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Slate editor and American Candidate producer/writer Kevin Arnovitz dishes today in Slate about some of the things he learned while working on the series this summer, but alas, there are no details about secret make-out sessions between Keith and Park, nor deatils about Bruce’s predilection for gnawing on beef jerky when the cameras are turned off. Instead, he reveals the vocabulary of reality TV show crews. Among the terms he defines is frankenbite, “An edited reality show snippet, most often found in contestant testimonials, that splices together several disparate strands of an interview, or even multiple interviews, into a single clip.” Borrowed from the world of porn, there’s the Money Shot, which is, of course, the “dramatic climax for an episode’s key segment.” He also explains the difference between a Pre-Cap (“An interview of a reality show contestant before [often en route to] a major event … that captures the anticipatory giddiness of the contestant”), mid-cap (“film on the contestant in the course of the event”), and recap (“A reflective interview after the fact”).
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American Candidate producer reveals on-set lingo for reality TV shows.
link to this story + posted Sep. 15, 2004 at 6:00 AM by Andy Dehnart
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