tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post5061288267785254973..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: Prehistoric ParkRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-40206770621621762382014-01-15T20:11:19.167+00:002014-01-15T20:11:19.167+00:00Actually, the "War of the Worlds" panic ...Actually, the "War of the Worlds" panic is a myth:<br />http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html<br />(Basically, it was newspapers trying to sabotage radio because they saw it as competition.)<br /><br />As for fictional documentaries, I think they can work well, as long as it's clear (somewhere) about what's real. "World War Z" (the book) is written as a series of interviews with people; I haven't seen the film, but in theory they could have used the same approach there. I'm pretty sure that there have been a couple of episodes of sci-fi TV series which were presented as documentaries too, e.g. "Stargate SG-1" and "Babylon 5".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-30275291772546496892014-01-02T15:08:52.851+00:002014-01-02T15:08:52.851+00:00I've been thinking for the past few years that...I've been thinking for the past few years that the trend for showing photo-realistic CGI along side real photographs on science programmes is a bad idea. I'm thinking programmes that are showing artist's-impressions of black holes one minute and then real Hubble photos of astronomical objects the next - they really need to stick some text saying "artist's impression" on the CGI bits because it really isn't always that easy for the audiance to tell which is real and which isn't.<br /><br />(Ok, so I will admit that Hubble photos are frequently augmented with made up data, such as false colour, to make them more "public friendly", but still there's a big difference between real data that has been prettied up and pure CGI based on conjecture!)Steve Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09798286430189689578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-50062300042496022822014-01-02T12:43:21.312+00:002014-01-02T12:43:21.312+00:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_ThunderJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17072642751376685619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-67738141368644090672013-12-31T14:10:33.872+00:002013-12-31T14:10:33.872+00:00Good point on the eggs!
In some ways it is becaus...Good point on the eggs!<br /><br />In some ways it is because it is done too well :-)<br /><br />I suppose we then get in to mediums and ghost hunter territory. There are people that believe that stuff.RevKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-70076193586322497162013-12-31T13:54:39.953+00:002013-12-31T13:54:39.953+00:00Easier to go back and get eggs, or (for mammals) b...Easier to go back and get eggs, or (for mammals) babies. They fight back a lot less.<br /><br />Some kinds of fake documentary I don't mind.. saw one over christmas about a martian invasion in 1913.. done as a history channel documentary and using real war footage mixed in with CGI. No danger of anyone really thinking that martians invaded london and we beat them (well, you never know, but I hope not anyway).<br /><br />Other kinds.. 'Finding Bigfoot', 'Amish Mafia' - fiction dressed up as documentary for entertainment purposes I really dislike, because they fool people into thinking they have truth in them. Then there's the 'Mermaids: The new evidence' documentary - loads of people *still* think that is real even though at the end of the programme itself it stated it was fiction!Tony Hoylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06485210895681350152noreply@blogger.com