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stellauk -> RE: What do you think of this footage staged or not staged? (3/14/2011 8:32:45 AM)
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Here's your answer:
Starnow - where talent gets discovered
The shows are scripted and the 'people' who appear in the shows are... (wait for it) .. paid actors.
Starnow is one of the best known casting websites for reality TV shows.
In the clip in the OP you can even tell that it's scripted by some of the things which are being said.
The guy in particular isn't projecting the same way as you would if you were coming in off the street. There's hardly any 'verbal' punctuation words, such as 'erm', 'um' that people come out with whilst they're thinking and talking at the same time.
As for the audience, they're .. (wait for it) ... film extras.
It's no different from television commercials and most game shows - they're all actors.
What you're looking at is a show put together from actors, both trained and untrained at the bottom of the film industry and a lot of people who are looking for their fifteen minutes of fame. They're the same people who make up the numbers in feature films, television shows, act in independent films, student films, television commercials, corporate videos and so on.
Shows like Jerry Springer bug me, and they bug me deeply because they have a detrimental effect on the industry as a whole and they are not a fair or even remotely accurate reflection of the issues which they present.
It's just another way of making money out of other people's misfortunes and reinforcing cultural and social stereotypes that maybe we should be getting away from.
I tried (and failed) to put out a short independent movie with a BDSM theme last year and went through dozens of these actors and was filming it on premises owned by the organizers of LAM (the London Alternative Market).
The movie was set in an office, and I can't tell you the issues I had and the arguments in trying to stop these actors getting the wrong idea. The first actress I cast in the role of the domme turned up on set, in an office, wearing a corset and boots. The second actress in the role of the domme got it despite not having any contact with the BDSM community, she just dressed normally and to her credit she created a very real, credible character of the typical English domme - someone you wouldn't tell is a domme if you met her in a supermarket.
I actually managed to complete the filming in one location but needed to reshoot it in another and it got to the point where I had problems finding actors prepared to develop characters that I wanted and I just got tired of arguing with actors over how to play a dominant woman or male submissive. The film is only 36 minutes long, and the repeated casting calls were starting to damage my credibility as a director, and I cannot allow that.
I might go back to it if I can find two women and a guy in the community who want to appear in a short independent movie and can make it to London for the filming on 2-3 Sundays. But at the moment I am busy on other projects and it's on the back burner so to speak.
But yes, the Jerry Springer shows and the clip in the OP is definitely staged.. all of it.
Reality TV doesn't so much show reality but instead tries to create it for the sake of profit.
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