Blog 2 (Week 2)-Manufacturing Consent

In the documentary film, "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media," Professor Chomsky begins to explain how he came upon the title of this film. To do so, he progresses to isolate a close-up of a book where he comes upon the title for his documentary along with a close-up of a grayscale of the author of that book. This visual technique is done so to further exemplify what Chomsky is trying to explain to the audience through his profound ideas. As the film continues, the isolation of various images frequently come into play, which of course becomes known as his number one visual technique throughout the film. The isolation used becomes identified as framing, which is done precisely to create emphasis in the continuum of images that relates to the continuum of his shared thoughts.
An example of this so called framing, that stood out to me the most, is when Chomsky is explaining necessary illusion, which becomes further known as propaganda, right then and there a close up of books being made in a factory where the books are sliding though a mechanical compartment creating an actual, slight illusion. Meanwhile as his further thought progresses, Chomsky mentions, "Emotionally Potent Oversimplification" where the background of course are images of satellites in space and images of rockets being shot at. Another favorite of mine is when Chomsky is explaning the elite media also known as the agenda setting media. Whenhe does so to explain who the elite media are, he mentions The New York Times, The Washington Post, major television channels such as NBC, CBS and ABC news. It's interesting to me because when he mentions each major television channel, close-up images of their locations come into scene. He frames these major television corporations to emphasize how these channels set a general framework of local media.