Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Made in Chelsea-Made in Studio

The ongoing television show ‘Made in Chelsea’ is questionable on many issues. It follows the lives of 12 young socialites with numerous gatherings, involving McQueen dresses, budget less shopping and priceless campaign.
What I would like to discuss is not whether Caggie and Spencer’s teenage crush with develop into a functional relationship, but the style of directing. In which it’s a juxtaposing on reality with staged appearances, phone calls, sets, etc.
It’s inevitably clear that these ‘reality stars’ don’t just happen to walk into the same restaurant as their fellow ‘reality stars’- some might simply say actors.  As if it wasn’t obvious enough that Louisa and Spencer’s comically timing phone calls in episode 2 of the second series, wasn’t an order. We are warned before the opening title “the program you are about to watch have scenes in that have been created for entertainment purposes”
Yet I don’t find myself changing the channel to watch something considered more intelligent. Is this because we subconsciously won’t to believe, crave, and even invest our time, in these stereotypical sexy new rich kids.

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