BBC Four (dossier edit)
Political satire from Vera Productions, that uses edited footage of celebrities and politicians to create a whole new take on reality
Don't Watch That, Watch This
UK, BBC / Vera Productions, Satire / sketch, colour, 2005
Part-Double Take, part-Mark Thomas, Don't Watch That, Watch This takes a whole range of visual forms, from straight film to web cams and jpegs, and re-edits them to present the viewer with alternative realities. So we see Osama Bin Laden working with his Director as he films an Al Quaeda video, David Blunkett giving his real opinions of Cabinet colleagues from the podium at the Labour Party Conference, and Tony and Cherie at home, playing along with the early rounds in Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and revealing themselves to be spectacularly thick.
Interspersed with such 'lighter' material are some harder hitting pieces, like statistics revealing the amount spent by Indonesia on British-made defence transport and arms, presented alongside the amount pledged by the British government in tsunami aid. These sketches make for slightly depressing viewing - Don't Watch That... isn't ideal if you're suffering an attack of weltschmerz.
Devised by Geoff Atkinson and directed by Steve Connelly (both of whom worked on Spitting Image and Rory Bremner), Don't Watch That... employs methods including overdubbing and re-synching, graphics, matting, time-lapse and re-touching. The programme bills itself as 'a show for the jpeg generation', and lots of the material certainly has a viral e-mail feel to it, albeit of super-high quality and production values. There's a lesson behind it all, in that the show highlights how easily reality can be manipulated and subverted to alter perceptions, but it's entertaining enough if somewhat bleak at times.
Crew
Geoff Atkinson - Writer
Graham Duff - Writer
Steve Connelly - Director
Geoff Atkinson - Producer
Steve Connelly - Producer
Lucy Lumsden - Executive Producer
Transmission Details
Number of episodes: 6 Length: 30 mins
Series One 13 Jan-17 Mar 2005 · Tue 10.30pm
Language: English
[Official Site]
the Dossier
NOTE:
This is a cut-down version for an international audience.
~19.15 min ~31.3 MB
low quality Real Media format
Windows Codecs: Real Alternative
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http: part1
http: part2
http: part3
http: part4
http: part5
http: part6
not really science or documentaries. I'm getting a bit off topic ....as usual..
posting them seeing as there are some smartarses here that will appreciated this humour
enjoy
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