TV auction programmes

[Dom Tuk]

I was watching an afternoon BBC auction programme when it struck me that perhaps the bids captured on the camera are not always for the item that is being auctioned. If not then the programme makers would have to have many cameras trained on every face in the hall to capture the instant the bid is made. On the show there is no jerky camera motion. So do they just take many shots of bidders and with clever deft editing lay it on the sountrack for the item being bid. Any TV producers on AB that can clarify.

[gavinbecky]

Clever editing. It's the ol one two trick. An interviewer with a cameraman/woman. Then wide shots of the interviewer nodding taken later. Mixed in it looks like two cameras are there. I use that method a lot in home movies too. Also use a reaction shot to something that isn't even related to it. ie camera on man laughing to a comedian's joke about a hat. Then camera focused on comedian as he tells joke about a scarf. The shot of the man who earlier laughed at the hat joke is mixed in immediately after the scarf joke. Looks great. Looks like two cameras were there..