BitDepth December 8, 2015 Mark Lyndersay
Trinidad and Tobago’s culture has had a long and complicated relationship with mass media broadcasting.
On the positive side, what we have seen and heard has been remarkably honest and true, which is not always the case when a nation’s creative expressions migrate into the tightly controlled environments of radio stations and television.
From Rikki Tikki in the 1960’s to the dance shows filmed on location at Westmall in the 1980’s, there was a ruthless, sometime embarrassing truth to it all, an unquestionable sense that this is not only who we aspire to be, this is also who we are.
Unfortunately, all of these productions were driven by simple accounting and the scale of funding required in the increasingly high-risk, high-cost world of modern production values and expectations have taken us to a strange place.
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Wayne, Cecil and Pan Times may find this story interesting in the context of this article/discussion.
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Only family and friends fund creative ventures these days in TnT and familes only give once.
What's needed is better awareness of the creative industries by the masses and support for their programs and not just around carnival.
Of course the cost of production has skyrocketed ,mainly because the non-creative aspects (the logisitcs: staging, sound etc) has gone thru the roof commensurate with other costs, even as the cost of equipment has come down so...
What to do, what to do?
Maybe go back to a simpler time when we did not need all the glint and glamour, all the lights and sounds and just embrace the raw creativity.
Just my two cents
Wayne Cezair, it is the responsibility of big business to promote the Arts and Culture because in most instances they are the ones that profit the most. [my 2 cents]
I'm afraid not too many investors are willing to get into high risk ventures these days.
"What’s needed now is the fire of financing and gutsy investors willing to wield that torch."
Same story from HOLLYWOOD to TRINIDAD!!!