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| 15 | ->''"Guys, he obviously combined those clips to make you look bad!"'' |
| 16 | -->-- '''Raven''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' |
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| 18 | News programs love controversies. Documentaries (even educational ones) are more interesting when there's a fight or one-sided argument. And RealityTV shows thrive on conflict between the contestants. Theoretically, the conflicts are all the more gripping because they are ''real'' -- no scripts, no second takes, and little editing. Everything that happened really happened, just as it's shown. |
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| 20 | And if you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you. |
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| 22 | In point of fact, there ''are'' writers on reality TV shows, documentaries, and even the news. There can be "OK, can you say that again, only this time with more emotion". And there are ''certainly'' editors whose job it is to compress a long discussion into a few sentences. While the specific ''events'' may be outside of the producers' direct control (although that varies depending on the show -- and don't count out less ''direct'' influences), editing often compresses hours, days, or weeks into mere minutes, and ''how'' the events are compressed can alter the meaning of a scene, twist a person's apparent attitude, and alter "reality" to the point that it's barely recognizable to those who were present for the actual events. |
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| 24 | Some common forms of Manipulative Editing include: |
| 25 | # Missing or misused context is the single most common type of manipulative editing, and is at least an element of virtually every other kind. At the most basic level, it creates a relationship between two unrelated events, or removes a connection that should have been there. This one is much, much OlderThanTelevision, as people have been quoting their rivals out of context to make them look bad since time immemorial. |
| 26 | # [[QuoteMine Cherry-picking quotes]] from an interview or ConfessionCam can turn a fair and balanced statement into a one-sided snark-fest. It's easy to cut off the ''buts'' and ''excepts'' that would soften a statement, and that's without deeper shenanigans. The "Frankenbite" is where different soundbites are stitched together to create a new whole. |
| 27 | # Cherry-picking scenes. Showing only certain parts of a relationship can easily create an illusion that has little to do with reality. Imagine if your entire relationship with your best friend was to be summed up in ten minutes. Now imagine that the summation consisted of your combined worst ten minutes —your loudest arguments, your worst fights, your angriest moments ever. If someone who didn't know you or your friend saw only the summation, he might well conclude that you had once been friends but were now mortal enemies. |
| 28 | # Cherry-picking responses on an interview so only the dumbest opinions make it to the final cut. This can easily cause the viewer to think that the selected demographic is way stupider and uncultured than in real life. This is called SelectiveStupidity. |
| 29 | # Causal deletion. It's true that, sometimes, people do things for no reason. Most of the time, though, they have very good reasons --but if the reasons get left on the cutting-room floor, it looks like they don't. This can make even the most justified anger seem petty and immature. For example, if the producers are casting Bob as a bad guy and Alice as a nice girl, they might cut out several days of on-and-off sniping and backbiting on Alice's part, showing only the moment when Bob has had enough and shouts at her, making Bob look like an unreasonable, overreactive jerk. |
| 30 | # Denial of information. Sometimes important information, like an alliance forming or paranoia setting in, gets removed, which makes some acts seem like a snap decision when the people involved were actually mulling it over for hours, or even days. |
| 31 | # [[AccentuateTheNegative Accentuating the Negative]]. If Bob is a decent person most of the time but gets moody under stress, expect his nicer moments to be cut out--including any apologies--to make him look like a complete and utter jackass. |
| 32 | # Pointed questions. Just because you don't see an interviewer does not mean one isn't there. An unseen, unheard producer may ask the person to talk about a particular subject or ask questions designed to provoke "better" sound bites, and then use only the most interesting bits. In older reality shows, this is often deceptively presented as if it were from a ConfessionCam (which, theoretically, has nobody else in the room), by having the person look directly at the camera while answering the producer's questions. Most shows nowadays are more honest about the fact that the person is being interviewed by someone offscreen, and in a few rare instances the producer themselves can be heard responding or asking a question, usually to underscore how dramatic or unusual a situation has become. |
| 33 | # Prompting. Sometimes the interviewee (often a contestant on a reality show) will simply be told "say this". It happens. |
| 34 | # Temporal shenanigans. Two events which took place days or weeks apart are shown to have happened nearly simultaneously, or close-together events get spaced out. This can add additional context that did not actually exist, or make emotions seem buried when they were actually dealt with much sooner. For example, if Bob says something about Alice just as Alice walks into the room, it's possible that Bob had actually said it several hours ''earlier'', and Alice didn't hear it. This can also tie in with the Confession Cam by having the cast wear the same outfit and hairstyle every time they're interviewed, so that clips can added to any situation regardless of when in the season the interview took place or what the person was actually talking about at the time. |
| 35 | # Switching around the order of events. This can be a tricky form of manipulative editing that makes the aftermath of an event appear to be its cause, or even make it seem like someone ''willed'' an event to happen (such as an injury) when they were talking or joking about it later. Combine this with cherry-picked comments for extra deception. For example, a shot of a worker looking at a piece of jury-rigged equipment and commenting, "That's not gonna hold for long," might be shown before the failure that necessitated the quick fix, making it appear that the worker predicted the failure and was ignored. |
| 36 | # Music. Take a shot of a guy staring off into space. Add a triumphant brass fanfare, and suddenly he seems heroic. Add a Chopin piano ballad and he seems wistful and reflective. Add jarring atonal modern music and he seems on the verge of snapping and turning into an AxCrazy killer. |
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| 38 | It's worth stating that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this is not necessarily a bad thing]]. Your average TV editor needs to browse through hundreds or even thousands of hours of unscripted raw footage covering multiple perspectives, and try to and condense it down to a sub-one hour episode with a cohesive narrative for viewers to follow. If shuffling events around, taking quotes out of context and leaving some events on the cutting room floor is what it takes, then the editor has done their job well. |
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| 40 | Compare QuoteMine and RecordedSplicedConversation. |
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| 43 | !!Examples: |
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| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 48 | * This Trope is often used in commercials for Italian live-action shows (and sometimes cartoons) to make the characters talk with the narration. |
| 49 | * Ads for beauty products (or just about anything) with BeforeAndAfterPictures. It's the same woman, and the photos themselves are unedited. They just take the before photo under less than ideal lighting to make the blemishes more visible. |
| 50 | * Similarly to beauty products, ads for weight loss or fitness programs will often rely on unflattering lighting, bad haircuts, poor posture, and other tricks to make people in the "before" pictures seem more out of shape, while the "after" shots are done with different lighting (lights shining from below a person, for example, casts shadows on their bodies to make muscles look more defined), better-cut clothing, and other optical illusions to sell the program. |
| 51 | ** One fitness model [=YouTuber=] demonstrated that in some cases, the person is ''already'' in phenomenal shape--the "after" picture is taken first. The model then pigs out on high-salt food and drinks over a gallon of chocolate milk; the combination [[BalloonBelly bloats his belly]] and makes him generally appear puffier. The "before" picture is taken with the addition of bad lighting and posture, and behold--an extremely muscular, lean guy now looks like he desperately needs the product that's being hawked. |
| 52 | * An Old Spice commercial featuring Washington Commanders linebacker Montez Sweat uses this to make it sound like he's endorsing being sweaty because of his last name: |
| 53 | -->'''Sweat (actual quote):''' Sweat is just my last name. It's just a word. I don't represent sweat, and I won't be a party to this at any time.\ |
| 54 | '''Voiceover:''' That's not what ''we'' heard!\ |
| 55 | '''Sweat (edited quote):''' I / represent sweat, and / it's / party / time. |
| 56 | * Happens a lot in political ads. One infamous example is making the claim that [[BeamMeUpScotty Al Gore said he invented the Internet.]] There's often a clip playing that shows him saying, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet". This is taken out of context as afterwards he immediately says, "I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system". He is clearly stating that he was promoting the Internet in its early days in an economic and legislative sense. |
| 57 | * An 1980s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYog5DszEI advert]] (English version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PShbxd42JN8 here]]) for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo begins with a zoomed in black and white photo that slowly zooms out while a narrator talks about a man who inherited a destroyed nation, restored its economy and its people's pride, reduced unemployment, grew the nation's GDP, doubled its per-capita income, raised corporate profits and reduced annual hyperinflation. The narrator then mentions that the man loved music and art and wanted to be an artist when he was young, then the photo zooms out quickly revealing the man in question was in fact [[spoiler:Adolf Hitler]]. The narrator then tells us that lies can be told even when speaking truths and that we should see to it that our source of information gives us the whole truth. |
| 58 | -->'''Folha de S.Paulo''': The newspaper that sells the most, but never sells itself out. |
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| 61 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 62 | * In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', Ganta gets framed and arrested for murdering everyone in his class. He talks to his lawyer and mostly talks about how scared he is and wondering why this is happening to him. At his trial, footage from security cameras of his talk with his lawyer is played, and Ganta is horrified to find it has been altered to depict him swaggering and incessantly bragging about killing everyone. Since his lawyer is part of the conspiracy, he claims this is the truth, and Ganta has the book thrown at him. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'' had an episode where Kam lured Metabee and Ikki into a trap to have his Kilobot Exor beat up Metabee (inclusing using dirty moves like attacking him with a chair) and then broadcast it live for people to see it to ruin their reputation. Fortunately, the heroes manage to prove the thing was set up due to [[SpottingTheThread a 60 second delay that causes the timers on the video footage and the clock on the street not to match with each other]]. |
| 64 | * In episode 13 of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'''s anime, Naofumi and his partners defend themselves against some guards [[spoiler:who tried to assassinate princess Melty and pin it on Naofumi]] while another guard stands back with a CrystalBall that acts like a video camera. Once the heroes defeat the guards, some wizards are shown editing the footage to add blood and evil-looking facial expressions and make it look like they were killing the guards and [[spoiler:kidnapping the princess]]. |
| 65 | * In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', a villain tricks Kamina into leaving his mecha in exchange for removing some censorship blurring, the implication being that the beautiful women being blurred are nude. When the blur is removed, [[spoiler:it turns out they're wearing towels]]. |
| 66 | * ''Anime/ViewtifulJoe'': In episode 4, Sprocket attempts to break Silvia's spirit by showing her footage of Joe's recent battles, edited to make it look like he's getting his ass kicked instead of the other way around. |
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| 69 | [[folder:Audio Drama]] |
| 70 | * In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' story "Pretty Lies", the war reporter Schandel is not only able to edit the War Doctor's remarks about the horrors of the Time War and his own complicity into "an uplifting call to arms", he's even able to use technology to change the Doctor's ''tone'', so that "I'm the stuff of nightmares" sounds like a BadassBoast rather than self-loathing. |
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| 73 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 74 | * A ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' tie-in story in ''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkActionPack'' saw Ben get interviewed by an alien reporter named Gorphax; he was subsequently filmed going about his daily routine, from typical teenager things to saving the news team from a [=DNAlien=] attack. When the broadcast is aired, we find out that it was edited to make Gorphax look like the hero of the tale and Ben look like a helpless coward. |
| 75 | * The ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' tie-in comic book miniseries ''The Arrival'' had a story in the fourth issue called "The Insincerest Form of Flattery", where human antagonist Porter C. Powell attempted to market a SWAT vehicle known as the Bulkhead, which he named after the Autobot without his permission. When Bulkhead attempts to decry his namesakes at the first unveiling, Powell edits the footage to make it look like Bulkhead approves of the vehicles named after him without his consent. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 79 | * Invoked in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', where Calvin attempts to establish a fictitious childhood by having Hobbes take pictures of him out of context so it looks like he is ''always'' behaving that way. |
| 80 | * In one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip, Jason uses this to blackmail his sister, Paige. He records her saying, "Mr. Vivona wants us to cut five articles from the newspaper every day this week for social studies, and the only scissors I have are, like, totally dull" and then splices the audio so it sounds like she's saying, "I cut social studies every day this week. Mr. Vivona is totally dull." |
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| 82 | |
| 83 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 84 | * In ''[[Fanfic/TheLightningStrike The Broken Day]]'', when [[spoiler:Lily Romanoff and T'Chone infiltrate Hogwarts, they basically rely on a mental version of this to escape detection by Snape's Legilimency; rather than block his mental probes, they deliberately push forward certain memories to support their story, thus discouraging Snape from probing any deeper]]. |
| 85 | * In the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' fic ''Fanfic/CrimsonRising'', the anti-Ranger organisation Sector Nine edit [[spoiler:the footage of Hunter killing the President to obscure such details as the fact that the president was under the control of Master Vile and was about to kill Shane, Dustin and Cam if Hunter hadn’t attacked Vile in his current host body]]. |
| 86 | * This ends up being part of a major plot twist in ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'': [[spoiler:after the Tallest confront [[AIIsACrapshoot the Control Brains]] over their [[AssimilationPlot plans]] and are forced to flee for their lives, the Brains string together selective footage of the Nova's visit to the Massive, and the Tallest confronting them, to [[FrameUp make it look like]] [[TheFederation the Syndicate]] launched an unprovoked attack and [[DeathFakedForYou assassinated the Tallest]], thus providing a PretextForWar]]. |
| 87 | * In the story "The Full Picture with Rush Carlson" from the ninth ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'', Amethyst does an interview with a reporter about the Crystal Gems' activities. First we see the unedited version, wherein the interview goes fairly normally as Amethyst paints a full picture of the Gems. Then we see the aired version, where it's noted that the interviewer is clearly in a different location than from where the interview took place, and Amethyst's responses have been cherry-picked to make it seem like she's proudly stating that the Crystal Gems are perverted criminals. |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'', [[FramingDevice framed]] as a former contestant telling the story to her son, characterizes people differently than canon, with the implication that the ''Total Drama'' that airs in-universe purposely twisted some of the facts. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': After [[LaserGuidedAmnesia their memories are erased by Oblivio]], Chat believes that he's been secretly crushing on his partner, and decides to [[LoveConfession confess]] before she releases the [[WorldHealingWave Miraculous Cure]]. He does so expecting Ladybug to gently turn him down, as both of them believe she's already got a boyfriend, and simply wants to tell her while he's got the chance. Unfortunately, Alya secretly records his confession, then edits the footage to make it appear that she returned his feelings and they got together, then posted the resulting video on her Ladyblog. This proves to be crossing a line too far for the superheroine, who confronts and calls her out on it... and also emboldens the 'normal' Chat Noir to continue harassing her, pressuring her to get together with him. |
| 90 | * In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series ''Fanfic/ThePartsWePlay'', after Rani (known as 'Foxface' in canon) kills herself after the non-Career alliance is dissolved, having watched her death 'live' from the Capitol, Katniss notes that the subsequent broadcast has been edited to present Rani as a lovesick girl who killed herself because she can’t be with Peeta while removing her more anti-Capitol statements. The broadcast version of her death even goes so far as to give the impression that Peeta gave Rani the nightlock she used to kill herself on his own rather than Rani receiving it earlier as a sponsorship gift, although Katniss finds the editing so obvious that she can see that Rani’s mouth doesn’t match the words she’s allegedly speaking. |
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| 93 | [[folder:Film - Animated]] |
| 94 | * Most of the trailers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' take certain lines out of context and dub them over completely different scenes. For example, the end of the original teaser trailer makes it look like Meg sings "Yes indeed!" at the end of "Zero to Hero", when actually it's one of the Muses, and a later theatrical trailer shows the adult Hercules seemingly praying to the statue of Zeus and asking how to become a true hero, when actually that prayer and question are uttered by Young Hercules the first time he visits the temple and the clips of his older self talking to the statue are from a much later scene, and makes it like Hades is calling Hercules "[[MaliciousMisnaming Jerkules]]", when it was another person whose voice is used. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Film - Live-Action]] |
| 98 | !!!By Creator: |
| 99 | * Creator/MichaelMoore does this in his documentaries. A lot. |
| 100 | ** ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'': |
| 101 | *** The opening scene featured a bank that offered a [[BankToaster free rifle]] for opening a bank account and showed him walk in, open the account, and then cut to him in the parking lot with said rifle in hand to imply the bank just handed it to him. Yeah... no. The bank actually did offer a free rifle in the form of a voucher you had to take to a participating sporting goods store to redeem, and you most definitely had to pass the background check and be legally entitled to own the firearm to begin with. Of course that's a pretty reasonable way to do things so the parking lot scene was filmed later and spliced in to "prove" Moore's point. |
| 102 | *** He showed what a heartless bastard Creator/CharltonHeston was for holding an NRA fundraiser in Colorado shortly after the Columbine massacre and gloating with the "cold, dead fingers" speech to mock the victims. While the NRA did indeed hold an event in Colorado (the organization's annual meeting) --because rescheduling it was legally impossible by that point[[note]]The NRA is a New York-based nonprofit. By New York law, any changing or cancellation of an annual meeting must be made with ten days notice. The shooting at Columbine occurred 11 days before the meeting. This would have required the NRA to mail a notice to each of its millions of members in less than a day. [[/note]]-- sharp-eyed viewers may notice that Heston is [[SpecialEffectFailure wearing a different suit for the "cold dead fingers" line]] than he wears in the rest of the footage. |
| 103 | *** Another recurring and particularly blatant example is essentially any interview scene with a clock in the background of one or both participants. Mismatched times between the interviewer and the interviewee, not enough time elapsed between answers for the question presented to have been the one asked, time strangely jumping forward and backward in general... some of the complaints are not so much that the editing's manipulative as the insult to the viewer's intelligence implied by how obvious it sometimes is. |
| 104 | ** One infamous example is from ''Film/Fahrenheit911'' where Moore is trying to prove a point about how callous politicians are in sending soldiers off to war. He approaches a Congressman outside Capitol Hill and asks if the man would willingly send his son to Iraq. The man stands mutely for a couple seconds before the camera cuts...to hide the fact that the Congressman answered that he has a nephew who's currently serving in Iraq. |
| 105 | ** ''Film/RogerAndMe'': the entire premise of the film is Moore's unsuccessful attempts to land an interview with General Motors CEO Roger Smith, to discuss the job losses at GM's Flint, Michigan plant. What Moore never bothers to mention is that Smith had already given him no fewer than three one-hour interviews, and the flustered employees in GM's executive suite when Moore bursts in with a camera are flustered precisely because they knew this and couldn't understand what Moore wanted. |
| 106 | ** In ''Film/{{Sicko}}'', an attack on the US healthcare system, Moore shows loving footage of a gleaming, modern hospital in Havana, Cuba, allegedly demonstrating the wonders of the Communist nation's universal medical system; what Moore conceals is that that hospital is for the exclusive use of the Castro family, high-ranking Party officials and foreign diplomats. The reality for ordinary Cubans is [[http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/health-myth.htm quite different]]. |
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| 108 | !!!By Title: |
| 109 | * This serves as a plot point in the romantic comedy ''Film/TwentySevenDresses''. Jane, as her sister Tess's maid of honor, is tasked with creating a slide show for her rehearsal dinner. Unfortunately, Tess is marrying Jane's boss, George, who Jane has secretly loved for years; to make matters worse, Tess has lied to him in an effort to impress him (including saying she loves animals and is a vegetarian and virgin). Jane writes a moving speech for the slide show...which is filled with images of Tess being mean to a cat, eating barbecue ribs, and making out with other guys. The wedding is called off--but surprisingly, [[WhatTheHellHero Jane's friends chew her out for being such a jerk and publicly humiliating Tess]], instead of being open about her feelings. |
| 110 | * ''Film/BatmanForever'': Edward Nygma, the future Riddler, murders Fred Stickley by throwing him out a window. Then he edits the security footage to remove himself and make it look like Stickley committed suicide. |
| 111 | * In the movie ''Film/BlackSheep1996'', the corrupt incumbent governor sends some thugs to burn down the children's activity center that her rival's brother Mike works in. Mike showed up moments later and tried, unsuccessfully, to put the fire out. A slimy photographer caught the whole thing, went to the governor and offered to sell her the ones of Mike in front of the burning building by himself. Earlier in the film, the same photographer saw Mike intervening with bunch of teenagers drinking and smoking pot in an alley. He got pictures of Mike holding a joint and a bottle of liquor, surrounded by stoned kids, and sold them to the newspapers, without bothering to mention that Mike only took them to throw them away. |
| 112 | * In ''Film/BroadcastNews'', Tom is interviewing a woman with a single camera setup. When they turn the camera around for his reaction shots, he make his eye tear so it looks like her story made him cry. It actually almost did, but he wouldn't have been on camera when he had. |
| 113 | * In the 1994 comedy ''Film/{{Clifford}}'', Martin Short plays a mischievous child who ruins his uncle's (played by Charles Grodin) life. In one scene, he has a recording of his uncle describing Clifford as "...a ticking time bomb that no one can stop. Even I do not have the patience to deal with this boy." Smash cut to Clifford editing the sound clips to send in a bomb threat. "I--have a bomb that no one can stop. A ticking time bomb." |
| 114 | * Here's a rare case of manipulative editing portraying the subjects in a more ''positive'' light: in ''Morgan Spurlock'''s documentary ''Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope'', one of the storylines follows James Darling, who plans to propose to his girlfriend Se Young at the Creator/KevinSmith panel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMACaJSQ4bc This video]] shows how the proposal went down. In the film, James' question about Kevin Smith's fleshlight and Se Young mentioning that she's "had sex with a lot of people" were edited out, presumably to make the moment appear more romantic and less awkward. |
| 115 | * The movie adaptation of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Film/{{Emma}}'' was cherrypicked by its own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpLozLqLZ0 trailer]] in a quite sloppy fashion — it juxtaposed clips of Emma saying "I love John" (caption: Emma loves John) and "I hate John" (caption: Emma loves Frank). Austen fans would know that John Knightley is actually Emma's brother-in-law and the love interest kissing Emma in the trailer is [[spoiler:John's older brother George]]. IMDB has the [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116191/quotes full quote in context]]. |
| 116 | * Creator/DavidBarton's documentary ''Film/FourCenturiesOfAmericanEducation'' shows how manipulative editing can be used to make something look stronger than it really is. For example, he has an actor portraying Benjamin Rush recite a quote; this quote is modified by having the phrase "if we remove the Bible from schools" added, a sentence skipped, and "soul of republicanism" replaced with "soul of our government". The modified quote appears on various websites, but not in the [[http://www.biblebelievers.com/Bible_in_schools.html original text]]. |
| 117 | * The ending credits of ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' featured clips of real fans allegedly talking about what they loved about the movie, but said fans were actually asked what they thought of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original 80's cartoon]]'' and the clips were edited and spliced with movie scenes to give the impression they loved the film instead. Made especially evident by the fact that they showed off merchandise from the franchise, ''including the TV show playing in some of the videos''. Naturally fans were ''not'' amused by such a shallow trick to give the movie props. |
| 118 | %% * Crucial to the plot in ''Film/TheLastBroadcast''. |
| 119 | * In Helmut Dietl's ''Late Show'', a sleazy reporter photoshops two unrelated pictures (of the wife of a radio talkmaster-turned-late-night TV talk host, who had a riding accident, and his Porsche which was wrecked, but by someone else for completely different reasons). Justified in that he makes this story up for the German tabloids, where truth is optional. (Nowadays the photo would look ''so'' 'shopped, but keep in mind the movie is from 1999. TechnologyMarchesOn.) |
| 120 | * In Chris Maker's film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1XWKULjfQ Letters from Siberia]]'', he showed the difference a voiceover could make by using the exact same footage of a Soviet town three times, making the first an absurdly patriotic advertisement for the USSR, the second making it a fascist nightmare, and a final, more neutral commentary on the scenes. |
| 121 | * In ''Film/MrDeeds'', Deeds rescues a woman and all her cats from a burning building. The next morning, he watches the news and is dismayed to find the news footage has been altered to make it look like he killed the cats and then forced himself on the woman. |
| 122 | * ''Film/{{North}}'': Winchell visits North's parents and records their tearful plea for North to return to them, then quietly tells his sidekick, "Take this down to editing." By the time it's done, the video has been turned into a calm and callous rejection of North, with tricks such as removing sounds to change the meaning of words (eg changing "Hugh" to "you"), splicing their answers with different questions or even new questions that they were never asked, and deleting anywhere that they showed emotion. North is crushed when he sees it. [[spoiler:But he's eventually given the real version by someone sympathetic to him.]] |
| 123 | * The 2002 French mockumentary ''Opération Lune'', also released with an English-language narration as ''Film/DarkSideOfTheMoon'', was created to demonstrate how documentaries can slant their subject using techniques such as manipulative editing. It includes interviews with luminaries including Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and Buzz Aldrin, who are made to appear as if they are talking about the entirely fictional conspiracy that the film purports to be documenting. |
| 124 | * French movie ''Film/LesRipoux'' was shown in Soviet Union with several minutes cut out at the end, completely changing the tone. Specifically, Soviet version of the movie ends with main character [[spoiler:being released from prison and realizing nobody is there to meet him]], while in the original [[spoiler:after a few seconds his old partner arrives and gives him his fair share of the profits of the crime]]. Soviet censors had trouble with a crook getting [[spoiler:a happy ending]]. |
| 125 | * It's a major plot point in the 1987 movie ''Film/TheRunningMan'', specifically Ben Richards and his refusal to go through with the Bakersfield Massacre after seeing that those he was sent to kill were unarmed women and children — all despite the police ordering him to fire. The edited footage has the police ordering him to ''retreat'' and Richards refusing. |
| 126 | * Lampshaded in ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' when Fred calls Heather Jasper-Howe out on doing this... and she then proceeds to do it to the footage of Fred calling her out on it. |
| 127 | -->'''Fred''' (''before editing''): You're trying to make it look like I think Coolsville sucks! [[ExplainExplainOhCrap No! Don't record that!]]\ |
| 128 | '''Fred''' (''after editing''): I think Coolsville sucks! |
| 129 | * ''Film/ShaPoLang'': Editing is used to frame crime boss Wong Po, by making it look like Wong had killed one of his own men with a shovel. |
| 130 | * In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', the post-credits scene includes a news broadcast in which footage by [[spoiler:Mysterio, moments before his death]], has been edited to frame Spider-Man for not only as a murderer, but responsible for the evil plan he just stopped. [[LateArrivalSpoiler This ends up setting up the basis of]] ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' -- [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome while his lawyer correctly identifies it as being doctored, and is able to clear him of legal consequences]], this does nothing to dissuade [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion a vast bulk of the public]], and [[HeroWithBadPublicity his reputation takes a nosedive as a result]]. |
| 131 | * The 2004 film ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' has long been accused of leaving out important bits of inconvenient context to make a point and no one has ever been able to replicate its results. The concept is that director Morgan Spurlock would eat at [=McDonald’s=] every meal for a month and super-size his meal every time he was asked. Spurlock had put on 25 lbs. by the end of it, was constantly sick, and ended up going to the hospital with heart palpitations but fast food alone causing him to get so sick is not exactly the whole story. The biggest omission is that he'd been vegan for years when he started his experiment. The film makes it seem like only Spurlock's then girlfriend (now ex-wife) Alex was vegan. Such a rapid change in diet with no transition period would make anyone sick. Spurlock would also later admit to having struggled with alcoholism since his early teens. The doctor who did his checkup at the end of the film even says his liver resembles an alcoholic's. Are his bouts of vomiting throughout caused by just his diet, or could his drinking explain some if not most of it? |
| 132 | * The documentary ''Teenage Tourette Camp'' focused intently on a fight between two girls, apparently editing out clips of them getting along. The editors also, very obviously at times, edited the footage to make it look as though a person was spewing out a succession of tics that probably happened over several minutes. Not to mention that half of the tics shown were the rare ones of involuntary swearing. |
| 133 | * The film crew in ''Film/TombstoneRashomon'' are doing this; getting Wyatt Earp to do multiple takes of him rising his bible and holding it over his heart and then reading it, until Wyatt gets annoyed with the whole process. |
| 134 | * In the horror film ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', the group of hackers use edited clips of [[spoiler:AJ's videos to call the police with, suggesting that he plans on undergoing a murder spree in a mall]]. This ends up with the police swarming the house, and leads into [[spoiler:AJ's death]]. |
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| 137 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 138 | !!!By Creator: |
| 139 | * Referenced in the Creator/BenElton novel ''Dead Famous'' — to draw in ratings for her ''Series/BigBrother''-esque reality show, the producer creates a mock lesbian scene between two contestants (running an unrelated dialogue about finding head massage sensual over footage of one of the women washing the other's hair) and tries to make another contestant look unpopular by splicing together sound clips to have her say that she hates the other housemates. |
| 140 | ** In the same book, this very same technique also runs the risk of backfiring badly on the producers; one of the housemates is an insufferable [[AnimalWrongsGroup animal-rights activist]] who proceeds to drive the other contestants mad with his ''very'' poor hygiene (he believes that, since fleas are living creatures, it's immoral to kill them — and soon the entire house is infected) and hypocritical self-righteousness. However, because [[EnsembleDarkhorse the audience likes him]] his appearances are edited to present him in the best possible light while the others are unfairly made to look like bullies, with the result that much to everyone's horror he gets kept on. However, the other contestants immediately catch on to what's happened and call the producers out on what they've had to suffer through with regards to him and the obvious skewing they've been doing, threatening to walk off the project and leaving the producer with the choice of either getting rid of the activist or having him be the ''only'' contestant. Fortunately for her, he once bashed in a girl's head on a protest march and the police soon come a-calling... |
| 141 | ** It also features the rarely-seen aftermath of such skewering; the first contestant to get kicked off the show finds that everyone on the outside hates her thanks to the way she was depicted and she's basically trapped in a life as a scorned joke. While she is shown to be a bit obnoxious in the house, she's no worse than the other housemates, and is understandably bitter about the whole thing as a result. |
| 142 | ** Also done in Ben Elton's later book, ''Chart Throb'', about a ''Pop Idol''-style show. They call them Frankenbites. |
| 143 | * Creator/ScottAdams' book ''The Dilbert Principle'' provides an example: |
| 144 | -->For example, see how an innocuous corporate statement can be edited slightly to alter the original meaning while still being a legitimate quote:\ |
| 145 | You say: "Our company is skilled in many other things that are never reported by the biased media."\ |
| 146 | Media reports: "Our company -- -killed -- m--- other t----- ---- --- ---er -e------ -- --- ---s-- ----a." |
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| 148 | |
| 149 | !!!By Title: |
| 150 | * ''Literature/AbleTeam #8 "Army of Devils''. A crew for a [[StrawmanNewsMedia radical left-wing news station]] pull up at a building that Able Team is raiding. Their producer tells the sound guy to record the gunfire so they can loop and dub it to "make it sound like World War 3". Just then there's an [[MoreDakka eruption of automatic fire]], causing the sound guy to comment: "Won't have to overdub ''that!''" |
| 151 | * In Sue Townsend's ''[[Literature/AdrianMole Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years]]'', when Bert Baxter, a centenarian {{Dirty Old Man}} was interviewed during his 105th birthday celebration, his answers were censored, so as the interview could be broadcasted before the {{Watershed}}: |
| 152 | -->'''Lisa''': Bert, you are 105 years old. What’s your secret?\ |
| 153 | '''Bert Baxter''': Well, I reckon that the sixty Woodbines a day I've smoked have sort of put a healthy lining on my lungs. I've never jogged or played games or been to bed sober, so I've slept well. I shagged my way around Europe during the war, and I live mainly on beetroot sandwiches, Spotted Dick and custard. But the secret of a healthy life, and I'd tell any youth this, is don't let your sperm collect up inside your balls, let it out! ''(Laughs)'' Let 'em all out! ''(Coughs)'' Light me a fag, Pandora, there's a good gel.\ |
| 154 | What was transmitted was this manifestation of the TV editor's black art.\ |
| 155 | '''Bert Baxter''': Beetroot sandwiches have kept me healthy, I've slept well, and played a lot of ball games in my youth. I've never smoked and I've jogged my way around Europe. |
| 156 | * ''Literature/AlexRider'': This is used in ''Skeleton Key'', where the President of Russia is asked about a baggage handlers' strike and gives the answer "This is my holiday, I'm too busy to deal with that" (he is very, very drunk at this point). The BigBad's plan is to cause a nuclear disaster and change the question to "What are you going to do about the Murmansk incident?" |
| 157 | * ''Literature/TheCharmOffensive'': The notes about the story at the end of each chapter shows that some degree of it goes on in the backgrounds. One of them, which features the contestants speaking of each other in confessionaires is edited to make them seem even more at each other's throats by removing the measured responses of each contestant, like Angie refusing to call Megan crazy because she thinks the word is offensive, Megan not thinking Daphne is arrogant, or Daphne refusing to say mean things about others. |
| 158 | * ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'': Carl is driven and somewhat understandably bitter at the aliens who have destroyed human civilisation, but largely sensible and level-headed. However, the recap broadcasts pick and choose which moments they show, to depict him as a [[LaughingMad hysterical]] MadBomber with a HairTriggerTemper. Making plans based on this false depiction of him leads to the downfall of [[spoiler:Brynhild's Daughters]], when Carl responds calmly and carefully to provocation and rapidly changing events, instead of the rampage they expected. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/HouseOfRobotsRobotRevolution'': Randolph R. Reich posts a video of the [=SUV=]-[=EX=]'s midnight rampage on the internet, laving out the parts where it did a 180-degree turn and stop before hitting Randolph's house, and taking a leisurely drive to the convenience store to get milk. |
| 160 | * In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Sauron drives Denethor to [[DespairEventHorizon despair and madness]] using this; Denethor has a [[CrystalBall palantir]] that he uses to try and spy on Sauron, but Sauron has one of the other stones in his possession. The palantiri are explictly unable to show false images, so Sauron twists the effects of the stones so that Denethor sees only Sauron’s mightiest forces and greatest victories. Denethor becomes convinced that Sauron is unstoppable and that everything the heroes do fails to change anything, driving him to suicidal insanity. |
| 161 | * ''[[Literature/ZeusIsDead Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure]]'': On a ''Monster Slayer'' shoot (an in-universe reality TV show where the star travels the U.S. countryside slaying monsters that returned to the world along with the Greek gods in 2009) outside Las Vegas, Tracy mentions that they can edit out some of the monster's cuter moments to make Jason killing it seem more heroic. [[spoiler:It's moot, however, as the monster in question becomes far more fearsome shortly thereafter.]] |
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| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 165 | !!!In General: |
| 166 | * In general, trailers and "Coming up" bumps are cut this way to increase interest, even if what was actually going on on the show was different. So even the edited show is edited. For example, ''Series/FaceOff'' had one where the "coming up on Face-Off" showed Glenn saying "I do not like this" and an unhappy reaction shot. Once the episode actually came back... he was delivering a BaitAndSwitchComment. "I do not like this. I love it." Granted, the reaction shot was real, because Glenn paused long enough after "I do not like this" for the contestant to react. |
| 167 | * On Colombian {{Telenovela}}s, the things that happen at the promos for the next episode at the end almost never happen they way they make it seem they will. The same goes for the promos for ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager''. |
| 168 | * Self-aware {{News Parod|y}}ies admit to doing this from time to time... because, well, [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]] and that's their job. Other times, you have to give the contributors credit... they really are just that good at getting people to look silly and say things they don't realize will make them look bad. |
| 169 | -->'''Jon Stewart''': You think by now, they would know what we do. Why does anyone still agree to come on [[Series/TheDailyShow this show]]?! |
| 170 | ** Inverted by ''Series/TheColbertReport'' back in 2007: Stephen, having heard that democratic Congressmen were being barred from appearing on his program due to this trope, [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/84197/march-26-2007/for-your-editing-pleasure staged an interview]] given by PBS's Gwen Ifill, gave [[MadLibsDialogue many phrases in list form that would allow for easy editing during the interview]], then invited the audience to edit the interview and post it to Website/YouTube. |
| 171 | * ProfessionalWrestling does it all the time, specifically to exclude people that have left the company...whether they're working elsewhere, left on bad terms, or...well, you know (Wrestling/ChrisBenoit). A recent WWE example was in the videos used to hype Triple H vs. Randy Orton for Wrestlemania 25. In the part that made reference to HHH and Stephanie [=McMahon=] being married, they used wedding footage with Stephanie and a guy with long blond hair (presumably HHH, only seen from the back). However, that man was actually Andrew "Wrestling/{{Test}}" Martin and the footage was from their "wedding" on ''Raw'' in late 1999 that HHH interrupted. Surreal when you consider that Test died not too long ago. |
| 172 | ** When CNN interviewed John Cena for their "Death Grip" documentary, CNN edited it to make it appear that Cena admitted to taking steroids. WWE cried foul over this, and aired the unedited version of Cena's interview. |
| 173 | ** In Wrestling/MickFoley's second book "Foley is Good!", he talks about an incident when he appeared on ''ABC News Primetime'' to talk about wrestling. Diane Sawyer showed him two videos of "{{backyard wrestling}}". The first was pretty harmless and Mick said "that looked like a lot of fun...but I suspect you've got something else to show me too." They then showed him a much more brutal match. He said that he actually grew nauseous and asked the tape to stop before it was completed, then condemned the second video as unsafe and unprofessional, saying that he would never recommend anybody go this route in pursuit of a professional wrestling career (ironic given [[GarbageWrestler his background]], but at least he had a solid education in the basics). When the show aired, they broadcast footage of the second match followed by Mick's reaction to the first match, which infuriated Foley. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | !!!By Series: |
| 176 | * Used on ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' in Season 2, where during President Palmer's impeachment proceeding it is made to look like the President ordered the torture of an innocent man by erasing the portion of a tape where he confessed to helping the terror plot. |
| 177 | * ''Series/ThirtyRock'' parodied this trope when Tracey's wife Angie got her own reality TV show. An argument that Tracey and Liz had was edited to seem like an apology and the producers went so far as to have actors portray the two so that the scene could end with a hug. [[MistakenForGay Also, Jack was edited]] [[TransparentCloset to appear gay and badly hiding it.]] |
| 178 | * [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]] in ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'' episode "Adam Ruins Hollywood" while he talks about how reality TV is often staged. The technique he talks about is sentence mixing, which can make people say lines they never said. |
| 179 | * A sketch in ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'' had Detective Griff Rhys-Jones interview petty crook Mel Smith [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy_oP3ESQY recorded on video]]. The clock in the background moving forward and backward in time is the least of the signs the tape has been edited. |
| 180 | * An episode of ''Series/AlienNation'' has a camera crew following the main characters to crime scenes. George tries to be his best, as he doesn't want to be an embarrassment to the [[HumanAlien Newcomer]] community. When the news report is finally shown, George's human partner is barely even mentioned, while George is made to look like Literature/SherlockHolmes. It turns out the purpose of the piece was not to show a working partnership between a human and a Newcomer but to put the best light possible on Newcomers in the workforce. George is initially pleased with this, but later even he gets sick of the camera and the stink-eye that the human cops are giving him. |
| 181 | * In ''Series/TheAmazingRace'', the bottom two teams in any given leg are always made to look as if they're neck and neck, no matter how far apart they really are. The one exception is in the finals, where instead it's the top two teams (Seasons 7 and 16 were especially bad, as the top two teams finished, respectively, 45 and 25 minutes apart). |
| 182 | * Done, [[http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/america-unearthed-guest-producers-misrepresented-me-lied-to-audience-about-facts to many guest's consternation]], on ''Series/AmericaUnearthed''. |
| 183 | * Contestants auditioning for ''Series/AmericanIdol'' don't go directly to the celebrity judge panel; they first sing for staffers who try to sort people into "maybe good enough to be on the show", "not good enough to be on the show", and "so terrible it'll be funny". Former contestants have alleged that the producers spliced together footage of their initial screening by the staffers so as it make it appear that they were singing in front of Randy, Simon, and Paula. This apparently happens frequently if a contestant sings badly for the show's staffers and is put through to the judges as a "joke contestant", but then pulls it together and gives a significantly better performance before the judges. The producers simply edit things to make it appear that the "so bad it's funny" attempt was done before the judges, and the contestant's mildly-mediocre performance before the judges is never seen by viewers at home. This seems to explain instances where contestants appeared to give horrible performances that should have elicited scathing comments from Simon, but were dismissed with a much milder "sorry, it's just not good enough" comment. |
| 184 | ** The show facilitates this by encouraging the contestants to wear the same outfit to every audition. At least until Season 9, where the wording was changed to be a bit softer, but it was still stressed verbally. However, the editing can still be spotted through a simple tactic: look at what jewelry the contestant is wearing and how their hair is done when they talk to Seacrest outside, versus what they're wearing when they're singing. Because most kids will remember what dress/shirt they wore, but won't remember what jewelry they had on. |
| 185 | ** There are also reports of the producers asking contestants to sing a different song that they aren't prepared for during the initial audition screening and recording the results, which invariably sounds terrible because the contestant hasn't practiced the song and/or doesn't even know all the words. The producers then edit this footage in with shots of the contestant walking in and out of the judging room so that they appear to have been badly botching the audition in front of the judges, when in fact during their actual appearance before the judges they sang a completely different song. |
| 186 | * Season 7 of ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'' features a segment during the elimination rounds where all the competing rappers essentially trash talk Granny G and Burton Crane (two elderly contestants who both auditioned with a rap) behind their backs. While their harsh comments appear to be genuine, there's a particularly jarring shot of one rapper seemingly watching Granny G from the back with an annoyed glance. If you look close enough, you'll see that Granny was actually ''chroma keyed into the shot''. |
| 187 | * ''Series/AustinAndAlly'': In "Bloggers & Butterflies", a blogger known as Miami H8ter Girl has been posting embarrassing things about Austin; to prove her wrong, Austin rescues Lester from the fountain after he falls in. But then H8ter Girl reverses the footage to make it look like Austin is dunking Lester in the fountain, embarrassing him further. |
| 188 | * The ''Heroes v Villains'' season of ''Series/AustralianSurvivor'' features a good example of selectively quoting contestants to tell a story. Episode 17 revolves around [[ManipulativeBastard George]] becoming paranoid that the rest of his "Spice Girls" alliance (Shonee and Liz) are starting to work being his back, and the show presents his realisation as happening after host Creator/JonathanLaPaglia casually mentions their own nickname, "The Shiz", during a challenge. Shonee has stated outside of the show that "Shiz" was a nickname that they had actually adopted much earlier and one that George was fine with, but the episode portraying the name being created, George's discovery of it, and his subsequent machinations to [[spoiler:get Shonee eliminated]] makes for a much more coheisive single-episode story than the actual sequence of events, and an effective simplification of the motivations driving George's paranoia. |
| 189 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': |
| 190 | ** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E03TheGeometryOfShadows The Geometry of Shadows]]", Londo meets a technomage and tries to tape their conversation in a way that makes it looks like they're allies. The technomage defies it by causing the recorder to explode, then lets Londo just how much he ''doesn't'' appreciate being used. ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment For the rest of the episode]].'' |
| 191 | ** Used in the episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E08TheIllusionOfTruth The Illusion of Truth]]". The editing makes it look as if Sheridan is hiding plans to replace humans with aliens (They ''were'' hiding things from the news crew, but it was something completely different). Far more subtle is his apparently live, unedited interview with a psychologist, where the reporter uses leading questions and careful phrasing to plant the idea in the viewers head that Sheridan is suffering from a version of StockholmSyndrome (though it was accidentally called Helsinki Symdrome). |
| 192 | * If Kurt Harland (of Music/InformationSociety) [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120321080929/http://insoc.org/texts/BandReunion.HTML is to be believed]], the 2004 Creator/{{VH1}} series ''Series/BandsReunited'' took this Trope one step further. Besides plenty of manipulative editing, they manipulated actual ''events'' — they staged a scene where [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone three out of the four band members reunited]] (even though the three of them had driven to the site together), and had the host wait outside for Harland even though the producers and the other band members knew well ahead of time that he had decided not to do an interview. |
| 193 | * ''Series/BigBrother'' would often do this, since it's an abridged live-feeds show. Examples of this include: |
| 194 | ** Season 6 had 2 simultaneous heated fights on the same night, Michael & Eric and Kaysar & Ivette. The latter fight led to fan backlash, as Kaysar is presented as getting mad and looming over Ivette (who remained sitting down during the argument) like a thug. On the uncut live feeds however, Ivette upset Kaysar by calling him a '''racial slur'''! Weirdly enough, Ivette's preferential treatment did not last long, as Production would later throw Ivette under the bus, by airing a segment over how Ivette had a childish tantrum over how the audience kept giving America's Choice prizes to Janelle. |
| 195 | ** In season 8, Jessica appears to be saying something rude about Carol when she was evicted. In actuality, that wasn't her goodbye message. They didn't even play it because it was "Too nice". |
| 196 | ** Jeff's homophobic comments and outbursts are essentially a NoodleIncident - the way you see him on the show, you'd think he's a perpetually nice StepfordSmiler. It also helps that Big Brother 13 in general has been a bunch of PanderingToTheBase. The editors have taken a couple cues from the ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' editors and have [[SpotlightStealingSquad made sure that the show revolves all around the editors' favourites and the eight guest stars known as the "newbies" as well.]] Did you know Porsche and Lawon were even ''in'' the house? Did you even know Kalia was in the house until week four? Well, if you forgot about Porsche, you're not alone - the editors seemed to have forgotten about her too, until she appeared out of virtually ''nowhere''. |
| 197 | ** People who watched the feeds can tell you a different story on what happened at week 5. ''Shelly'' approached Kalia with the idea to backdoor Porsche so that Jeff, Jordan, and Rachel would forgive Kalia and it would get her further in the game. Then that's when Daniele got upset with Kalia in the HOH room in that last part of the episode. However, the editors made it seem like ''[[CreatorsPet Rachel]]'', one of the Producers' Pets, did all the work and gave Shelly no credit whatsoever. It makes it look like Shelly and the other newbies are complete ''idiots''. This got incredibly weird [[NoodleIncident later in the series, when Kalia and Daniele mention Shelly coming up with that idea]]. |
| 198 | * A 1999 episode of ''Series/TheBill'' featured the police officer characters [[ShowWithinAShow being filmed by a documentary crew]] ala ''Series/{{Cops}}''. This practice was cleverly referenced in the plot itself — one of the production crew blackmails Detective Sergeant John Bolton by claiming she can manipulate the editing, and portray him in a negative light by making it look like he lost a murder weapon during a raid on a flat. Ultimately this is turned the other way, as the weapon was eventually recovered, and the TV team then went back and filmed some close-up shots of it in its original location so they could re-edit the footage of the original raid and make it look like the weapon was recovered in the first place. |
| 199 | * PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': when Cory makes a video for class interviewing various people about sex, he uses this technique to have some fun at his teacher's expense. |
| 200 | -->'''Topanga:''' ''(in video)'' What is the most important advice you have for teenagers about sex?\ |
| 201 | '''Mr. Feeny:''' ''(in video)'' Be careful with that valuable equipment!\ |
| 202 | '''Mr. Feeny:''' ''(watching the video)'' Cheap editing trick. |
| 203 | * A rare inverted example appears in a special "Revisited" episode of ''Bridezillas''. During an interview with past couple Mark and Deb, Mark claims that the editors manipulated the footage to make it look like Deb was texting her ex-husband[[note]]'''Not''' for unfaithful reasons, in case you were wondering[[/note]]. She then tells him that the footage was actually legitimate. |
| 204 | -->'''Mark:''' You guys made it look like she was talking to her ex.\ |
| 205 | '''Deb:''' I ''was'' talking to my ex.\ |
| 206 | '''Mark:''' Oh you were? Damn.\ |
| 207 | ''(The two share a laugh)'' |
| 208 | * The trope is referenced in ''Britain's Got The Pop Factor And Possibly A New Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice'', where the viewer is teased before the break with Geraldine giving an interview in a bad mood. In the actual interview, it turns out she was in a perfectly good mood and she was merely quoting that R Wayne was fed up with this trope. |
| 209 | * Done for an entirely different purpose in an episode of ''Series/BurnNotice''. In order to get rid of a Columbian drug cartel enforcer who's harassing their client, Sam phones up the enforcer and asks several leading questions. Then the team cuts up the recording and pastes it back together in different order to make it sound like the enforcer wants to turn state's evidence so the cartel will get rid of him ''for'' them. |
| 210 | -->'''Sam:''' I've heard legitimate recordings that sounded a hell of a lot worse. |
| 211 | * One episode of ''Series/CHiPs'' had a team of reporters travelling around harassing Ponch and Jon while they performed their duties. At one point, the lead reporter falls down and Ponch helps him back up. They also have a very harsh argument. Later, the team edits the argument to make it sound like he's threatening the reporter and they run the footage backwards to make it look like Ponch is knocking him down. |
| 212 | * Parodied in Creator/ConanOBrien's "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL56Ds239wLjPvZb64xN66rJgO_OeCLfq0 Alex Trebek Is Losing His Mind]]" segments, which plays clips of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' where the answers Trebek reads out are complete nonsense like "Despite a broken leg, Tobey Maguire nailed this Romanian girl with the over 300 year-old reticulated slither" and "This ugly guy, Will Smith (not the black one) can sometimes track down one of these Irish fairies, in this type of marriage." Eventually, Alex Trebek shows up during the skit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B084LKO6ezI and gets revenge by showing some clips from Conan's show edited in the same manner]]. |
| 213 | * In the Season 4 finale of ''Series/DanceMoms'', Abby and Christi break out into what would be their last heated argument over the latter's daughter Chloe. When Abby's back is turned to the camera as she walks away, her voice is heard saying that Chloe is "washed up" and Christi goes ballistic. Later, Chloe tearfully tells her mother that she "heard what Abby said" and they leave the show for good. After the episode taped, Christi said in a now-deleted series of tweets that Abby "made fun of Chloe's appearance caused by a health issue" and that her comment would likely "be edited to protect her". Once the episode aired, fans quickly discovered that Abby's final comments to Christi were spliced together from a different episode where Abby was arguing with her main rival Cathy and that Abby's insensitive remark was made less harsh both in order to protect Abby (as Christi predicted) and to make it look like Christi flipped out over nothing. |
| 214 | -->''(Abby's edited comment to Christi)'' Chloe is '''finished'''! Your kid's '''washed up'''.\ |
| 215 | ''(Abby to Cathy in a different episode)'' Cathy! You're '''finished'''! You're '''washed up''', you're old, you're nothing! |
| 216 | ** The mothers have also stated at fan events that their reactions to Abby are often taken from harsher situations to make it look like they're flipping out over something petty. At one meet-and-greet, Kelly Hyland, who had two daughters on the show, said the following regarding manipulative editing: |
| 217 | --->'''Kelly:''' The bad stuff that Abby does, they take our reactions, the moms' reactions, like... her throwing a chair at Paige. Obviously, any mother is going to flip out like, "You just threw a chair at my kid", right? But then they'll take that reaction that I gave to something bad like that and use it towards Abby saying "Oh, Paige, you didn't point your feet" and that's so not what I was flipping out about. Like, I'm watching the show on Tuesday night thinking... I just want to like, hop on the screen and tell everybody "That's not how it happened! I'm not really that psycho!" |
| 218 | * Parodied on ''Series/DeadRingers'' with a sketch based on the health show ''You Are What You Eat'' (the name is changed to ''You Are What We Edit''). After the subject describes his perfectly healthy lifestyle to the presenter, she declares "That's not nearly unhealthy enough to give our viewers a smug sense of superiority!" and edits it. |
| 219 | -->'''Original Line''': Well, I can't bear to lounge around on the sofa staring at the telly. I'm always careful what I eat. For instance, I avoid eating snacks, as I don't want to get fat, and I'm trying to exercise regularly to keep myself looking good.\ |
| 220 | '''Edited Line''': Well, I / lounge around on the sofa staring at the telly. I avoid / exercise / f/or / snacks. / I eat / fat, and / fat, and / fat. / Good. |
| 221 | ** Worth noting that the man in question would not have objected to this: Trevor admitted straight off that "I don't really have a weight problem, but I've always wanted to feel vaguely important, so I'm desperate to appear on a Channel 4 makeover show." |
| 222 | * The Green Beret and Spetsnaz representatives of ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' reveal in the comments section of [[http://www.spike.com/video/aftermath-green/3171579 The Aftermath - Green Beret vs. Spetsnaz]] that some level of Manipulative Editing is done to make both parties seem more confrontational to each other. For example, a finger gesture directed at the director for joking about the Spetsnaz was edited so that it looked like the Spetsnaz was flipping off the Green Beret as they were walking in. |
| 223 | * In the ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' episode "Doctor on the Box", the medical students at St. Swithin's Hospital are being interviewed for a documentary, and the director also films a few scenes of choreographed revelry at the bar. In one scene, one of the students says the popular perception of medical students is that they spend all their time "boozing, playing rugger, chasing nurses," whereas they actually spend "hardly any time at all" doing those things. When the documentary airs, the footage is edited to portray the students as drunken, skirt-chasing clowns, and the interviewee now appears to be claiming that students ''do'' spend all their time "boozing, playing rugger, chasing nurses," leaving "hardly any time at all" for the work they are supposed to be doing on taxpayers' money. |
| 224 | * ''Series/EstateOfPanic'': On any given episode, you can hear sound bites of some of the contestants' interjections five or six times over the course of the show. One show in particular had a 10-second long or so sound bite of ''a contestant from another episode'' screaming repeatedly. |
| 225 | * Done in-universe in an episode of ''Series/EvenStevens''. Ren's long-time rival [[JerkAss Larry Beale]] is running against her for class president. He goes over to her brother Louis and asks him some random questions, with his friends secretly recording the conversation with a videocamera. They then have Larry record a bunch of questions about Ren that make Louis' answers seem like he's insulting or making fun of her. Of course, nobody pays attention to the fact that Louis is clearly sitting in the cafeteria while Larry's background is completely different. |
| 226 | * An episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' had Robert and Ray tasked with creating a tribute video for Frank. They decide to interview his lodge brothers, but get only negative comments and complaints. Ray then hits on the idea of asking the men how they feel about chocolate; the pair then clumsily edit the video to cut between the lodge brothers saying "Frank Barone" and then positive remarks about the dessert. Frank notices something is up when the video includes people talking about how much they'd like to eat him. |
| 227 | * ''Series/TheFastShow'' spin-off ''Swiss Toni'' had an episode where the titular character was invited to appear on a television show. His employees gave fairly positive responses when queried on whether he was a good boss, but they would be edited to remove the positive aspects; one employee stated that he's usually good, but occasionally "he's a tosser"... but the edited version simply said "he's a tosser". |
| 228 | * ''Series/Formula1DriveToSurvive'': In order to support the narrative they've built for each F1 season covered the "documentary" carefully selects clips and bits of interviews which support that narrative. None of the drivers are particularly happy about this, but most are willing to accept it since the show has brought new fans to UsefulNotes/FormulaOne, some of the drivers who are turned into antagonists by the show are not so willing to forgive the editing that makes them look like jerks off the track to people who they are friends with in real life. |
| 229 | * ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': Jo tricks Gabe into letting her record footage of him claiming it'll help him in his campaign for class president, but edits the footage out of context to make him look bad. |
| 230 | * In one episode of ''Series/TheGoodWife'', Cary Agos is charged with conspiracy to transport narcotics based on a recording of him telling some members of Lemond Bishop's drug ring how to evade detection, taken by a CI. However the CI had conveniently left out the part where [[ConversationalTroping they were all clearly talking about fictional drug dealers in the movies]]. |
| 231 | * The promos for ''Series/HellsKitchen'' make liberal use of cherrypicking to add drama. In Season 4, one episode saw Matt accidentally cut the tip off his thumb during the challenge, and food critics showing up for dinner service; the promos made it look like the events were one and the same, implying that the severed portion of Matt's thumb ended up [[NauseaFuel on the critic's plate]]. |
| 232 | ** And again in Season 5, where the women's team slips while carrying a cow carcass into the kitchen and briefly panics when they see blood, learning to their relief that it just came from the meat. Guess which part wasn't shown in the promos? |
| 233 | ** The show doesn't even bother trying to hide that they are editing previews of the next episode and are much easier to spot. Season 6 had a preview of the chefs being woken up in the middle of the night and being told there's a fire and firetrucks show up. The reality? There's no fire at all and Ramsay just woke up the chefs so they can serve food to a bunch of firefighters for the next challenge. Season 7 showed two contestants seemingly getting romantic in one scene, then Ramsay saying "I am going to do something I have never done before" as if he was going to make them choose between the relationship or the trip to London as part of the prize everyone wanted. The end result? Ramsay's statement was just based on him doing something different for the next challenge. |
| 234 | * Creator/SyFy's RealityShow ''Heroes of Cosplay'' did this a lot. One major example had the main characters losing in a cosplay contest and appearing upset that their custom-made outfits lost to ''Series/DoctorWho'' cosplayers. With the main characters breaking down crying and making it appear the ''Doctor Who'' cosplayers were the main groups SitcomArchNemesis. When a couple of the ''Doctor Who'' cosplayers spoke out on a blog along with other people who were at the show, it turned out the main characters were in fact not even on the same contest (the main characters were in the singles while the Doctor Who Cosplayers were in the group). Plus the ''Doctor Who'' cosplayers said their anger was directed at the producers off camera for withholding food and water from everyone for several hours. It was due to the editing and backlash the show faced (including lawsuits for unauthorized use of professional photos) that the show was completely retooled partway into the season before being cancelled. |
| 235 | * ''Series/TheHills'' has been repeatedly alleged as being almost entirely scripted[=/=]manipulated in the editing process, to such an extent that Creator/{{MTV}} themselves admitted after the series finale that "maybe the term 'reality TV' didn't perfectly apply" to the show. Some cast members have stated after the fact that nearly everything was either exaggerated or faked for the cameras: |
| 236 | ** In general, many of the recaps that air prior to episodes use lines and shots that don't line up with what happened before, and often recut the lines being said to reframe that week's major problem or issue. |
| 237 | ** Tabloid reports produced during the show's lifespan showed images of reporters and fans staked out around lead cast member Lauren Conrad's house. Within the context of the series, however, establishing shots of her apartment show her in what appears to be a quiet, sleepy corner of the city, with virtually no one in sight and no trace of the paparazzi camped out there. This is a common trick in reality shows -- by necessity, reality shows often use a different residence from the one where the cast are actually living, often due to concerns over anonymity or portraying their lifestyle in a different way. |
| 238 | ** Cast member Audrina Patridge ran a blog that posted during and after the show's lifespan, and has said in past posts that she was cast by a producer in the role of Lauren and Heidi's friend. As such, the information gleaned in the pilot episode (that Audrina just happened to be friends with Lauren and Heidi prior to the events of the series) is completely false. |
| 239 | ** Years after the show ended, Spencer Pratt stated that his and Heidi's "elopement" to Mexico to get married in the second season was "largely symbolic", and likely never happened. In actuality (and found out by the Associated Press after the fact), the two wedded in a civil ceremony after-hours near an office park, with no cameras present. |
| 240 | ** Lauren has stated outright that she was not on the end of Spencer's "I'm sorry" phone call in the fifth season. |
| 241 | ** The season five finale has Lauren present at Spencer and Heidi's wedding, only to slip out unnoticed after the ceremony due to her feelings over the event and life in general... [[https://www.glamour.com/story/7-storylines-on-the-hills-that-were-actually-totally-fake except in actuality]], she was locked in basement of the church for several hours under guard, even though she had somewhere to be, and the wedding was beset with a power outage that stalled the proceedings for several hours. |
| 242 | ** [[https://www.realitytea.com/2011/02/16/kristin-cavallari-admits-almost-all-of-the-hills-was-scripted/ According to Kristin Cavalieri]] (the lead character of the fifth and final season), "almost all of" the season was scripted, to such an extent that she only showed up to film scenes three days out of every week, and that her real friends and job were kept away from MTV. Additionally, she has stated that her relationship with fellow cast member Justin was faked, and that the producers asked her to text him to have him show up for scenes, even when he didn't want to. |
| 243 | ** The show itself invoked this in its final scene. After Kristin and Brody part ways for the final time, Brody walks away -- and it's revealed that the entire area he's standing in is a set, with decorations and even the Hollywood sign itself being seen as props carted away by crew members. Allegedly, this was done by MTV in response to allegations about the show's manipulative filming process. |
| 244 | * ''Series/HogansHeroes'': InUniverse. The Gestapo sets up a counterfeiting operation at Stalag 13, and the officer in charge confides to Klink that he (the officer) will be executed if it fails. Hogan and co. record the conversation and edit it to sound like the head counterfeiter will be killed once he's finished with his work, then play the doctored tape for him so he'll help them sabotage the operation. |
| 245 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': |
| 246 | ** Dr. House was a victim of benevolent editing when the documentary crew filming a patient he cured changed the context of his usual comments, turning them from the verbal abuse of [[DrJerk a man who belittles his staff, the patient, and the crew itself]] into a heartwarming portrayal of [[WideEyedIdealist a kind man who became a doctor "because of the movie]] ''Film/PatchAdams''". |
| 247 | --->'''Cuddy''' (''after watching the early copy, wiping away fake tears''): It's difficult not to be moved.\ |
| 248 | '''House''': Oh, stop it. Suddenly I don't feel I can trust Michael Moore movies.\ |
| 249 | '''Cuddy''': Where are you going? Kittens to get out of trees, blind kids to read to?\ |
| 250 | '''House''': I owe it to the world to make sure this evil never sees the light of day. |
| 251 | ** There was also some Manipulative Editing done for the previews. In one episode, the preview showed them entering the house of a patient who was a hoarder. The preview ends with a cut after they lift up a blanket and see a pair of legs underneath, heavily implying it to be a dead body. However, in the episode, the "Dead body" was actually the patient's wife who was hiding. |
| 252 | * ''Series/ICarly'': In "iFight Shelby Marx'', Nevel makes a fake video using a line from iCarly and manages to fool the teenage wrestler Shelby Marx into thinking that Carly deliberately pushed down her grandmother during a press conference when it was really an accident, leading to Shelby actually wanting to hurt Carly during the wrestling match they had organized to raise money for charity. In the end, Shelby and the iCarlies realize the deception and Carly, Sam, and Shelby give Nevel a brutal beating offscreen. |
| 253 | * ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In "Desert Son", Lt. Williams has a female DJ (who has a crush on him) edit a tape recording of a radio conversation to make it sound like Lt. Boone transposed a set of numbers, when in fact Boone had perfectly relayed the incorrect coordinates Williams had sent him. Harm picks up on the editing because there's an analog hiss on the edited portion due to the DJ's different equipment. |
| 254 | * Also done on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' at times. If nobody buzzes in on the last clues of a round, then they are typically edited out to save time. As a result, it merely appears to the home viewer that they ran out of time instead. |
| 255 | ** This is also done in case there is a technical screw up. One example happened when asked to name the person who had a popular show on PBS, and it showed a picture of Creator/FredRogers. None of the contestants buzzed in. It was later on confirmed on Twitter by one of the audience members that none of the contestants buzzed in because the video monitor that displayed the picture malfunctioned. Since the score didn't change the producers left it in, making it appear the contestants were clueless on pop culture. |
| 256 | * ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': In "The Rosses Get Real", a mean reporter named Corrine Baxter interviews the Ross family but edits their words out of context to make them fight each other and uses their heated arguments to juice up the ratings for her show. Fortunately, the family formulates a plan to get rid of her. |
| 257 | * Creator/JimmyFallon has had his editors search through five years of footage of head NBC news anchor Brian Williams and stitched them together to form covers of rap songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs "Rapper's Delight"]] and, most recently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidziKYG9jk "Gin and Juice."]] |
| 258 | * Used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwNlJZ-_l4 this]] Jon Stewart Emmys bit. Stewart explains that he was asked to pretape his speech about Katrina so the censors could check it over. The speech has been obviously chopped up (and dubbed over, and [[RuleOfFunny fast-forwarded]]) and he ends up accusing officials of being "[[spoiler:in]]competent, [[spoiler:un]]acceptable, and shockingly [[spoiler:in]]ept". |
| 259 | * An episode of ''Series/JonathanCreek'' features two examples in the same filmed segment. It begins with Jonathan's boss, magician Adam Klaus, filming a segment for a TV show in which he approaches a member of the public and predicts the number they will tell him by revealing it under his shirt. Of course, he's had the number "36" tattooed on there in advance, which prompts a long afternoon filming him stopping random passers-by in the street, asking them a number, and getting increasingly frustrated when they give him every number but "36" (or, in the case of one guy, [[AxeCrazy punching him for no reason]]). Later, when they've finally found someone to give him the right number and are editing it together, Adam remarks that he doesn't remember the woman laughing so much when he makes the big reveal; Jonathan takes rather malicious pleasure in telling him that this is a bit where she was ''actually'' laughing at him stepping in some dogshit in the street, and they've spliced it in. |
| 260 | * On ''Series/JustShootMe'', a couple of the characters splice up the boss' words to force another to do their bidding, with [[MadLibsDialogue very obvious pauses and changes in inflection]]. |
| 261 | -->''If you--value your--jobs... donut--mess up.'' |
| 262 | * Some of the ''Series/KingOfTheNerds'' contestants have spoken about this. Danielle from the first season said that they showed the worst parts of her and made her come across as far worse than she actually is, and Nicole in the second season pointed out that, for the nerd-off votes in the episode where she was eliminated, it was edited to imply that she betrayed Zack and voted for him, even though she did not. |
| 263 | * PlayedForLaughs, of course, on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman''. He once cut up a John [=McCain=] speech to make it seem like [=McCain=] had called UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt his "close personal friend."[[note]]John [=McCain=] was eight years old when FDR died.[[/note]] Dave even once ''called'' it "Great Moments in Unfair Editing." |
| 264 | * Used in-universe in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. One person on an in-universe version of ''To Catch A Predator'' met up with the girl just to tell her not to do this, to "take off your clothes and put something decent on", and to think more about who she meets on line. It was edited to make him seem like he was preying on her, with him saying "take off your clothes". |
| 265 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': |
| 266 | ** An in-universe example happens in the episode "The Juror #6 Job" — Hardison splices together the question "Who finds in favor of the defendant?" with the jurors' reactions to the question "Who wants pizza for lunch?" in order to make those supporting the defendant and has a camera on the jury think they have the winning votes. |
| 267 | ** Hardison does it again in "The Mourning After Job." Sophie, the team's grifter, talks with the mark's lawyer as a desperate woman in financial troubles with a bank in Tokyo, Japan. The lawyer is professional and states he cannot help her at the moment but suggests another lawyer. When the team convinces the mark he has accidentially killed a woman, they intercept his call to the aforementioned lawyer making the "lawyer" tell the mark he is in Japan and cannot help. He is giving the name of a friend to help, a role to be played by another member of the crew, to get the mark to give up information he was holding back on about a powerful underworld figure the team is after. |
| 268 | ** In "The Toy Job" the team needs to make it look like a popular teen actress is suppoting their toy to use her influence among her fans to drive up market on the toy. Rather than try and fake a recording, they have Parker slip the toy into her tote so it can be seen, have Sophie distract her and then compliment her, making the actress smile and laugh, and Hardison captures the "happy actress with her new hot toy" on camera and release those photos to the internet. |
| 269 | * The 2015 Easter Monday preview for ''Series/MyKitchenRules'' made Steve appear more combative in his argument against Pete's criticism when he answers the judge's rhethoric, "By putting something you can't eat?" with a definite "Absolutely". In the actual show, Steve finally concedes to Pete's negative feedback after that statement, and he actually said, "Absolutely" in response to the judges asking if his team could beat Carol and Adam in the Sudden Death Cook-off they were both sent to. |
| 270 | * This was shown in one episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' where Earl helps out a reporter on his list by being the protagonist of a reportage about him and his family. What was a heart-warming interview went through incredible amounts of cherry-picking to make Randy look even more stupid on purpose. |
| 271 | * Invoked in an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', where they showed a clip of Adam and Jamie solving Rubik's Cubes - Jamie while blindfolded, and Adam using his ''feet''. They then revealed that they had actually filmed clips of themselves ''scrambling'' the cubes from a solved state and played it backwards, and had one of the researchers walk backwards across the room in the background to add verisimilitude. |
| 272 | ** Likewise, a lot of testing tends to get cut for time constraints; but normally these are just replicating the results, so it's rather justified. |
| 273 | * PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/{{Newsradio}}''. Bill records a promo for their coverage of the upcoming baseball season. Unfortunately, it's too long to air and has to be cut down. However, Bill rejects any attempt to minimize it. Eventually, the editor gets frustrated and makes a less than flattering statement. |
| 274 | -->''Original message:'' The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. Baseball's back. I'm Bill [=McNeil=] and if you like the boys of summer, check out opening day on [=WNYX=] Newsradio.\ |
| 275 | ''Edited message:'' I'm Bill [=McNeil=]. I'm/ on/ crack. I/ like/ boys. |
| 276 | * This caused a major problem for ACN in ''Series/TheNewsroom'' after they air a news story that they discover was doctored, forcing them to retract a falsified, high-profile story about [[spoiler:American troops using sarin gas on foreign soil]]. As a result, the several characters are threatened with losing their jobs for not spotting the fabrication [[spoiler:and the one who ''did'' edit the video was fired]], showing why you ''do not'' edit high-profile news stories. |
| 277 | * On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', this Trope gave Gibbs trouble in the Season 3 episode "Model Behavior" when reporters misrepresented him on camera — impressive given how little he said while storming through the press mob with a scowl on his face. The edited footage made it look like Gibbs cut an interview short when a reporter asked him if the military was doing something illegal and inappropriate. He had actually stormed away because the reporter had accidentally [[MustHaveCaffeine spilled his coffee]]. |
| 278 | * This was parodied in an episode of British sketch comedy ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', featuring the tape of a suspect "confessing" his crime to an OldFashionedCopper — the camera makes obvious cuts every few words, the clock on the back wall jumps around, and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique hideous bruises appear and disappear from his face]]. |
| 279 | * In the Christmas episodes of the British version of ''Series/{{The Office|UK}}'', PointyHairedBoss David Brent -- who has fallen on hard times after losing his job and failing to jumpstart a media career on the back of his appearances in the show, which has shown him to be largely a jerk -- argues that the film crew who followed him and his employees around 'stitched him up' by doing this, presenting a top-heavy depiction of the moments that made him look like a clown (which, to be fair, there were lots of) and not showing enough of the moments where he actually ''did'' do a good job and / or managed to charm people. Interestingly, the Christmas episodes go some way towards rectifying this, showing him in a more charming, competent light, as if the documentary makers felt bad about this and were trying to make it up to him. |
| 280 | * One of the season finales of ''Series/OtherSpace'' plays this in-universe: the crew realizes the entire ship has been fitted with omnipresent microscopic cameras and the resulting footage has been edited into a highly manipulative trailer of their time. |
| 281 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Public Speakers Nightmare" and "The Tape Recorder", innocuous recordings are accidentally misplayed to produce Miss Brooks saying scandalous things about Mr. Conklin, and Mr. Conklin insulting Mr. Stone, Head of the Board of Education. These recordings, incidentally, are played in front of Mr. Stone . . . . |
| 282 | * In one episode of the short-lived series ''Over There'', a reporter is embedded with the squad the show follows. After they get into a shoot-out with insurgents, the reporter's video makes it look like the squad's heavy gunner was shooting blindly - spraying and praying - and killed several non-combatants. At the end of the episode, after he's been chewed out by his CO, the gunner confronts the reporter, who tries to brush him before finally admitting that ''his bosses'' cut the video to make a "normal" shoot-out into something newsworthy. |
| 283 | * ''Series/ParanormalState'' is apparently [[http://www.ghosttheory.com/2008/11/04/paranormal-state-caught-faking-entire-show quite fond]] of editing footage for maximum drama. |
| 284 | * Done in the pre-commercial promos/flashbacks from the intake parts of ''Rehab with Dr. Drew''. When interviewing patients about past drug use he usually keeps a blank/concerned facial expression, probably to avoid them feeling judged. However in the promos, it showed them recounting an extreme drug history, but then panned to Dr. Drew's pained or shocked expressions, actually from his reactions to things they said when they were talking about their lives rather than their drug history. |
| 285 | * One example from ''Series/RobotWars'' in an otherwise completely unremarkable fight between Chaos 2 and an otherwise unremarkable robot called Medusa 2000. A 15-minute battle in reality becomes a 5-minute battle where Medusa 2000 can't escape Chaos 2 at all. |
| 286 | * ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'' did a skit a few times that ''pretended'' to be this. They'd interview some celebrity (such as Creator/JohnWayne) and then announce "Now we'll show you what could be done by unscrupulous editing of this interview." The modified version had Wayne saying of critics "They can kiss my Levis!" |
| 287 | * ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' has what fans have called the "Bitch Edit," when a queen becomes the "villain" of the season by making all their lines and actions come off as completely dickish, even though most of the time they A) were asked for their opinion and simply gave an honest answer, B) were responding to a bitchy comment one of the "good" queens made, or C) apologized afterwards. These little details are always conveniently edited out, requiring the queens to explain on social media how things really went down. However, Season 5 "villain" Roxxxy Andrews deserves credit for not blaming the editing for her behavior. She says that the editors may manipulate, but they don't make things up; the bitchy comments that got aired are still things she said, and even though she apologized, saying "sorry" doesn't undo the initial hurt she caused. This was her reason for seeking "[[TheAtoner Rudemption]]" in ''All-Stars 2''. On the other side of the spectrum there's Phi Phi O'Hara, the "bitch" of Season 4, who has accused the show of grossly abusing the manipulative edit when she returned for ''All-Stars 2''. She claims that when the season wasn't providing a suitable villain for drama, the producers took her out of context and harshly edited her. [=RuPaul=] denied these claims, but some of her fellow contestants backed up at least some of them. |
| 288 | * [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XOt2Vh0T8w Man Park]]", a ParodyCommercial about a park where adult men can meet and befriend each other. At the end, Heidi Gardner's character remarks that because [[MenDontCry guys aren't allowed to be emotional]], socializing makes it "harder to be a man." She ''very specificially states'' that she's only referring to this one particular thing, but realizes that it will be edited to make it sound worse and starts yelling "DON'T SHOW MY FACE SAYING THAT!" |
| 289 | * Creator/CharlieBrooker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwepkVurCI discussed the phenomenon at length]] in ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}''. To demonstrate, the show put together their own RealityShow episode which showed several sections played naturally and then strategically edited to present the participants in best or worst light — for example, a bit where Brooker cracks a self-admittedly lame joke which receives a moderately good-humoured response in reality, but is then strategically edited to appear as if it bombed. |
| 290 | * The ''Series/ShakeItUp'' episode "Reality Check It Up" entirely revolves around this. Kind of makes sense given it's a RealityShow. |
| 291 | * Most seasons of ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' are edited to make it look like the finalists are chosen at the end of "Vegas Week". In fact, not only are the final selections are made about a month after Vegas Week ends, but they are made in southern California; the set is made up to look like they are still in Vegas. |
| 292 | * An episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' shows Barry giving Dave a hat with his bidding catchphrase (a loud, obnoxious "Yuuuuup!") on the front, so that he would shut up and point to the hat instead, with poor results. However, later that episode, Dave's employees show up to the locker he won with "Yuuuuup!" and a copyright mark on their T-shirts. Dave's hat already has a copyright mark on it as well. |
| 293 | * In an episode of ''Series/TheSurrealLife'', Erik Estrada opened his bathrobe in front of Tammy Faye, and his crotch area was blurred. What you didn't see was Erik's ''underwear''. |
| 294 | ** Similarly, while a raucous party was going on at the house, it showed Tammy looking on with disapproval. She later said that she went to bed when the party went on and that those shots were from earlier, with a different context. |
| 295 | * Actually done on ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' a lot: |
| 296 | ** The several trailers for ''Samoa'' made it seem like [[SpotlightStealingSquad Russell]] was being targeted for elimination. The episode itself showed no such talk of elimination. The focus on Russell is actually discussed [[http://funny115.com/v2/2.htm in this column]]; the writer, an acclaimed Survivor columnist and possibly the foremost expert on the show, points out how Russell's many, ''many'' mistakes in the ''Heroes vs Villains'' season were either a) buried by the editors, or b) made to look like really good moves. As he puts it at one point: |
| 297 | -->"In the episode they say that Russell planted a "Russell Seed" in Tyson's head, and that that got Tyson to switch his vote. But that's complete B.S. Remember, the episodes also claim that Russell impregnated Helen of Troy and started the Trojan War. If you'd like to know how badly the producers fudged this to make it look like Russell had anything to do with it, go read Tyson's post game interviews. Tyson thought he was being tricky and he essentially voted himself out." |
| 298 | ** In the first show of one season, Courtney Yates was made to look like more of a villainess than she really was when Stephanie Lagrossa's shoulder was dislocated in a challenge. She didn't ''seriously'' yell at her teammates to "break her shoulder", she actually said that ''after'' Stephanie's shoulder was dislocated and was intended as a joke. But when it's said ''before'' it happens? Sounds an awful lot like an order, doesn't it? |
| 299 | ** In ''Australian Outback'', one person was edited to look like a LazyBum. Months later, his fellow tribemates immediately leaped to his defense. In "Back from the Outback," the former of two "Back from" editions that addressed what the contestants had been up to since their return, an educator even went on to say that no one there ever graduated by being lazy. |
| 300 | ** Most of tribal council is omitted due to time constraints. |
| 301 | ** It's assumed that Purple Kelly on ''Nicaragua'' was intentionally edited to be OutOfFocus as revenge by the producers for quitting. Naonka at least had a lot of stuff to create drama and that impacted the game so she couldn't have been as edited out as Purple Kelly was. |
| 302 | ** Hell, THE ENTIRE SHOW might fall under this trope. The great bulk of footage for Survivor has never been released. While the show isn't "staged" or anything like that (it legally can't be), this leaves room for a viewer to cry Manipulative Editing for practically any scene in any episode.\ |
| 303 | \ |
| 304 | They especially do this to make a "story". In ''Redemption Island'', 90% of the cast appeared to have been edited into [[LivingProp animated dummies]] while the editors, who were ''obviously'' hardcore Boston Rob fans, [[CreatorsPet made sure the audience never forgot how much they loved him]], as well as Matt and Phillip. The hardest hit was Kristina, who found the idol in episode one, was voted out and eliminated third and ''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never mentioned again]]''. The plan to eliminate Russell was actually ''[[NoodleIncident Sarita's idea]]''; we didn't even see her until Dave was arguing with her. Dave was supposed to be a really good competitor, yet all the time we got to really see him compete was when he lost, and the other footage that existed of him was just him fighting with Sarita. Did you also know that Russell and his alliance actually ''took rice'' while everyone else was fishing? |
| 305 | ** In ''Thailand'' and ''Africa'', when Jeff comes back to read the votes for who won the million dollars, it's actually a quick cut to the reunion...with the stage diguised as the tribal council area, making it at first look like Jeff was revealing the votes right there. You can actually catch this in ''Thailand'', where [[SpecialEffectFailure finalist Clay seems to suddenly gain about 10-20 pounds in between the time where Jeff tallied the votes and then came back to reveal them.]] |
| 306 | ** Most often, they actually do this to have a bit of fun. One of the most famous of these incidents is in ''Micronesia''. Episode two, Kathy asks who they're voting out and Joel tells her "Mary". Kathy asks, "Who?". The next episode, Jeff announces that Mary was voted out, and Eliza says, "Mary?!". It looks like they have no idea who they're actually playing the game with. In actuality, Kathy was asking for clarification and Eliza was expressing shock at how it was ''her'' that was voted out and not Chet. Of course they knew who Mary was; but it was still pretty funny regardless. |
| 307 | ** In Tocantins, Coach was portrayed as this lying crazy guy who was always making up weird crap. In reality he is an incredibly nice, if offbeat, guy. Each week after an episode aired he would answer questions about what really happened, rather than what it was edited to look like. Many times, they actually ignored how he was joking or was just putting on a show for everyone else. Coach seems very aware of this; and in ''Heroes vs. Villains'' and ''South Pacific'', he acts almost ''nothing'' like it. |
| 308 | ** Lex in ''All-Stars'' was shown having an epic OhCrap face after Kathy decides she's going to keep her immunity necklace. According to Lex post-game, he knew Kathy was going to keep it and even ''encouraged'' her to do so, but the transition from Kathy saying "I'm going to keep it" to Lex's look of sheer terror was - story-wise - a fitting conclusion to the VillainousBreakdown that Lex went through in his last episode. |
| 309 | * Shown in an episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' when Raven and Chelsea were on a reality show together. The interviews were manipulated to make it look like the best friends really hated each other, in the hopes of starting an actual argument that could be filmed. For example, when Raven said Chelsea is a great friend and she would never want to lose her, it's edited to make it sound like she was saying Chelsea is a loser. The girls catch on and expose the scam. |
| 310 | * Hilariously done on ''Series/TopGear'', during the Electric Car challenge. The team attempt to edit the footage to make it look like their Epic Failure of a car, The Hammerhead Eagle i Thrust passed the safety tests. They wind up making some of the most obviously edited footage imaginable. "Tuokool!" |
| 311 | * Again with professional wrestling, the reality show ''Series/TotalDivas'', focusing on a handful of the WWE's female wrestlers, engages in a healthy bit of this that's easily obvious to knowledgeable wrestling fans. One of the most common is showing clips with the caption "Live on Raw" when it's clear that it's actually clips taken from one of the company's B-Shows, ''Superstars'' or ''Main Event'', which are taped before ''Raw'', but aired later in the week. This is slightly justified, though. ''Total Divas'' airs on the E! network, a channel devoted to pop culture and entertainment. As such, its audience is more concerned with the soapy drama and likely don't know (or really care) about the inner workings of the WWE. Paring down the distracting details helps to cut down on confusion and make it easier for non-wrestling fans to get into the show. |
| 312 | * Even ''Series/TrueLife'' is guilty of staging some scenes, though usually only so that they can get scenes that are important to the theme of the episode. For most folks with really extreme life circumstances, though, all they have to do is follow them around. Usually there isn't much actual editing or splicing of the tape, since it is supposed to be "True Life". |
| 313 | * Then-18-year-old pornographic actress Sasha Grey was openly unhappy about her interview on ''TheTyraBanksShow''. Grey claims that she was forced to wear a deliberately girlish wardrobe that she was handed, made to wear blusher and tie her hair to appear more childlike, and that all her responses to Tyra's questions had been edited out, making her appear as if she had nothing to say in response to Tyra, and overly demonizing her and her line of work. At the end of that vlog entry, Grey also adds that Banks' wardrobe department had ''stolen her earrings''. |
| 314 | * Forrest Griffin guessed that this would probably happen during the first season of ''Series/TheUltimateFighter'', so he dyed his hair a different color each of the six weeks the show was filming. |
| 315 | * Parodied in an episode of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' where several Hollywood Arts students are asked to star in a reality show. The producers splice together Tori's conversation with her grandmother with Beck ordering a pizza in a way that made it sound like the two were having an affair. The gang was actually entirely okay with it once the producers admit to it, they just wish they had been told ahead of time. |
| 316 | * ''Series/WandaVision'': |
| 317 | ** Wanda's hex magic allows her to manipulate her in-universe sitcom, generally editing out any intrusions into the false reality of the Hex. This is best seen in the fourth episode once Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo get an old TV tuned in to the show. When they watch "Don't Touch That Dial", Wanda cuts out Dottie breaking a glass in her hand in response to Jimmy trying to reach out to Wanda through a radio nearby. They just hear the glass breaking and skip straight to Dottie using a napkin to staunch the bleeding. When they get to "Now in Color", and Monica brings up Pietro's death at the hands of Ultron, the sitcom shows Wanda glaring at and interrogating Monica, then abruptly smash cuts to Wanda and Vision on the couch in front of the TV, skipping entirely over her booting Monica out of the Hex and briefly seeing Vision in the state he was in after Thanos killed him. In episode 5, when SWORD sends a drone into the Hex to try and talk to Wanda, the broadcast shots of Wanda are always framed to keep the drone out of sight...and the feed is temporarily shut down when Hayward fires a missile at her, prompting her to temporarily leave the Hex to confront him. |
| 318 | ** In the fifth episode, Hayward shows Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis footage of Wanda breaking into a S.W.O.R.D. facility and stealing Vision's body, making it seem like she was the villain. However, in episode 8, we find out that Wanda's visit was actually peaceful, that she came in, saw Vision's terrible state they put him in, and once she was allowed to say goodbye, she left peacefully. Hayward tampered with the footage afterwards to cover his ass. |
| 319 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPwBdnknGIs celebrity interviews]] are based around this, though he's obviously [[PlayedForLaughs not trying to fool anyone]]. |
| 320 | * Sometimes done on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' of all shows. If a cycle of turns goes around once without affecting the score (e.g., all three contestants consecutively call wrong letters, hit Lose a Turn, and/or hit Bankrupt when they have nothing to lose to it), then the cycle is usually cut out to save time. However, this can be more obvious than most — sometimes, a cycle that ''does'' affect proceedings is edited out, and cycles of three or more consecutive wrong letters in the Speed-Up round are typically masked by a JumpCut to the host. |
| 321 | ** In 2011, a video surfaced online titled "Most Awkward Wheel of Fortune Moment Ever" showing a contestant (obviously chroma keyed) calling an "N" followed by a shot of the puzzle board reading "CLAM _IGGER". After an awkwardly-long pause, Pat says "No N. Hmm..." as if he was expecting it to be there. The video went viral with many debating whether the clip was real or not. In actuality, the footage itself was taken from a then-recent rerun of a 2009 episode, with the letters on the board and onscreen category taken from other puzzles throughout the episode. Pat saying "No N." was actually from the beginning of a new puzzle, hence his "Hmm..." due to "N" being a common letter and a frequent first choice of contestants. |
| 322 | * ''[[Series/TheXFactor X Factor]]'' finalist Rhydian Roberts was a victim of manipulative editing during the audition shows, thanks to the editors' attempts to make him the show's {{Pantomime}} villain. The live shows proved he was really a nice polite boy from Wales...and really good. Following a few performances like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC61Bp_dq8U this]], he went from being the outsider to the bookies' favourite. |
| 323 | * Invoked in ''Series/TheXFiles'': In one episode, Mulder and Scully appear on encounter a camera crew from ''Series/{{Cops}}'', and the episode is filmed in the style of that show. At the end, Scully remarks that they didn't manage to find anything, to which Mulder replies, "Depends how they edit it together." |
| 324 | * ''Series/{{Ziwe}}'''s humor relies on the discomfort and awkwardness the titular host's guests exhibit when made to look racist (whether they really are or not), so unflattering (though clearly lampshaded) editing is often in effect to enhance their discomfort. |
| 325 | -->'''Julio Torres (while wearing a mask that obscures his mouth):''' I am very vulnerable, so you can fully ADR whatever you want.\ |
| 326 | '''Ziwe (voiceover):''' My name is Julio Torres, and I HATE marginalized communities.\ |
| 327 | ''(DISCLAIMER: footage ''may'' have been altered for race baiting purposes)'' |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 331 | * ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' makes fun of this a couple times, where they make fun of dating reality shows to make them sound like perverts. |
| 332 | ** In one, they add in bleeps in strategic places: |
| 333 | --->"Your eyes are so beautiful. I can look you in the eyes all night until morning."\ |
| 334 | "Awwww, thank you." |
| 335 | ** to: |
| 336 | --->"Your eyes are so beautiful. I can *bleep*k you in the *bleep* all night until morning.\ |
| 337 | "Awwww, *bleep*k you." |
| 338 | ** And in another, they mention switching questions around. |
| 339 | --->"We hear you visited the grand canyon recently, what did you think about it?"\ |
| 340 | "Man, it's huge! It's beautiful, everyone should see it!" |
| 341 | ** To |
| 342 | --->"Describe your best feature."\ |
| 343 | "Man, it's huge! It's beautiful, everyone should see it!" |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 347 | * Common in experimental music built around sample editing. It can range from the puerile (Stunt Rock's earlier works, Teh Soup Rebellion) to the utterly bizarre (Wobbly's "Wild Why," containing such gems as "Them brain transport young boys who sport" and "There's no bedroom in the shower on the patio," or John Oswald's "The Case of Death.") |
| 348 | * Music/DaftPunk: Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it... |
| 349 | * The Music/EmergencyBroadcastNetwork used this technique extensively. For example, in "Comply," a news broadcast is edited to proclaim: |
| 350 | -->"The CIA is ordering the White House to conduct broadcast TV radiation LSD experiments on Americans." |
| 351 | * A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHTjZlNQb0 sound college]] of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan painting him as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, which appeared in an issue of Raw Magazine. |
| 352 | * Vaginal Bear Trap opened "stream" with an edited sample from a newscast; |
| 353 | -->"...couldn't be here today, he was murdered and set on fire while celebrating his birthday." |
| 354 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4UMxP3HsM Surprisingly]], the anchor actually said that. |
| 355 | * [[OdeToIntoxication "Get Higher"]] by Black Grape includes SpokenWordInMusic consisting of [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Ronald and Nancy Reagan]] giving a televised anti-drug address that's been edited to sound like it's ''encouraging'' drug use - the edits predate the song itself and were part of a bootleg video that circulated on VHS during Reagan's presidency: |
| 356 | -->'''Ronald:''' Despite our best efforts, shortages of marijuana are now being reported. From the early days of our administration, Nancy has been abusing marijuana on a daily basis and her personal observations and efforts have given her such dramatic insights that I wanted her to share them with you this evening. |
| 357 | -->'''Nancy:''' I yearned to find a way to help share the message that drugs open your eyes to life; to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to his children. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 361 | * In ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'', Cryin' Bryan Dern tells Jimmy Barclay about the application of this Trope — record someone when they don't know about it and broadcast it in such an order that it makes them look stupid. Jimmy uses this on Eugene, and then has the tables turned on him by Dern. |
| 362 | * This was the premise of the RadioFreeVestibule sketch "Laurence Olivier for Diet Coke". |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 366 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. The supplement ''Shadowbeat'' provides game mechanics for a character (such as a reporter) to manipulate video or audio recordings to make the subject look bad. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 370 | * In ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons Reunion'', the Robot blames the audience's perception of them as an unsympathetic TheSpock type on their footage being edited by Lady Luck. |
| 371 | * This sad fate befell ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', as Website/YouTube videos show the AnnoyingLaugh scene. If you view them, it looks like Tidus and Yuna just laugh like madpeople or ducks for no good reason. Yet if you view the scene in context, or even the original Japanese version, [[PoesLaw you'd be surprised to find that they're actually intending to sound fake and over-the-top]]. At this point in the story, they're ''forcing'' themselves to laugh, because events have caused them to doubt they'll ever be that happy again. |
| 372 | * In ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight: The Beast Within'', Gabriel splices a recording of his conversation with Herr Doktor Klingmann to convince the zookeeper to let him into the wolf kennel. |
| 373 | %% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8tE93Vx8Q Left 4 Bed]] |
| 374 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': If you did not [[spoiler:save the Salarian Councilor]] on the Citadel, [[spoiler:Udina]] will conjure up an edited clip mere minutes later that makes it look like you did the deed yourself instead of being there trying to stop it, to try and implicate you. |
| 375 | * ''VideoGame/Persona3'' plays this for drama when [[spoiler:it turns out Yukari's dead father told the future ''not'' to kill the full moon shadows, but the not was edited out]] . |
| 376 | * ''VideoGame/TarzanUntamed'': Oswald's film reels are edited to try and make Tarzan seem like a dumb, savage creature. |
| 377 | * It is very popular to do this using the voice clips of the characters in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. With good timing and some creativity with voice commands, it is even possible in-game. |
| 378 | -->"All of you are ''stupid, stupid, STUPID''!"\ |
| 379 | "Just lay your weapons down and- ''place a dispenser here!''\ |
| 380 | In reference to ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': "Poo-tis-POW! Haha!"[[note]]A crossover meme, Poo Tis POW is Heavy's version of Fus Ro Dah. It can be done in-game.[[/note]] |
| 381 | ** There is also the "Smexual" series of audio splices, in which the characters speak nonsense gibberish and sexually suggestive phrases. |
| 382 | -->'''Merasmus:''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "Merasmus arrives on a tide of CUM!"]] |
| 383 | * There's a puzzle like this in ''VideoGame/TorinsPassage'' which requires you to manipulate a recording so that someone appears to be saying something they aren't. |
| 384 | * From ''VideoGame/{{Tribes}}'': "I am the [[Series/MorkAndMindy SHAZBOT]]!" [[note]]Shazbot is in-universe slang for "shit"[[/note]]. |
| 385 | * Meta example In ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures''. The cutscenes about Uncle Albert in ''La Statuette Maudite de l'Oncle Ernest'' (fifth game) use some cutscenes from the previous games, but the narration gives a different context to these scenes. For example, one cutscene shows a scene from ''Uncle Albert's Mysterious Island'' (third game) where Uncle Albert holds a locked chest containing the treasure of that game, but the different narration changes the context so the chest actually contains the insecto-robot. |
| 386 | * ''VideoGame/WeBecomeWhatWeBehold'' has you play as an unseen photographer who takes pictures that are displayed on a public television to an audience of Square-headed people and Circle-headed people. Eventually you take a picture of an Odd Square who yells at a couple, and this causes a Circle to become scared. The Circle then runs from a Square, and the headline on that picture causes a Square to become angered by intolerance. When said Square snubs a Circle, another Circle begins yelling at Squares, and in turn Squares begin yelling at Circles. Before long, everyone is yelling at everyone, and then all hell breaks loose when the Dapper Circle shoots and kills the Odd Square, resulting in everyone panicking and some of the Squares and Circles pull out weapons and just start murdering everyone in sight. |
| 387 | * Somewhat done in ''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego'', in which the player has to get a spool of thread from a factory that's closed so Thomas Edison can get his light bulb completed. What has to be done is put the phonograph below the window and record the Factory Guard's boss saying "Do not give those rascals a spool of thread!", then playing "Give those rascals a spool of thread!" to the guard who can't see you. |
| 388 | %% ** A similar puzzle is done in the second ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight'' game. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 392 | * In case 2 of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', this is employed by sleazy television producer [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Roger]] [[HorribleHollywood Retinz]], [[spoiler:who edited out a crucial moment of Trucy's magic show in order to make her look like the killer.]] |
| 393 | * This is one of the main topics of ''VisualNovel/BuriedStars'', where the main cast are contestants on a music audition show. Over the course of the game, they'll often discuss (unhappily) how the show portrays a fabricated narrative and/or makes up personas for them through editing. After all, the only thing the producer cares about is attracting and retaining viewers; the stars just being themselves is ''boring''. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 397 | * Screencap comics ''are'' this trope, albeit justified in that that's how they are made in the first place. The creator of ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' noted that he could find a picture of Aragorn looking stoned/hungover in almost every scene he was in. ([[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=962 "I’ve come to think of him as Stareagorn"]]). |
| 398 | * In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Agatha records [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060602#.VT65afAYHEU a warning]] for Baron Wulfenbach that she's been possessed by the Other. Before it gets projected over the entire town, the Other turns it into [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061011#.VT642PAYHEU an accusation]] that the ''Baron'' is the Other. |
| 399 | * ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': The school vice-principal shows the principal a picture of Max jumping through the bus, then [[https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-2 fakes]] an EnhanceButton to make him look like a dangerous subversive. |
| 400 | * ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1006 here.]] Sara is about to go on a reality show, and to prevent this sort of editing her friends advise her to constantly change her physical appearance to make it harder to splice together clips from different days. They do it anyway. |
| 401 | * In the Longshoreman Of The Apocalypse arc of ''WebComic/SchlockMercenary'', a news team interviews Schlock. What they show, however, features a spliced-in video of their anchor, who asks questions that make Schlock's answers sound even worse than how they really were. |
| 402 | -->'''Schlock:''' I didn't say those things that way. I didn't talk to that Frank Hannibal anchorman at all. But they chopped up my words and fixed the pictures '''so well''' I'm starting to feel like that's actually ''how it happened.'' |
| 403 | * [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 This]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' strip is basically the same idea as the VideoGame/Left4Dead parody above. |
| 404 | * One ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'' [[http://archive.is/7DF1L strip]] features a photo of a dying fawn huddled next to his dead mother. The intent was to portray hunting as a [[ForTheEvulz malicious]] and senseless [[BeastlyBloodsports blood sport]]. While the comic's creator later admitted to having known beforehand that the doe was hit by a car rather than shot, she defended her use of the photo on the grounds that it got her point across. |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 408 | * WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd also does this, since he can't show us his ''entire'' run of the game without causing the video to go on forever. If you keep a careful eye on the score, timer, or health bar in any game, you'll see he does this ''very'' frequently for the sake of humor, emphasizing a point, or simplification. One of the most arrant examples of this is in his ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'' review. He says that the music sucks because there is no music and proves it by showing one of the stages where there isn't music. This becomes quite odd and contributes to the research failures, since he later on shows where he got stuck at...and you can ''clearly hear'' background music. |
| 409 | ** He also claims that ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda's Adventure]]'' doesn't have any music; when the game actually does and only shows parts of the game that don't have music. This is likely the result of him not getting very far in the game as the game's save system didn't work for him, as he only shows footage from the beginning overworld and the first "dungeon": indeed both of these areas only had ambience for soundtracks and there's no way he wouldn't have commented on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0z6oDHKrdk awful "music"]] of the game's second dungeon had he made it that far (and no, those abrupt pauses and cuts are ''not'' the result of a bad audio upload or your computer buffering). |
| 410 | ** He even shows off some of his editing tricks in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfnSqLzUzfM The Making of an AVGN Episode]]", particularly how he needs to carefully splice moments together to keep the melody of the music from jumping around. He sometimes even makes a lengthy recording of the stage music and lays it over his cuts to hide his edits, and only refrains from doing this often due to the amount of effort required to do it. |
| 411 | * Parodied in WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall in an April Fool's Day episode parodying WebVideo/TheIrateGamer. He turns the pages upside-down while complaining they printed the pages upside-down, complains that it takes forever to turn a page while slowing down the footage, and skips to the end while complaining that there was nothing in the comic book. Linkara even gives credit to WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer for inspiration. |
| 412 | * A lot of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' videos conveniently edit out scenes of characters explaining or justifying a thing. For instance, their ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' video complains about the bone in the [[Characters/StarWarsCreatures Rancor]]'s mouth shifting position, cutting out the split second where Luke shifts its position. |
| 413 | * [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21137_5-details-they-cut-from-my-season-the-biggest-loser.html This article]] on Website/{{Cracked}} points out the various editing shenanigans from ''Series/TheBiggestLoser'', as related by a former contestant. |
| 414 | * WebVideo/DownHavenEntertainment: His show is basically what happened if you mix {{YouTube Poop}}s and Reviewer Shows together. |
| 415 | * One of [[LetsPlay/VideoGameDunkey Dunkey's]] RunningGags is shouting "CUT THE VIDEO!" just before he dies. Although most of the time he leaves his death in. |
| 416 | * ''WebVideo/Formula1'': |
| 417 | ** In the Best Team Radio for the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix the clip is edited in a way that makes it look like Pierre Gasly is screaming at his team over the radio to check for fire while pulling to a stop while in the actual race he was yelling over the noise at a marshal standing by the track to check when they hesitated not knowing what to do after he'd already pulled to a stop, and he stopped as soon as someone let him know the car wasn't visibly on fire. |
| 418 | ** In the Best Team Radio for the 2019 German Grand Prix the editing mixes around Lewis Hamilton's radio about tires during his slide into the wall, removing the bit where he said the tires were ridiculous right before sliding and using radio from the pitstop he'd made before the crash. |
| 419 | * The page image itself has often gotten internet-made parodies, often implying [[HypocriticalHumor it was doctored the same way the cameraman recorded the chase]]. Examples of the "full" image include: another person with a camera/smartphone correctly recording the chase, the cameraman recording the whole thing, but being filmed in a bad position by a third party behind them to make them look corrupt, text that reveals the scene was being filmed like that because [[ProsceniumReveal it was a movie set]], the second guy shown as really being as innocent as the cameraman recorded, multiple cameramen focusing on different parts of the scene, and somebody about to apprehend the guy with the knife but [[IfItBleedsItLeads no combination of the above bothering to show that]]. |
| 420 | * Something of a RunningGag with ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', where one of the guys will say something deliberately outrageous, then add "Please don't take that out of context." Flipped around in the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' series, where Arin and Dan deliberately say provocative, sexual things, and Barry edits the audio into something completely innocuous: |
| 421 | -->''"Thirty-seven [...] ducks [...] do [...] little backflips. Twenty [...] ducks [...] lie [...] on the ground. The [...] crazy [...] duck [...] is [...] my favorite duck."'' |
| 422 | ** Using deceptive edits in a serious context is why Arin strongly dislikes RealityTelevision, believing it's bullshit that "reality" television would do this. Having been on such a show once, he claimed they did this constantly and described how they took a clip of him fake-crying and, with careful editing and adding sad music, made it look as if he was crying for real. |
| 423 | *** Arin isn't shy about talking about the manipulative methods RealityTelevision will use, based on his experience. He notes that he was asked about a female guest, and gave an honest but normal response ("Yeah, she's pretty cool"), and then was asked much more leading questions, like "What did you think of what she was wearing" and "Did you like her". He pointedly refused to give the soundbites that the producers were looking for (he noted they specifically wanted him to say that she was pretty, gorgeous, or something similar), and they were disappointed, but didn't ''stop trying'' similar tactics later. |
| 424 | *** Ross also notes that his (then) wife Holly Conrad was appearing on Heroes of Cosplay, and contractual obligations absolutely required him to be present during interviews with Holly, despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the show. As a result, he decided to fuck around and always wore the same clothes any time he would appear on camera, making it ''look'' like ManipulativeEditing was being used by implying that Holly's interviews were all being conducted on the same day. As a result, eventually, [[AllAccordingToPlan he was not asked to show up in interviews after several appearances.]] |
| 425 | *** Arin has also been subjected to this in his appearances on ''Series/TheTester'', as the people behind the show would edit his clips to paint him as a DesignatedVillain by making him look like he bailed from his team at a crucial moment and to make him look like an asshole in general. |
| 426 | ** It's also the reason they'll never say certain things or words. They know they're one n-bomb away from someone taking that sound bite out of context and dragging them through the mud with it, and they also simply don't want such a sound bite to become an [[MemeticMutation internet meme]] or anything like that. They'll go far enough to actually bleep such words out if they slip or quote something just to ensure they're never caught on mic saying it. |
| 427 | * ''WebAnimation/GamerPoop'' is a long-running ''YouTubePoop'' that runs off this, using various games and putting characters in ridiculous situations with equally ridiculous people. |
| 428 | * The plot of Glove and Boots' ''[=#CancelGloveandBoots=]'' is kicked off when Mario is filmed saying "I don't like juice", which is taken out of context as evidence of antisemitism (with his accent, "juice" does sound a lot like "Jews"). In the process of defending his friend in an interview, Fafa mentions that he doesn't like "The Chinese bubble tea drinks", which of course is cut down to "You know what I don't like? The Chinese". |
| 429 | * The video "Goofy Racist" takes a clip from ''[[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'' and replaces Max's dialogue with a line originally spoken by Richie from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', making it sound like Max was angry with Goofy for being racist and driving his best friend away. Since Creator/JasonMarsden plays both characters, and Max's best friend is [[InformedSpecies ostensibly]] a different species from Max and Goofy ([[DenialOfAnimality not that it actually matters to any of them]]), this is surprisingly convincing to the point some people were actually unclear about whether or not it was real. |
| 430 | * A viral parody video shows Chef Gordon Ramsay on the US version of ''Series/MasterChef Junior'' using foul language at a child during a critique of his dish followed by shots of the other young contestants with their mouths agape in shock. In reality, the judges are much less harsh towards contestants on the ''Junior'' series than on the adult series and Ramsay almost-never swears (and in the rare moment that he does, it's never directed at the kids). Ramsay's comments were strategically spliced from an episode of the adult series. |
| 431 | * ''WebVideo/TheGreatestFreakoutEver'' videos are most likely a good example of cherry-picking and "Worst-side filming", since the only videos of Steven appear to be of him throwing a tantrum and his parents yelling at him. |
| 432 | * These are one of the main tools to make [[Radio/TrueCapitalist Ghost]] [[HairTriggerTemper rage:]] Just splice together something he would never say about one of his many pet peeves, play your splice when he takes your call, and hear the cans fly. |
| 433 | * ''WebVideo/{{Hadriex}}'' took this so far that in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P15S1QV4LOw Undertale videos]] he started putting warnings at the front of them. |
| 434 | * ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' is known to do this. |
| 435 | ** In his review of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', he ''slows down'' the footage. |
| 436 | ** As a joke in his review of Tengen's ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'', he edits Music/VanHalen's "Panama" into the game as a music option. |
| 437 | ** In the ''VideoGame/KidIcarus1986'' review, he claims that Uranos shows up as early as the Underworld fortress, when it only appears in Skyworld. He also "shows" that the Snowmen enemies are named "Snowball Flinging Assholes" in the instruction manual. |
| 438 | ** As a joke in his VideoGame/DuckHunt review, he shows himself on level ''[[NumberOfTheBeast 666]]''. |
| 439 | * ''WebVideo/JonTron'' does this for laughs when interviewing Jimmy, a star from ''Series/KidNation'' and he asks what the man's profession is. Jimmy answers that he's going to medical school to become an Oncologist, and Jon had no clue what that was so he had the episode crudely edited to make it seem like he did. However, the footage of him asking what that was, and then asking his assistant-director to splice the footage ''[[RefugeInAudacity was deliberately left in]]''. |
| 440 | -->'''Jon:''' Oncology. What's oncology?\ |
| 441 | '''Jimmy:''' It's cancer...\ |
| 442 | '''Jon:''' Okay. ''(His audio is muted with the VideoGame/SuperMario64 game over transition)'' Okay, I don't ever do this. I'm gonna pretend I know what oncology is so I don't look dumb ... So Jimmy, what field are you going into?\ |
| 443 | '''Jimmy:''' Right now, I think I'm gonna go into oncology!\ |
| 444 | '''Jon:''' Oncology! For those of you who don't know, that's the cancer one! I didn't ask off-screen!\ |
| 445 | '''Jimmy: ([[{{Corpsing}} cracking up]])''' You didn't even say it right!!! |
| 446 | * [[Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse Maddox]] accuses ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' [[http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=penn_teller_bullshit of doing this to him]]. He was asked to make an appearance in an episode about senior citizens, where he was interviewed and, at one point, posited that old people smell[[note]] Since people tend to lose their sense of smell as they grow older, they start to search out stronger perfumes and colognes[[/note]]. He tied this into his overall thesis that old assholes are still assholes, and thus don't deserve any more leeway than a young asshole. The editors completely cut out his thesis and supporting argument, tried to "disprove" him with a completely unrelated experiment, and made him look like a gigantic tool. Maddox made a video about it (years later), causing his fanbase to start angrily Tweeting at Penn Jillette. Penn apologized on Twitter and Maddox considered the issue over. |
| 447 | * An advertisement in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Magazine #8'' was edited to change Mickey's use of the word "that" into "my", which results in his dialogue becoming [[https://www.dailyedge.ie/mickeys-milk-vintage-ad-1547528-Jul2014/ more suggestive]]. |
| 448 | * It's rather popular in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom to take screencaps or video clips from the show and remove the context, generally making them look like something completely different is happening. The result can range anywhere from [[http://derpibooru.org/448221 ship tease]], to [[http://derpibooru.org/233904 accidental innuendo]], to [[http://derpibooru.org/427204 making it look like the characters are having sex]]. |
| 449 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' has done that a few times in his reviews, like making the "Grape Nose Boy" scene in Good Burger seem longer than it really is, and cutting out the part where Jon punches the villain in the Garfield movie. |
| 450 | ** Another example is his review of "Eight Crazy Nights" where Davey sings "...but he [Whitey] never gave up on me". The Critic then dubs over the next verse that says, "...till I told he was useless and his sister was freaky", with him [[RedundantParody complaining about how Whitey did give up on him.]] |
| 451 | * Website/TheOnion parodied this in their video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwjgE0n9fc&feature=plcp Man Had Sex With Wife Thousands Of Times Before Killing Her]]", part of the fictional TrueCrime ShowWithinAShow ''Raw Justice''. The "real" story appears to be a tragic accident in which a normal couple were having passionate sex in the kitchen before the husband performed a possibly lethal "donkey punch" on his wife. ''Raw Justice'''s version turns it into an oversensationalized crime story about a "coital boogeyman" who held his wife captive for years as a SexSlave before finally and coldly committing premeditated murder. They use every editing trick in the book to make the husband seem like a monstrous rapist and the wife as a battered victim with StockholmSyndrome, while the actual content of the story is anything but horrific. |
| 452 | -->'''Dean Raid's description:''' In the kitchen where he would eventually murder her, John would have Mary prepare him sumptuous meals. He would force the captive Mary to listen to his rambling anecdotes about his job. Sometimes John would flex his power over her, demanding she tell him about her day as well. Sometimes... '''they would watch TV'''. |
| 453 | * WebVideo/RandyRainbow uses creative editing to spoof interviews (and, earlier, phone calls). |
| 454 | * Frequently used as a comedic device on WebVideo/RedLetterMedia's work, both in picking the most embarrassing/silly parts of a film or interview clip to keep showing over and over, and by recutting the hosts' own words to mock them (sometimes with an "Edited by [x]" credit displayed over the footage). |
| 455 | * In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection The Reconstruction]]'', The Meta records a conversation between Agent Washington and Command, and rearranges the dialogue so he can send a communication to Sarge in order to set the Red Team on Wash and the Blues. The Meta combines this with TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat as the conversation is styled to anticipate Sarge's comments, somehow. [[spoiler:This could be explained by Tex, Omega, and Gamma being among the AIs the Meta collected, and had enough experience with the Reds in order to guess how a conversation would go.]] |
| 456 | * A couple of enterprising (no pun intended!) fans edited the novelization of ''Film/StarTrek2009'' into [[http://vimeo.com/8338091 this]] (audio is EXTREMELY NSFW). |
| 457 | * ''WebVideo/StripSearch'' has a surprisingly minimal amount of this for a {{reality TV}} show -- Graham Stark, the host, commented at a [[Webcomic/PennyArcade PAX]] Q&A that he kept noticing opportunities to play games with the footage, but passed them up in favor of producing a more true narrative. That said, there are a few occasions where what they ''show'' the artist doing [[JustInTime seconds before the timer runs out on a challenge]] doesn't match what the artist claims to have been doing at that point. |
| 458 | * Website/TelevisionWithoutPity snarks on one particular Frankenbite in [[http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the_amazing_race_1/being_polite_sucks_sometimes.php?page=7 this recap.]] |
| 459 | * There is a particular species of FanVid which basically involves editing together scenes from a movie/TV show/game/whatever in order to make a fake trailer for it which portrays it as having a very different plot, such as a [[Film/BrokebackMountain gay love story]]. Many also edit wholesome family movies to look like terrifying horror flicks, or vice versa. One would be ''very'' surprised at how much ''Film/MaryPoppins'' looks like a movie where the nanny wants to terrify and kill the children with the right clips, or how ''Film/TheShining'' looks like a simple family comedy. There's even a trailer in which it's implied that in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', the title character goes AxCrazy after the stepsisters ruin her dress... |
| 460 | ** There's a similar type of video which uses [[CensoredForComedy strategic censoring]] to make characters [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM such as Count Von Count]] from ''Series/SesameStreet'' say... things that wouldn't appear in a kid's show. |
| 461 | --->"Because I ''really'' love to ***!" |
| 462 | ** Fanvids of the "clips from [insert show here] set to music" variety often do this when they aren't simply tributes to/retellings of canon events. This most commonly takes the form of haphazardly arranging scenes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnE_ykEzSRg fit the lyrics/rhythm of the chosen song]], but more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_Y3fg6AtM elaborate edits]] can turn any story into any other story. By carefully selecting clips and songs, it's possible to turn heroes into villains and vice versa, create romance (including many a CrackPairing) and epic battles out of thin air, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJKftJxR_CI create death scenes]] for characters who are alive and well in canon, and make it look as if characters who have never met are interacting with each other (even when they're [[{{Crossover}} from different works]]). Via masking it's possible to place characters and objects [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1LisZVDj0 into scenes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izkl2umQihQ they weren't originally in]], or even make entirely new scenes out of pre-existing imagery, and minor changes to said imagery (such as changing a character's eye color) can sometimes be made on top of that, but those are optional; those techniques are also rarely used for anything other than 2D animation, due to [[SpecialEffectFailure technical issues]] which tend to arise when they're used for other media. |
| 463 | * The WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer uses this a couple of times: |
| 464 | ** At the beginning of his ''Chip n' Dale'' review, he complains there is no two-player mode, but he really just hid the option and said they buried it too deep into the menu. This was to parody WebVideo/TheIrateGamer's ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 6'' review. |
| 465 | ** He draws a cross over the Koopas in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' while complaining there was more than one enemy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', which had [[BlatantLies not happened in a Mario game before]]. |
| 466 | ** In his review of ''VideoGame/TheLionKing'', he tells the audience to see how slow Simba is running "in this unedited footage", said as he then abruptly slows down the footage. |
| 467 | ** Parodying the Irate Gamer's ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' example above, he slows down the footage and complains about how slow the star is. Unlike the Irate Gamer, he didn't bother to mute the music. |
| 468 | ** In his ''Daze Before Christmas'' short review, he plays a death montage to show how difficult this game is, and it's the exact same death scene played multiple times, with him exclaiming "Shit!" each time. |
| 469 | * WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows did this in his review of Bedrock. |
| 470 | -->'''Todd:''' Hey, Gudda Gudda, how would you describe (Lloyd)?\ |
| 471 | '''Gudda Gudda:''' No Stevie Wonder.\ |
| 472 | '''Todd:''' Right on! |
| 473 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "celebrity interviews" consist of bits from some interview with a celebrity between shots of Al appearing to ask questions and respond. |
| 474 | * ''WebVideo/WinterOf83'' does this to inflict horror: [[spoiler:the bacteria that invades and wipes out Fawn Circle has the ability to affect ultra-high frequency waves and magnetic media, which is initially mistaken as a way to eat. Instead, the bacteria can manipulate this media, going so far as to burn images and video footage into what it wants to. It doesn't actually speak, but instead copies what is said with these media and spit it back out altered into what it wants to say]]. |
| 475 | * It's rather popular on Website/YouTube to take normally innocent video clips, and add {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s to make them sound dirty. Such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM this]]. |
| 476 | * YouTubePoop videos are made of this. One of the most common techniques is to edit a character's dialogue so they end up saying something weird, dirty, or both. This practice is known as "Sentence Mixing" (where single words generally stay intact) and "Word Splicing" (where words are cut up, put together and somehow, it works). For example, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bl2KyUbewI Robotnik's Face is Politically Incorrect]]'' changes Dr. Robotnik's line "I, the baron of badness, the knight of nastiosity, am on the brink of my greatest success!" to "I'm on the brink of incest!", and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mF7Rttl9A Gravity Faaf]] turns an exchange about being co-captain into an exchange about cocaine (by cutting off the word "'''co-c'''aptain" so that it sounds like "coke"). |
| 477 | ** Robotnik's memetic catchphrase in [=YouTube=] Poop, "PINGAS!" ([[DontExplainTheJoke which sounds like "penis"]] to some ears) is also an example: it comes from the phrase "snoo'''ping as''' usual, I see". It was discovered by Stegblob and first used in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23pXoyKBHd4 Robotnik Has a Viagra Overdose]]''. There's also its much less popular equivalents, such as "PINESS", from a line in ''Sonic's Christmas Blast'' where Robotnik says "Hap-PINESS is always so much more enjoyable..." Also "PIENDISH" and "PEINOUS" from "fiendish" and "heinous" respectively. |
| 478 | ** Another very popular phrase comes from the intro to the Zelda CD-i game ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: Faces of Evil]]'' where Link says "How about a kiss, '''f'''or l'''uck'''?" |
| 479 | ** This is also part of the "THIS VIDEO WILL BE FLAGGED" fad, which involves editing a clip to make it sound like a character is doing or saying something dirty. |
| 480 | ** The "I made this while doing ''X''" meme also utilizes this, where a character's dialogue is used to form a song title followed by that song being played. The meme-maker was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkQDjWxaHoM through_the_fire_and_flames.wmv]]. |
| 481 | ** Spanish-speaking poops lend themselves particularly well to word splicing, as the Spanish language has simpler phonetics that make it much easier to piece together individual phonemes into an entire sentence. |
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| 484 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 485 | * In the syndicated [[TitleMontage opening]] to ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' there is a scene where a large, angry Genie is shooting lightning bolts that are destroying Agrabah, and the citizens are fearing for their lives. In truth, this "scene" takes shots from three separate episodes, Genie is trying to stop a [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]], and it's really more standard villains destroying Agrabah. |
| 486 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Hayley wants to break up a couple so she can date the guy. She and Steve call the chick in question, ask random questions, then edit them to make it appear the chick has called her BF by accident, and said a bunch of non-[=GFish=] stuff. |
| 487 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' episode "Viscous Coupling", Archer does this to audio of Barry to make it sound like he's cheating on Katya. Katya pretends to believe it. |
| 488 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Matchmaker, Match Breaker", when Muffy's older brother Chip and Francine's older sister Catherine start becoming really good friends to the point where it seems like they're dating, Muffy and Francine get into an argument and both try to break up the "couple" to spite each other. Muffy's method involves having her butler Bailey call Catherine with a survey of random questions and recording her (obviously expected) answers with a tape recorder, which she will edit into a voice message to send to Chip. |
| 489 | -->'''Bailey:''' Is your first name Kate?\ |
| 490 | '''Catherine:''' No, it's Catherine.\ |
| 491 | '''Bailey:''' Do you prefer pickle-flavored ice cream or chocolate chip?\ |
| 492 | '''Catherine:''' Chocolate chip.\ |
| 493 | '''Bailey:''' How would you describe your feelings towards liver?\ |
| 494 | '''Catherine:''' I hate liver.\ |
| 495 | '''Bailey:''' What letter comes after "T" in the alphabet?\ |
| 496 | '''Catherine:''' ..."U"?\ |
| 497 | ------------------------------\ |
| 498 | '''Catherine:''' ''(on Chip's voicemail)'' Chip — it's Catherine. — I hate — "U"? |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': Billy Billions makes Ben an offer to join [[VillainTeamUp the Vengers]], who have been making waves as the hot new superhero team in town, as long as Ben submits to Billy. Ben refuses, so the Vengers attack him. One CurbStompBattle in his favor later, Ben "quits" heroism, and Billy manipulates the footage of the fight to make it look like he made Ben a kind offer and Ben refused and attacked out of jealousy. Despite Billy's terrible editing skills, the public buys it and treats Ben horribly until Billy's accidental public confession a few hours later. |
| 500 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Broadcast Wagstaff School News," a jealous Tammy frames Tina for [[ItMakesSenseInContext randomly pooping all over the school]] by (rather sloppily) cuts together clips of Tina's school news field reports into a confession. |
| 501 | -->'''Tina:''' Me / Tina / are / Mad Pooper. |
| 502 | * The school election episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' has [=JFK=] and Joan of Arc poorly edit footage of Abe eating spaghetti into Abe eating a baby. |
| 503 | * A guilt trip by her mother leads to WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} turning what was intended as an unflattering video expose of Quinn for a class project into a more positive piece. |
| 504 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', the Jew Producer is known to edit the show to make it even more outrageous, a practice to which Foxxy and Toot object. At one point, the practice is parodied when Foxxy's ConfessionCam segment is interrupted with rapid cuts after every single word to make it seem like she says "My... taint... is... made... out... of... bacon!", just before she actually says that. |
| 505 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': |
| 506 | ** Vicky plays an obviously fake recording of "Timmy" confessing to cheating on a test ([[CallBack the beginning of which is from the first episode]], where she cut Timmy off by telling him he was going to bed). When Timmy denies it, Vicky reveals a ''second'' tape recorder, and uses his denial from two seconds ago to make a more convincing version. |
| 507 | --->'''Tape''': ''(Timmy's voice)'' Hi, I'm Timmy, and I-- ''[Francis's voice]'' cheated on my math test.\ |
| 508 | '''Timmy''': I never cheated on my math test!\ |
| 509 | ''(Vicky reveals second tape recorder)''\ |
| 510 | '''Second Tape''': ''(Timmy's voice)'' Hi, I'm Timmy, and I-- cheated on my math test! |
| 511 | ** Timmy does the same thing later after Vicky is de-aged, as a way of getting back at her. |
| 512 | --->'''Tape''': Hi, I'm Vicky, and I-- stole from my mom's purse. |
| 513 | ** And also in the episode "Playdate of Doom", where [[EnfanteTerrible Foop]] manages to cleverly trick Jorgen into speaking the exact words for his hidden tape recorder, and edit the recording. |
| 514 | --->''"Cosmo... and... Wanda... I am Jorgen von Strangle! Foop... is– completely rehabilitated and ready for a playdate with Poof?!"'' |
| 515 | * PlayedWith on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Tom Tucker "interviews" Creator/DustinHoffman. The interview is Tom's shots, then a reply using a scene from a Dustin Hoffman film. It's not even the same film for the entire interview: |
| 516 | -->'''Tom Tucker''': Great to see you, Dustin. You're looking good.\ |
| 517 | '''Hoffman in ''Film/TheGraduate''''': Are you trying to seduce me ''(in an obvious dub)'' MR. TUCKER.\ |
| 518 | '''Tom''': No, I am ''not'' trying to seduce you, Dustin Hoffman. So, what are you working on now?\ |
| 519 | '''Hoffman in ''Film/RainMan''''': Uh-oh, ten minutes to Wopner.\ |
| 520 | '''Tom''': I know, you're a busy guy! Well, thanks for coming by. Is there anything I can do for you?\ |
| 521 | '''Hoffman in ''Film/{{Hook}}''''': BRING ME PETER PAN!\ |
| 522 | '''Tom''': I'll keep an eye out for him. |
| 523 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' played this one for drama. Johnny manages to hack off some aliens somehow, so they rig up a kangaroo court and challenge Sue, Reed, and Ben to prove to them that they shouldn't execute his irreverent ass right on the spot. Every time they try to say something in his defense, the aliens replay a moment from the past where they said the exact opposite thing in the heat of the moment after Johnny did something annoying. Attempts to call the aliens out on this Trope were met with a response not dissimilar to "Well, we're the ones with the video playback, jackass, so what are you gonna do now?" It took a natural disaster during which Johnny could perform an altruistic act at great risk to himself to get him off the hook. |
| 524 | * ''WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel'': The episode "For Whom the Belle Tolls" deals with Hamster and Gretel's reputation with the townsfolk threatened when mean blogger Belle radically edits footage of their duties to make it look like they committed crime, such as reversing the footage and even [[QuoteMine re-editing their sentences.]] Despite how [[WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture obvious]] the edits are, the townsfolk cannot tell the difference and fall for it, except Bailey and the fan club who discover the unedited footage and restore the duo's reputation. |
| 525 | * On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when Lucius tries to claim he didn't say something, Jimmy pulls a television screen out of nowhere. |
| 526 | -->'''Lucius:''' Whatever's [[ThisIsMySide on your side]], you can keep (Jimmy's voice) [[FarSideIsland island buddy]]. |
| 527 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': |
| 528 | ** In "Eclipsed", the Flash complains that a talk show host has edited footage of him throwing a tantrum while [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero filming a commercial]], so that he looks like a complete jerk. While this is true, his fellow League members clearly believe that not much editing is required. |
| 529 | ** While Lex Luthor is running for president, the media ambushes Captain Marvel asking for a comment. Marvel comments neutrally that he's happy that Luthor, a former supervillain, can reform and become a politician but otherwise has no opinion. Unfortunately, his statement gets spun and edited by the news to make it out as if he was praising and endorsing Luthor on behalf of ''the entire Justice League''. Afterwards, Superman chides Marvel, noting that this is why the League has an official policy to [[BanOnPolitics never discuss politics, endorse politicians, or even hock products]] while on the job. |
| 530 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasBirthdayClipORama Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!]]", Isabella is given some footage of Phineas to edit into a birthday tribute, but takes the opportunity instead to splice together clips of Phineas saying "We'll - be - together - forever, - Isabella" and "Isabella-will-you-marry-me?" |
| 531 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' episode "Presidential Punchout", Princess tries to turn everyone against Blossom when they run for class president by editing together clips of Blossom saying unflattering and incriminating things like "This school's students are doody" and that her true goal is to become "the (fart noise) Queen". |
| 532 | * Happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' when the kids are noticing some strange woman trying to film them. They're initially suspicious, but when they find out she's only trying to make a documentary about recess, they agree to teach her about their free time. They later find the film and decide to sneak a peak before she's supposed to air it, but are horrified to find her documentary was actually against recess, and that she edited it in such a way that clips of them playing look like horrific events. They decide to retaliate by doing some filming of their own and using her narration from the documentary, create a far more humorous film that inadvertently ends up ''helping'' the researcher, as the donors she was trying to impress love the piece and agree to give her plenty of funding and a cushy job to continue exploring the recess phenomenon. |
| 533 | * Happens in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' where the gang is filmed at the skate park by a crew. All of their tricks are edited so close together that it looks like Sam did each trick, when the only trick he did was an accident. |
| 534 | * Mocked, like everything else in this archive, by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season 6 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman Homer Badman]]". Homer is accused of molesting a college-aged babysitter after peeling a rare gummi candy off the seat of her pants, so he goes to an interview on the news show "Rock Bottom" to explain himself, but his testimony gets warped into an admission of guilt (even better with the clock in the background that noticeably changes back and forth with each cut - something the writers admit on the DVD commentary makes no sense, since the original dialogue only takes Homer about a minute to say): |
| 535 | -->'''Homer''' (''actual dialogue''): Ehh, someone had to take the babysitter home. Then I noticed she was sitting on the gummi Venus, so I grabbed it off her. Oh, just thinking about that sweet, sweet candy...(''moans lustfully'') I just wish I had another one right now. But the most important thing is--\ |
| 536 | '''Homer''' (''edited dialogue''): Ehh, someone had to take the babysitter home. Then I noticed she was sitting on / her / sweet can / ...so I grabbed / her / sweet can / (''moans'') / just thinking about / her / can / I just wish I had / her / sweet / sweet / s-s-sweet can... |
| 537 | ** The editing fun didn't stop there, however: |
| 538 | --->'''Godfrey Jones''': So, Mr. Simpson, you admit you grabbed her can. What do you have to say in your defense? (''shot of Homer during his interview, with obvious "paused VCR" artifacts'') Mr. Simpson, your silence will only incriminate you further. (''the shot of Homer zooms in to suggest his apparent advancement on Jones'') No, Mr. Simpson, don't take your anger out on me. Get back! Get back! Mist--Mr. Simpson--[[BigNo nooo!]]\ |
| 539 | '''Voiceover''': {{Dramatization}} — [[MotorMouth may not]] [[LampshadeHanging have happened]]. |
| 540 | ** In a "Treehouse of Horror XIX" segment "How To Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising", Homer finds that he is very efficient in killing celebrities, and so is paid to kill whoever the CorruptCorporateExecutive wants to use in his adverts without actually paying them. Cue a stock market commercial where different shots of Creator/JohnWayne are used; The actor's clothes and backgrounds change between each word and even go B/W every now and then. Perhaps even more flagrantly, the very last shot is of Wayne's ''grave''! |
| 541 | * ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': To goad Shadow into attacking Sonic, Dr. Eggman ambushes Sonic and asks him what he thinks of Shadow. He records Sonic's confused but largely positive answers, then shows Shadow a heavily edited version of the recording which makes it look like Sonic is insulting him. Shadow takes the blatantly spliced footage at face value and goes after Team Sonic. |
| 542 | -->'''Sonic:''' ''(actual dialogue)'' What a random question. Why are you asking me about him? I haven't seen him in weeks. (...) Beat him up? Nah, never thought about it. I mean, that battle last time ''was'' a bit of a whirlwind, but, he ''is'' a tough customer. (''') Eh, I could take 'em or leave 'em. Where are you getting these questions, anyway? Just pulling 'em out of a bag? I’m outta here. |
| 543 | -->'''Sonic:''' ''(edited dialogue)'' Shadow? He ''is'' / week / that / wind / bag / ''could'' / never / beat / me. / What a / week / week / week / wind / bag / he ''is''. |
| 544 | ** Interestingly, this was averted from a meta-perspective. Rather than actually splicing together Sonic's dialogue, they had Creator/RogerCraigSmith record the "edited" dialogue in a single take. |
| 545 | * Done deliberately in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The Return of Chef," where the titular character's[[note]]whose voice actor was forced to resign due to the show's treatment of Scientology[[/note]] lines are spliced together from previous episodes in an incredibly obvious manner, making his speech sound unnatural to highlight the fact that he's been brainwashed. |
| 546 | * 80-90% of the jokes in many episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' come from the clumsy, often surreal manipulation of interview footage. |
| 547 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' this happens to ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when Angela Chen edits footage of Jimmy talking to make it look like he's pals with Superman. This attracts Jimmy some unwanted attention by others. |
| 548 | * The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Money Grandma" has Robin get Beast Boy and Cyborg to fight by showing them a doctored video of them insulting each other. Raven tries to point out to Cyborg and Beast Boy that the video is clearly edited, but they don't listen to her. |
| 549 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 550 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaAftermathIIForgiveAndForGwen Aftermath II: Forgive and for Gwen]]", Geoff and Bridgette choose to only show DJ's confessional in which he's unapologetic about the many benefits of his illegal alliance with Chef. DJ begs them to show another confessional that would clear his name, but they refuse for entertainment's sake until DJ's mother starts pelting them with produce. The other confessional shows that DJ was instructed on what to say by Chef under threat of violence. |
| 551 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaLiesCriesAndOneBigPrize Lies, Cries, and One Big Prize]]", Chris shows Shawn's love interest and helper Jasmine the many confessionals in which Shawn shit-talks her plans for the prize money and his intent not to share. While all are genuine and even recent, by the point of the showing Shawn has come around and wants to share the money. Despite Shawn's pleas for Chris to show his final confessionals, Chris doesn't, because for the final challenge it's necessary for the helpers to be angry at the finalists. |
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| 554 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 555 | * Creator/TheBBC got into trouble when it showed a roomful of journalists at a press launch a trailer which appeared to show the Queen storming out of a portrait sitting. [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6294472.stm Actually, she'd been walking in.]] This resulted in a high-level resignation. |
| 556 | * An example made on paper — The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_Dispatch Ems dispatch,]] work of UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}. He made it seem like the Prussian king (and later, German emperor) had abruptly rejected the French ambassador, which hadn't been the case... but JustAsPlanned, the French fell for the provocation and declared the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar. Which also meant that they were blamed for [[Series/FawltyTowers starting it... which is never a good thing, as we know]]. |
| 557 | * Discussed in [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/aug/11/castaway this article]] by ''The Guardian''. Among the points the author, himself a former reality show participant turned therapist, notes is that few people consider the possible psychological effects to someone who's been publicly demonized in this fashion by such techniques after they leave the show. |
| 558 | * Creator/Channel4: |
| 559 | ** The channel once made a documentary called ''Fat Girls and Feeders'' with real feeders and feedees brought in to tell their stories. According to the feeders and feedees who took part in the documentary, Channel 4 edited the footage to make it look like the feedees were sad and the feeders were abusive. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20051001152557/http://www.feeder.co.uk/fat_girls_and_feeders.html Here's what just one of the feedees had to say.]] |
| 560 | ** British ASMRVideo creator Sophie Michelle [[https://twitter.com/beyondapearl/status/1066091666862411777?lang=en gave an interview]] on Channel 4 in late 2018 talking about ASMR and her career making videos. The studio later edited the footage in a manner that was quite unflattering and showed said footage without her consent on ''Series/{{Gogglebox}}'', which led to the people on that show rudely criticizing her and her work. |
| 561 | * For a Website/YouTube summary from a former journalist of how this is done in real life, see: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07NMglQX6gE&list=FLNvBDxxOuDioCJcvAqISxcw&index=7 TV tricks of the trade]] by potholer54, AKA Peter Hadfield. |
| 562 | * This also leads to a VocalMinority. The media will always hunt for the most unstable people, and sometimes [[LiveButDelayed cut parts out of interviews]] to make them look more crazy. |
| 563 | * In Chile there was a lot of controversy regarding a condominium where maids and workers were forbidden from entering on foot (so they had to use a special van). Inés Pérez, a woman who lived in the condominium, was interviewed in Chilevisión about the whole issue. She said that this wasn't a case of discrimination, since it was a free service for the workers, and the people living there were paying it. |
| 564 | -->'''Inés Pérez''' (rough translation): Can you imagine all those maids walking outside, all those workers walking on the street, and your kids there riding bikes? Can you imagine all those maids walking on the street in winter (...)? (...) I live almost at the end. I go running around the condominium, and it's half an hour from my house to the lodge. I mean, can you imagine my maid walking to my house everyday, in winter under the rain? I mean, impossible! |
| 565 | ** However, the channel had the ''brilliant'' decision of [[TwistingTheWords cutting the clip right after the your-kids-riding-bikes part]], making it seem like she was [[FelonyMisdemeanor terrified of maids walking in the street]]. This case is especially notable because this one editing trick caused even ''more'' of a controversy, to the point of creating a whole ''meme'', with insults and mocking directed at her coming from everywhere in the internet. |
| 566 | * Creator/{{ABC}} News's highly criticized report on out-of-control Toyotas accidently made it clear that there was something up with its report when the shot of the tachometer rocketing up also had the door open, parking brake, and check engine lights all on, meaning the car was stopped, and it wasn't a shot from when the car was supposedly accelerating out of control. They later apologized and said it was hard to get a shot of the tach while the car was moving, and replaced the shot with one that was even more staged. |
| 567 | * Australian current affairs programs (such as ''Today Tonight'', ''A Current Affair'', ''The Bolt Project'') utilize this trope frequently in their reports, though it does not go unnoticed. Whilst the video is at least five years old, [[http://youtu.be/GMVKv3He3Mg?t=1m14s this]] weekly segment from ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' covers real-life examples of the trope that still happen today. |
| 568 | ** More recently, Seven News' ''Spotlight'' program was heavily criticised after it was revealed they had used and edited multiple images and videos of transgender people without their knowledge or consent to falsely imply they regretted transitioning. |
| 569 | * ''New York Times'' journalist Jacques Steinberg has had his headshot manipulated and shown on Fox News. A similar editing job was done to television editor Steven Reddicliffe, which stretched his forehead into nearly a seven-head. |
| 570 | * Some sociology students on a college actually did this as a project - they intentionally amassed volunteers to showcase how this can paint an inaccurate picture about a social group. What they did was showcase the (consensual) engineering students as complete idiots in one video; wherein they showcase engineers who cannot answer simple math questions and are unaware of who is running the country or simple historical facts. Meanwhile, the non-engineers get the questions all right, and can solve puzzles much faster than engineering students. |
| 571 | ** The ''second'' video showcases what they ''did not'' show. It started off with the volunteers being briefed on what it was, them consenting to it, and engineers ''intentionally'' answering questions wrong. (Trying [[RealityIsUnrealistic not to give too outlandish an answer, despite being told that people might actually believe they thought that]]) Also shown was how they "Randomly" selected someone from a crowd who happened to have been a volunteer who was planted there, always searched for someone who was tired or drinking coffee (Because they would be more likely to mess up), engineers taking their time solving a puzzle whereas the non-engineers were shown the solution ahead of time and had practiced, so they could place it together quickly. |
| 572 | * NBC was found to have done this against George Zimmerman in regards to his 911 call. The actual call went something like this: |
| 573 | -->'''Zimmerman:''' This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about. |
| 574 | -->'''911 Police Dispatcher:''' OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic? |
| 575 | -->'''Zimmerman:''' He looks black. |
| 576 | ** NBC however presented the call like this: |
| 577 | -->'''Zimmerman:''' This guy looks like he's up to no good. '''He looks black'''. |
| 578 | * CNN also did this to UsefulNotes/RonPaul after he cut an interview short with correspondent Dana Bash. When initially reported on, Paul was presented as being incredibly rude to Bash for virtually no reason. It was later revealed that Paul cut the interview short because Bash kept asking him about controversial, seemingly racist articles published in Paul's campus newspaper two decades earlier, and though he answered the question repeatedly Bash ''kept asking the question'' as though she wasn't satisfied with his answer. |
| 579 | * Another from CNN--Susan Roesgen was sent out to cover a Tea Party rally. She seemed to only go out of her way to highlight the most controversial signs in the crowd and tried to make it seem like the people she interviewed didn't know what they were talking about. She also appeared skiddish and openly told the newsroom reporter she feared for her safety in the crowd--despite the protestors behind her not actually doing or saying anything threatening. |
| 580 | * MSNBC did a story about the Tea Party movement, and specifically focused on an unidentified man holding an automatic assault rifle at one rally. After showing the image, the panel expressed concern about racism in the Tea Party and that only white people attend the rallies. However, it was revealed that the video had been cropped to hide the fact that the wielder of the assault rifle had been ''African American''. |
| 581 | * Australia's Creator/NineNetwork decided to go to war with Creator/GordonRamsay on behalf of their reporter Tracy Grimshaw. The short of it is that Gordon and Tracy do not get along and Gordon referenced her at a conference (but did not use her name) and made disparaging comments about her. Tracy retaliated by ''lying'' about what Gordon had actually said (i.e. claiming that Gordon made offensive comments about Tracy being a lesbian), and in response, reporters for the network ''harassed'' Gordon in public places while he was in Australia over what he'd allegedly said. And despite the fact that they were harassing him (and that Gordon at one point had to hail security at his hotel), the Network continued to present him as a bully. |
| 582 | * This was a staple of propaganda broadcasts in Eastern Europe during the Communist era. A particularly noteworthy example happened in UsefulNotes/{{Romania}} during Nicolae Ceaușescu's final speech on 21 December 1989. In a bid to calm the unrest that had boiled over in the previous weeks (after simmering below the surface for most of his tenure), he promised various wage and pension increases, and the crowd was shown waving Romanian flags and shouting pro-government chants. However, the same shots were re-used multiple times, and the flags and banners noticeably did not match the live footage of the crowd, while the sound audibly cut in and out between shots of Ceaușescu speaking and shots of the "audience reaction". The crowd had really been booing and heckling Ceaușescu, leading to [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties a break in the live transmission]] until order could be restored (the cameras continued rolling, pointed at the sky but still picking up the sound of the stunned Ceaușescu acting as though [[IsThisThingOn his microphone was malfunctioning]]), after which the crowd greeted the speech with stony silence. |
| 583 | ** One apocryphal story about Cold War tensions plays this for laughs with a healthy dose of ExactWords. Race car engineers from each country decide to see which of their technologies makes for a faster vehicle with a one-on-one race. After the American car wins, the Russian media (conveniently leaving out the number of racers) reports that the Russians came in second, while the Americans finished "next-to-last." |
| 584 | * Happened with Andrea Mitchell during the 2012 US Presidential Elections. Video was aired of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney supposedly being "amazed" by the use of a computerized screen to custom-make a sandwich at a Wawa, a Pennsylvania sandwich chain. [[note]]This harkened back to reporting almost 20 years prior, where then-President George H.W. Bush was amazed by a self-checkout in a grocery store, remarks that Mitchell made when the clip was aired.[[/note]] However, the full footage was actually Romney making a comparison between the chain's innovation to the mountain of paperwork a friend of his filled out with the United States Postal Service just to change his address. Mitchell aired the unedited footage without apology the next day. |
| 585 | * After a drive-by shooting involving two teens, Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM aired a "disturbing" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwc3x6rjbhU interview]] with a 4 year old African-American boy who "wasn't afraid of nothing" and, when asked if he was going to stay away from guns when he got older, said "no, gonna have me a gun". Unfortunately, they left out the next sentence where he said he was going to have a gun because ''he was going to be a police officer''. |
| 586 | * A documentary hosted and executive produced by Katie Couric called ''Under the Gun'', in which dead space and pauses were added after the reporter asked questions about background checks to a gun-rights group, to make it appear as though they had no answers to her questions. However, unedited footage showed they had clear, prompt, and articulate answers to her questions. As a result, Couric and the producers face a $12 million defamation lawsuit from the group. |
| 587 | * In early 2020, [[https://youtu.be/aca0KWoHtqQ this audio]] of a fight between Creator/JohnnyDepp and then wife Creator/AmberHeard found its way onto [=YouTube=]. It went viral and swayed public opinion to Depp’s side about how she’d supposedly abused him for years. The audio was ostensibly Heard starting a physical fight, admitting to being the aggressor in their relationship, and mocking Depp that no one would believe she was abusing him because he was a man. However, it was later revealed that summer in Depp’s defamation case against a tabloid in the UK that the audio was chopped up, misleadingly edited with different parts spliced together, and removed of context. [[https://youtu.be/k9pbrBmHI58 The full audio]] tells a different story. The full context of the audio was that Heard, who has always admitted to having occasionally hit him back in self defense and once in defense of her sister, was talking about hitting him reactively after he slammed a door over her foot. The edited audio makes it sound like she is taunting him about how no one would believe she was abusing him because he was “a man”. The full quote is allegedly, “Tell the world Johnny. Tell them, “I, Johnny Depp, a man, I’m a victim of domestic violence too and see how many people believe or side with you.” She never, in fact, said “a man”, she said “man” mocking his manner of speaking. What she said was, “You can please tell people that it was a fair fight, and see what the ju-, see what the jury and judge thinks. Tell the world Johnny, tell them Johnny Depp, I Johnny Depp, man, I’m, I’m am a victim too of domestic violence.” What she is saying is that if someone on the outside were to find out what he was doing to her, no one would believe their physical fights were fair because he, being a man, was so much bigger and stronger than her. This recording is also stripped of the context of having come from a few days after a particularly brutal beatdown where her friend she’d been talking to on the phone at the time had called 911 because he believed he was about to kill her and that’s why she said something about the cops finding out. She admits in the recording that she hit him on instinct thinking he was about to get violent with her again which he never denies having done. Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, was kicked off his case against Heard in the US by the original judge in part for leaking the audio and potentially biasing jurors. |
| 588 | * Educational Documentaries: |
| 589 | ** Despite being DontShootTheMessage titles with expert opinions and good intentions, even these aren't safe from this. Repeated offender [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lsFjmcYj0 Media Education Foundation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHxTr-59hEtaken edited excerpts from Disney and other films and TV shows]] out of context to let viewers think about the dangers of mass media (violence, racism, sexism, commercialism, etc.). |
| 590 | ** Pretty much every nature documentary use this trope. The animal the film focuses on will be treated with complete reverence, their rivals and predators will be treated like antagonists, and their prey will seen as nothing but a food source. |
| 591 | ** Eric Holmberg, a religious fundamentalist MoralGuardian, and his docs ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHH3oMpgg90 Hell's Bell's]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrN2M3XU8k Pandoras Box Office.]]'' BEWARE OF THE MEDIA INDEED. |
| 592 | * In a particularly {{JustForFun/egregious}} example, ICE agents in the US detained 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina in 2017 as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration, accusing him of having gang ties in part [[TattooedCrook because of a tattoo he has]], despite having undergone ''three'' background checks to qualify for "DREAMER" status. Where this trope comes into play, though, [[http://q13fox.com/2017/02/16/document-shows-key-piece-of-evidence-in-dreamer-daniel-ramirez-medina-case-might-have-been-erased-ice-daca/ is that they erased part of his written statement]] to give themselves better proof. |
| 593 | -->'''Original''': “I came in and the officers said I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear an orange uniform. I do not have a criminal history and I’m not affiliated with any gangs.”\ |
| 594 | '''Edited''': “I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear an orange uniform. I do not have a criminal history and I’m not affiliated with any gangs.” |
| 595 | ** In May 2018, the judge presiding over the case tore into ICE for both their persistence [[https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-judge-blocks-u-s-from-revoking-mans-daca-protection-orders-government-to-stop-saying-he-has-gang-ties and their attempt to conjure up "evidence" fraudulently.]] |
| 596 | * President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and First Lady Nancy once made a televised address from the White House in which they [[DrugsAreBad urged children to avoid drugs]] and Nancy talked about how her suggested response to drugs, "say no", had spread among young people, spawning "just say no" clubs and so on. Before long [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nsibhl1vco an edited version]] started making the rounds in which the Reagans' advice was completely inverted: "say yes" to drugs, her message had spurred the creation of "just say yes" clubs, etc. The editors' job was helped by the complete form of the message ("say yes to life, say no to drugs"), which provided the source of the "say yes" version. This being the 1980s, the methods used were old school: for example, replacing Nancy's "say no" with her saying "say yes" lifted from elsewhere in the speech involved a momentary cut to Reagan silently looking on to prevent a visible jump from one bit of Nancy footage to the other. |
| 597 | * When France surrendered to Germany during World War II, newsreel cameras recorded an elated Hitler taking a couple of marching steps after the surrender. This was later edited in a loop to make it look like Hitler was doing a ridiculous little dance. This was added to many newsreels in Allied countries as propaganda to make Hitler look silly. |
| 598 | * Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet during World War II, had personally lived and studied in America and knew that a surprise attack would galvanize the country into entering the war instead of frightening them into acquiescing to Japan like many of his peers believed. In the prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor he was quoted as saying that it wouldn't be enough for Japan to just capture areas like Hawaii and San Francisco if war with the U.S. broke out. They would need to march across the entire country and dictate their terms in the White House itself and questioned if Japanese politicians were prepared for the sacrifices that would take. Propogandists circulated an altered version of the quote that made it sound like he was declaring that Japan would conquer the entirety of the United States. |
| 599 | * Some accusations of [[FrivolousLawsuit Frivolous Lawsuits]] can actually be this. If you heard about a seemingly frivolous lawsuit that actually went somewhere in the courtroom, there is a good chance that the actual story either has additional details the news channels/newspapers omitted, or itself went through a game of telephone. Practicing lawyer WebVideo/LegalEagle [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_jaU5V9FUg discusses this in his video.]] |
| 600 | * [[https://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-tony-evers-400-years-education-funding-line-item-veto-2023-7 Early in July 2023]], Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers used his "line item veto" authority to change a budget bill pretty dramatically. The bill as written stipulated an increase in funding for public schools through the "2023-24 and 2024-25" school years; he vetoed a few numbers and a hyphen to increase the funding through the "2425" school year. |
| 601 | * ''Deadspin'' writer Carron J. Phillips wrote an article complaining about a child wearing "blackface" while wearing a Native American headdress while showing the accompanying photo, resulting in quite the media stir. Except that said child looks like that because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2snc_fq2ss&pp=ygUNcmVkc2tpbnMgZmFucw%3D%3D he is wearing the team colours]] of the Kansas City Chiefs, which is red and black while he ''purposely took a shot showing only the black side'' of the poor kid for his narrative. Not surprisingly, photos showing the full face circulated online soon after and people called Phillips out for such unwarranted defamation on an innocent child. Instead of apologizing, he ''doubled down'' and switched gears saying that the child was trying to mock Mexicans as well with his red face paint. |
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