TV shows and, strangely enough, reality TV shows often introduce us to issues at large in society that we may not have encountered in our personal lives. The reason for reality TV's ability to present those issues is because the people on the show are real people and not characters. True enough, post-editing and through certain staged situations, those people may fall into certain archetypes and be portrayed accordingly; but they are still real people with real problems from real backgrounds. Paul presented America's Next Top Model and how it's a free labor market where the employees are exploited to provide entertainment to the masses. Whereas in free labor markets people work for free to create a product, in a reality TV show such as ANTM those "employees", the models, are themselves the product. As such, they are heavily exploited. A cycle of ANTM that is most representative of this sort of manipulation is the very third cycle.
Monday, April 14, 2014
TV Form: Aesthetics And Style
This section of the book was very interesting to me because when we watch a TV show, we often get so involved into the story that we fail to realize that the visuals and storytelling devices of the show are themselves major contributors to advancing the plot. William spoke about Mad Men and its visual palette. Since Mad Men had its final season premiere last night, I've decided that I'm going to talk a little bit about it as well.
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