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Terrible editing.

posted 8 years ago by Sasspergers
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When the ladies are talking about how drunk Michael is and he bend down and there is the sound of a glass breaking and the women say "Oh he dropped something!" He was clearly picking up his chopstick that he dropped earlier, you can see that there is only one in his little food container. It was so tacky and just proves how the producers/editors can manipulate people's images and reputations. Andy should be embarrassed at how low quality that was.

I'm not defending Michael at all by the way, him and Kelly are both train wrecks.

[–] mindthinkr 8 years ago

The editing on these reality-ish shows use many techniques to fool us. Bait and switch, putting scenes together that didn't happen at the same time etc. have you seen the show UnReal? It gives some insight on how the producers will use anything and everything to up the drama on these shows. Especially the "Next week on ...parts. I missed that he was picking up his chopstick. So had you not written this post I would have been foolish to assume it was his broken glass...thanks for the heads up on what really happened. Sometimes I multitask while it's on. Now I can see (due to the editing) that I have to pay more attention (which is probably what they want). These guilty pleasure shows are turning into studies on viewer manipulation.

[–] jill2045 8 years ago

Yes! Thank you. He dropped it at the end of one of the scenes and I though ewwww hope he doesn't pick that up and use it! Cut to them making it look like he broke a glass and I flipped my lid. Using a floor chopstick would have painted the same picture actually.