On Feb 5, 2006, at 11:36, David Pritts wrote: > First let me say that i love the show, and although I have *never* > really watched TV before, I have now seen every episode of this.
Amazing. A TV virgin! Maybe we should have The Talk... Reality shows are heavily edited. They have hundreds of hours of footage for each episode that they cut down to 45 minutes. The goal of the editing is not to report as truthfully as possible what happened that day, but to make an as entertaining as possible show. This includes directly lying about events, as well as implying events and motivations that didn't exist. The contestants typically sign away any rights to complain about things like this when they take the job. However, they are typically not faked in a scripted way. That's much too hard to to, and you need real talented actors and scriptwriters to make that work. Part of the motivation for all the "reality" TV getting shown is that it's very expensive to hire that level of acting and writing talent. > 1) The "Asides" with the camera This is very standard. Everyone knows these confessions could end up in the final show. But that's long after they've left the mansion. > > The only way to get around this is if everyone was completely > isolated from the outside world, which obviously isn't true since, > for example, Tyson was able to respond to his email, and (if i > remember correctly) attend the Caltech cubing tournament which was > during the BATG season. The way they did this was they recorded it all in October. > 2) Too dumb -- perhaps I have a skewed perspective, but I don't > think that, for example, ANYBODY in the US doesn't know who John > Kerry is. Yes, you do need to get out more. These people are very much out there. It's not so much an issue of being dumb (though that helps) as of not being interested. You know, a lot of people would take your questions here and wonder if anyone could really be that uninformed about reality TV to not know it was all prerecorded. The reason you didn't know is not that you're stupid, you just weren't keeping up with this field. > 4) Camerawork/timing etc -- All of the timing etc is perfect, > strange for a reality show. Well, it's edited over several months by pros. Of course it's gonna look good. > 5) Nobody would ever be as big an asshole as Chris was. > Seriously. It makes the show more exciting when there's a badguy.. > how would the people who screened the show know that he would end > up being such a loser? They make him into an asshole through editing. Maybe he really is that big a jerk, but if not, they can very easily make him into one through selective editing. It's standard reality show fare, you need to give the audience someone to root for and against. - - - - - - - - - - - - "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -- George Bernard Shaw Lars Petrus - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lar5.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
