Class, today I will be ranting about spoilers, and their effect on me. Please take notes, as this WILL be on the exam.
I hate it when the media feels it must put spoilers into adverts in order to get people's interest. Hate! Why do television channels feel like they must shove down our throats what will happen in the next ten episodes in order to get us to watch the next one? Do you know what it actually does?
Well, do you?
What it actually does is ruin the program. There is no point watching an episode of CSI, Lost, Grey's Anatomy or ANYTHING if you advertise the ending, or the big suprise in the middle or even the first ten minutes as part of your campaign to rival other channels!
The same goes for films; if you show something which happens in the last ten minutes in your trailers/promos, then you will just annoy the eagle-eyed viewers, as they will know that they are still expecting something huge and cool to happen. It also lessens the experience of the film.
I do actually know why it's done; it's because almost everything good that we watch is American, and they design all of the promotional material for their program for their stupid, attention-span-less audiences, and we just get it filetered down to us. What this has done is set some kind of stupid precedent for our own channels, who think that they have to live up the these other promos in order to get viewers.
Here's a suggestion; how about you use what happened in the last episode and remind us of why we're desperate for the next one? Or you could make something intelligent which just gently reminds us to watch the program. And if it's a film, you could just make something small and seperate to advertise the film, like Disney did for The Incredibles; their trailer contained an amusing little scene which wasn't at all used in the film.
And another thing; do NOT tell us what is about to happen in the episode just before it starts! We're already there to watch it, and if you're wanting to get people who are randomly flicking through the channels to watch it then how about you just talk about how funny/interesting the episode is WITHOUT giving specifics?!
Argh!!!
Thank you class. Your homework for this week is to go find a TV executive and explain the contents of this lecture to them. With a pointed stick, if necessary.
You are now dismissed.
Saturday 23 June 2007
Saturday 9 June 2007
Ill and III are the same in this font
I have come down with a nasty flu; we think that I became a carrier a couple of days ago, gave it to my g/f who then mutated it and gave me it back. I HATE being ill because it hits me so hard; I am so used to being healthy that it takes me backand I just cannot take it. I hurt and ache... blah.
The worst thing is that I was feeling so motivated to write... I really wanted to be able to sit down and knock out some work, and I just can't. Too ill!
The reason that I was so motivated was that one of my friends gave me an intial opinion about my novel, and it was positive. He's the first person to have actually given me any comments (apart from my g/f), and his liking the novel really spurred me to believe that I could be a writer; I thought that if one person likes the novel then, maybe, more people will; that if one person could get into the worlds I create and enjoy being in them that I might be able to do it for more than one person.
But all of that creative power has merely bounced around in my head. I have refined a couple of ideas that I've been toying with, but that's been in between the headaches, tiredness and all of the other symptoms. It's almost not fair... but oh well.
Oh, and :-F is my ill face.
The worst thing is that I was feeling so motivated to write... I really wanted to be able to sit down and knock out some work, and I just can't. Too ill!
The reason that I was so motivated was that one of my friends gave me an intial opinion about my novel, and it was positive. He's the first person to have actually given me any comments (apart from my g/f), and his liking the novel really spurred me to believe that I could be a writer; I thought that if one person likes the novel then, maybe, more people will; that if one person could get into the worlds I create and enjoy being in them that I might be able to do it for more than one person.
But all of that creative power has merely bounced around in my head. I have refined a couple of ideas that I've been toying with, but that's been in between the headaches, tiredness and all of the other symptoms. It's almost not fair... but oh well.
Oh, and :-F is my ill face.
Wednesday 6 June 2007
Inn-sewer-ants
I apologise for the previous entry; I had been reading about the new faith-based 'museum' being set up in one of the Southern States in America and realising that I couldn't really mock someone on the basis of their beliefs not matching science, when I don't believe in anything and even scientists only have the word of their fellow scientists that something is true. I guess I just felt very weird.
Anyway, I've recently started a new job in an insurance company. Learning about the laws and understanding the wording of the policy has been fine; the difficulty has been in learning that we DO pay out for stupidity! People can be absolute idiots, and we will still pay them for the damage they have caused a lot of the time. Obviously I can't mention specifics, but still it's insane.
Another thing is that anything someone agrees with the customer is legally binding, even if it's entirely wrong. Yet another thing is how much we talk down to customers; we do not use words over a certain number of syllables and we treat customers as if they are all morons. Granted, some of them are, but the 90% who aren't must feel quite aggrieved when they get a letter which a five year old could have written.
Still, I'm dreading the prospect of turning someone's claim down. When buddying the other day the person I was listening in on had to decline a claim, and the poor customer just went "Oh... okay..." Anger I could have coped with, but sounding so dejected really got to me.
I know that, logically, they should be getting their homes maintained, or they should have had a survey done before they bought the house, or they should have read the policy booklet... but still. Quite depressing, but it's a part of the job I'm going to have to get used to.
Oh, and raking is fun.
Anyway, I've recently started a new job in an insurance company. Learning about the laws and understanding the wording of the policy has been fine; the difficulty has been in learning that we DO pay out for stupidity! People can be absolute idiots, and we will still pay them for the damage they have caused a lot of the time. Obviously I can't mention specifics, but still it's insane.
Another thing is that anything someone agrees with the customer is legally binding, even if it's entirely wrong. Yet another thing is how much we talk down to customers; we do not use words over a certain number of syllables and we treat customers as if they are all morons. Granted, some of them are, but the 90% who aren't must feel quite aggrieved when they get a letter which a five year old could have written.
Still, I'm dreading the prospect of turning someone's claim down. When buddying the other day the person I was listening in on had to decline a claim, and the poor customer just went "Oh... okay..." Anger I could have coped with, but sounding so dejected really got to me.
I know that, logically, they should be getting their homes maintained, or they should have had a survey done before they bought the house, or they should have read the policy booklet... but still. Quite depressing, but it's a part of the job I'm going to have to get used to.
Oh, and raking is fun.
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