I have established that I would like to do an Irish TV series for my project. I also know that I would like it to be on at 9.30pm on Mondays. The only thing I don't know is what I want the series to be on.
I have always had an interest in the Irish language, I have been able to speak it from a young age. When I tell people this they usually say that they have no Irish and they would love to learn it again. There is also a push on TV to bring back the language. Recently, Des Bishop made a series where he went to Conamara to learn Irish and then had to do a full stand up show in Irish. A lot of people watched this series and it was very successful.
I like the idea of people learning Irish in my series but the comedy thing has been done now with Des Bishop. There used be a show on an English channel a while ago where they put a bunch of teenagers in a school set in the 1940's. They had to wear the cloths from that time, got punished like thy did back then and had to eat the food available back then. I really enjoyed this show because a lot of time, the teenagers were getting in trouble and trying to run away.
I would like my show to be like this but through Irish. The teachers would all talk in Irish and they would have to make teenagers speak in Irish as well. It would not work if the teenagers could speak Irish already, they would have to be new to it. A lot of teenagers can speak Irish but there is one group who cannot. If the teenagers came from inner city areas in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, I think it would make for interesting TV.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
maith thu...did you watch the tg4 show _bean an ti_? it was about irish college in connemara...the des bishop show was definitely funnier and probably helped a lot of people come to terms with their own experiences in irish college as well...and the series he did with trying to turn inner-city kids into comedians sounds a bit like what you're trying to do as well...and it's almost like nagging at this point, but don't forget that digital editing or using digital cameras doesn't really fulfill the "new media" requirement of this module...keep thinking!
Post a Comment