As a professional photographer I observed the following:
Kerry got the red "power tie"
The camera framing on Kerry made him appear taller and stronger.
Bush was shot with an anamorphic lens which made him appear smaller, the framing of the shot included a lot more of the podium. He looked diminished.
The shots of Bush’s back (perfectly lit for the reveal) showed that he was wired. His answers reflected the fact that he was listening to prompts. The stumbles and seeming misstatements were stalling for time as the answers were being fed to him.
ABC and CBS ran virtually the same post debate analysis. They were talking from the same script.
As a professional photographer I observed the following:
Kerry got the red "power tie"
The camera framing on Kerry made him appear taller and stronger.
Bush was shot with an anamorphic lens which made him appear smaller, the framing of the shot included a lot more of the podium. He looked diminished.
The shots of Bush’s back (perfectly lit for the reveal) showed that he was wired. His answers reflected the fact that he was listening to prompts. The stumbles and seeming misstatements were stalling for time as the answers were being fed to him.
ABC and CBS ran virtually the same post debate analysis. They were talking from the same script.
More than the just the debate was scripted.