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RED ROOM Tuesday 12th 9.00 – 13.00
Session Leader: Liana Saleh
How can we make TV programmes that are enjoyable and approachable at the same time? especially when it comes to attracting younger audiences?
Can an entertaining format enhance the value of the content? Or is this just dumbing down to catch mass audiences?
Pucul & Grecul – Episode 1- 2
Poland / TV Specific / 2 x 45’’
The Gruen Transfer
Australia / TV Specific / 31’28’’
Shopsteward: Johann Schoch
Programme presenter: Amanda Duthie
We‘ve all seen too many commercials so it‘s time to think about them or maybe even “respond to them” with your own. The Gruen Transfer is a hilarious show about advertising and how it works on us. By introducing the secrets of persuasion, the show made the audiences create more than 10,000 “revenge” ads, which have been viewed online over 550,000 times. Does the show go far enough to criticize advertising? Or is it just making fun of it? Is this audience empowerment, or is it merely “long tail programming”?
Pucul & Grecul – Episode 3 - 4
Poland / TV Specific / 2 x 45’’
Zero Complaints
South Korea / TV Specific – Consumer Report / 50’48’’
Shopsteward: Jihan El-Tahri
Programme presenter: Nam-hyi Lim
Zero Complaints is a consumer programme with impact. It is fun and consists of many elements. All too often, such a subject is treated in a more serious (and boring) style. Here’s a good television program that is innovative and 100 percent entertaining, raising audience awareness about consumer complaints in South Korean society.
Pucul & Grecul – Episode 5 - 6
Poland / TV Specific / 2 x 45’’
Keep Looking
France / Documentary – Science / 52’
Shopsteward: Liana Saleh
Programme presenter: Mathias Thery & Etienne Chaillou
This “info-taining” programme, combining information and entertainment, enables viewers to comprehend scientific subjects easily and without significant intellectual effort. Viewers live though the experience; it quenches the viewers’ thirst for knowledge by its dynamic and spectacular style. Is it dumbing down? Or is it reaching new audiences for science?
Pucul & Grecul – Episode 7 - 8
Poland / TV Specific / 2 x 45’’
Street Light Circus
Ecuador / Documentary / 46’
Shopsteward: Liana Saleh
Programme presenter: Sebastian Cardemil
Shedding light on the socio-economic situation in Ecuador, Street Light Circus follows a street-based circus show and how children are being taught life skills and given a sense of dignity. Does the programme raise public awareness of such people’s problems in new ways?
Pucul & Grecul – Episode 9 - 10
Poland / TV Specific / 2 x 45’’
Shopsteward: Kenny Kihyung Bae
Programme presenter: Witold Górka
Original and out of the ordinary, these short animations from TVP are technically excellent examples of language education in a nutshell. They teach as they amuse. The series only began on January 9, 2009, and already the funny texts used by the main characters and the catch phrase at the end have become cult items, repeated in school, at work, and shared over the Internet.
