The Married At First Sight star calls out the show for a devious editing stunt, urging fans to ‘not believe anything you see’
Former Married At First Sight star Daniel Holmes has criticized the show for its use of a sneaky editing technique that allows producers to “twist” words.
The 31-year-old shared a clip on Instagram of Bronte discussing her relationship with Harrison during their commitment ceremony on Sunday night.
In the video, Bronte explained: “I guess for me when I said I wanted to leave, it was because I was scared.”
However, the tone and volume of his voice changed when he said ‘I was afraid’.
Daniel explained: ‘MAFS does this thing where they don’t show you talking and just play audio. They match words that you have said in other conversations.
The former Married At First Sight star has criticized the show for a devious editing stunt and urged fans “not to believe anything you see.” In the photo Claire Nomarhas
“Trust me when I say that you shouldn’t believe anything you see on this show in terms of who you think the villains and the heroes are.”
This technique called ‘Frankenbiting’ refers to when multiple pieces of audio are mixed together in post-production to form a new sentence.
Some critics of the method claim that it allows post-producers to make it appear as if someone said something they didn’t actually say or mean.
However, people who work behind the scenes of television insist that the technique is only used sparingly to “fix” messy dialogue or make conversations more concise.
Daniel Holmes wrote on Instagram: ‘MAFS does this where they don’t show you speaking and just play audio. Match words you’ve said in other conversations’
She also shared a clip on Instagram of Bronte discussing her relationship with Harrison during their commitment ceremony on Sunday night. In the video, Bronte explained: “I guess for me when I said I wanted to leave, it was because I was scared.” However, the tone and volume of her voice changed when she said ‘I was afraid’.
Jaala Webster, director of post-production at ITV Studios Australia, recently said that ‘Frankenbiting’ has its limits and that editors ‘do not have the ability’ to make someone look like a ‘villain’ unless they are misbehaving.
“(Frankenbiting) is basically where you can take different parts of what someone has said, and you can make a clearer sentence, which is generally what we use it for,” he said, according to TV Tonight.
‘I can’t Franken catch them together having a fight with someone. I don’t have the ability to do that. So if you look back at the edit, it’s probably because you said or did something not so great.
While Ms Webster acknowledged that ‘musical choices’ and juxtaposition of scenes can affect how a person’s behavior is portrayed, it’s nearly impossible to turn a genuinely nice person into the bad guy using ‘Frankenbiting’ alone.
“Very rarely have I been able to make someone more villainous or questionable in their behavior than they really were,” he said.
“Trust me when I say that you shouldn’t believe anything you see on this show in terms of who you think the villains and the heroes are,” Daniel said.
