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Funeral channel?
After Elvis, Lady Di, and now Michael Jackson has anyone else seen the market for a “funeral channel?” I initially thought that it could be a joke, albeit one in questionable taste. Lately it’s starting to seem like something that someone will likely do sometime soon. Won’t be me, but at least if all the programming could be put in one place, the rest of the media could get back to other things.
“Rock of ages, cleft for me… for a slightly higher fee. Oh, take me when I’m gone to Forrest Lawn.” – Tom Paxton
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I think the Biography channel hits some of those notes and to a lesser extent E! Entertainment.
The part people like about a, um, funeral is they can look at an artist with perspective and choose the time period to remember them. When someone passes you look at the entire body of work. You can also choose to remember a certain decade, as opposed to the current status. When stars are alive we harp on the bad, when they are gone, we focus on the good. And we can remember the MJ from the 70s/80s rather than the troubled MJ of the 90s forward.
But there is an idea there..maybe an “Icon Channel” or “Remembrance Channel”
As for your wish of “the rest of the media could get back to other things”, well..don’t see that happening anytime soon…
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Do you mean a channel that shows funerals, or one that has funeral industry content.
My next door neighbor is a former mortician, who still attends trade shows. I am surprised a tv channel has never emerged targeting the funeral industry.
Or perhaps a little of each. Industry news and celebrity funeral coverage.
The RFD channel, about farming and topics of interest to farmers and country-folk is a pretty targeted channel. The weekly Farm Report is actually interesting, as I would never have known that the Kansas soybean crop is only 34% planted as of this week, or that apical dominance is an actual agriculture term.
I know that videos for funerals is a segment of the production business.
It seems someone has thought of this:
https://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1334922.php/Funeral_channel_to_cater_to_Germanys_affluent_elderly_TV_audiencehttps://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_1998_Nov/ai_54879214/
https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/09/6904
and amazingly, Nick’s post is already listed in Google under funeral channel – amazing.
Mike Cohen
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Jim Henson’s memorial could be on a weekly rotation.
KI wonder what kind of deals entertainers cut when performing at memorials… Who ends up with the rights?
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Don’t laugh. One of the lesser-know areas of event videography is covering funerals for those overseas family members who cannot attend. This can be just shooting documentary coverage and mailing a DVD, or it can even involve a live stream.
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[Mark Suszko] “Don’t laugh. One of the lesser-know areas of event videography is covering funerals…”
Yes, I read somewhere that people are just dying to have one made for their family members and friends.
Er…sorry. I couldn’t pass up a bad joke — in absolutely poor taste, no less.
Blame it on my pre-caffeination (which I am in the process of rectifying at the moment).
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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I shot one of these for a family in the midwest that had key relatives out in the Philippines who would have missed everything otherwise. Hired thru the funeral director, they gave me a few tips on do’s and don’ts. I kept a respectful distance and while I did get an open-casket shot, it was a wide shot from a respectful distance.
Mostly I captured the eulogies and in-house service. I also shot a lot of close-ups and passes of the memorial photo montage the family hastily threw together, and handed that off to another person for editing to a cassette of the deceased’s trumpet playing. Followed the procession out to the gravesite, shot telephoto from 50 yards or so and used a wireless to get some of the location shound. As the coffin went down into the hole, I tilted up to a partly-cloudy sky. Clients were very happy. With my work, I mean, obviously. It in many respects was not unlike covering a wedding in single-cam documentary/ENG style. Lot of editing in-camera. I just didn’t have to chase anybody much.
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[Mark Suszko] “Clients were very happy. With my work, I mean, obviously.”
LOL
[Mark Suszko] “It in many respects was not unlike covering a wedding”
Wedding…funeral…”family reunion” in many cases.
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Why can’t we start a Creative Cow funeral channel ?
I know, we can start with the Discreet “edit”ors forum. “Oh, my poor poor Windows NT computer”. We can cry over Sony 1″ machines, CMX edit systems, old AVID’s, Medea hard drives, died too soon HUGE Systems products, and for the truly sentimental – QUAD users (oh, those were the days). I can personally torment those that still use CRT monitors (in the words of Monty Python – “Im not dead yet”).What a great addition to Creative Cow – the funeral forum.
Bob Zelin
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i had a funeral of a ampex VPR2 2 weeks ago.
after it tried to kill me in a last desperate move with shooting some tantal capacitor’s to my head.
i got angry first but who can blame an old senile VTR.
poor big fellow. i fed him with some old sticky memorex tape.i geuss i’m the murderer
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