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Don't Watch That, Watch This takes a whole range of visual forms, from straight film to web cams and jpegs, and re-edits them to present the viewer with alternative realities. So we see Osama Bin Laden working with his Director as he films an Al Quaeda video, David Blunkett giving his real opinions of Cabinet colleagues from the podium at the Labour Party Conference, and Tony and Cherie at home, playing along with the early rounds in Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and revealing themselves to be spectacularly thick.Interspersed with such 'lighter' material are some harder hitting pieces, like statistics revealing the amount spent by Indonesia on British-made defence transport and arms, presented alongside the amount pledged by the British government in tsunami aid. These sketches make for slightly depressing viewing - Don't Watch That... isn't ideal if you're suffering an attack of weltschmerz.Devised by Geoff Atkinson and directed by Steve Connelly (both of whom worked on Spitting Image and Rory Bremner), Don't Watch That... employs methods including overdubbing and re-synching, graphics, matting, time-lapse and re-touching. The programme bills itself as 'a show for the jpeg generation', and lots of the material certainly has a viral e-mail feel to it, albeit of super-high quality and production values. There's a lesson behind it all, in that the show highlights how easily reality can be manipulated and subverted to alter perceptions, but it's entertaining enough if somewhat bleak at times.
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran