Friday, 18 October 2013

Transition In TV Shows

A television program (television programme in the United Kingdom), also called television show, is a segment of content intended for broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series.

A television series that is intended to comprise a limited number of episodes is usually called a miniseries or serial. Series without a fixed length are usually divided into seasons orseries, yearly or semiannual installments of new episodes. While there is no defined length, US industry practice tends to favor longer seasons than those of some other countries

The 2 TV shows that I am going to compare in this blog are "That 70's Show" and "The Big Bang Theory"

This show was a comedy show with a good story line and seasons which starred 6 different individuals who studied together, just like in the TV show "The big bang theory." These 2 shows have a similar story line but they are completely different in context with values, technology and culture. In the 70's show the shoots were mainly in the classroom where the focus was mostly related to work and how they studied and learnt, there was no corrupt talks, like drugs or alcohol. But coming to the later show, they would have more jokes in the dialogues and would also talk about work, relationships and also sex at times. This is only because of the audience that watches these shows and the transformation of these viewers over the years. The Indian from the older show would be conservative and clean, but Raj for Big Bang would be more modern and frank. The party culture is not shown in the olden show but in Big Bang there are episodes and scenes of parties.



In the last few years, the things that have changed the most are technology. The equipment is more professional for sound, video and also editing. The olden shows could be seen only on cable television with a decent resolution, but todays shows can be seen on your phone, iPad, internet and also your television in HD. In the previous shows there would be only 1 or 2 sets and backgrounds as it would be difficult to shoot in public areas and also expensive, but in the Big Bang there would be shots in various locations, even if not in reality they would use technology to actually create a real background. Technology plays an important role in movies and television shows for editing, advertisements and also shooting. With the modern technology we have in todays world, TV shows like Big Bang use it for animation, color effects and sometimes also the 3D effect. But with the older TV shows you wouldn't find these great effects and features. The older shows back in the 90's had about 3-4 seasons but the modern shows go up to 10-12 seasons with a great storyline and also a good cast. Todays shows have a better introduction and a catchy tune to go with it along with famous dialogues. There has been a change in the TV Shows in the sense of production, development and exhibition. The methods of promotions and the channels used to get the media to its audience.


The Big Bang Song

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