Paul's Comments

I happen to be channel surfing for nothing in particular, and I end up watching "Flavor of Love" where some guy I've never heard of and is supposedly a famous rock star, "Flavor Flav," who apparently has problems with watches that he has to compensate for by wearing a clock around his neck, is trying to select the next woman he wants for, oh, I don't know what, girlfriend of the month, I guess, since I think this series has been on for more than one year, maybe he picks one eventually but since they start a new show each season, I don't know what it is that is expected by whichever girl he ends up with. (I know you're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition but I don't know how else to phrase it.)

I have seen this guy in a beer commercial once, where they were doing a parody trial of, I think it was "tastes great vs. less filling" but other than that and seeing him on this show, I'd otherwise never heard of him before.

The purpose in him selecting these women can't be to find one for him to get married, since I have seen this show running during 2007 (and it might even have been on earlier), and I don't see why if he had a permanent main squeeze why he'd need to go through an elimination process to find yet another girlfriend. So I don't really know exactly what the purpose of this show is.

Let me rephrase the above a bit to say that I can find it perfectly reasonable for a guy - especially the sort of guy rock stars tend to be - looking for a second or third girlfriend, from the way the women on the show acted, it seemed like their intention was to end up being the exclusive relationship with him, so I'm not sure what to make of the purpose of the show.

Hell, if it was me, I'd have done it in reverse: sleep with all of them, then see which are fun to be with out of bed. (I am only partially being tongue in cheek.) This way you exclude the women who are not very good in bed first, you ensure that all of them will be interested in going to bed with you, you also know that they have other characteristics you find interesting beyond sex, and, of course, since the people are appearing on the show for money, it ends up getting you and everyone involved in making the show indicted for prostitution and conspiracy to commit prostitution and pandering! So maybe that's not right, either.

At the end of the show, which is basically filming what has happened while the camera crew was there, they list all of the crew involved. And looking at this list, I have to wonder, if this little show - as in a show which ran on the VH1 network, which means it can't have a huge audience as compared with, say, one of the half-dozen broadcast networks - has all these people - some of these roles have 5 to 10 people doing these jobs - it seems like either there's a lot of work involved or there's a lot of featherbedding, or both. Now, I can understand having separate video production people and audio production people, but some of this seems a little much. I decided to write down all of the jobs involved that they showed in the credits.

Many of these had only one person; some had more than one. For simplicity I've cut the entries down as if they had one person listed for each job. I must be missing something in the involvement of people to make a program, because I had no idea of all the work involved:

Director of Production
Post Producer
Supervising Editor
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Lighting Designer
Line Producer
Supervising Story Producer
Senior Story Producer
Field Producers
Story Producers
Associate Story Producer
Segment Producer
Associate Segment Producer
Production Manager
Director of Current Projects and Development
Current Projects and Development Assistant
Talent Producer
Talent Wrangler
Talent Assistants
1st Assistant Director
2nd Assistant Director
2nd 2nd Assistant Director
Production Coordinator
Field Production Coordinator
Lead Editor
Editors
Post Production Supervisor
Post Production Coordinators
Director of Post Operations
Supervisor, Rights and Clearances
Clearance Assistant
Supervising Casting Producer
Casting Coordinator
Casting Director
Casting Associates
Art Director
Set Decorator
Lead Man
Set Dresser
Art Swings
Art Shopper
Art PA
Cast Make-Up
Wardrobe
Senior Production Accountant
Production Accountant
Assistant Accountant
Accounting Clerk
Gaffer
Best Boy
Electricians
Lighting Assistant
Camera Operators
Junior Camera Operators
Jib Operator
Camera Assistants
Technical Consultant
Technical Supervisor
Technical Coordinator
Technical Assistant
On-Set Photographer
Audio Supervisor
Audio Tech
Audio Mixers
A2
Audio Consultant
Supervising Producer Alternative Media
Producer Alternative Media
Editors of Alternative Media
Assistant Editors of Alternative Media
Music By
Additional Music By
Online Editor
Graphics Designer
Digital Effects
Lead Assistant Editor
Assistant Editors
VO Announcer
Sound Mixer
DX Sound Editor
FX Sound Editors
Executive Assistants
Vault Manager
Dubbers
Tape Wranglers
Lead Logger
Loggers
Production Assistants
Office Manager
Office Receptionist
Post Production Assistants
Craft Service
Craft Service Assistants
Technical Services Provided By
Post Equipment and Engineering Provided By
Post Production Sound
Promotional Consideration Provided By & Special Thanks To
VH1 Talent Producer
VH1 Corporate Communications
VH1 Production Manager
VH1 Production Coordinator
VH1 Production Associates
Design & Animation
VH1 Design Director
VH1 Graphic Producer
Main Title Audio
VH1 Online Producer
VH1 Business Affairs
VH1 Standards & Practices

Executive Producer - VH1 (This one was shown with five or six different people, each one on a separate screen by themselves.)

Somehow I think that either some jobs that in a normal organization that would be done by one person are split into three or four jobs. Or it could be that for reasons of efficiency one person might do the same job on maybe five or six different programs, the amount of work being done is the same as in a normal occupation, just they can do it more efficiently by having the same person doing the same thing multiple times for more than one show.

I don't know, but it seems like a lot of these jobs are being split among more than one person that in a normal industry would have several of them done by one person.