08-11-2014, 08:46 PM
Well, you know way more about the camera stuff than I do, crash.
I figure ABC's got a big budget for a prime time show, they've got hidden cameras around the room, and they can edit the footage to zoom in and out and crop for focus and all that jazz. If that's not technically possible, I guess the show is a fraud or the non-actors featured on the different hidden camera shows are all stupid or blind.
I didn't really give much thought to the social experiment angle at all. Assuming the participants were unaware of the cameras and responding naturally, I think the reactions would be vastly different depending on a lot of factors; the location of the experiment being one of them.
I figure ABC's got a big budget for a prime time show, they've got hidden cameras around the room, and they can edit the footage to zoom in and out and crop for focus and all that jazz. If that's not technically possible, I guess the show is a fraud or the non-actors featured on the different hidden camera shows are all stupid or blind.
I didn't really give much thought to the social experiment angle at all. Assuming the participants were unaware of the cameras and responding naturally, I think the reactions would be vastly different depending on a lot of factors; the location of the experiment being one of them.