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Post by miokalia on Sept 1, 2006 21:23:26 GMT -5
[[[This is a thread where you can post stuff that comes on TV in your nation. I guess that means news too, although there is already a 'news reports' thread for that. (Maybe local news stations? Whatever.) It' just yet another creative outlet and can give some insight into your nation's culture, or popular culture, or whatever. Just go with it.]]]
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Post by miokalia on Sept 1, 2006 21:57:56 GMT -5
Broadcast/Network station: DCN
Some text comes together on the screen with some abstract vector graphics. The text is in Kohtohkhan, the audio includes Kohtohkhan and English.
"Dovitsch to giakai DCN 1", says a voice over.
The screen yields to commercials.
A movie advertisement featuring an interspecies couple comes on. It is a blue fox and a Malych class-R unit. A standard movie-ad/trailer voice over says, "Kiag. Diliai to no kohroiamtar dosch vivackal" The next scene is some explosions and standard action-movie fare. "Dassi dosch po coleorrees no Diliai!" Another scene with the blue fox descending into a old gothic-style hall on a rope, and taking a diamond out of a case at the bottom. "Dassi dosch no tdackiai dol kchakigale." There is another standard action scene with impossible theatrical fighting between the fox and a bunch of guards. "Dassi dosch po toleroi kiantha do Malychka aiiy." Finally a scene with the blue fox making out with the class-R unit. "Dassi... 'Diliai Po Kohnrigon'!" Then a screen shows up with the rating and the other text that shows up at the end of a movie advertisement. "Kada kihagav 'R'... Rated R... coming to theatres September 30th."
The next advertisment is for a medication. An old cat is leisurely tending some flowers in a lush garden. She turns to the camera and says, "Mahado, kiete 'old age' dalchiy aimobocho daiye tassercho. Dasito nargen 'my pansies and petunias'. Doho, cohrigalcoh vo dach 'prescription Racxol'." An animation then shows a pill, the capsule dissolves and a mass of tiny balls disperses. Then a simplified diagram of a cell shows up and the balls pass through the cell membrane. The animation zooms in even closer into the nucleus of the cell and shows a strand of DNA. Then the ball releases several more smaller balls and they remove a section of it and replace it with a new one. Then the rest of the DNA changes from the original duller color back to a more saturated tone. Meanwhile, an explanation is read off in rapid Kohtohkhan. Once the animation is finished, the old feline holds up a potted plant and says, "Old age doesn't have to get in the way of living. With Racxol, I can get my life back." Text then shows up on the screen, it says "Racxol (Darpocohlaitdoramai-F vector): NEW cellular vitality override vector for the Felines.
Another advertisement features a family of allosaurs entering a small rental car. They are nicely dressed and when the father starts the car the radio turns on. On the radio plays a humorously vulgar, electro/hip-hop song with Tinisian lyrics. The family begins to nodd their heads and then the kids in the back smile, little do they realize that they are listening to music which most would consider inappropriate for such a family. The parents smile too and begin to nod to the beat. Finally text shows up on the screen that says "Learn Tinisian? Know before you go: Hadarico Language Training programmes."
Finally the station begins to air it's own promotional ads. "Sunday Night on DCN! Makida po doro dolormorai!" Then a string of sitcom excerpts plays. Finally at the end a simplified TV schedule is displayed.
A short introduction plays with an animated, quite spastic logo entirely in Kohtohkhan text. "Hada Kahada Yahrdo? Yar!", said a high-pitched chorus in a silly voice.
The show is animated in a very stylized, colorful method where everyone is short and has huge eyes. A basic children-oriented comedy, although the standards for what is kid-appropriate is quite a bit different. The show features a plethora of fairly mature jokes, although almost all of them are satirical in nature, or centered around bathroom humor.
Toy advertisements then show up, but there are a limited number of them due to a obscure federal regulation that limits the number of children-oriented advertisements that can be shown during a television program. The first toy advertisement is for a lego-like building set, the next is for an action playset, and the last one is for a video game. The limit is three because it was determined that a barrage of low-quality skits can stunt the imaginative growth of children at an early, suggestible age. The law was pushed by the education lobby.
Since DCN is a broadcast station, they play a wide variety of shows.
Satellite/Cable Station: Cohrvas Tdariyan Channale (Cohrvas Music Channel or CTC) The Miokalian equivalent to MTV. The programming is slightly different due to cultural differences.
The station features intensely experimental promotional logos. They have a program where viewers call in requests for music videos, lately one of the more popular ones has been a electro-hop video by a domestic pop band. The video follows a typical hip-hop video format, except in place of wealth and expensive jewlery and cars, they used the most rusted-out old vehicles they could find, and distinctively out-of-style fashions. It was shot in an old factory. The video featured intense choreography and emphasis on the grittiness of the scene. The name of the song was 'Haichio do Gromsch' which roughly translates to 'making the dirty'. Another popular video featured a band playing in a regular urban environment, while buildings, cars and people keep disassembling and reassembling piece-by-piece in the background. Such a concept, of visual disassembly and assembly is a very popular theme in Miokalian visual art, especially in cinema.
Because of the current politics of the country, the youth counterculture is mostly a reaction to current events, rather than values. Assaults on human cultural values are commonplace though. Since many younger dinosaurians see the effects of human nuclear and especially, extended family households as a threat to the dinosaurian urban tribe system. The network aires shows that appeal to this sentiment. As well as the universal teenage sentiment that the legal age for nearly everything should be lowered. (In Miokalia, the legal age for adulthood is 21. The legal age for driving is 18. The legal age for purchasing cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol is 18. The legal age for purchasing pornography and gambling is 16). (The Miokalian education system features compulsory education up to the 15th grade. Three grades further than most public educational systems. The reason why is to more adequately prepare students for college and post-secondary education. Also it increases the relative value of the high-school diploma. The goal being to combat lack of education.)
Most Miokalian hip-hop revolves around intensely surreal lyrics rather than sexual themes or allegories. The CTC station plays a lot of this, although it has become novelty outside of the country, the fastest growing section of this form of pop is in the area of trip-hop by mammalian minorities. The videos of course, are still retaining the Miokalian standard for artistic interest. Typical R&B has a very different form in Miokalia. It more closely resembles down-tempo, and usually features incredibly diverse subject matter, since normal love songs typically hold no cultural significance to Dincotians (They find them bland, being as old of a culture as they are).
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Post by The Union of Tinis on Sept 3, 2006 20:02:14 GMT -5
On the Extra Next channel, Tinis' primary science fiction station, the season premier of "Octagon's Puzzel" was entering its third season. The show starts out with the standard 'previously...' montage to bring the viewers up to date of where the plot was. Octagon, a brilliant yet very dead artists/scientist had built a labyrinth somewhere that supposedly held amazing treasures. At the end of last season one of the characters, Vabras, had finally located the labyrinth yet perished soon after entering it due to a very deadly trap.
After the recap the show starts proper with Kren o'Antraz, an ex-military adventurer, and wife of the now dead Vabras opens up an e-mail in her small and tightly packed apartment filled with spoils of their previous adventures. The message is from a friend and occasional rival of the couple's named Filmore Az'andi saying that he just got a ping on Vabras' medical alert braclet (he had growing heart problems). And that it said he was dead.
Cue the opening title sequence, of course its revamped for the new season, featuring scenes from forays into the maze as well as action scenes of furs hanging off helicopters and buildings. And of course explosions.
The first commercial, as it is an election year, is of course a political advertisement. This one being from the Socialist Party of Tinis.
[Translated from New Tinisian]"Hello, I'm Speaker Vedrick Winters, and I'm here today to ask for your support this fall. The Socialist Party of Tinis has for decades worked to ensure reasonable progress is made in our great land, to fight corruption, and to counter imperialist sentiments of the other major parties. The Socialist party represents Tinis, both in spirit and in action. So please join me in supporting your local Socialist candidates this fall. We don't believe in the smear tactics of the NPP, the know nothing attitude of the Nationalists, nor the fight wars all across the federation motivation of the UP. We believe in improving Tinis first, protecting our own boarders, and the continuation of the liberated rights of our country furs."
The image of the elder feline fades and is replaced by the seal of Tinis and the Socialists Parties logo, a raised fist holding a flowering vine. "Join the Socalist Party, for peace, and for the future."
The next commercial is for a certain hospital council chain. Having free health care for most procedures does leave the few very optional and cosmetic surgeries out in the cold in most cases. These optional surgeries then require payment and can give medical professionals a profit beyond their standard cost of living and quality bonuses.
"At Erole Medical Centers, we treat the whole family, from birth until those golden years," begins the voice as scenes of doctors meeting patience and groups walking around the grounds begin to flash by. "By signifying Erole as your primary medical organization, we can offer you extended stays, and ten percent off most alternative surgeries. Our doctors have one of the highest rates of federal and state bonuses and have been described by the Arx Times as 'some of the friendliest professionals in any profession'. So please join our community. If you act before October, you'll also gain voting rights for the center's operations council."
The show comes back after a commercial for a resturant. Kren meets Filmore who takes her to where the becon is strongest, which happens to be deep in the forests of southern Tinis. The spot of maximum signal seems to be in the middle of no where, so they search around and eventually located Vabras' bike and the entrance to the labyrinth. The entrance is locked by a very complex color and shape puzzel that Filmore begins to work on. Shots land near the two shortly after and they flee the scene. After they leave, it is shown that a recurring character and general all around mystery man, Tre, is the one firing the shots. He goes to the door and mixes up the puzzle some more before apparantly breaking it, running off with one of the components.
Kren and Filmore visit Don, the show's resident weapon enthusiest. He's not allowed to give them weapons by law, but he offers to return to the forest with them and does so. Tre is long gone. They find the puzzel lock crippled and signs of Tre's escape, including shell casings from Tre's gun. They've seen the odd casings he uses before, as they're inscribed with odd rune like patterns. Don offers to blow open the door and they attempt to.
The door is unphased but the little cave that holds it collapses. Don appologizes and offers to get some digging equipment. They're all very excited but also concerned that Vabras might be hurt or dead beyond that door. Kren and Filmore rush off to look for Tre.
Long story short Don digs up the door, and even tries to dig around it but only comes up with more of this weird metal. The other two track down Tre eventually who explains to them why he's been sabatoging their investigations the previous season. Tre is actually named Ogman Octagon, son of the infamous Octagon, and learned a while back that the labyrinth held treasures yes, but also great horrors and dangerous things that should not see the light of day. Of course he only explains this after they accuse him of sealing Vabras inside the labyrinth, which he denies. He agrees to go inside and find Vabras on the condition that the others don't go in themselves, which they agree.
The situation is set up with Tre going into the maze while the others hang out a mile off. Tre returns quickly to them with Vabras' body, or what's left of it. In addition to the spike wounds, theres a number of bite and rip marks from something or somethings that came upon him after his death.
The epsiode ends shortly after with Tre pleading with them to not enter the maze, and taking once again the piece of the door puzzel.
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Post by miokalia on Sept 4, 2006 2:04:58 GMT -5
On TCTV (Tdarodane Cahizoh TV), a cable network that plays home improvement/DIY-related shows (Miokalia's HGTV) A show is airing where a realestate appraiser very critically examines contestants homes and then brings in a massive crew to repair damages and rebuild the house in a new and exciting way. The show is called "Do Aiya Cahizoh Lohran" In this episode, a black raptor real estate appraiser examines a delapidated modular box house. The house featured a shallow pitched roof, vertical white siding and small windows, placed above 5 feet on the walls. Outside the house, the raptor already makes a face of disgust and says in an odd accent, "Such a mess. Why did those humans even invent such a terrible method of building houses in the first place.". He points out the windows and says, "This should be illegal. This isn't a window. This is a sick joke. These windows are going to be replaced. We're going to extend them down, there's no way around that." Then he looks at the door, a plain solid door, which looks like it's been painted-over several times. "This is terrible. I shudder at the thought of what may be inside. Let's find out...", said the appraiser. The restoration team attaches the door to some cables, then using a truck, they tear the door clean off the house. The occupant then rushes to the front, cursing and shocked as to what was happening. "Hey. 45-92 Korazsie Road?! Mr. Henrico? You're on 'AIya Cahizoh Lohran'. We're going to rebuild your house!", said the appraiser. The owner's dismay and shock turned to excitment and elation. Once inside, the owner, a goat explains how he was caught off guard by his door being ripped off during lunch. The owner doesn't speak either Kohtohkhan or English very well. He offers a sandwich to the appraiser. Remaining in his brutally honest character, the apparaiser then turns down the offer and says, "No, I can't eat that. My... uh... species is incapable of processing that much fiber. We can't use it. You don't have to offer that. Ok. Guess what, you're going on vacation while we rebuild your house okay?". He then looks at the camera and sticks his narrow little tongue out candidly. The next thing that happens is another expert shows up to look at the structure of the house. Then a plan is drawn up for repairs and the team of 40 repair people set to work. In the space of a week, the house is totally rebuilt. From a delapidated old modular home to a fresh new soft-modernist house. The windows are huge, the colors are light and the entire home has an airy, open feel to it. When the owner arrives again, he can't beleive what he's seeing. The show maintains it's popularity because of the charity aspect to it: of finding delapidated homes and fixing them up to standards free of charge to the owners.
A commercial for a public referrendum ballot issue comes on. Such elections are fairly common are occour annually. There is a sequence of interviews with several powerful politicians. "I am senator Raiyki of the Harris District. I was born into a family of 12. I experienced the tragedy of the death of a loved one several times as five of my brothers and sisters never made it past the age of 8. They were not killed by abnormal circumstances or violent crime. They died of malnutrition because my parents were incapable of supporting a family of our size. And yet, they brought four more children into a miserable life of poverty after I left home with two of my siblings. Three of those four children died of diseases we beat hundreds of years ago. I love my family, I love my brothers and sisters. That's why I support refferendum 18C. A refferendum that will give us the power to enforce the law of child licensing. Because our children deserve better than to be treated as property. Children are not personal assets, they are people." "Refferendum 18C: Enforcing the child license: A proactive approach to curb tragedies before they happen." "A message brought to you by the New Penninsular Pacifist Party and Business Socialist Organization"
Another commercial comes on. One of the few commercials one sees for church organizations on TV (Churches are permitted to advertise as much or as little as they like in Miokalia, although revenue and political involvement are the primary determining factors in taxation of those churches) "We're all living things. We share this in common.", says a female voice while scenes of nature take place in the background to soft rolling synthesizer-and-accoustic guitar down-tempo music. A narrarator comes on and says, "God hath created of one blood, all nations..." The next scene is a diverse group of individuals coming together in a field. The female voice comes on and says, "At the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Dincota, we beleive in the power of tolerance and people. The power of good that happens when people of different faiths come together and embrace their common condition." The scene then switches to more people mingling about.. "An intelligent spiritual community where faith is something built from understanding and reason.", continues the female voice. Finally, the last scene a zoom-out of the planet from space. The narrarator comes back on and says, "The Unitarian/Universalist Church of Dincota: It's all about what we all have in common. (A non-profit spiritual organization)"
The next commercial is for a specialty clothing store. Some fashionably-dressed warthogs park their retro-style motorbikes outside in an urban scooter/bike parking alcove along a generic Hokyldaryon street. One of them says to the other: "It's hard to find shoes that fit. It doesn't seem like anybody sells shoes for hooves around here." "Oh yeah? Well I heard the Cyuut Department Stores have a new fashion store. One for mammals.", says another. "Yeah, I heard they even carry mammalian feminine products for us ladies.", says a female tiger who joins the group as they walk across the street. "And they carry small-tail-diameter jeans and slacks, for us warm-blooded folk", says a racoon as he joins the group. "And swimwear that actually fits ladies who actually have mammary glands which we need to wear something on", says a female otter as she joins the group. The entire group then enters a brightly-colored storefront across the street. "Cyuut Mammal Fashions, a new addition to the fun collection of Cyuut Megastores.", says a narrarator as the group walks in.
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Post by Erenmor on Sept 21, 2006 17:59:10 GMT -5
Around 10 in the morning (Erenmor Standard Time), on the primary public channel:
The camera pans around slowly, showing the strip of Erenmor's coast stretching off far into the distance. The sun is shining off the snow and the water, as well as the small markers set up in parallel lines, going off in the distance.
"This is Vincent Nall speaking, welcome to the opening race of the fall season racing series," says an announcer off-screen. The view switches to the outskirts of an Erenmor city, where spectator stands line both sides of the start of what would appear to be a race track. "As you can see, the weather's turned out beautiful for the opener and it looks like we're in for quite a show."
The camera appears to fly in closer to the race track and pans off for a shot of the pits. There, some 20 vehicles can be seen, varying in shape and colour but sharing a few traits: the overall arrowhead shillouette, the distinct lack of wheels and the way they hovered a foot off the snow. Some cheering can be heard from the crowd, though more prevalent is the humm of the hoverbikes' engines.
"As you can see, there's quite the line-up for today. Last season's champion, Tachikawa is here obviously enough," the announcer went on as the camera zoomed in on a brown-striped male feline in an orange-blue jumpsuit. "Will he retain his title? We'll know soon enough!"
The camera pans over to some other crews. "I can see Alice Wardwell there, back for a rematch against the present champion," the announcer said as the view zoomed in on a female grey skunk in a green-blue jumpsuit. "Oh! And Skaine has two teams this season from the look of it. As well as the old reliable Bernard Deladier," here the view shifted to a gecko in red-white, "and a youngblood... Rainer Durand," the camera moved off a bit to the side, showing a doberman dog in red-black. "The competition's sure to be interesting. Ah, the first rider is getting out onto the track. The reigning champion of course goes first, if he plans on defending the title..."
The view returned to the starting line. Tachikawa's dart-sleek jetbike was currently hovering some 4 feet off the ground. The cheering had mostly faded down as the lights above the track counted off the time until the racer was due to start. Several large screens positioned near the back of the racing complex showed different stretches of the track, currently empty, while a display over them had a timer that would count how long the given run took to complete.
The lights over the track went from red to yellow with a distinct beep. The three small oval engine ports on the back of the bike lit up with a blue-green glow. A second set of yellow lights came on with another beep, and the bike's engine changed from a soft humm to a high-pitched whine as the pilot pressed himself down to the machine. Finally the lights turned green with a noticeably different beep and with a brief roar of engines, the bike shot forward from the starting line, and the timer activated.
"And he's off! As you know, the track runs along the full length of the coast, from Cirenholm in the south all the way to Soulforge up north, so it'll be a while before we have the first results. The next racer will be going onto the track in ten minutes..."
And so the autumn racing season had started. The camera followed the rapid progress of the first racer as the bike sped along over the ground, sometimes jumping up a bit from running over a hill or snow drift, other times sharply darting around other obstacles. Other times the camera was cutting back to the starting line or hopping forward to the finish line up in Soulforge to show the reactions of the spectators or the other race crews.
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Post by miokalia on Dec 28, 2006 4:00:09 GMT -5
A Miokalian Comedy show which has frustrated translators dubbing it for international distribution.
Kiy Pom Korudaboardor Atite on DCN 3
A show about a female raptor who falls secretly in love with her roommate, an R-class Malych unit who is attempting to attend high school even though it is unecessary, while occasionally getting caught-up in the slap-stick and exaggerated Atnotro (the Miokalian mafia) and is trying to figure out why because he only has 4096 kilobytes of short-term memory and doesn't have any idea how he gets in these situations because he can't remember anything. His roommate takes pity on him and tries to steer him towards things which are safe and productive and in the process, becomes increasingly amorous towards him in her own, weird way.
after a short recap of the last episode: Korudaboardor says, "I apologize for attempting to join organized crime for what I've heard is the eighth time. I should have stayed here at home with you." as he gets on all fours on the floor before Omeyorcha-kan, a short female raptor who can force dominance over the freakish Malych by simply staring at it. The scene cuts to a recap of Korudaboardor fighting about 20 well-dressed dinosaurs at once inside a very wealthy-looking parlor room inside a mansion. "Nobody crosses the Mr. Don Tasteless!", yells one of them, who is apparently higher-ranked then the others. A humorous fight begins as the raptors in suits are easily picked up by Korudaboardor and tossed across the room. The black-and-green Malych then takes off down the street, pursued by more mobsters, they chase after him while firing impractically large automatic weapons. Of course, they manage to hit everything except him as mailboxes and parked cars begin exploding left and right. Eventually they stop running and then one of them says, "Let's just pretend we killed him and say we did."
The scene comes back to the present. "I know that there must be no place for machines in the Atnotro anyways now. May I please go back to school?", he asks.
"I will have to think about it. What if you burn down another lunchroom again? There won't be a single intermediate school in the country that will take you!", says Omeyorcha-kan.
"I have observed that there is nothing desirable to me in criminal activity. I find nothing particularly attractive about fine liquor as it tastes like gasoline. Gambling seems to get me into fights because organics do not like loosing and casinos don't like Malych period. I don't suppose I can blame them for that. Females engaging in evocative performances is not something I find at all interesting. Money is not something I really feel the need to cause injury to others for.", says Korudaboardor.
He continues, "I have something else to inform you of... I'm... I want to romantically interface with the school mascott"
Omeyorcha-kan then turns and says, "Oh" in disappointment since she was actually secretly in love with the R-class unit. However she chooses to wait this out and knows that once Korudaboardor discovers that the school's mascott, a Yackob the Daspletosaurus Made From Old Construction Equipment (which is humourously all one long name, in Kohtohkhan it is: Yackob, do Doschpleautosuro Kaig Dein Ga Ostroiyon-Kaden), is actually not sentient, he will be heart-broken and will then be availible for her to make her move.
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