Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Texting your TV?
It has become a very common thing for television shows to encourage viewers to use their cell phones in order to interact with it. It has been more popular with shows where the nations votes are required to keep the show going. Some examples of these kinds of shows are American Idol and Americas Best Dance Crew. As we all have probably been a viewer of these types of shows at one time, we can all be witnesses to this use of texting or calling in. But now this use of interactivity is going above and beyond. There are even television shows, mostly soap operas, that allow viewers to text in what they want to see happen in the next weeks show. They can let the show know what their ideas for the plots are and what they would like to see be done and who to. The producers, writers and directors of these shows take into account what their viewers want and create the plot of the next show around what their viewers really want to see. This is amazing to me because this opens new doors for everyone. The people behind these shows are able to give the viewers exactly what they are looking for and in return are able to boost their ratings easily and quickly. And, on the other hand, viewers have more of a connection to these types of shows and are able to feel more connected to the show because it is their ideas that are being shown on TV. In this case, all viewers have the chance to be a writer of a television show. I believe its a huge step in the right direction for the interactive media world.
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i don't know if this is such a good idea though. i mean not too many of us are talented, and if you are talented then you go and make TV show.i don't know the specific audience of the soap opera but i would assume they are not too eudcated nor possess too much talent. so if those people gather up and make up the story line. that could be desasterous.
I am definetly guilty of using texting to vote in on American Idol and even Dancing with the Stars. But I think there is a line that should not be crossed and that is determining what should happen on shows. I think the soap operas are taking a bad turn to have their viewers to text in for what they want to see. There is a reason why there are writers, and they get paid for it.
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