Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Reality TV

In chapter 1, Jenkins starts talking about survivor and how it's viewers were figuring out who was going to be voted off next. Even though the show isn't scripted, the show still uses writers. Not to mention that the editors play a huge part in this. The writers need to come up with what the contestants are going to do each episode. Then the editors edit some of the things that the people say. Then with the commercials, viewers are starting to guess who is going to be kicked off next. Sometimes they can figure out who is going to win the whole thing. There was one season of Survivor were a guy faked his grandmother's death during the show. He ended up winning that season and it was revealed that his grandmother never died. I thought it would be pretty obvious on who was going to win that season.


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