Digital TV and Reality Television Class Activity: The Winner: Plantanos and Collard Greens (see pics below)! Please view the above link to see the video of the Digital TV performance!
Mean Landlord! But she was good!!
- What was your activity? Please be specific on what you asked the class to do and what you hoped it would accomplish.
Our class activity was a fun project Class will split up into two groups. One group made a show that you would find on Digital TV and pitch us an idea and that group pitched a TV show whose main character was a smooth, suave drug dealer and it chronicled his life. The other group made reality TV show a show that you will find specifically on Netflix or Hulu and pitched their idea which was a fun and lively reality show called Plantanos and Collard Greens which was about a no-nonsense Latina landlord who unbeknownst to her had a child who sold drugs to another teen who was then able to help his mom pay the rent. Both groups had directors, producers, and actors and they created a little script and we decided which one was best and what we wanted to watch. The winner was the reality television show called Plantanos and Collard Greens!
2. Did you think it was successful?
Yes, it was very successful because we wanted to see what show would really pique our interest and that reality television is so popular we wanted to see if maybe the digital TV group could have won and they didn’t which reflects the current state of television now with reality shows winning!
3. Did it achieve your implied goals?
Yes, because we wanted the two groups to duke it out as best as they could to see which kind of TV show they produced would be more fun to watch. Knowing that most everyone in our class watches TV we wanted to see what they learned from watching these shows and it was clear that the “Plantanos and Collard Greens” group knew reality television very well!
4. What did you learn from the experience?
We learned from the experience that digital television even in its glory with the updated technology like HDTV and being able to watch the Internet on your smart television still has competition with reality television.
5. How would you take this project further as a research tool and what results would you hope to achieve?
We would have probably taken this project further by doing an actual and more professional skit from both groups and posting it on YouTube to see how many more hits/views would one show get over the other where we could see what the world thinks as well. The results we wanted to achieve would have been for more folks to like digital television more but we were quite sure that most people would have viewed the Plantanos and Collard Greens show way more and that would have garnered such popularity and advertisements and would have made Naje and me, well-uh, rich!
