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The gods and heroes battle it out with monsters in the best of mythology.
Today we aren't looking for the most virtuous person, or most likeable, but rather the most disturbing. Will it be Echo, the nymph who is doomed to...
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- 00:01
We speak student!
- 00:05
[ yodeling ]
- 00:07
Reality TV Part Nine
- 00:09
Docusoaps
- 00:12
[ dog barks ]
Full Transcript
- 00:13
What is a docusoap?
- 00:15
Docusoap is a combination of the word "documentary" and "soap opera."
- 00:19
And a docusoap is
- 00:22
something like The Real Housewives of Atlanta,
- 00:25
Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
- 00:27
Shows where you are documenting people in their actual situations.
- 00:33
So a show like Masterchef, that you mentioned,
- 00:37
or The Amazing Race -
- 00:38
those kinds of shows,
- 00:39
you're putting people in very specific situations and then filming them.
- 00:42
A docusoap follows
- 00:44
people in their natural environments.
- 00:47
It's still scripted. It's still edited to seem a certain way,
- 00:50
but it is different watching the Kardashians live in their house
- 00:54
as opposed to putting the Kardashians on a deserted island
- 00:57
and seeing how they fare.
- 00:58
So that's what a docusoap is.
- 01:00
[ pen writing ]
- 01:02
What is a docusoap?
- 01:05
[ chuckles ] Not that kind of soap.
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