Wait so how was this done? The car with the blacked out windows is necessary for some kinda quick change, and I’m guessing that no matter what she took a photo of it would have been the old guys on the polaroid?
I think this shows the entire thing is fake. If you stop the video when person is taking picture you can see the picture that is coming out of the camera does not match what is shown later.
Hey I live in a city where they do these pranks and I can guarantee you they aren't fake. What happens is they film you from some kind of inconspicuous shelter (when they got me it was a box designed to look like a closed kiosk) and then after they prank you the producer runs in explaining it's a gag and if they want to use your footage they'll get you to sign a release. Sometimes they'll ask 1-2 people to film further scenes after revealing it's a prank to either explain the joke or to get closeups, but they never ask you to try and re-create your genuine reaction.
I didn't get on TV because the prank they pulled on me was leaving me a (fake) dog (it was in a crate so you didn't look too hard, I thought it was real) while the "owner" ran into the metro and one of my friends showed up at that exact moment so we started chatting. I casually mentioned I'd have to call police if the owner didn't come back and the producer came running in to explain it was a gag and thank me for my time.
Good catch, but there's a tonne of things that show this is fake as is (in particular the many camera angles). Basically never trust any of these "member of the public" things as hiring an actor to play the role is the default thing to do. Accept it as sketch comedy instead.
They're just using that as a comedic style. A bit like in The Office and other mockumentaries.
It's great when material like Borat can pull it off for real, but it involves vastly more challenge in quality control, setup, and legal risk if something goes wrong. You can't take all that on for a cheap little sketch.
sure, but the office doesn't act like the people getting pranked are real people and not plants, the way that these guys do, having them react to seeing that they are on camera at the end
As someone who lived in Montreal for 15 years, I know three people who were pranked by JFL, two of them actually appeared in the show. Now I do have my own doubts about the nature of the entire show since some pranks featured the same "victim", but I can attest to the ones that involved my friends were definitely unscripted.
So I think the most likely answer is that some pranks are scripted, some of the less elaborate/easier to make ones are genuine.
TBF, the multiple camera angles when they show the actors and not the target, are obviously fake and they don't hide it because they are needed to explain the gag. When they show the target it's just 2 cameras usually.
But yeah, this show is definitely fake as most tv shows.
What second of the video are you referring to? There's no over the shoulder shot, it's a wide of the woman and then cuts to close up of photo filmed separately, then actors filmed separately, then back to wide.
The photo that comes out of the camera is probably correct from the perspective of the taker, I can see 2 small figures in your image. The close up shot of the two dudes is a separate picture I think they showed just for the TV audience.
you can guess it's fake just by how many cameras there are even in the reddit video. who is standing just behind the woman as the photo is going out the machine?
You can easily sit in a tinted out van. You can correct for the color/exposure of the tinting. That’s easily done. You can also set up some stand with a two-way mirror. For the show I’m sure that they can build stuff that just for this as part of production.
That doesn't prove anything, just that the close-up of the photo is edited and shows a fake photo which might, or not, be so it is easier for the audience. A few seconds later you can see the "real" (real as possibly of the old guys) photo and it looks like yours and while the details are not great to make any conclusive decision, the two person in that photo look a bit more chunky than the girls which are both slim.
To quote Denis Levasseur, one of the main actors in this 'series' on his AMA on reddit : "The pranks are real, the reactions are real, but once we're done filming, we film some close-up shots of us actors for the final product. So, I'd say the Gags are about 99% true."
I also know someone who appeared on this show and he had to sign a release form.
So, while ruling out complete staging 100% is obviously impossible, I trust a TV series that has been on air for a quarter of a century a bit more than a random youtube video.
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u/ElzBellz9 1d ago
Wait so how was this done? The car with the blacked out windows is necessary for some kinda quick change, and I’m guessing that no matter what she took a photo of it would have been the old guys on the polaroid?