@origami , un témoignage d’une ancienne participante.
« It’s probably the least real reality show,” she claims. The show was filmed “like a Japanese drama,” in her words, meaning the cameras aren’t around all day. Rather, the film crew comes around the house a few hours every night, or if there’s a filmable excursion, like a group trip or a date. For the other 20 or so hours every day the cast is told “not to talk” since the cameras aren’t there.
“But it’s like, what are we supposed to do for the entire day? So, obviously, we did stuff and talked and then that caused a lot of tension between the people living there and the producers … so it was stressful.”
It’s true that the show isn’t scripted (as they re-emphasize at the start of each episode), but the stories are edited and contrived. “It was non-scripted, but at the same time it was extremely scripted,” Tsai explains. “We only filmed a couple hours a day and not even every day, so what you say is what they tell you to say, like ‘talk about that thing’ or ‘talk about how you feel about that person.’ So they don’t tell us exactly what to say, but they know what kind of story they want to edit in their minds, so they force the content to be created.” The editing afterwards also gave the producers a lot of power to manipulate the drama, which made watching the show afterwards unbearable for all its cast members ».