Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Sensory Overload

TV channels' efforts to optimize screen space is making it difficult to view the program.

A ticker at the bottom with information running, a scroll bar on top with information flashing, weather forecast on top right corner flickering away, sound track for a documentary that suppresses the speaker's voice, half screen images of interview and the other half showing a song or some pictures on the interviewee............

Please please pass this feeback to channels and help the likes of me

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Join the dots

football - servant - landlord - daugther - son- woman- lust- love- reason - boredom - fantasy - an orgy - love - marriage - happiness - heartache - anger - pain - separation - togetherness - coming together - repel - outside - inside - reason - manipulation - sincere- loneliness - marriage - friends

There are no random acts in this world everything is connected

Friday, November 10, 2006

Whining IT

A remote village in Kerala has no bus service, people come together, organize for a bus service
- a road is in bad shape in a village, villagers do shram dhan and get it fixed.

Bangalore roads - the golden highway that connects the IT barons' nests, is in bad shape - whine, whine, whine and whine more. Is it too difficult to get all employees to give away a day's pay, get them in groups to do some shram dhan and get the road fixed. Hasnt this gone on for too long.

I am not excusing the govt of its responsibilities, it is inept in a lot of ways. Isnt it better to look for a solution rather than point to the problem for years.

It is not new for corporate houses to take care of parks and green zones in traffic junctions, why not this too?

In fact in one of the TV shows where NRN was talking about the infrastructure and particularly the roads a doctor from Narayan Hridayalaya said - I see patients from villages that have unheard for roads and therefore a bad road does not bother my patients nor me. Isnt there something to learn and see here.

Pampered IT lot should start looking at the rest of the country too and then crib about their problems.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Interviewing Skills

TV channel interviewers are turning unnecessarily aggressive these days. Arnab Goswami in his interview with Sharukh, was nauseatingly aggressive and the same seems to be the style with Rajdeep and his wife too. These interviewers are starkly different from Vir Sanghvi who is very direct, does not sugar coat his words yet at the same time protects the respect of the interviewee. Barkha Dutt is so very patronizing to people and her approach seems to be " them and her with her speakers and audience. Is it a culture thing that we know either to be servile or to disrespect only.

This aggressive style seems to be an attempt to ape some of the BBC interviewers like Steven Cole and Tim Sebastain. What seems to be missing with our interviewers is the home work and the ability to identify spots where blunt directness is warranted. Steven and Tim do not maintain their directness throughout the session.

English - someone who is an English expert please correct me -

I hear news readers saying that's the wrap on today's news - is this correct, also I heard Aishwarya using expressions like - move forth, viewers have not oft seen a mujra. Sharukh saying I put my child to sleep (my heart skipped a beat when I heard this).

While I can understand cine personalities making errors, I think news readers need to be a l0t more careful.

I always thought wrap up is the expression and also it is move forward and and often seen and getting a child to sleep.

Nakeeran community, indha postil kutram kurai irundal mannithu porutharulga.