[access-uk] Re: interesting prog tonight
- From: "Christine Weetman" <goatmum@xxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:48:00 +0100
Your Correct again Graham, you seem to say what I was trying to! Thanks,
its not always true, but my point is the ones being filmed and the filmers
may know this, but the Public see things just as they are and if they are
"Just the Bad points" of being Visually impaired, then thats how we appear.
How Many times and by How many people was I told "Blind People Can't use the
computer" and that by my own family too, what a feeling of "Let down" did I
feel, but Thank God I'm Here and proving them all wrong, even if my 24 and
22 year olds refuse to communicate with me via a PC or mobile!
Christine W.----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: interesting prog tonight
Hi.
In my limited experience of being filmed at school, too much of what goes on
is actually staged and not in the least bit real.
I remember at Worcester they wanted to film us going to chappel and we
walked to chapel right enough, about 20 times or more until they got the
filming just so. When at RNIB I was asked to help film a documentary by the
link program I think it was on the ways in which blind people needed DLA.
It was quite fun, but it looked as though I was lost in the countryside
somewhere when in actual fact we did the filming on Hamsted heath.
In the same program I think it was, I had told the producer about a time
when I needed to fill in a form I was expecting in the mail and I asked
someone randomly on the street. He liked this idea so we enacted the scene
on the program.
On another occasion I was involved in a program on channel 4 concerning the
usefulness of technological aids although the high price makes them
unaffordable to many. Things such as the price of wheelchairs were
discussed and I was on there talking about scanners.
Again, the producer had written a letter about my sister which I had to scan
and read. Great, but I don't have a sister.
the point here is that to some extent at least, the program makers have a
lot of say in how these documentaries turn out.
Places like RNC and RNIB new College Worcester and the like get funding on a
per student basis for sure so they are keen on programs that give them
national airing. I think they accept a bit of falsehood or stretching of
the truth for the publicity they get.
On this subject, another great con of a program is the Anaca challenge. I
don't know how you spell her name, sorry.
I know of a number of dodgy deals that happened in the making of that
program including one episode where someone was told they couldn't hire a
particular power tool by a local company who only had 1 of this tool and was
told it may be required by the film crew. Does anyone who went to Worcester
remember that rediculous mobility maze that was built with the large chess
set in the middle? As well as concerns from the P.E. teacher about possible
dammage to the sports field the maze was almost never used but it gave
publicity.
All i'm trying to say therefore is I take these programs with a large pinch
of salt.
Regards
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: interesting prog tonight
Cutting Edge is the documentary series, and blind young things was the title
of this particular programme.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Christopher Hallsworth
Sent: 30 April 2007 23:17
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: interesting prog tonight
I may be missing something here, but it was actually called "Blind Young
Thing", unless the full title was "Cutting Edge: Blind Young Thing"?
Thanks.
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:15:05 +0100, "Gerald Locke"
<g.locke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi All,
> Tonight, 30th April, at 9.00 P M, on Channel Four, Cutting Edge, a
> programme about three blind students at R N C.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gerry.
>
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