Considering the American media, you can pay attention to the actual absence of photographs from court hearings. Instead, sketches made by artists often appear, with more or less detail on what is happening.
A similar situation may surprise an ordinary layman. Why in the States do not take photographs from the courtrooms, and do not publish them in newspapers? Why are they practically absent even on the Internet?
What are judicial sketches, and why are they needed?
Judicial sketches represent a whole separate direction of art, which is very popular in the modern world. Artists working in this field are in the courtroom and paint what they see in front of them. In other cases, they cannot draw, so they are present and remember, and then depict what they saw from memory. In the future, paintings and sketches of this kind fall into the press, where they illustrate news that relates to ships. However, why so complicate it, because you can just take pictures or photograph what is happening?
It turns out that taking pictures or taking pictures in the courtroom is not possible everywhere and not always - in this case, in most cases, there are restrictions. Some countries, and in particular, certain states of America, prohibit photo-video shooting in the hall. Or a court session is deliberately done with such a ban.The measure aims to preserve personal information, as well as not to distract the participants in the process.
Visual materials are needed, they are always of great interest to readers, an article without images on the topic will look boring. Such material is unlikely to be popular among readers, and therefore journalists needed to take at least some measures to change the situation. As a result, bets were made on the work of artists, because the creation of sketches or notes on ships is usually not prohibited.
Interesting fact: laws of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom prohibit painting during the trial; artists can only be sketched from memory.
How are sketches created?
Artists who need to work on creating sketches from this or that meeting come to it and are present as spectators. The main skill of the artist who decided to work in this direction should be high speed. All portraits and situations should be drawn very quickly, but at the same time accurately. Successful drawings from ships are bought by the media, as a rule, they get into newspapers and magazines, online publications, and can also be useful for television. After all, filming lawsuits in many countries is also impossible.
Within the framework of this genre, an image is created using pastel pencils or crayons, but also works that are performed with a simple pencil in one color or with a regular pen are also very popular. To create his works, the average artist devotes up to 45 hours a week to the courts; permanent contracts with the media in this area are rarely concluded.
Money is paid as a fee, for each picture separately, or by the day.The speed of work is so important that artists working with television media need to provide a drawing in just a few minutes, so that this sketch can be included in the framework of the hot plot being broadcast in the present.
Interesting fact: sketches of historically important, significant ships are readily bought even by museums.
Judicial sketches in different countries
In America, judicial sketches have been created since at least the 17th century. They remain relevant to this day, despite the fact that in the 50s of the last century people began to strive to shoot video or photograph courts.
However, restrictions on photos and videos were nevertheless introduced; even then they came to the conclusion that such measures distract the participants in the process. In the 80s, cameras appeared in courts almost everywhere, which reduced the demand for sketches, but special meetings are still held without video and without photos.
In Russia, judicial sketches have become relevant since the 19th century, approximately from its middle. Today, journalists can attend public meetings in Russia, and shooting is permitted with the permission of the court. But closed meetings are held without such opportunities.
Thus, sketches from the court are necessary because of the ban on video recording and photographing of the process, its participants. Journalists need to somehow illustrate published materials, and for this purpose, sketches performed by artists are used.
