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Thinking before looking
May. 22nd, 2008 12:22 pmSo I've been thinking about episode length, exhibition context, and classic vs new Doctor Who.
... is exhibition the right word? It is with film. We studied film in Intro Moving Image, but not so much did we study Television. I have a Television Studies dictionary on a shelf but it's more than arms length away, so, onwards.
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With so much competition for attention - other channels, other data sources, other media - then TV has to have an attention getter *often*, or you lose people for five minutes while you wander around corridors and they blog about it. People will, in effect, go to commercials on their own, unless you keep giving them fresh reasons not to.
And *that's* why the structure of New Series Doctor Who is different.
We're not slavishly imitating the USA for the money.
We're reacting to shared changes in exhibition context, not just in the multi channel TV environment, but in the changed family life and media reading habits of the viewing audience.
... now if I can 'prove' that with some close reading and theory quotes, I have me an essay.
Except I'm not sure I want to essay on that one.
... actually to be honest it's more like I'm not sure I want to hand in that essay. I wants to write an essay for all those questions.
:eyeroll:
... is exhibition the right word? It is with film. We studied film in Intro Moving Image, but not so much did we study Television. I have a Television Studies dictionary on a shelf but it's more than arms length away, so, onwards.
( Read more... )
With so much competition for attention - other channels, other data sources, other media - then TV has to have an attention getter *often*, or you lose people for five minutes while you wander around corridors and they blog about it. People will, in effect, go to commercials on their own, unless you keep giving them fresh reasons not to.
And *that's* why the structure of New Series Doctor Who is different.
We're not slavishly imitating the USA for the money.
We're reacting to shared changes in exhibition context, not just in the multi channel TV environment, but in the changed family life and media reading habits of the viewing audience.
... now if I can 'prove' that with some close reading and theory quotes, I have me an essay.
Except I'm not sure I want to essay on that one.
... actually to be honest it's more like I'm not sure I want to hand in that essay. I wants to write an essay for all those questions.
:eyeroll: