I don't normally watch David Tench Tonight, but let's just say the show and me happened to bump into one another last night. Tench is an animated interviewer, literally: kind of a mix of Troy McLure and Kent Brockman. I'm not sure how the animators get him to look so convincing; I guess they get the people being interviewed to sit in the studio alone while the actor behind David Tench asks them a couple of basic questions, and they add all the Tench jokes and reaction shots in afterwards. It's a bit of a puzzler. Anyway, last night Tench was interviewing once-was-a-comedy-star, Mick Molloy, about upcoming movie Boyztown. It's an Aussie film about a 1980s boy band who get back together to form a 2006 boy band.
It took me a few moments to get all this straight in my head. A fake cartoon character performing a pre-prepared interview with a once-was-comedy star about a fictional film which is about that most contrived of musical institutions, the boy band.
Somehow, I don't think the entertainment industry is quite familiar with this whole thing called 'reality' ...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Tim, your links stink, you fink!
- John Bangsund's Threepenny Planet
- Broken Biro
- Poetry 24
- Superlative scribbles
- Kirstyn McD!
- Rorrim a tsomla almost a mirror
- More Sterne
- Sterne
- Cam the man from the Dan.
- Too hot to Raaaaaaandallllllll!
- Erin's Excellently Everlasting Effervescements!
- Slammy Infamy
- Hail Paco!
- Baron Blandwagon, purveyor of cyberbunnies, hawker of Roger Corman, and Misruler of the Multiverse
- The Bolta. Aiyeeeeee!!!!!
- Bad Apple Audrey
- The cartoon church
- Sir Martinkus
- A Zemblanian abroad and at home
- A hodge podge of hotzeplotz
- THE SLAMMA!
- Jottlesby's nottings, or should that be Nottlesby's jottings?
- The Snarking of the Hunt
- Jazzy Hands
- David of Metal City
- David the Barista
- The Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony
- Be an Opinion Dominion Minion!
- Mel...
- ... and Fel
- His brilliant career - from whale sushi to crumbed prawn
- Jo Blogs
- Yet another Tim
- Croucherisms...
- Was two peas, now three peas
- Desciopolous!
- ... Still Life - now with extra rotating cats!
- Erin...
- An Amazingly Awesome Australian Ampersand!
- Blink and you'll miss 'er
- Red in the land of the tigers!
- Wire of Vibe
- Chase him, ladies, he's in the cavalry!
- The Non-palindromical Editrix in Germanium
- Old Sterne
- Gempiricalisations
- TonyT
- The briefs...
- ... and the brieflets
- The Purple Blog
- Blairville, lair of all that is wicked and perfidious
- The enticingly acronymical CSH
- EXTREEEEEEEME WYNTER!
- Mark of California
- Jellyfish
- Silent Speaking
- Lexicon the Mexican
Email: timhtrain - at - yahoo.com.au
Blog Archive
-
▼
2006
(373)
-
▼
October
(23)
- My Notions Recollected In Tranquility
- Notes from the Tropics
- The Curious History of the Man Who Looked Like Som...
- Off To Sydney
- Socialism: Is It a Political System or a New Age H...
- Seven Kinds of Sleep
- Banker Poetry
- Having the Weather Over For Breakfast
- Making The Facts Say What I Want Them To Say
- Rhymes About Various Poets
- Melbourne Streets - the Bookshop Count
- An Untitled Unquiry
- Going Winter For The Summer
- I Went to the Barber of Seville, And Didn't Even G...
- Conservative Calls Bunch of Trotskyites and Marxis...
- The Show And Me Just Happened To Bump Into One Ano...
- Irresponsible Propaganda
- Fat Controller Has Heart Attack, And Other Shockin...
- Melbourne's Least Worst Newspaper
- Doctor Old, Doctor New, Doctor Who
- Ptoery
- It's Snot Good For The Environment
- Naming the Shameless
-
▼
October
(23)
6 comments:
The show and I ... tut tut
Tim - no, the team behind the animation have actually devised real time real interaction between the animation and the guests. Damned clever. So it's not some contrived and lengthy edit job behind the scenes to add-in the David Tench character with the real people.
We-ell, I guess it's possible if they have some computer real-time modelling of the David Tench actor, if you get my drift. But there's a lot of opportunity for adding stuff in - there's jump cuts, and that sort of thing. And there was also a contrived 'phone in' section, and a joke about David Tench's 'stalker' in the 'audience'. (The only 'audience' shot in the whole show, in fact).
Yerrrs, not suggesting there's no editing, that would be plain silly, nor that the show itself is "live" or "real time", only that the Tench character doesn't have a human stand-in asking the questions, with the animation added later. I still think it's very clever, technically. Doesn't compel me to watch it though. Haven't seen more than a few minutes of the show, plus the ads.
I thought that mabye this was originally a Comedy Channel thing, imported from America, but apparently it's home born. Which makes it even stranger - an Australian comedy show in which the main character is an animated American? I can appreciate David Letterman as much as the next guy, but why invent an American host for a purely Australian show? That joke doesn't seem quite right to me.
Maybe that means I'm racist!
Andrew Denton is the master mind (?) behind the show Tim.
So, yes, entirely home grown, including the animation company - same guys who worked on Lord of the Rings, I think, or some other big Hollywood film. Lot of Oz companies doing beaut things in film animation and computer generated special effects.
Post a Comment