You already know how to spot when a picture, video or audio clip has been changed, and whether the change is fair or meant to mislead.
When something has been changed, what does that change do to the person who sees or hears it?
- Edit posts and watch how the people who see them react.
- Name exactly what was changed.
- Say what reaction the change is meant to cause.
- Make two versions of one picture yourself.
A fair edit makes something clearer without changing what happened. A misleading edit makes people feel something the real event would not.
Manipulation means changing a picture, video or sound to affect how people react to it. Manipulation is about feelings as well as truth and lies. Look for three things in every example today:
- The change: exactly what is different from the original.
- The technique: a crop, cut, caption, soundtrack or colour grade (making colours darker, brighter or more dramatic).
- The engineered reaction: the feeling the edit was built on purpose to cause, such as anger, sympathy, fear, trust, excitement or hurry.
In Slant, you edit a post and watch how the people who see it react. To slant a post is to edit it so that it pushes people towards one feeling.
Each job gives you a post and a goal. Change the crop, the colour, the caption or the sound, and watch the six bars move.
For every edit, say out loud:
- exactly what you changed
- which technique it is
- which reaction it is built to cause
In Job 1, push the fear bar to 70 on a weather post. In Job 2, earn trust on the same post with no tricks. Job 3 is a different post, a county final. When Slant asks whether a post is fair or misleading, decide before anyone taps.
Try the three extra jobs at the end: a festival photo, a rescue dog's clip and a club's match photo.
Slant
Now make your own edits in the activity below, building one picture from the library in two different ways.
Each picture says whether it is free to reuse, needs a credit, or cannot be used. One picture will refuse to go in, and that is meant to happen, so choose another. Check before you place a picture, and open Credits at the end for anything that needs a credit.
Your work saves as you go, and your teacher can already see it, so you do not need to download it or send it. Your teacher will put some on the board in a minute.
One picture, two reactions
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