RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

support required for human experience - the information source - to be verified in terms of values. It is necessary therefore, if there is to be successful passage from the elemental analogue to a more complex symbolic presentation for each pictorial statement to be given structural symbolism and the framework within which the TV picture - just as the film shots of a film statement - can set in motion its inherent features: expressiveness, evocativeness, transferrals, etc. This, we believe, is possible đespite the difficulties involved in structuring a presentation by direct TV transmission. The problem is the electronic, organic fusion of the symbolic and empirical, leaving no room for subsequent intervention and the addition of a metaphorical dimension to the TV picture and the overall TV presentation, no room for a TV production. As earlier noted, the process indeed of superseding the strictly factual in direct TV presentations is extremely complicated, but it is possible despite all the limitations already cited imposed by TV technology. In continuation, a more concrete look at this process is offered. The Symbolic Level of TV Presentations For a factual TV presentation to communicate at the symbolic level of a TV production it is necessary to overcome in the production process itself the limiting features of direct-transmission TV. The TV director by his creative intervention at the point already of elemental symbolic duplication of a living reality must dilute the electronic ties between the TV presentation and its object, the living experience. Not until this seemingly inseperable combination of living event and its image is split apart can the semantic distance be intensified between the different strata of a living reality and their symbolic denotation. This is the requirement for transforming a factual message into a more complex evocation of meanings, into a symbolic communication, a TV production.

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