Annotated Bibliography "Introduction." Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. Ed. Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette.

New York: New York UP, 2004. 1-19. Print. In Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, the editors, Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, really strive to explain in thorough detail how reality television has come to be, and what it generally consists of as far as the types of programs there are, the types of people used to bring the programs together (actors/nonactors), and the types of equipment. A lot of attention is drawn to the debate about whether reality TV is real or scripted and how whether it is or not effects viewers and interest in said shows. At one point, they mentioned a poll that people answered in regards to whether they believe reality TV is legit or not, This is borne out by a 2005 Associated Press/TV Guide poll, in which participants indicated that they did not believe reality TV was real, but they also didn't care that much." In fact, 25 percent of those polled said that reality shows are totally made up, and 57 percent said that they show some truth but are mostly distorted. And only 30 percent said that it mattered to them that reality shows were really truthful. This particular source can add facts about how reality TV came to be into the conversation concerning my topic of inquiry. Poniewozik, James. "How Reality TV Fakes It." Time Magazine 6 Feb. 2006: 1-4. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. <http://resource2.rockyview.ab.ca/ssela101/related_reads/how_reality_tv_fakes_it.pdf>. How Reality TV Fakes It focused primarily on what goes on behind the scenes and how editors manipulate scenes/things that were said to create fabricated events on reality shows that didnt particularly happen the way that they make it appear to. In reality TV, many producers use Frankenbiting: the art of selective editing. They also use other techniques such as fake settings, where they make it seems as if a reality series is taking place in a particular place that its actually not. In the article a statement from J. Ryan Stradal gave insight to Frankenbiting and how its effective as far as reality TV goes, Were using things said at different times, put together to make a statement or observation that may not have been succinctly demonstrated. Thats where Frankenbiting may come in. As far as the conversation concerning my topic of inquiry goes, this article can provide distinct emphasis on how Frankenbiting and other methods are used to fabricate what actually happens when reality shows are initially recorded. Leistyna, Pepi. "What's So Real and New about Reality TV." Media/cultural Studies: Critical Approaches. Ed. Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 339-54. Print. In Whats So Real and New about Reality TV, Pepi Leistyna gives insight into what reality TV actually is overall, the large corporations that are over most reality television series, and many other factual information about reality TV. Pepi talks about how all reality shows arent bad news and how many of them are actually very useful to our knowledge as viewers. She states, But, when it comes to reality TV, it's not all bad news. An independent, international cable company has recently been selling the public new images of labor. With 1.5 billion subscribers across 170 countries, Discovery Communications INC. --owned by Discovery Holding Co., includes the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, Animal Planet, the Science Channel, and Discovery Health. Ranked the number one nonfiction television and media brand globally, what do its reality TV shows Dirtiest Jobs, Miami Ink, American Chopper, Deadliest Catch, and Lobster Wars have to offer? Following her statement she goes on to explain these shows, what theyre about, and how theyre not considered to be bad news like a lot of other reality television series. This source can add insight about well-respected reality television series and how they dont all consist of the same things.

Rupel, David. "How Reality TV Works." Writers Guild Of America, West. Writers Guild Of America, West, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. <http://www.wga.org/organizesub.aspx?id=1091>. In Davids article, How Reality TV Works, he goes on to explain how reality TV comes about and how all types of reality TV has its own way of coming together. He explains how a reality television series is either created by followed story or planned story and gives a few examples of each of the two. Planned story is when the show does not have a storyline set in stone, and pieces of filming are put together to create the show: These shows tend to have longer shooting schedules, because you can't predict when something interesting is going to happen. On my early days on The Real World, we usually shot about six days to generate one 30-minute episode. Followed Story is when the events that are going to happen on a show are initially planned, such as on Survivor or The Bachelor. This source can give insight to how reality TV shows are categorized as far as the process of them coming together goes. Newsday. "'Frankenbiting' Scares up Reality Controversy." Chicago Tribune News 21 July 2005: n. pag. Print. The article Frankenbiting Scares Up Reality Controversy gives detailed explanations of the editing that happens with reality television and talks about Frankenbiting: the art of selective editing. Newsday talks about how some shows are recorded for hundreds of hours and the process editors go through to look through all of the recordings to pick and choose the segments they want to use to create one episode of a particular show. They also go on to talk about how the only thing that isnt piped up on reality shows is the dialogue, but even that is altered a lot of the time. Sharp says shows are indeed "scripted," and about the only thing that isn't piped is the dialogue. Although, he adds, "if you want a conversation to happen and it's not happening, we might stop the camera and say, 'we need you to talk about something.' "Sharp, one of an estimated 1,000 reality TV "writers," says a typical 42-minute episode has to be culled from hundreds of hours of tapes, so it is up the to the "writer" to structure a story out of this mishmash. This source can give insight to the process of the editing of reality television series.

Thomas-Price, Deja. Assignment One Observations These observations focused on three episodes of The Bad Girls Club and it involved details concerning those three episodes such as a description of the house, the girls, what goes on in the house between the girls, etc. There are detailed descriptions of the appearance of the mansion, some of the girls, discourse communities (subgroups within the show that has alike ways of communicating, interacting, etc.), etc. just to give insight to who is on the show and where theyre staying for their time on the show. The three observations, in particular, are timed observances of the show and what happens within each episode, in detail. These observations can be used within my conversation concerning my topic of inquiry to demonstrate what actually goes on on certain reality shows and how people can be placed in certain living conditions with certain people and how theyre prone to act when filmed while all of this is happening/going on.