03. The knock down

[snacky]

Dec 19, 2014 23:38:50 GMT Hodge said:

Dec 19, 2014 23:28:53 GMT snacky said:

I haven't seen SE, but I hate it when jumpy cam is used to approximate reality. This technique was increasingly used in American shows, and I think audiences only watched insofar as those shows were trendy. Thus the decline of American TV. I think we should embrace the box as a medium and allow entertainment to be presented to us in ways that suit that medium. People will say "wow" over abstract art, but they will sit down and get comfortable in front of a picture of something. A classic, conventional painting can still convey edgy subject matter like cannibalism on a raft of shipwreck survivors. I wish TV execs would think that way.

I'm not sure I'd call it jumpy cam but the scenes really don't quite seem long enough to make it comfortable (for me), though some scenes are too long! It seems to me they're trying too hard to make an edgy show and the storyline suffers when it's broken up so much. The idea is good, the execution is bad.

The long scenes where the camera follows are also a Reality TV technique - I forgot what it's called. Anyway, I think TV should stick with polished and conventional forms of presentation: such polish and conventions developed over they years because they are entertaining! Shock value is only shocking once.

[Hodge]

Dec 20, 2014 6:09:51 GMT snacky said:

Dec 19, 2014 23:38:50 GMT Hodge said:

I'm not sure I'd call it jumpy cam but the scenes really don't quite seem long enough to make it comfortable (for me), though some scenes are too long! It seems to me they're trying too hard to make an edgy show and the storyline suffers when it's broken up so much. The idea is good, the execution is bad.

The long scenes where the camera follows are also a Reality TV technique - I forgot what it's called. Anyway, I think TV should stick with polished and conventional forms of presentation: such polish and conventions developed over they years because they are entertaining! Shock value is only shocking once.

They certainly went for shock value in SE!

[bookworm1225]

Newspaper text -

About 26:30 in:
“Boxer Murdered by Wife” - subhead below pictures says “Amos Robinson Found Dead in
Hotel Room - Last Night’s [...] Saw Him Victorious” (Part of subhead hidden by Murdoch's thumb, part hidden by fold of newspaper)
Partial headline below - “A Tale Told to”
Sub-heads to either side - “Gang Principally of Youths from 15 to 30 Years of Age”
“The Whole Matter To Be Shuffled Off on to the Local Legislatures”