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Thread #118336 Message #2563676
Posted By: Stu
11-Feb-09 - 07:26 AM
Thread Name: A Mockery (BBC Folk Awards 2009)
Subject: RE: A Mockery (BBC Folk Awards 2009)
"You're telling us 'What.' But I think we all already know that.
It's the 'How' that's the challenge.
If I stood in front of a commissioning editor and read your post I'd be politely patronised and posted through the portal."
Well my 'How' was show the music 'in the raw' as it were. Link the professional artists with the people out there doing it and show the regional differences, how the home nations influence each other etc. Place the awards ceremony itself in a wider context.
But look, I have no idea how you'd go about this (I have pitched to the BBC myself, but motion graphics rather than whole programmes!) so very much trust your opinion, or whether a commissioning editor would even go for it or their reasons for not doing so but there must be a market as other countries have these programmes . . .
. . . or is there? Perhaps there isn't, and all people want to watch is Monkey Tennis and Big Brother. Perhaps one awards show a year is all there is demand for.