Outlinng the Characteristics of Reality Tv That Call into Question the Realism of What Is Being Portrayed
Reality television , We all watch it , We all talk about it , Unscripted drmatic’s to Humorous situations, docomenting actual events and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors , It’s always been pressent in some shap or form on our television set’s , But was not till the 1900’s that it erened it’s right as a television formula with show’s like Big Brother and Survivor.
Reality shows cover a wide and varied range of production’s and style’s from game and quiz show’s to sevivel and strength show’s like tashekis castle witch was originally produced in japan by tokyo broadcasting system in 1986 , Takeshi’s castle was about a count who owned a castle and sets up impossible challenged for players to compleat , It was an instant sensation in japan and evedently world wide,. Then there was big brother witch basicly was a surrveillance voyeuism focused production.
Reality tv frequently portrays a modified and highly influencedform of reality , utilixing sensationalism to attract viewers and so to generate advertising profitis Participants are often placed in exotic locations or abnormal sistuations and sometines coached to act in specific scripted way’s by off-screen editiors , with the portrayal of events and speech manipulated and contrived to create an illustation of reality through editing and other post-production techniques.
Reality tv also has subgenre’s each extramly different from one and other,
Documentary style uses different camera shooting and footage editing giving the viewer the impression that they are passive observers following people going about their daily personal and professional activities this style of filmig often referrs to as fly on the wall documentry, Story “plots” are often constructed via editing or planned situations, with the results resembling soap operas