A ZDF travel report by Dirk Sager presents a successful symbiosis between images and music

By Tilmann P. Gangloff

“Berlin-Saigon” ZDF, 8.15 pm

Ever since TV has committed itself to a frenzied standstill, moments of peacefulness are a relict of the past. Similar to the radio, the horror vacui rages here, the fear of acoustic nothingness. Thus, someone has to talk continually; and if not, at least there has to be music. Because of this, reports and documentaries have been added with a perpetual wall of music for some time now. Often the music is rather monotonous, which rather ruin than accompany the images; or emotional moments are being emphasized so intrusively that afterwards one feels sore from feeling. read more here…

TS-Music Production add music to Dir Sager’s Travel Documentary from Berlin to Saigon

By Peter Mueller

Kiedrich: When Dirk Sager travels, he usually goes east. And preferably to Russia where the TV veteran must already feel at home. Like no one else, the former head of the ZDF studio in Russia, has scoured the mammoth country, and he has always drawn a picture that surpasses political summit conferences, corruption affairs and environmental disasters. Sager looks into people’s existential orientations and presents us with the Russian soul. For that, he sometimes takes the jeep or helicopter or the sea route from the Polar Sea to the most eastern shores of Siberia. read more here…