Beckett, Charlie (2011) The end of (TV) natural history? Frozen Planet review. POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (05 Nov 2011). Website.
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Abstract
As a former television news and current affairs film maker I adore the visual power of the medium. The BBC’s Frozen Planet is about as good an example of the effectiveness of a well-crafted piece of TV as you will find. Yet watching it made me uneasy as well as charmed by its consummate deployment of image, music, sound and language to create a media effect that ultimately seemed remote from the actual subject. [Update: It appears that whole scenes were ‘faked‘. One segment was filmed in a zoo with fake snow. The BBC website made this clear but the film itself was misleading]
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting Q Science > QH Natural history T Technology > TR Photography |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2017 08:41 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 18:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77355 |
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