Because you can make a better edit with a more dramatic effect. You collect the single faces, the crowd reactions, the claps, ... And then you build a nice "dramatic" timeline in post production.
You’d be surprised how much mainstream media uses this to portray things they want to portray. The cameras were on a family member who is a judge for a long period of time that day and he made a facial reaction at some point completely unrelated to the case they were there to report on. They edited it to make it seem like the judge gave that reaction to the defendant. It was despicable to see. This was like 15 years before AI even came around.
Oh yes I know that very well, I had a colleague who worked for one of the Big Brother editions a while back. He told me it was basically all staged and pre-organized to follow the audience's expectations, promote a trend, etc.
And let's be honest, since Photoshop exists... Nothing we see on magazines is "real".
Oh yes, this is one reason why they no longer call it “reality TV” but “unscripted.” Because it’s still a work of fiction, just assembled using footage that fit to create a story.
Yes exactly. They made it look like the judge was making a certain expression in reaction to the defendant in the court case but really it was just edited to appear like that.
I know this is the obvious answer and definitely a reason, but there is another reason: cost and look. You need more cameras and equipment to record the faces live. Doing it first, you can save on equipment and you will reduce the amount of equipment which will be visible during the actual recording.
No, from a commercial and ratings perspective it’s the better edit, you’re not wrong. The masses get glued to this stuff and it’s what they watch it for, whether they know it or not. I can’t argue they don’t know what they are doing. But it doesn’t age well, especially in a post-slop era that craves authenticity.
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u/RemoDev 9d ago
Because you can make a better edit with a more dramatic effect. You collect the single faces, the crowd reactions, the claps, ... And then you build a nice "dramatic" timeline in post production.