Monday, June 16, 2008
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woop. sent off draft to editors today. now i have a day off in leiu. see josh this eve. and then back to work tomorrow. lucky me.
they watch tv. tv of other peoples lives. and tv of murder, the crime investigation type, the police routine meets some sort of (pseudo) science. it is total switch off. chores in the morning. a day in the office. dinner, downtime, and a doze. repeat.
ok. so i don't actually watch tv. i enjoy the medium. i have favourite programs that i admittedly download and watch in my leisure on a computer. it's the current format of television - at least in Australia - that has me reaching for the mains power. i think i am adverse to the placement of adverts. they fuck up a rhythm. i think it might be the same with radio. but kind of different; at least they don't put the add mid song - at least not yet. so tv shows have adapted to the format and use the commercials as a sense of suspense - i hear an opinion in the back corner. it's just lame. i think that's it - i think tv is just lame - dumbing down to audience, unintelligent dribble. too much is explained, too much is given away, it's the same story ad infinitum - blasted out the same portal again and again. i think that is what i find so offensive and banal about tv. every time it is switched on i see the same thing. it's stagnation. it's almost as though nothing has changed in the 50 years or so it has been going. perhaps it looks better, and more money is thrown into the industry, and hell they even broadcast it in digital high definition these days...but i tell you what i am hard pressed finding something that isn't predictable because i haven't heard of it before.
actually now that i am really getting going here. i am seeing a comparison between tv and film. i think maybe that tv has the wrong aim. what is tv trying to do? what ought tv do?
ok. so i have tv trying to be dead time - time to zone off because the brain is dead and the body just needs more time to be worn out. and television tries to tell stories - moral fables and lessons learnt etc. let's not forget entertain. a lot of tv starrted out as entertainment variety shows. ok so that might be a good place to start. what sort of entertainment is best suited to the medium of television?
i guess everyone has a switch off time. what is yours?
what do you the aims of television are? ¶ 12:36 pm
they watch tv. tv of other peoples lives. and tv of murder, the crime investigation type, the police routine meets some sort of (pseudo) science. it is total switch off. chores in the morning. a day in the office. dinner, downtime, and a doze. repeat.
ok. so i don't actually watch tv. i enjoy the medium. i have favourite programs that i admittedly download and watch in my leisure on a computer. it's the current format of television - at least in Australia - that has me reaching for the mains power. i think i am adverse to the placement of adverts. they fuck up a rhythm. i think it might be the same with radio. but kind of different; at least they don't put the add mid song - at least not yet. so tv shows have adapted to the format and use the commercials as a sense of suspense - i hear an opinion in the back corner. it's just lame. i think that's it - i think tv is just lame - dumbing down to audience, unintelligent dribble. too much is explained, too much is given away, it's the same story ad infinitum - blasted out the same portal again and again. i think that is what i find so offensive and banal about tv. every time it is switched on i see the same thing. it's stagnation. it's almost as though nothing has changed in the 50 years or so it has been going. perhaps it looks better, and more money is thrown into the industry, and hell they even broadcast it in digital high definition these days...but i tell you what i am hard pressed finding something that isn't predictable because i haven't heard of it before.
actually now that i am really getting going here. i am seeing a comparison between tv and film. i think maybe that tv has the wrong aim. what is tv trying to do? what ought tv do?
ok. so i have tv trying to be dead time - time to zone off because the brain is dead and the body just needs more time to be worn out. and television tries to tell stories - moral fables and lessons learnt etc. let's not forget entertain. a lot of tv starrted out as entertainment variety shows. ok so that might be a good place to start. what sort of entertainment is best suited to the medium of television?
i guess everyone has a switch off time. what is yours?
what do you the aims of television are? ¶ 12:36 pm