A report by Nicholas Glass - informal but smooth - it rolls along (it felt self-shot to me… but it’s not). Web page just seems to repeat the film script though - a pity.
And the programme after:
19:50
The Truth About Street Weapons
The Code of Silence
This film explores the culture of silence that grips on the Mancunian community in which 15-year-old Jesse James was murdered two years ago.
Good access - the community spoke.
Also no cutaways over the interview edits - jarring and effective with such a powerful subject… can’t seem to watch again on the website… who is the film maker?
Horst Tappert retired from being Derrick (long-running, slow-paced, German TV show) in 1998.
Umberto Eco, ‘Electrifying Mediocrity’, wrote:
“Derrick is the quintessence of all television spectacles, even those in which there are real characters who are loved only because, in a triumphal manner, they prove to be even more mediocre than the most mediocre viewers.”
John Birt: “At the heart of the public broadcasting tradition is universality - reaching out to every household in the land - the poor and the prosperous - offering enriching experience and information which extends understanding.”
“Television has become a mirror in which the public likes to recognize itself,” Pivot said. “The public either likes to see itself, or it likes something very far away, exoticism. Culture is neither of those.” Even when programs feature “popular” culture, rap musicians from the Paris suburbs, for example, the emphasis is not so much on what they perform as on how they got there, Pivot says, how they “made” it, so that the viewer can relate and dream how he might “make” it and be a celebrity too.
1) Shoutability (When at Capital Radio TV producer Briggs realised the drama of hearing contestants making their mind up on air) at home the listeners engage and shout the answer
2 ) Ramp up the drama with anguish. Torture the contestant with tension music and cold blue light etc. Show their anguished faces.
3) One million prize money (needed premium rate numbers to support it)
2000: Maitland, who has given himself a year to make a million out of trading shares on the net, refuses to take his bad luck too seriously. In addition to this week’s anticipated loss, he dropped another £10,000 last month.
