Posts by Geoff Lealand
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I reckon my students will be interested in those topics...See you there tomorrow.
My favoured perspectives on music is Grant Smithies, Nick Bollinger Graeme Reid in NZ --and from abroad--the UK mag The Word (their tagline "Intelligent Life on Planet Rock"). They always have sharp writing, don't stint on criticism where it is warranted, and always have great counter-mount samplers. Does anyone else read it?
My 16 year old daughter is currently keen on Kerrang, even though she does acknowledge that it is filled with look-alike/sound-alike hairy boy groups.
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Does anyone else like Annabelle White's Food Detective column in the Star Times magazine?
I do--raisin loaf this week? I also greatly enjoy the column by the woman who edits the New Zealand Gardener.
[an aside here]...everything ok for the Media 7 record on Wednesday?
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The pair leave for Mongolia on Tuesday and will be joined there by a team of three: a cook, a translator and a driver. They will spend two weeks camping in the Gobi Desert, and as the worm is supposedly attracted to tremors, they will set off some explosions to try to draw it to the surface.
Is this for real? It sounds much too like one of my family's favourite movies: Tremors (dir. Ron Underwood, 1990)
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Nadia Glavish was a real hoot!
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(sorry Geoff, couldn't resist)
Fair comment--but I hold to my opinion of Roger Hall
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Although I have to say I never cared for Chris Petit's stuff in Time Out much. I bet there's more people on the end credits of some of James Cameron's movies than turned up to form the audience for most of Petit's glum films.
Well, better glum than dumb, I say!
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In response to the Cameron approach to film-making (even bigger is even better), I can only quote British film critic/film-maker Chris Petit, Most American films come now in one size only: XXL. Dragged down by their own size, they're monster productions, buried under the weight of cast and crew, whose end credits last longer than a short story
(Film Comment, May/June 2009)Anyway, for some more thoughts on the From Broadcast to Broadcast--Is That It? conference in Christchurch last Saturtday:
Shaun Brown (MD, SBS) had the most interesting things to say--as in "Nobody knows what is happening in broadcasting [television, particular], or what is going to happen. I am very suspicious of those who have the answers. There is a failure of new funding models to replace existing ones and govt-funded PB may be the only model to survive the storm.' He suggested that the current structures of commercial TV in Australia won't survive, as will Aussie TV quotas--which will be have to be 'modified or abandoned', giving problems in filling them or justifying such regulation. One suggestion he made was that one outcome of the siphoning of traditional sources of income to other sectors (such as online) might require an obligation or levy on the latter, to fund imperatives of national interest etc, for 'the market has consistently failed to provide all the needs of its citizens'.
An interesting proposition but you could see fellow panelists like Mediaworks Brent Impey clenching their buttocks. Nevertheless, a similiar model of cross-subsidisation works in other broadcasting environments eg in Finland, commercial TV operators such as MT3 used to cross-subsidise the PB network YLE (and still do, as far as I know).I can post more later..
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I didn't much like Humpday, Robyn. Even though I like my humour to be adventurous and challenging, I found it much too tedious and self-regarding. I too was surrounded by people laughing like a drain but I concluded (rather snottily) that they were the kind of folk who would regard a Roger Hall play as great drama.
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The most interesting presentation was by Shaun Brown (SBS, ex-TVNZ). I could share some of his comments, if people are interested.
Sure enough. I will do that tomorrow. Tonight I have to read my way through the final draft of my student's 50,000 word masters thesis.
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On TiVo and the relentless search for new business models for media...
I went to the "From Broadcast to Broadband--Is That It?" one day conference in Christchurch on Saturday (marking the 25th anniversary of the NZ Broadcasting School). One (online) presentation was a gee-whizz thing on Zillion TV, which is proposing that it will get income by getting people to click on embedded ads--earning 'loyalty' points' for the more ads they click on. The trade-off would be downloadable movies, TV programmes etc.
The was a wave of sniggers around the room when this was proposed.
The most interesting presentation was by Shaun Brown (SBS, ex-TVNZ). I could share some of his comments, if people are interested.