tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post6338053035756709591..comments2024-03-27T21:22:38.245-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: How to Create a TV Show, Part 9: Establish a Unique Point of ViewMatt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-67766451175358951772012-04-16T11:21:29.385-04:002012-04-16T11:21:29.385-04:00Well, when they did that cable-show Bluth expose, ...Well, when they did that cable-show Bluth expose, he certainly got rather testily upset by the quality of that show's narration ...but I suppose that he may not have ever said anything untrue. Call him an emotionally involved narrator.Matt Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-67499947435788508862012-04-16T10:06:24.594-04:002012-04-16T10:06:24.594-04:00I wouldn't call AD's narrator unreliable, ...I wouldn't call AD's narrator unreliable, so much as HYPER-reliable, in that he stands outside the action and comments on it. The narrator doesn't say something that we then see in objective reality not to be true. More often, a character does something and the narrator undercut's the characters lies with truth, or a greater perspective. Maybe that's more what you're getting at -- he's not an impartial narrator, but one with a wry point of view.Dan McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16231241053500980570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-32135293406551379822012-04-15T21:38:12.804-04:002012-04-15T21:38:12.804-04:00It is useful to delineate those two concepts, but ...It is useful to delineate those two concepts, but I suppose that my point is that "point of entry" DOES influence "point of view" in subconscious ways that the viewer doesn't realize: Louie's entry allows the show to follow the absurd, digressive rhythms of a stand-up routine, L&O's entry establishes that the needs of the cops and prosecutors on this show will always be subservient to the needs of the public, whose story this is.Matt Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-76133147025294146772012-04-15T21:27:12.569-04:002012-04-15T21:27:12.569-04:00Some of these examples seem to me to be more about...Some of these examples seem to me to be more about what I'd call "point of entry" or a way into a story rather than "point of view" which I take to relfect more of the specific dynamics of viewer identification with character(s) through an idiosyncratic perspective on the show's world. Obviously a given show's "point of view" should influence its "point of entry" but I don't think the ideas are interchangeable and I don't think the influence necessarily goes the other way around.j.s.noreply@blogger.com