A local TV Channel

Went to meet a local TV Channel, out here in North India, in my hometown to which I've relocated.

Never seen the channel before so when I saw it for the first time, it was in the office of the channel's owners. As I'd gone to the TV Channel looking for work, this was obviously not the place or the time to open the mouth.

But I suppose one can jot down a few thoughts in a blog, and hope they don't sound terribly offensive!

Basically, nothing wrong with the content, I don't think I'm the right person to comment on that anyway but the technical and aesthetic 'finish' of the work was amazing- almost all the camera angles appeared wrong, the framing brought out people's bad sides. The lighting was completely 'flat'- not bring out any quality of the content of an image.

But then I came home and the people here were watching a 'national' TV Channel, one of the biggest in fact. And guess what, the technical qualities were barely ten per cent better. Yes, the national channel was shot on HD, probably HDCAM, while the local one stuck to DV for shooting and MP4 for output, so there was visible visual difference. But not a difference you'd pay millions for.

What's happenning seems to be a crisis of 'exposure', the people running the big TV Shows or channels seem to have no idea of how to create a better, world class show. Maybe from a lack of watching and analysing enough movies or TV Shows. So their TV Shows remain at a slightly 'lower' level of finish.

Then when the smaller channels, who've grown up watching the national ones, create their own stuff, it suffers from a similar lack of quality in its 'finish'.

There's nothing that can't really be sorted out, giving a much better finish at almost the same costs.

But is the talent capable of this 'sorting out' still available in the small towns or has it all gone to the bigget cities and bigger channels? I don't really know, am going to discover in the days to come.