Monday 3 October 2011

Technical terms: production values and verisimilitude

Production values:

The value of a certain amount of time of a film or TV show (types of video media) based on the percentage of budget applied to it. The production values of different texts vary, but generally films are higher as they are shorter. Television, however, can run for up to around 24 episodes in American seasons, meaning that the overall amount of funding given to each is much lower than a two hour film. There are more sources of investments for films, increasing the budget, which allows a more stylish and higher quality appearance of the film. Some films, however, may intentionally imitate the features of low budget and production values, for example art films, independent cinema and exploitation and B-movies. This may be because of a lack of funding or stylistic choices. However, there are many factors that contribute to the production values; for example, films tend to have more famous actors that require higher pay, and television
may have a greater number of staff for a longer amount of time.

Verisimilitude:

The measure of the reality created within a media text and how accurately the creators stay to the reality they have constructed, which doesn't actually have to be realistic overall. Everything in the text should keep with the premise of the reality even if it would occur in the real world.

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