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Marii Rojas Reviewed by Addison Sykes English 1103 Ms. Caruso October 21, 2012 Reality Television: The Lies about the Truth. Channel One: People eating roaches and drinking dirty water for a change to win a million dollars. Channel Two: Males competing for a chance to go on a date with whom they believe is the girl of their dreams. Channel Three: A group of friends at a club in Italy, drunk out of their minds and the guys start to fight. Channel Four: 8 females in a house arguing over whose turn it is to clean, who used the others hair products, and who stole the others wine. Channel Five: Four sixteen year old girls with kids complaining about their lives. Lately that is all there ever is on television, reality television shows. Some call it the realty television craze; others call it a waste of time and money. In every reality television show the same language, behaviors, clothing (or lack thereof) is pretty consistent. The language in these shows put sailors to shame; every other word in the sentence is bleeped out, because all they do is curse. If they are not cursing, then they are making some kind of promiscuous innuendo. The people on these shows usually cannot control their behaviors, under the influence or completely sober. The clothing is always the same; the shorts females wear are too short, and the tops are beyond revealing, the guys usually have a great taste in pants and shoes, but lack sufficient funds to wear shirts. Another thing that a majority of these reality television shows have in common, is that they tend to not be completely real.

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How does one try to produce reality, yet fall so far from actual reality? How does one take normal people and create a show that is so far from the norm? Is reality television scripted, in the sense that it tells its actors what to say? Is it severely edited, do they have amazing editors that completely change the situation? Is it staged, do the producers purposely put their actors in situations in which they know the craziest things are going to happen? Is it overly exaggerated, does Hollywood take situations and exaggerate them to make them dramatic? Or is that how some people in America truly act, completely and truly irrational? Although it seems as if everything on television is real because of its genre, reality television shows do tend to be scripted, edited, staged, and overly exaggerated. The idea for scripts being present in a reality television show does sound completely outrageous and there really are nonexistent. Producers do not tell their actors what to do or what to say; however, they are masters of manipulation. Winfred Fordham Metz explain in his article, How Reality TV Works that producers use what is called a shooting script or an outline that details parts of the television show. Shooting scripts are used primarily in shows like Survivor or The Real World in which they set up challenges, and in shows like The Bad Girls Club or Jersey Shore in which they pair specific people and put them in a situation in which they know drama will unfold. Not only are shooting scripts used, In extreme cases, a shooting script might include a storyboard -- a visual representation of the concept that physically illustrates what will occur in a scene (Metz 4). Producers use these aspects to create a nonrealistic reality television show.

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____ I really really like how you did the introduction by putting the channels. Its sooooo true!! ____ Maybe explain who they are? * ___ I feel like there are a lot of questions in this one paragraph, and not enough answers. ____ Perhaps right here you could break this up into two sentences *