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The photo editor as a gatekeeper
Vodáková, Lucie ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor thesis deals with the work of Czech photo editors in a daily and weekly papers. The work analyzes what their function in media is, what their common day looks like, who they are speaking with and then what their daily decisions about photographs are. The first chapters describe the role of photo editors as gatekeepers. I try to compare what was their job earlier, when the time of technological convergence didn't exist. I deal with a photo editing practicies like searching, selection and gathering materials too. The second analytic part consist of the deep interviews with photo editors and other members of newsroom. I compare their information with the information of foreign media books. The object of the thesis is to show on six chosen important Czech daily and weekly papers how the photo editors work, what is their leading role and whether they are important for the organization or not.
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Photography in media and its impact on perception of objective reality
Šeflová, Tereza ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Dvořák, Tomáš (referee)
This diploma thesis describes the way by which can photojournalism operate with the audience and how it is possible to influence a view of recipients about the world around us by photography. The thesis is devided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is based on accessibility of the Czech and foreign literature and in its beginning that represents what photojournalism is and what is its role in media. A part of the opening chapter is also a discussion of ethics in the photojournalism. Furthermore, there is explanation of the process of how a recipient perceives visual communication. One of the key components of this work is a summary of how experts from the fields of photography and media see the possibility of influencing the audience with photos in the media. There are explained the concepts of the terms visual agenda setting and visual gatekeeping. The ways by which media most often manipulate a recipient are described and there is outlined also the question of objectivity in photojournalism. The end of the theoretical part is devoted to a relatively popular topic of digital photo editing in the media. The practical part of this thesis involves a qualitative research carried through in-depth interviews, which explores ways in which the photos, that are included in printed...
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Pop-cultural Symbols in Visual Publicism in Tenth years of the Twenty-first Century In Pictures by Teo Adamy
Dvořáková, Anna ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract This thesis presents one of the first attempts to uncover and analyze the phenomenon of immediately apparent digital photomontage born and developed in the context of the Czech internet, that does not attempt to simulate a photographic reproduction of reality, but instead to regularly comment on political events of the Czech Republic. Using an analysis of photomontages of Teo Adamy (aTeo), the thesis explores their specific hybrid means of expression and the methods through which it completely fulfills the essence of pictorial commentary. Besides describing the creative basis and inspirational founts of the montage artist, it also provides an in-depth insight into the category of the so-called pseudofilm, a specific part of aTeo's internet production, that consists of photomontages feeding off the medium of film, using meaningful parallels in film stories and pop-cultural film references, or even directly inserts chosen political representatives into well-known film scenes and thus draws upon universal mythological structures activated by popular films. The Pseudofilm category is then subjected to a detailed analysis, whose output is a comprehensive description of aTeo's fictionally-realistic film-political photomontage and an understanding of specific features of its...
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Changes in structure of journalism by new media and social media
Michlík, Matej ; Čermák, Miloš (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
Bachelors thesis deals with complex description of the newest trends in electronic sharing of content, its impact on form of journalism and related risks in changing the processes of making and reception of news. The thesis tracks forms of newsmaking and news, new ways of information from their producers to consumers and their new aspects - instant delivery, growing proximity and the question of their subscription fees. It is also dedicated to the development of semantic web, because of its knowledge gap in broad population, particularly in comparison to its current and future benefits and issues.
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Official portraits of Czechoslovak and Czech presidents
Junková, Eliška ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Štefaniková, Sandra (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Official portraits of Czechoslovak and Czech presidents" analyses official portrait creation process of presidents between 1918 and 2013. After a definition of key terms and an outline of a historical context introducing each head of the state, this work describes the creation history of individual official portraits. This section describes the portraying methods by interviewing the authors and sourcing information from archival documents. The thesis illustrates the use of the official portraits and analyses their common features and also the differences. Consequently, using content analysis, it examines psychological aspects of these photographs and touches their projection in media. Conclusion of the thesis also addresses the official portraits of the future presidents. It is a reflection of the thesis author and some portrait authors. This work contains a large number of supplements containing: interviews with the photographers of the portraits, author's originalsummary table, pictures related to usage of the portraits, selected documentary photographs taken in the course of shooting, andlast but not least portraits themselves. The objective of this thesis is to analyze the changes in the official portraying of Czechoslovak and Czech presidents since the establishment of...
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Riot photography in the context of the Czech environment after the year of 1989
Mňuková, Dominika ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
This thesis explores various aspects of riot photography in the context of the Czech environment after the year of the 1989, with focus on the far left. First, it introduces the subjects of protests, new radical activism as well as describes the role of photography in protests. It deals with the role of the media in protests and linked with that topic, it also describes informing about protests, concept of moral panic and the media's ability to form meaning. Furthermore, it deals with iconic photographs, the issue of objectivity, emotional side of riot photography and photojournalistic ethics. In addition to that, it clarifies what extremism really is, it defines the far left, and it maps the history of the far left in the Czech Republic after the year of 1989 on a selected groups, especially anarchists. In the context of the far left it also describes the biggest riots in the Czech Republic. Portraits of four Czech photographers - Jaroslav Kučera, Karel Tůma, Karel Cudlín and Petr Vrabec, follow. In the final part it examines aspects of protest photography by interviewing selected photographers, and through analysis of their photographs it analyzes styles of shooting protests and it reveals a potential imaging stereotypes.
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Visual media in the urban space
Strejcová, Anna ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
The diploma theses Visual Media in the Urban Space deals with the issue of commercial visual media in the public space and the way they are incorporated to the city centers. I am focusing on that kind of media that invade the public space with the biggest force, such as billboards, bigboards, citylights, video screens, wraps, etc. The goal of the research is to compare the placement and the quantity of the out-of-home advertisements in the center of Prague and Barcelona. The research is done from the historical, cultural and geographical point of view (I am not going to investigate the visual messages from the semiotic point of view). I have chosen these two cities because they are the economic and cultural centers of the region and they have a very long history. Since these two cities are placed in the European cultural space and there are global agencies operating on the market I suppose there will be some parallels in the placement and appearance of the visual messages. My hypothesis is that most of the advertisements will be placed in the new-built neighborhoods and the historical centers will be less "visually polluted". Another hypothesis is that the public space in Prague will be filled more with aggressive media forms than the public space in Barcelona. According to my hypothesis there is...
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Magazine raut , why is life of graphically exceptionas magazine not a bed of roses?
Korábková, Kateřina ; Slanec, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
The thesis Magazine Raut, why is life of graphically exceptional magazines not a bed of roses? describes in detail the magazine which was published at the beginning of the 1990s. It gives a detailed description of different elements of extraordinary layout of the magazine Raut. Its uniqueness comes not only from an unusual format of magazine but also from generous work with images and typography which broke the usual rules for magazine production. Unusualness of the magazine Raut also concern the focus of the magazine which overlaps toward national undertone. For a deeper understanding for the magazine Raut is necessary to put the magazine into a context of the 1990s that was crucial for its formation. Due to the exclusivity of the magazine Raut the press responded to it in different ways Czech and foreign and the thesis compiles media image of the magazine Raut. The thesis also includes an interview with Managing Editor and Art Director of the magazine Raut Ales Najbrt. Only five issues of the magazine Raut were published and its demise was due to several factors. The conclusion of the thesis is based on those factors and the conclusion can be generalized to apply to any other form of magazines with exceptional or unusual graphic design.
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