Sunday, January 16, 2011
Is RTV "real life"?
I think RTV used to be an unscripted show of real life. The people who appear on Reality TV are supposed to be real people not actors. But over time I think it has changed a great deal. I think to a certain extent they are actors because they don't respond to situations like they would normally if it were everyday life. Reality TV is dramatized and a lot of scenes are edited and cut. In Reality TV you don't know what the outcome is going to be so it makes it interesting to watch. There are so many shows that fall under the category of "RTV". I don't think sports should be considered reality tv because its not a show like jersey shore or the real world where there are people living their lives and being filmed. Sports are a different form of entertainment in a sense it is scripted because there are rules and regulations in each sport that the players have to follow. I found a website that said as more and more Reality TV shows air the competition between them increases. I think this is why they are becoming more fake, that is in order to make their shows more interesting to capture more viewers. http://www.essortment.com/all/realitytvsurvi_rnzs.htm. Do you think RTV is really losing its real-ness?
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I completely agree with you, the shows are soooo staged, and the people soooooo over the top due to the fact that there is a camera present, that it is not real at all, In fact its so superficial it makes me sick
I wholeheartedly agree that reality tv is becoming less realty and just pure entertainment. They might as well be sitcoms. Sports also deserve their own genre and not to be labeled "reality tv" because they follow their own format. Plain and simple.
I think it comes down to the genre your talking of. I think sports could be a form of RTV. I agree that shows like Jersey shore are becoming more and more egregious, and fiction like. But what about shows like Planet earth, are as real as any form of TV could be.
I agree with everything you said, especially the fact that sports are not reality tv, even though they can be in a sense. Sports is just something you don't really associate with reality tv.
Great article to link us to! I especially like the question it poses about why we watch reality tv. This is something worth thinking about. What does it say about us as a culture?
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