SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

[crash]

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.

Maybe it is technically possible, but it just seemed awfully convenient that the people were standing in all the right places at all the right times for the shots over the shoulders, the pan shots from the side etc etc

Like you say, the social experiment side of it is very limited anyway. The location, demographic, social mix.. all those things would need to be thrown in.

I would like to think that the majority of people would behave like the people in the clip did. I found it funny that the guy that was shown to be an asshole was wearing a NASCAR hat. Stereotyping or stereotype come true?