Saturday, December 29, 2012

Shipping Wars the Elements of Drama

After getting hooked on Shipping wars last night It dawned on me why I enjoyed the show so much. 

The show is designed to affect your mind through elements of drama.  First off the people on the show are cast to be characters and enemies of each other.  They all seem to hate each other creating CONFLICT and at the beginning they are all competing for a job which creates COMPETITION and when a winner gets the bid he is lit up in GREEN.  Its like a reward for out brains as we are engaged and intrigued about who will win and then when we see the winner out brain gets satisfied.

Another elements I see is that people they have chosen.  The women on this show are very hot, not gracefully beautiful but they are all young curvy and thin and vampy looking as the shows sells their sexuality. 

The guys are hard asses and the show goes even further to create conflict by having the characters talk poorly of each other.

Once the show gets going there is a lot of conflict in dealing with the customer, CONFLICT when loading the item, CONFLICT in the travel.  And then there is the clock which creates a lot of suspense as we are manipulated into wanting to know whehter the person will beat the clock to get there.  This CONFLICT creates SUSPENSE and our minds can't rest until we know what is going to happen.  Once they get there, there is CONFLICT with unloading, delivering and getting paid.

This show is full of CONFLICT and SUSPENSE that keeps our minds guessing what will happen next.  This show is full of MANIPULATIONS in order to add to the DRAMATIC EFFECT. 

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