Monday, February 11, 2013
EMBARRASSING. Just because it's an SABC2 kids show doesn't mean you need to dress like an 80's marshmallow having a bad hair day.
Rivoningo's roving reporter on SABC2 looking like an Oompa Loompa, needs some serious help because it's all about big (bad) hair, big baggy clothes, big fat stripes, big hand gestures and big over-excited facial expressions - and that's in a "normal" episode, not an 80's drama retro gold TV2 rebroadcast about the tokoloshe.
When you're on television you're appearance and your presentation is going to elicit reaction because you're making yourself a public person. Even more so, you're supposed to be an example to impressionable children.
So why not work on looking your best, instead of appearing like a massive marshmallow having a bad hair day?
Someone on the Rivoningo production team can help their presenter and go dig up a YouTube clip or find it elsewhere where Oprah Winfrey discuss her 80's phase and being fat and wearing bad weaves, wearing bad clothes, and how her fashion sense was a long way coming.
If you learn from the past, you don't have to repeat it - or the 80's big splash pastel colours.