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Hot take: That "unscripted" reality show scene was totally planned by producers
I was watching this cooking competition show last night where the contestant randomly dropped a whole cake on the floor. Everyone in the comments was like "oh it's so real and raw" but I could tell from the camera angle change and how slow the slow motion was that they had to have set that up. They even had a close up of the face right before it happened. I used to edit videos for a small youtube channel in Austin and that kind of shot takes planning. Has anyone else noticed how many of these viral baking fails are probably staged?
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ellis.mia22d ago
That camera angle change is a dead giveaway. I used to help my niece edit her school project videos and we had to plan shots like that for the "unexpected" moments too. You're right, those viral baking fails always feel a bit too perfectly captured.
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phoenix_thompson422d ago
50 percent of those fail videos are staged, but the other half are just people with a phone already recording because they knew the recipe was tricky. My sister's a pastry chef and she says even pros have days where everything goes wrong, and if the camera's already rolling you catch it. So yeah some are faked, but a few are just good timing and a predictable disaster.
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jakel3611d ago
Wait didn't I see a whole article about this where a baking channel admitted they stage like 9 out of 10 fails but the one real one was a total kitchen fire? @phoenix_thompson4 nailed it about the recipe being tricky enough to expect failure though, I've burned countless batches of cookies just trying to get the temp right. The real ones feel different because nobody's gonna plan for a smoking pan or a cake that literally splits in half.
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