No spot for The Lot
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Prairieboy
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If the average person does not care of the behind the scenes stuff as you say, why are DVDs with those type of feature so popular. I think there is a huge hunger for that. THis is how I thought the show would work, and they lost me very quickly when it was more like American Idol.
I get asked all the time by friends and family to come to set, they are fascinated and excited to see how the magic works. Although it does not take all that long to discover it is rather slow, but hey that is what good editing is for.
I get asked all the time by friends and family to come to set, they are fascinated and excited to see how the magic works. Although it does not take all that long to discover it is rather slow, but hey that is what good editing is for.
GageFX
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I agree Prairieboy, and especially on reality shows. Almost every other show of this type - Top Model, Project runway, Apprentice, etc, the majority of the show is behind the scenes and the process of creating the thing they are being judged on (fashion photos, garments, or business). But On The Lot cut all that out and made it solely about the end product. And it got cancelled. These other shows go on ad naseum.
I think the market for BTS is much smaller than you believe. Most BTS is designed as a media packet - with the stars (who people are interested in) talking about how great it is to work with the other talent and how amazing the location is and so on.
Very, very rarely will you see a studio film BTS that addresses our interest in technical film directly. You might be perceiving that it is there for you because you'll catch a shot or two of a camera or some other technical cue that indicates it was indeed a movie.
There are terrific exceptions (Bourne pictures and anything Peter Jackson spring to mind), but I'd bet that most studio executives would rather junket their stars and their concerns over fashion and self-love through the extras than show 1% of the population how a given technical aspect of the show was accomplished.
Again, that is my perception based on hundreds of hours of BTS viewing over the years. So, compound that generalization with the fact that the On The Lot show in particular was terribly misconceived, if not poorly executed.
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Very, very rarely will you see a studio film BTS that addresses our interest in technical film directly. You might be perceiving that it is there for you because you'll catch a shot or two of a camera or some other technical cue that indicates it was indeed a movie.
There are terrific exceptions (Bourne pictures and anything Peter Jackson spring to mind), but I'd bet that most studio executives would rather junket their stars and their concerns over fashion and self-love through the extras than show 1% of the population how a given technical aspect of the show was accomplished.
Again, that is my perception based on hundreds of hours of BTS viewing over the years. So, compound that generalization with the fact that the On The Lot show in particular was terribly misconceived, if not poorly executed.
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GageFX
Carbonite Member
Erik, we are talking about BTS on reality shows, not on DVDs. As pointed out, it is the BTS style reality shows that are back for 8 seasons. It was terribly misconceived and poorly executed primarily because it focused more on what people were not interested in (mediocre shorts) and less on what they were (dramatic BTS).
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