roundtable: Re: Is the problem content production or access to carriage?

roundtable: Re: Is the problem content production or access to carriage?

Re: Is the problem content production or access to carriage?

Ann Suter (asuter@ctc.ctc.edu)
Thu, 31 Mar 1994 17:22:17 -0700 (PDT) 

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 17:22:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ann Suter <asuter@ctc.ctc.edu>
Subject: Re: Is the problem content production or access to carriage? 
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <9403310916.aa27128@q2.ics.uci.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9403311717.A11849-0100000@ctc.ctc.edu>

While I agree that content production costs money and that poor quality 
will not hold people's attention, I can recall quite clearly watching a 
beautiful production on the history of business in the United States 
with high production values and a well developed story line that, as 
a distance education class for credit, only elicited a few enrolles; 
while a low cost production on child abuse with stand up lecturer and 
a camera pointed at slide projected on a screen elicited 100's of 
enrollees since the program was timely and the laws had changed 
regarding teacher certification.  

We shouldn't always expect a certain production value for every kind 
of program development, nor should we judge quality by production 
values in determining worth of a program.  


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On Thu, 31 Mar 1994, Rob Kling wrote:
> 
> When one realizes that the product team costs can make watchable quality
> commercial TV cost $10,000-$30,000/minute, the relaive cost of equipment
> versus editorial groups, proiducer groups, actors, camera crews,
> post-prod teams, etc. becomes clear ....
> 
> Now and then a home movie quality video will be *very important* for 
> large audeinces ....  Kennedy assasination, Rodney King beating ..... 
> and there can be some less expensive interesting video (Fred Wisemen's 
> Cinema Verite'). But it's rare.
> 
> /Rob Kling
> U C Irvine
> <kling@ics.uci.edu>

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