On the screen, every outdoor shot you see is greenscreened.

[elfs]

Remind me again of why we watch TV?

Comments

[kenshardik]

I was amazed at just how good the blue/greenscreen tech has gotten. I never would have guessed at how many shots were using it in that reel.

[mouser]

Agreed - I saw many shots I would never have guessed were composed like that.

[drhoz]

*shrugs* I've got no problem with it. It's just a fancier version of a theater backdrop.

[elbowfetish]

No reason not to greenscreen unless it's reality TV, and who wants that?

[woggie]

To be entertained into a light coma, of course? :)

[tagryn]

Can only wonder what totalitarian regimes like North Korea do with that technology. They'll have the Americans doing things even we couldn't have conceived, and it'll look so real their slaves will never suspect its not.

[_candide_]

Or more to the point, what aspiring totalitarians who want to retain the illusion of democracy can do with that technology. Like, say, so flood the airwaves with The Big Lie that reality itself ceases to have meaning, and the idiot populous does whatever its controllers want, without ever realizing that they're being manipulated.

[tagryn]

But we're aware the technology exists. In a totalitarian regime like NK or Burma, that wouldn't be an option: control over that knowledge would be limited to the very few.

We know that just because a photo shows something, it doesn't mean it reflects reality, with how common Photoshopping is these days. If one isn't aware that there's such things as chroma key or Photoshop because all information access is tightly controlled, the effectiveness of such as a propaganda tool becomes dramatically beyond anything we have to worry about here.