{"id":8136,"date":"2012-04-14T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2012-04-14T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T06:46:46","slug":"the-visual-style-of-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/8136","title":{"rendered":"The Visual Style of the Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking through my feeds this morning I saw an interesting link on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooce.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dooce.com<\/a>.\u00a0 When I saw The Wire mentioned I had to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Beware! Before watching, there are possible spoilers in the video!<\/p>\n[vimeo id=&#8221;39768998&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;350&#8243;]\n<p>I\u2019m a <em>huge<\/em> fan of The Wire, I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/6713\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned it in the past<\/a> and whenever I talk to friends about TV show I all but hogtie them and\u00a0 supervise to make sure they watch it.\u00a0\u00a0 There are so many reasons why I think this show is worth watching. I love the acting, the storyline, and how real it feels at times.\u00a0 One thing I never gave a lot of thought is the visual style of the show and how it affects the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was really interesting to watch the video and learn about all the subtle things they did to change the way we see the show, the way of shooting, the subtle hints and the meanings behind some of the visuals.<\/p>\n<p>I watch a lot of TV, and in general I am not really that hard to please when it comes to the shows, but The Wire is still head and shoulders above most other shows, and now I can say that the visual styling of the show definitely played a part in that.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t watched this show, do it\u2026 don\u2019t make me hogtie you! I&#8217;ll do it!<\/p>\n<p>I WILL!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking through my feeds this morning I saw an interesting link on Dooce.com.\u00a0 When I saw The Wire mentioned I had to check it out. Beware! Before watching, there are possible spoilers in the video! [vimeo id=&#8221;39768998&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;350&#8243;] I\u2019m a huge fan of The Wire, I\u2019ve mentioned it in the past and whenever &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[882,584,14,132,599],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-the-wire","tag-tv","tag-videos","tag-vimeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8141,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/8141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}