Lockdown Limehouse Blues
May. 1st, 2020 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustA month ago, when all this lockdown business was freah and new, I posted about its effect on broadcasting - specifically, about what I was hearing on the radio, and I pointed out that it was significant that I was talking about radio, that things would be very different when you added in pictures. At that point, the evening news was pretty much my only example of the new model television; I now have more.
The baseline, I think, is Have I Got News For You, because it has a very home-made aesthetic, participants appearing in their separate frames (and their different lighting levels) with brightly coloured contrasting borders. It looks a bit improvised, and perhaps to begin with it was. But they have stuck with it, and they have lost much of their self-consciousness (at first they laughed excessively, presumably because there was no studio audience to do that for them).
Compare this to Grayson's Art Club on Channel 4. This is astonishingly slick: But who is filming this? asksdurham_rambler The answer appears to be that five remote controlled cameras were installed (and disinfected) in Perry's studio by people in masks and special suits. "Guests" appear from their own homes via Skype or Zoom or whatever medium they prefer, and if you didn't know you wouldn't guess that this format arose from necessity, rather than from the desire to show them at work on their own project. Grayson Perry has the advantage of a live-in artist's model, his wife, psychotherapist Philippa Perry: for that matter, he has the advantage of his own artistic skills, interesting ideas and engaging personality. But these elements (though they are what I watch the programme for) are not what makes it look professional and well-constructed.
Finally, not television at all, but the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's YouTube channel. Inevitably, it has a certain amount of tuition, and some playalong options, and if that's what you are looking for, you will find it here.durham_rambler and I may be the only people in the country who are not lookig to pass the time by learning new skills or unleashing our creativity, but I am enjoying the series of videoa the Ukes are making together apart (with some very skilled help). This one makes maximum use of the split screen:
Happy May Day!
The baseline, I think, is Have I Got News For You, because it has a very home-made aesthetic, participants appearing in their separate frames (and their different lighting levels) with brightly coloured contrasting borders. It looks a bit improvised, and perhaps to begin with it was. But they have stuck with it, and they have lost much of their self-consciousness (at first they laughed excessively, presumably because there was no studio audience to do that for them).
Compare this to Grayson's Art Club on Channel 4. This is astonishingly slick: But who is filming this? asks
durham_rambler The answer appears to be that five remote controlled cameras were installed (and disinfected) in Perry's studio by people in masks and special suits. "Guests" appear from their own homes via Skype or Zoom or whatever medium they prefer, and if you didn't know you wouldn't guess that this format arose from necessity, rather than from the desire to show them at work on their own project. Grayson Perry has the advantage of a live-in artist's model, his wife, psychotherapist Philippa Perry: for that matter, he has the advantage of his own artistic skills, interesting ideas and engaging personality. But these elements (though they are what I watch the programme for) are not what makes it look professional and well-constructed.Finally, not television at all, but the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's YouTube channel. Inevitably, it has a certain amount of tuition, and some playalong options, and if that's what you are looking for, you will find it here.
durham_rambler and I may be the only people in the country who are not lookig to pass the time by learning new skills or unleashing our creativity, but I am enjoying the series of videoa the Ukes are making together apart (with some very skilled help). This one makes maximum use of the split screen: Happy May Day!
