Reality TV: An Insider's Guide to TV's Hottest Market -2nd edition
Troy DeVolld
Language: English
Pages: 170
ISBN: 1615932437
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Reality TV: An Insider's Guide to TV's Hottest Market is a no-nonsense read that doesn't sugarcoat the realities of the process or the ethical gut-checks that writers and producers often experience in trying to deliver an engaging end product. This newly updated 2nd edition includes new exercises, information about the Global Reality TV Market, and the latest information about Reality TV.
24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU
natural reactions from unwitting participants placed in unusual situations. Lumped in with hidden camera programs are clip shows that rely heavily on surveillance or amateur bystander video for material. The Smoking Gun Presents: World’s Dumbest…and When Animals Attack! are good examples. As with all other genres, there’s always a great Reality-Competition hybrid example. The best of the best in this category is America’s Funniest Home Videos. With more than twenty seasons completed since its
curious network folks are all buzzing about thinking about everything but what you need in order to make the show happen. In my first experience coming aboard at the production stage, I arrived on-set at 8 a.m., just two hours before the arrival of the cast for their first day of taping. I had no knowledge of the plan for the day (much less the season), no access to castmember bios beforehand to familiarize myself with their backstories and personalities, and barely enough time to settle in
about what they are expecting to see. Does that outline I asked you to write for them — the one they didn’t ask for — make sense to them? Then proceed. With your paper cut and/or subsequent stringout ready, you may now commence with the sweet experience of being locked in a dark room with an Editor for weeks knocking out that rough cut… or so you’d think. Every Editor I’ve ever worked with would probably agree with the next bit of advice I’m about to give you: Get things started, then get out.
my fancy way of saying that there’s no way to address them except by sleight of hand. By that, I mean that you, your Editor and your Supervising Producer can probably survive them by changing a few music cues, compressing an act to create enough room for a short scene you initially deleted (making the action more dense), or peppering in a few more reaction shots or side comments. Your annotated replies to these notes, which usually accompany your next output in written form, should look something
finished an episode! CHAPTER SEVEN EXERCISES NOTES PASS EXERCISE ONE Watch an episode of a Reality show as if you were an EP or network exec, writing up your notes on how the episode could be improved. Once you’ve finished your notes, set them aside for an hour and then read them, answering the following questions on each note: • On a scale of one to ten, how easily interpreted is your note? • On a scale of one to ten, how difficult do you expect it would be to address this note? In