Apprentice

One television programme that I decided to watch this week was the apprentice which is a reality TV show, the show is for businessmen or women who want to start there own business, they are put through a number of tasks to see who is the best business person and who makes the right decisions. The winner of this show wins a sufficient amount of money and get to work for Lord Alan Sugar. I already know that this show is fake and some parts are scripted, I know that the final decision is not made when you think it is and I know that both of the final contestants are filmed being told that they have won. I generally do not watch this show but I decided to see what I thought of it.

Referring to the researcher I know that every TV they have to do a lot but specificly referring to the apprentice the researcher would have to do things including; sort location, the filming is usually shot in and around London but for some task the contestants have to go out of the country, for this the researcher would have to make sure that the film crew can go and where they can fit. The researcher works closely with the producer so they also have a creative out take on the programme, they have a lot of meetings with the crew including producer, writers and director so they can give any ideas that they feel are relevant. The researcher also would have to do simple things for example any resources that the show may need which could be equipment that the contestants or Lord Alan Sugar, the researcher would have to look up these things and find them. These are just a number of things I felt I should have mentioned.


Overall I found the show personally very fake but everyone has there own opinion.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

The TV program that i watched this week was My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, which is a series of documentary's around the lives of gypsys and there beliefs and culture.There would have to be a sufficent about of research to be done for this program to be made. The researcher would have to look into locations where gypsys live and make sure that it is possible to shoot on there, also look into the individual people that was going to film. The researcher would have to made sure that they got permission from every single person to be filmed and to make sure that they know the rough background and beliefs of them. They also would have to sort out every interview that had been undertook, one over main thing that the researcher would have to do is make sure that everything that he or she had done had been written up and given to the director. They would also have to have thought creatively and come up with ideas that maybe the director didn't.

Personally I feel that this show is very revealing of the gypsy's lives and I find that my opinion has definitely changed and the stereotype that was created before this documentary has differed. One view that I have about the children on the show is that they are exploited and that there lives are planned out before they are old enough to realise and the women on the show have no choose in what they do. Overall as a viewer my opinion would be different but as a researcher the show works very well.