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The document discusses reality television and how fictional shows like The Office borrow elements from reality TV genres. It notes that The Office uses filming techniques and central characters that emulate reality TV surveillance footage. It argues that The Office and reality shows both attempt to mimic real life situations, with The Office using reality TV conventions and reality shows using fictional conventions. Therefore, the line is blurred between fictional and reality television.
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- 1. Olutoye Adegboro November 10, 2011 TV/Not TV
- 3. • Reality television is centered around the idea of surveillance • The filming techniques in some ways emulate surveillance footage • The central “characters” are aware that their lives are being filmed • Because these central characters are “real,” we as viewers feel we have the opportunity to know them, much in the same way we feel we personally (wish we could) know fictional characters
- 5. Can we consider something that has been deemed fictional programming to actually be another embodiment of reality television?
- 7. The Office is often regarded as a “mockumentary,” primarily because of its filming style, but the show shares many of its signature features with elements of contemporary reality television shows. In fact, these elements have become so vital to the identity of The Office that the show may be the start of a new wave of reality television shows.
- 9. Kelly Kapoor, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, The Office The Jersey Shore
- 10. From left to right: Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin, Oscar Nunez as Oscar Martinez, and Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Lapin- Vance From left to right: Steven Tyler as Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez as Jennifer Lopez, and Randy Jackson as Randy Jackson
- 11. “Diversity Day,” The Office Survivor: Cook Islands
- 12. “Beach Games,” The Office
- 13. “Double Date,” The Office Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Season 1
- 14. A Map of Countries Airing a Variation of the Reality TV Series Big Brother
- 15. The Office, United States The Office, United Kingdom La Ofis, Chile La Job, Canada (Quebec) Stromberg, Germany Le Bureau, France HaMisrad, Israel
- 16. The Office exhibits many of the traits viewers have associated with contemporary reality television. However, the popular NBC program lends reality television some of the traits that have for a long time considered to be exclusively associated with “fictional programming.”
- 17. The Real World American Idol The Office The Jersey Shore
- 19. Michael Scott, Jeff Probst, The Office Survivor A “fictionalized” television program like The Office and a recognized reality television show like Survivor both attempt to mimic real-life situations to an extent. The Office uses conventions of reality television to assert its “realness” and so do shows such as Survivor, although their use of these conventions are not surprising, but expected. Reality television shows also make use of the conventions associated with fictionalized television.
- 20. So if the situations in both of these types of television shows are contrived to an extent, but still make a valid attempt to properly mimic reality, where is the line drawn between fictional and reality television?
- 22. • Geico Commercial, 2006 • Celotta, Jennifer, and Greg Daniels. "Beach Games." The Office. NBC. 10 May 2007. Television. • Chun, Daniel. "Nepotism." The Office. NBC. 23 Sept. 2010. Television. • Eisenberg, Lee, and Gene Stupnitsky. "Weight Loss." The Office. NBC. 25 Sept. 2008. Television. • Grandy, Charlie. "Double Date." The Office. NBC. 5 Nov. 2009. Television. • Novak, B.J. "Diversity Day." The Office. NBC. 29 Mar. 2005. Television. • "X-Cops." The X-Files. FOX. 20 Feb. 2000. Television. • Images were also provided by the television shows The Jersey Shore, Survivor: Cook Islands, American Idol and Keeping Up With the Kardashians • In addition to the episodes and shows featured, images were also provided by Wikipedia, People Magazine, and Google Images