How do reality show interviews work?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

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

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

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