance, domestic politics and world affairs, it also covers the very best in arts and entertainment.”
What is VANITY FAIR
200
"The cut" - organizing time within a sequence of shots by literally splicing the closing frame of one image together with the opening frame of another.
What is editing
300
Inventor, computer engineer, tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Who is STEVE WOZNIAK
300
"As a creature of the First World, I expect a factory making complex electronics will have the sounds of machinery, but in a place where the cost of labor is effectively zero, anything that can be made by hand is made by hand. Rest assured, no matter how complex your electronics are they are assembled by thousands and thousands of tiny little fingers working in concert, and in those vast spaces the only sound is the sound of bodies in constant, unending motion."
Who is DAISEY ("The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs")
300
Wall Street Journal author whose exposé reported serious doubts about Theranos’ technology.
Who is JOHN CARREYROU
300
“…a monthly publication that provides coverage and analysis of breaking news, politics and international affairs, education, technology, health, science, and culture.”
What is THE ATLANTIC
300
"The shot" - refers to the camera's behavior toward the scene as staged; generally subdivided as scale, angle, or movement.
What is cinematography
400
Cambridge-educated chief scientist of Theranos; deceased.
Who is IAN GIBBONS
400
“It generally works like this: the venture capitalists (who are mostly white men) don’t really know what they’re doing with any certainty—it’s impossible, after all, to truly predict the next big thing—so they bet a little bit on every company that they can with the hope that one of them hits it big. […] this also helps seduce the tech press (also largely comprised of white men), which is often ready to play a game of access in exchange for a few more page views of their story about the company that is trying to change the world by getting frozen yogurt to customers more expeditiously.”
Who is BILTON (or "How Elizabeth Holmes' House of Cards Came Tumbling Down")
400
This American Life host forced to retract the most popular episode in its history due to fakery.
Who is IRA GLASS
400
“…a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners. It is produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with another 2.5 million people downloading each episode.”
What is THIS AMERICAN LIFE
400
A French word that translates roughly to “putting or placing in the scene,” and includes setting, art direction, lighting, costumes, and performance as part of the scene’s staging.
What is mise-en-scène
500
Current U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Theranos board member
Who is Gen. James Mattis
500
"[She] has adhered to a deceptively simple formula: beautiful pictures of herself—she has the golden locks, lithe frame, and wholesome femininity associated with prom queens who date quarterbacks—paired with breezy diary entries that read like texts from a best friend."
Who is BOSKER ("The Enviable Life of Instamom Amber Fillerup Clark")
500
TNR editor whose relentless internal investigation fully revealed Stephen Glass’s deceptions
Who is CHUCK LANE
500
“…an essential venue not just for journalists, but also for the thousands of professionals in communications, technology, academia, and other fields reliant on solid media industry knowledge.”
What is COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
500
Sound that is only audible to the audience watching the film, not the human figures/characters onscreen. (voiceover narration, score, etc.)
What is non-diegetic sound