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Eleven Families of Four
Mandoli:
There's a nice little pause When Phil speaks, going inbetween "(add family name here)" and "You're team number (add finishing position here)." You can clearly hear the said pause in Tuesday's episode of the show. Something tells me right there that there's another team in the race, but CBS just doesn't want to show them battling in the race.
rmax:
Wasn't there a wide angle shot of all the teams at the start of the race? If anyone has Ep 1 on tape, go back and look to see if it was possible that an 11th team could have been cut out of the frame (the team would have had to be on the far left or right).
Chateau d If:
--- Quote ---There's a nice little pause When Phil speaks, going in between "(add family name here)" and "You're team number (add finishing position here)." You can clearly hear the said pause in Tuesday's episode of the show. Something tells me right there that there's another team in the race, but CBS just doesn't want to show them battling in the race.
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I think the Phil statements "X Family, you are team number N" are only valid if it shows him saying it and at the same time, in the same shot, you really do see Family X standing there. They have it down to a procedure that they film Phil saying "X Family, you are team number N" without that any in the shot because the editors need it that way. Also, the editors can just zoom in on Phil and effectively crop out something they don't want in the final production. I think this has evolved into procedure not because they plan on editing out a team but because they always have had to adjust team arrival times according to time credits and penalties. That is the actual arrival position of a team may be a point of uncertainty at the instant the team arrives because the time credits and penalties have not been accounted for for all the teams.
--- Quote ---Wasn't there a wide angle shot of all the teams at the start of the race? If anyone has Ep 1 on tape, go back and look to see if it was possible that an 11th team could have been cut out of the frame (the team would have had to be on the far left or right).
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GMan has suggested that if there was an 11th team there at the startline it was digitally removed. Initially I dismissed this thinking TAR was above doing digital manipulations. There are plenty of things they could do to clean up a shot (remove cameramen, shadows of cameraman, etc.) but they don't. But maybe this problem team is such a mess up that TPTB authorized the digital fix.
And for some new evidence from Tuesday night's show:
There were 8 canoes for the "Play" part of the Detour.
There were 8 log sawing stations for the "Work" part.
Slowhatch:
Maybe someone can use the Finish Line program to put the issue in front of a team, as well as lobbing other hot potatoes ("Did you see the Weavers breaking any rules?", etc.).
kraziladi:
--- Quote from: rmax on October 21, 2005, 09:31:09 AM ---Wasn't there a wide angle shot of all the teams at the start of the race? If anyone has Ep 1 on tape, go back and look to see if it was possible that an 11th team could have been cut out of the frame (the team would have had to be on the far left or right).
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I still have the first episode on my computer. I have reviewed frame by frame and you cannot tell if a family was edited "out". (%# They would be next to the Gaghan's on the far left (stage right) or next to the Rogers on the far right (stage left), which Phil was blocking. Watching the start - running for the backpacks, there are not extra families or people. I have gone frame by frame and counted bodies and wrote down what everyone was wearing. ]][
There is someone (1/2 body) to the far left of the screen (about 3 family widths from the Gaghans) with a red/black jacket. Barely shown as camera was panning while they were all in line I have compared clothes, earrings, watches etc. on the boats and at the start of the race. The only discrepancy, if you could call it that, is while showing the Weaver's in the water taxi, there is a taxi behind them and one next to them on one side. You cannot tell if there is another water taxi on the other side. All of the overhead shots show the water taxis in a V shape.
Whew CBS is good at editing people out or could they have reshot this? :unde:
There are definitely 11 SUV's at the beginning of the race, in this order: Black, beige, black, black, beige, black, black, black, beige, black, black. *(^ Either they have one extra vehicle for every task or there was a mystery team.
I guess time will tell as we see additional epi's. |#'
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