Saturday, January 15, 2011
What is RTV?
After class on Thursday, I really questioned what RTV exactly was. To some point, RTV can be defined and then i think it is up to the individual to define what it is. My current opinion is that sports and the nightly news are not RTV. The nightly news is scripted and predictable and that is why it does not fall into this category of television. Sports falls into its own genre. In sports, there are show hosts who have scripts. I was surprised when reading Wikipedia's definition that there are so many types of RTV. Some shows fall into more than one type. For example, Intervention would be considered a documentary and a hoax. In addition, I think RTV should not be scripted. The show Laguna Beach claimed to not be scripted and then they finally admitted to some of it being fake. They would reshoot scenes and give some of them lines to say, but parts of the show were still real. My main question coming out of class conversation on Thursday is: should it be up to the individual to define what RTV is or should a higher power, such as the FCC decide?
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You make a good point here, and largely I think that the definition of RTV has risen from the culture that birthed it. The viewers may ultimately define what they consider RTV, in conjunction with the producers and networks that feed us the shows we watch.
I agree with what you say about reality tv being hard to define and I agree with you thinking that the definition is probably something the changes among every individual and I think that the proof come from everyones posts even just on this blog. Everyone seems to have the central idea of RTV being unscripted but once everyone expanded on the idea of being unscripted the definitions changed drastically. for example you didn't define sports and news and RTV but I do and within other posts there were so many variations of definitions. I definitely thing that the definition of RTV is up to and individual analysis.
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