Another Viral Video...

Quote: Evenbob

They knew what was coming, they always do, it's 'reality' TV where every reaction is a fake one.

Sssh. You mean its canned laughter and all scripted for low cost production but high ratings? They don't have stage coach robberies anymore, the only zombies are the audience members who drink themselves to oblivion watching reality tv, I can't go to the Yukon and pan for gold, I can't grow up to be cowboy, Twiggy will grow old, Kardashians will eventually die out.

Quote: Fleastiff

Sssh. You mean its

I mean just what I said. The judges and crew
already know what's coming and act accordingly.
The audience goes wild on cue. It's a staged
production to make it look real. And it does
look real, in a staged phony way.

Quote: Evenbob

I mean just what I said. The judges and crew
already know what's coming and act accordingly.
The audience goes wild on cue. It's a staged
production to make it look real. And it does
look real, in a staged phony way.

If by staged, you mean they insert heartwarming act in one place, or a big opener in another, or a dud act who gets booed sandwiched somewhere, I agree. But why would they want "staged" reactions from the judges by telling them what they should do?

Most of these guys are poor actors and couldn't pull off a good phony reaction. And furthermore they don't need to. But yeah, they manage the show in how the acts are presented throughout the show. You don't want your lowest energy act at the beginning and have people change the channel right off.

If they wanted to make they show even worse they WOULD tell everyone what was going to happen next. Pretty sure they try to keep it from the judges.

And if that's not good enough, they can edit something, to make it look different.

Quote: rxwine

Pretty sure they try to keep it from the judges.
.

And I know for a fact they don't. Nothing is left
to chance on a reality show, it's too risky. And
they're not 'acting', they're over re-acting.
And if they don't get it right the first time, they
just film it all again.

The only truly real 'reality' show is COPS. But to
get 22 min of video for one show, they have to
send 5 cameramen in 5 police cars for shift after
shift until they get lucky. On these reality talent
shows, everybody knows what's going on at all
times so they can act in the proper way to fool
everybody watching. You probably think all the
people selling stuff on Pawn Stars actually
stumble into the store off of the street.

Quote: Evenbob

And I know for a fact they don't.

Then you're watching rank amateurs. Even directors making films know that fooling the actor can often get a better reaction.

Story after story is told in film cinema about such things. People need a surprised action and actor turns around and someone off set has dropped their pants.

You don't seem to know how stuff works.

Quote: rxwine

You don't seem to know how stuff works.

I know exactly how it works, I've been
studying reality TV for years. I even
have a FB page that has over 14,000
followers where I make reports on
some reality shows. I've talked to behind
the scenes people, my stories have been
quoted by others in online magazines.

No reality TV show is 'real', they're all
staged as much as possible. Probably the
closest to real are the cooking contest
shows, like the Food Network has. But
those are controlled right down to the
smallest detail, they just can't control
who wins.

I busted shows like Storage Wars, Pawn
Stars, any of the repo shows, Amish Mafia,
Moonshiners, and lots of others, I busted
them for being totally faked long before
anybody else was.

Quote: Evenbob

I know exactly how it works, I've been
studying reality TV for years. I even
have a FB page that has over 14,000
followers where I make reports on
some reality shows. I've talked to behind
the scenes people, my stories have been
quoted by others in online magazines.

So, you might as well be describing the early 1970s versions of WWW wrestling as reality shows by saying everything was scripted -- dramas fights, etc.,

That's exactly why wrestling looked so fake to most of us. If you actually fully control the scripts that's how bad it would be with bad actors. I don't call anything like that reality.

There's a difference between fully scripted material and manipulated events. The good reality shows manipulate the events. Only if the characters don't give a good reaction does it get edited or even redone to try to fix it.

Quote: rxwine

Only if the characters don't give a good reaction does it get edited or even redone to try to fix it.

Scenes are set up in all reality shows,
just like a regular show. Cameras and
lights are placed, actors told where to
stand. They may not read from a script,
but they know what to say. They shoot
it over and over till they get it the way
the director wants.

Shows like Deadliest Catch have a lot of
unplanned action on the deck of the
boats, but all the indoor drama is set
up. The majority of viewers believe
all reality shows are for real, it's mind
blowing how easily fooled the public
is.

Quote: Evenbob

Shows like Deadliest Catch have a lot of
unplanned action on the deck of the
boats, but all the indoor drama is set
up.

That really depends on what you are calling drama. They may film hundreds of hours to edit a one hour [42 minute long] episode, but everything on the show and a whole lot more happens.

Those guys are very real, the occupation is the deadliest in the nation. A boat captain screaming at the crew for the tiniest of errors, real or imagined is common. The show is a very real example of the way it is. It is an incredibly hard life.

Many of the boats tie up in Kodiak. I watched the first boat Niece had run aground. Cornelia Marie is home ported in Kodiak, Time Bandit ties up in Kodiak or Homer, the Northwestern Tenders in Cordova. If anything, the show makes it seem easier than it really is. What doesn't come across on the show is the duration of a shift. Most people will never know what it is like to work as hard and dangerous as you can, for 40 hours at a time round the clock non stop, with barely time for a quick meal or a potty break. Just no way to explain what that kind of exhaustion, running on nerve energy is like. Living and enduring beyond the place where fear serves a purpose.

Filming "Deadliest catch" : http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/deadliest-catch/videos/filming-the-catch/

Quote: petroglyph

The show is a very real example of the way it is.

The fishing is real. Except they usually show
them snagging the cage with the hook on
the first throw, and that's far from the truth.

All the drama in the boat is 'produced'. All
their little issues and problems and fights
are staged and dramatized. When real things
happen, like injuries, those are just icing on
the cake for the producers.

Say the captain gets mad and has an argument
with a crew member. The camera crew will have
them do it again for the show, only they make
it bigger, more dramatic.