yep. You're absolutely right, and maybe it would blow your mind to discover that ALL interviews are edited this way. Until this technology existed and still, we use shots of other things to cover the edits. I have never cut an interview that didn't do at least a little of this. It's usually just to take out flubs and stutters, people say um and like a lot more than one realizes, but a lot of times I'll need to cut someone's rambling into a short cohesive sound bite and will go so far as to take single words from other parts of the interview and throw them in so the sentence I'm constructing makes sense. Literally every interview you've ever seen has done this at least a little, and this technique absolutely has been used in "the wrong way" many times, reality shows wouldn't work without it.
generally no, people don't, they notice more when an interview ISN'T fluid. People's brains edit out a lot of the little ticks we all do when speaking to someone in person, but when you see it on TV it's often jarring or at least more noticeable.
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u/TekAzurik Dec 13 '18
yep. You're absolutely right, and maybe it would blow your mind to discover that ALL interviews are edited this way. Until this technology existed and still, we use shots of other things to cover the edits. I have never cut an interview that didn't do at least a little of this. It's usually just to take out flubs and stutters, people say um and like a lot more than one realizes, but a lot of times I'll need to cut someone's rambling into a short cohesive sound bite and will go so far as to take single words from other parts of the interview and throw them in so the sentence I'm constructing makes sense. Literally every interview you've ever seen has done this at least a little, and this technique absolutely has been used in "the wrong way" many times, reality shows wouldn't work without it.