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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Really Ancien on 19 November, 2009, 06:03:24 pm

Title: Workplace Satire and Training Films.
Post by: Really Ancien on 19 November, 2009, 06:03:24 pm: I was thinking about my favourite workplace comedies. Stuff like The Britass Empire, Fawlty Towers, The IT crowd et al. There's a surprisingly high educational content in them. Then I remembered Video Arts, the management training film producers. It's striking how much crossover there is. Here's Rebecca Front, currently playing a Minister in 'The Thick of It', in a film about interview techniques.

Video Arts / Titles / Behavioural interviewing
(http://www.videoarts.co.uk/Title.aspx/Interviewing/Recruitmentandselection/INT13/)

Damon.
Title: Re: Workplace Satire and Training Films.
Post by: Rapples on 19 November, 2009, 06:26:30 pm: You missed out this one, brilliant :thumbsup:

      YouTube
            - The High Life - Episode 1: ''Feart'' (Part 1 of 3)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnReqwF9YAI)

Not sure about the educational content though ;D
Title: Re: Workplace Satire and Training Films.
Post by: Really Ancien on 19 November, 2009, 06:41:12 pm: Quote from: Rapples on 19 November, 2009, 06:26:30 pm
You missed out this one, brilliant :thumbsup:

      YouTube
            - The High Life - Episode 1: ''Feart'' (Part 1 of 3)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnReqwF9YAI)

Not sure about the educational content though ;D

I don't know, the 'Teach Yourself Scots' aspect would have been useful for many of the bemused LEL foreigners.
A lot of it probably still needs sub-titling, even for most of the English.
Nice to see a young Alan Cumming, he's one of the few celebs who's competent with a chainsaw you know.

Damon.
Title: Re: Workplace Satire and Training Films.
Post by: eck on 19 November, 2009, 09:36:29 pm: Quote from: Really Ancien on 19 November, 2009, 06:03:24 pm
I was thinking about my favourite workplace comedies. Stuff like The Britass Empire, Fawlty Towers, The IT crowd et al. There's a surprisingly high educational content in them. Then I remembered Video Arts, the management training film producers. It's striking how much crossover there is. Here's Rebecca Front, currently playing a Minister in 'The Thick of It', in a film about interview techniques.

Video Arts / Titles / Behavioural interviewing
(http://www.videoarts.co.uk/Title.aspx/Interviewing/Recruitmentandselection/INT13/)

Damon.
Jeeze, I'm old enough to remember the original version of that, "Manhunt" with John Cleese playing a variety of incompetent interviewers. The straight man was an actor who played a detective in Softly Softly or some similar. Upbraiding one of Cleese's characters, who boasted he'd never picked a wrong 'un, he had a very telling line. He said, "Nobody ever admits to being a bad driver, a bad lover or a bad interviewer."

I can't remember if Cleese replied, "Well, two out of three insn't bad." ;)
Title: Re: Workplace Satire and Training Films.
Post by: Really Ancien on 19 November, 2009, 11:10:52 pm: It's probably the secret weapon of the British, and I do include Ireland in this, We do trust those who are funny to guide us. The idea that our greatest comedians are the most suitable people to dispense management advice is a strength. The US are catching on though. 'Parks and Recreation' looks like a show to watch.

Damon.