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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Self Appreciation (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
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- In article <1992Nov18.220043.24431@news.nd.edu> slarsen@beethoven.helios.nd.edu (susan larsen) writes:
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- > One game that we have played for years, though, is used when we
- >watch TV: "What are they trying to make you think?" It is a
- >fun game with little kids and commercials. Now that she is
- >older, we play it with full-length shows. Often, when a new
- >commercial airs, Iris will turn to me and say "They're trying
- >to make me think my socks are yucky" or some such other
- >observation she has made on her own.
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- This is a great idea! I've heard some educators suggest that
- schools ought to regularly have field trips to TV studios, or
- if possible, to on-location filmings of movies and TV shows.
- Besides being educational and something the kids would probably
- enjoy immensly, these helsp to "break the spell" of TV by
- illustrating or reminding that TV is *produced*.
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- Another exercise in this regard was mentioned in a book _Four
- Arguments For The Elimination of Television_ by Jerry Mander
- (with a name like that he ought to be a political reporter!).
- In some college classes on advertising or TV production people
- are taught to count or note what are called "technical events"
- (changes of camera, or camera angle, or zooming, etc .. things
- that don't happen in real life). Apparently once people are
- taught to be aware of these it's hard for them *not* to notice
- them regularly -- this, too, "breaks the spell". Incidentally
- the number of technical events is a rough measure of how expensive
- something is to produce -- advertising typically has more technical
- events per minute than the shows themselves.
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- ---peter
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