Glad to see Courtney Barnett is on my favorite website this week!
Just like Georgina, Allison and a few other people in the class I think, as well as NETWORKED MEDIA I am also taking BROADCAST MEDIA this summer where we have to create a TV show and a short radio documentary. Our group chose to do our TV project around “Coxy’s Big Break” about the Abottsford Convent. On the other hand, the radio project had to imitate the ABC 360 documentaries and we did our project about how people with disabilities are seen in our society nowadays.
Both projects deal with journalism/documentaries and I could not be happier! Since I was little I have always loved documentaries, it could be a documentary about ants, or serial killers, I would always be staring at the tv screen.
I thought I would share one of my favorite TV documentary ever, by Louis Theroux who is the me one of the best and most talented reporter/tv journalist of our time.
WHEN LOUIS THEROUX MET THE HAMILTONS
That is the only video I could find, but if you haven’t watched it yet please do!!! Its really worth a look.
“When Louis Met…” is a series of documentary films made by BAFTA award-winning film-maker Louis Theroux. The series was originally aired on BBC2 from 2000 to 2002.
In the series, Louis Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did so. In the episode “when Louis Theroux met the Hamitlons’ the Tory MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine were arrested during the course of filming following allegations of indecent assault which were subsequently found to be false.
I first started watching the documentary and thought “well this is pretty boring…” Even Louis during the course of filming at some point says something like he doesn’t know where the documentary is going… but the next day they get arrested and that is where the documentary really ‘gets intense’.
This episode was also ranked in the 50 best documentaries of England.
This is another amazing (yet hard to believe) documentary by VICE that Louis Theroux also covered in one of his documentary called “The most hated family in America”
I haven’t been doing a really good job recently keeping my blog updated (I knew it was going to happen during the course at some point) and I’m very impressed with Emerald‘s blog as she always keeps posting stuff and there is not a single blog post that I did not find interesting!
I also feel really left behind as I had to miss class last week to attend the filming from my other course “BROADCAST MEDIA” so I am very unsure what activities were in class. I did read a few blog posts from my mates about the death of books (especially, Georgina‘s article) and found it really interesting! In the reading, Douglas discusses the end of books and how hypertext has now kind of taken over.
look at this cutie
Mockery is a national weapon in France (the best example would be the Charlie Hebdo attack recently), so when an American cable news channel raised false alarms about rampant lawlessness in some Paris neighborhoods, a popular French television show rebutted the claims the way it best knew how: with satire, spoofs and a campaign of exaggeration and sarcasm.
The show, “Le Petit Journal,” which is probably by far my favorite tv show is a French version of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”. It is hosted by Yann Barthès.
Usually “Le Petit Journal” reserves its venom for French politicians and the local news media. But a few days after the terrorist attacks in Paris that left 17 dead people, including 12 journalists, it set its sights on America’s Fox News.
“It’s more effective than being upset,” Yann said.
Unfortunately this post won’t really be relevant as the video cannot be found on the internet anymore and its making me pretty upset so I’ll just stop talking.
Le Grand Journal, has been a daily rendez-vous for French people and their TV since 2004. I’m not a big Johnny Hallyday fan at all, and I hate that I have to say this but according to «Mediametrie50», the talk show reached a pik of 4.8 million viewers when singer Johnny Hallyday was invited in October 2008 on the show, a historical record for the show.
The show has established itself as a real «must watch» mixing topicality (in the first part) and culture (in the second part). In 2013, after nine seasons at the head of the show, Michel Denisot announced his resignation due to declining audiences. It probably doesn’t have anything to do with me not owning a TV at that time but that is a weird coincidence. To replace him, Canal+ has decided to recall Antoines de Caunes, a key figure of «Nulle part ailleurs», the show that existed before «Le Grand Journal».
Le Grand Journal features news, talk, weather and comedy. It is a French nightly news and talk live show diffusing every weekday evening from 19:10 to 20:20 on Canal+. It began on August 30, 2004 and even though the show is broadcast on the premium channel Canal+, this is a non-encrypted program. Taking some of the recipes that made «Nulle part ailleurs» so popular, the show has the same television studio set as its predecessor. However, it is distinguished by a major difference in its concept ; the daily presence of political topics and guests.
Antoine de Caunes is also always supported by several qualified journalists that all have their rôle in the show :
– Jean-Michel Aphatie (political journalist)
– Augustin Trapenard (literary journalist)
– Anne Nivat (great reporter and French writer)
– Doria Tillier (TV presenter, responsible for the weather section «Miss Meteo»)
If I had to talk about the things I miss the most about New-Caledonia, I would probably say the beaches, wearing thongs and Le Grand Journal. What makes it so popular is the fact that the show does not target a specific audience, everyone can enjoy it.
From Broadcast to Post-Broadcast :
Le Grand Journal has gone through many changes, and to keep an ever present and enthuastic audience, the show often renews its sections.
BROADCAST SECTIONS :
The TV show always starts with presenter Antoine de Caunes’ monologue where he announces what is going to be discussed, introduces the crew and the guests.
Jean-Michel Aphatie then takes over with the «eye to eye question». Everynight, political journalist invites a politician to answer a question ( most of the time the question is pretty bold and opens a debate on a specific topic.)
The chronicle literary by Augustin Trapenard comes next : a book, sometimes two are presented and discussed.
Also, «Le Zapping» (translated as ‘Channel surfing’) is probably one of the oldest and most legendary sections of Canal Plus. It is a 2 to 3 minute program which rebroadcasts the moments considered as the funniest, most heartbreaking, most moving or strangest programs all over the world. Watching it is an easy way to sound smart towards your friends as it’s basically all the things you should have not have missed in the past 24 hour on TV.
NOT SO BROADCAST:
The weather section by Doria Tillier : from Monday to Thursday, model and TV presenter performs a humorous weather. Although on Friday she is replaced by a personality.
Le Petit Journal : Le Grand Journal’s little brother, Le Petit Journal is presented by Yann Barthès. The aim of the show is to cover and relate in a caustic, diverted or shifted manner various news topics. It is completely different from Le Grand Journal as Le Petit Journal chooses real topics and turn them into humor, sarcam and often mockery. For instance, Yann Barthès does not hesitate to choose our president as a target and openly mock him (no wonder why French people love it).
In October 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy’s «copy and paste» case became famous due to Le Petit Journal. Indeed, the program broadcast footage of ex President Nicolas Sarkozy holding a speech on agricultural crises in Poligny. He gave a nearly identical speech in February the same year, in Daumeray. This scandal was then relayed the next day in the press, especially in «Le Monde» where it hit the headline.
POST-BROADCAST:
«Les tutos» (The tutorials) is a short humorous program where Jérôme Niel teaches the viewer how to create or cook something different every friday. Always starting its videos with ‘Salut bandes de salopes’ which could be translated as ‘Hey you stupid c*nts’ and finishing with ‘Je vous aimes putain!’ (F*ck, I love you!), it is probably the most degenerated and sassiest program on the show.
connasse
Camille Cotin is one in a million. Unvarnished, messy hair, she’s not scared to speak the truth. Who has never pretended that the chair (taken by her bag) was reserved for a friend ‘who should be here soon’… Her performance in this program is admirable. In this humorous sequence once again, ‘La connasse’ (the bitch) as she likes to call herself features as a young execrable and unceremonious Parisian woman. Filmed with hidden camera, she literally acts as a bitch towards people.
I sometimes feel like she is going too far and I feel bad for the people being pranked (it’s not the first time the actress has copped a plaint) but I keep telling myself while watching it is that these people have later been informed it was a prank.
Finally, The Question Box is a small room where guests go at the end of the show and answer questions asked by the audience. It is often really funny as the questions are unexpected and it’s live!
THIS IS GOLD
I really liked Georgina‘s posts about the hashtags on Facebook (and completely agree!), and I wanted to talk about hashtags as well but on Instagram.
Little bit of History:
Instagram was born in March 2010, it is not even 5 years old! In January 2011, the company introduced #hashtags to make it more accessible for people to look for photos (or to get more likes mm) and by June 2011 Instagram announced it had 5 million users.
Finally in December 2014, according to Insta co-founder, Kevin Systrom, the application has 300 million users accessing the site every month #niceoneinsta
Now we’ve all used stupid hashtags but once again as Georgina mentioned, I love it when there is a little bit of humor behind it and not just boring (and useless) ##.
I don’t know about the statistics but I reckon that the hashtag #FOODPORN has to be in the top 50 of the most popular hashtags. I recently found a girl’s Instagram account from Melbourne that gives literal meaning to the term food porn and I thought I’d share it with you guys! It does not only deal with photos of naked people eating food, she also shares those amazing photos of festivals, road trips, prett-y prett-y cool
some of my favorite photos from the account!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUcTzxaZSc
This is not usually the kind of music I listen to, Im not a fan at listening to music covers but this is an example to prove me wrong: originally sang by Justin Timberlake I think, I fell in love with that version.
Chlöe Howl is British singer and songwriter. I heard about her through my friend, a bit more than two years ago now. By the time Chlöe only had a few covers on youtube and her first song called “No strings”. Being a huge fan of Amy Winehouse, I found a little bit Amy in Chlöe: not necessarily in the voice but maybe more in the wittiness of the lyrics.
I have always seen these <whatever> </dontgetit> things but never quite understood what they were for nor what they meant. It was just another language that I was not willing to try and understand.
I did get most of the tutorial today though, but not completely. Even though I think it’s pretty difficult and boring, I kind of enjoyed trying to make a web page, learning how to do stuff like center the header, underline it, add a little bit of red to the body, upload a photo and bam!
I’m glad that I got to do that exercise with Bernadette and Dale because I would have been completely lost otherwise. I was never good at technology subjects in high school and probably will never be.