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Missing Video: India’s first reality show (Voice Recording of Award

ceremony graced by Lata Mangeshkar)

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Missing Video: India’s first reality show (Video of Meri Awaz Suno prize

ceremony)

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What are reality shows? “Unabashedly commercial genre united

less by aesthetic rules or certainties than by the fusion of popular entertainment with a self-conscious claim to the discourse of the real. This coupling . . . Is what has made reality TV an important generic forum for a range of institutional and cultural developments

(Murray & Ouellette, 2004, pp 22).

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Missing Video: Slideshow of India’s reality show names with Viva (first reality TV music band of girls) album’s first song recording playing in

background.

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Producers• Cost• Revenue• TRP ratings of channels• Dishing out what customers want

Missing Video: Reality TV is a cash register – Money aspects

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VIEWERS• As spectacle of humiliation

and grief?– Jade Goody

• Insights into human psychology?Hear out Dr. John Paterson, Dean of Education

• Emotions?

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issues

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Non - Reality

Missing Video: Writers and editors of famous reality shows reveal the truth behind the so-called “unscripted shows”

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So What is it really?• Debra Seagal’s notes on American Detective• John Langley, executive producer COPS

calls it "recutting or refinessing“• Dr. William Beard, University of Alberta

professor of film and media studies• The Dating Experiment – Adam Sandler• Jeff Bartsch – Editor – Blind Date

BUTVIEWERS AREN’T FOOLS

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INSTANT CELEBRITY

Missing Video: Above is Ashutosh’s (First Roadies winner) application for the show. He reveals in this video what happens behind the scenes

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RACISM

Missing Video: Jade Goody abusing Shilpa Shetty

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IMPACT of

Reality TV

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Missing Video: Shorts of MTV Indian Reality Show – Get Gorgeous 5

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Missing Video: Big Boss scripted fighting by Rahul Mahajan

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IMPACT Cultural indicators and Cultivation– Ettema and Whitney 1994

Mean World Syndrome– Gerbner (1994)

Cultivation Analysis– Signorielli and Morgan 1990

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Impact cont..The more people watch television, and hence are exposed to these distortions of reality, the more they will come to view the real world as similar to the world portrayed on television and thus perceive a greater real-world incidence of the over-represented entities

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So what do we do?• Producers censor their own

content

• Promote better breed of reality shows– But will these sell?

(Fountainhead)

Missing Video: CNN – IBN news caster talks about audience preferences: TRP ratings for a show where female stripper attempts to become a news anchor are

higher than Lead India

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Reality TV – Why or Why Not?• Escape reality or manifest destiny

• Orwell Vs Huxley

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