What captures my attention…

I was planning to sit down and blog when a docu-drama on TV caught my attention.

The topic is of great interest to me, the conceptualisation of the docu-drama captured my attention, and the effectiveness of the content fascinated me.

It is about the big flood that is expected to hit London in the not too distant future. The docu-drama scene is set in the Meteorological department of London – the staff and their decisions as well as politicians and their decisions. They are tracking a storm out at the North Sea, coming towards the English Channel. Then there is the spring tide caused by a full moon.

The film used ‘storytelling’, interspersed with interviews of experts and illustrated by computer graphics. A clever way of showing what they claim “nature’s deadliest weapon of mass destruction”. It studied history to pre-empt the future. The great flood disaster of 1953 offered insights into the combination of factors that caused the disaster – a great help to prepare for the one to come.

Juxtaposing different scenes together – the past with the now and future, the drama with interviews of experts – meant the scripting had different tenses. Intentionally, that is. For once, editors cannot edit for consistency of tenses because the production is intentionally past tense, present tense and future tense!!!