This might sound dumb but I really don’t get it. Sometimes it looks like the interview (most often in a separate Interview room) was really made right at the time a scene happened, but then again you see people wearing the same things in every interview that supposedly should have happened across multiple days.
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Editing. Film a ton of interviews and take the interesting bits.
Also Producing. Producers will interview the people on the show and ask them to talk about how they felt in that moment. They might even show them video to refresh their memory and ask them to talk as if it was happening right now.
I asked this question to one of my friends who works for Masterchef Italy and she told me they specifically ask competitors to talk about how they felt at the moment and to make impressions of the moment itself. A little bit of cuts here and there, and it really looks like they are interviewing them into the Black Mirror device for incapsulating souls.
In Steampunkt (sp?) they snatched people out for interviews DURING the challenges, which interfered with the time they had to complete their work. And they edited the interviews down to make some people look like assholes or incompetents.
I was one of the artists on Just Tattoo Of Us in the UK and its basically recorded after the fact, however the questions from the producers relayed to the camera operator are all leading, or are asked as “so now talk as if you’ve just done this part” – most questions are kept short so that you don’t ever say the wrong thing and the edit will look more realistic to the “present” atmosphere.
Dude lemme tell ya reality shows are a bunch of SHIT LOL
I was in a class with my country’s (Israel) biggest reality show participants picker and he was CRAZY lolololol
Like these guys are just loopty whoop on their head and they pick the people who they think will be funny and dramatic and make them do whatever they want. The editing is ridiculous the everything is just a milking for drama in any way possible show
Natalia Taylor does a pretty interesting video on YT about her experience interviewing for America’s Next Top Model that covers the “coaching” contestants receive. They would ask her a question, wait for her to answer, and then basically tell her no, feed her the answers they wanted, let her answer, and then tell her no again, and explain how they wanted her to sound when she answered.
It’s completely made up. My uncle shot a pilot for a reality show about recovering crashed airplanes (his business).
They coached him to say things like “time is money” (untrue). They’d tell tell him to say “if we don’t finish this in the next “X” hours we lose everything” (untrue). They told him to berate his employees on camera (not his employees). It was the silliest thing ever.
The pilot never made it. His job is really cool and interesting, but he’s just to calm and relaxed for a show to work. The fact is that “safety is money” and “they get paid regardless by the insurance company” and it’s very important to “take their time”. The plane isn’t going anywhere.
Yes, it’s cool to recover a plane that crashed into a mountain at 12,000 feet with no roads. Yes it’s hard. The problem is, that it’s not exciting without making a big deal about a careful recovery. It’s all safety related so the pilot for the show didn’t work out.
Bottom line, it’s all semi-scripted and coached. The scripted stuff is shot after the job is done. The job still needs doing after all and the crew can’t get in their way while they’re picking up a crashed plane at 14,000 feet and the helicopter barely has lift.
I used to work in transcribing these interviews, it’s interesting. It is typically at the end of everything. They sit down and sometimes they’re asked questions to prompt responses and sometimes they just talk and monolog. Sometimes they will just give them lines to day. They will then say things over and over sometimes to get the right emotion or expression, or to make sure they use the right verb tense that will then be used in the final cut.
To add onto this – I worked in reality / competition for a decade. There’s some interviews called OTF’s (on the fly) that are actually done in the moment. Usually they’re all done on specific days and times and the talent wears the same clothes so that we can use bites from different days to complete thoughts and sentences via something called frankenbites – so if you see a person start a sentence and it cuts to something in scene with a voice over and then lands back on them, there’s a good chance it was assembled from other interview bites.
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