CAMERA ANGLES.

CAMERA ANGLES. During this year’s first Presidential debate, Jim Lehrer, the moderator, kept urging the two candidates to “Talk to each other.” He was unsuccessful. I imagine that the advisers for the candidates had cautioned them not to talk to each other, but rather to address the camera. After all, our authoritative newscasters look at the camera. And that is the angle that your advisers planned for. I once saw a videotape of a deposition where the lawyer conducting the deposition had placed himself at one end of the table and the camera at right angles. The witness kept looking instinctively from the questioner to the camera. The resulting videotape made the witness seem shifty—“shifty-eyed”, in fact.