Well, for that matter, reaction shots are hardly a product of television. It's hard to find a musical from the 30s to the present with numbers that don't include a cutaway to an appreciative audience*. The psychology always seems to be "Well, they're enjoying it; why aren't you?"
(*Astaire, Kelly, and Berkeley pictures always excepted.) --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 7:07:53 AM UTC-7, Ben Scripps wrote: > > > Reaction shots certainly date back farther than MTV; I believe the > genesis of their popularity is in Roone Arledge's producing of (and > Chet Forte's directing of) "Monday Night Football". > > Of course, sometimes reaction shots don't work out so well: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haF__EN0_fs&feature=related > > -- > -- > Ben Scripps > [email protected] <javascript:> > On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 7:07:53 AM UTC-7, Ben Scripps wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, JW <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > I assume that it's part of the "MTV" mentality that insists on some > > sort of cut every couple seconds, since the audience is now presumed > > to have no attention span to speak of. > > Reaction shots certainly date back farther than MTV; I believe the > genesis of their popularity is in Roone Arledge's producing of (and > Chet Forte's directing of) "Monday Night Football". > > Of course, sometimes reaction shots don't work out so well: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haF__EN0_fs&feature=related > > -- > -- > Ben Scripps > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
