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vogelmeister · 2 months ago

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actually one of us is lying being filmed in new zealand actually makes a shit tonne of sense because it's a common thing wherein when tv shows and movies "fake" a setting they understandably try and show as little of the setting as possible (makes sense) and tbh i realised we didnt really see a lot of the town of bayview.

still find it absolutely hilarious that there was an australian pretending to be an american accused of killing an irishman pretending to be american in new zealand pretending to be america. its actually so weird when you think of media that way. the australian played a very good american bad boy but once i knew, yeah that man knows what triple j is.

#also the setting of the pilot felt instinctively more north american than the rest of series one #the pilot was filmed in canada btw #i actually mentioned this in my authenticity problem essay #honestly looking back i can see why i probs didnt get as good of a mark as i had hoped there #because honestly the issues i discuss in that essay are not limited to history. it was a film studies essay #but back to the point of my point of my point #there are these things called authenticity effects which cue an audience into seeing a setting as authenti ceven if its not filmed there #for instance in my essay and the netherlands i basically went okay the iconography of amsterdam like bikes and canal streets helped #(i still think they could have done a better job with language lol)#basically a non dutch viewer (broad audience) would not have to suspend their disbelief but a dutch viewer absolutely would #because the non dutch viewer would go. canals. bikes. yeah this is dutch #i say non dutch viewer but i was absolutely the outlier here #in the case of one of us is lying the typical american high school iconopgraphy of the bleechers helped me go “this is america”#those typically american things werent really there in later episodes #and then what cued me to look at the filming location was the street scene when they confront the teacher #i realised that was one of the first times i actually saw a street scene with houses and suburbia and something felt off #i also remember a show called nine perfect strangers and i couldnt watch it bc it was filmed in australia but they passed it off as america #suspension of disbelief... gone #anyways idk what this post is so yippie

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