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Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: robsearson on February 20, 2010, 08:29:19 PM: I just found this photo from Guy Fieri of the "Minute to Win It" set during a taping session. Am I crazy or is the upper audience tier actually a giant photo or some other simulation, and not actual people? If so, is that kind of thing common?... maybe this was the pilot and they didn't need to use a full audience?

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Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: clemon79 on February 20, 2010, 08:30:48 PM: [quote name=\'robsearson\' post=\'236241\' date=\'Feb 20 2010, 05:29 PM\']Am I crazy or is the upper audience tier actually a giant photo or some other simulation, and not actual people?[/quote]
You're not crazy. That's totally a translite.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: J.R. on February 20, 2010, 09:27:28 PM: Not quite as amusing as those ultra-cheep fake audience cutouts used on American Gladiators.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: ChrisLambert! on February 20, 2010, 09:53:22 PM: MLB Network uses one of those in its Studio 42.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: Neumms on February 21, 2010, 01:25:49 PM: Love the caption, though. "The audience is so great." At least the half that exist.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: davidbod on February 21, 2010, 05:06:16 PM: In the past, some cheap ITV morning game shows have had the upper rows either painted on the back scenery or even as blow up dolls. Which is fine except for when they explode under the lights.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: davemackey on February 25, 2010, 11:34:45 AM: [quote name=\'davidbod\' post=\'236276\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 05:06 PM\']In the past, some cheap ITV morning game shows have had the upper rows either painted on the back scenery or even as blow up dolls. Which is fine except for when they explode under the lights.[/quote]
Dressed-up blowup dolls, I would hope. That makes the asplosions even more fun, when there are clothes left behind.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: BrandonFG on March 14, 2010, 08:00:45 PM: Watching some of the show now. It looks like a projection screen...the pic of the "audience" transitions to that of some sort of cloudlike design, and then a countdown clock leading into the actual event.

Could've done without the Fear Factor toss to commercials though.
Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: tvrandywest on March 14, 2010, 09:04:56 PM: [quote name=\'robsearson\' post=\'236241\' date=\'Feb 20 2010, 05:29 PM\']... Am I crazy or is the upper audience tier actually a giant photo or some other simulation, and not actual people? ...[/quote]
Leading to the dying comedians' vaudeville joke from 75+ years ago: "Hey, is this an audience or an oil painting?"

Randy
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Title: Minute to Win It photo
Post by: tvmitch on March 15, 2010, 02:33:08 PM: My favorite use of the video wall on the premiere was the trippy adventure through the subliminal M&M time warp.