“The Amazing Race” has been setting up elaborate scavenger hunts around the world for almost 25 years now, but viewers don’t know half of it.
“It’s hard to actually portray how complicated it is on television,” head of photography Joshua Gitersonke told Thewrap of the Prolonged reality serieswhose recently aired season 37 has been nominated for six Emmys. “The show is based on the relationships, how difficult it is for competitors to get from place to place and do the events and manage other teams. But it does not really show that the camera and audio teams basically do everything as a competitor do while they also shoot a TV show, and make sure they do not pass by a taxi or run over by a bus in a random country.
Quite consciously rotated the camera herds among contestants when they travel all over the world because their number is reduced from 14 two-personal teams to a winning couple.
“Each section will have a new camera and audio team,” Gitersonke said. “It is only towards the end of the race, where when they have once gone through all the camera people, that they will again see a crew that they have run with. I do my best to do it as fairly as possible. You would be surprised to see how, in reality, what the camera and the sound people do – they run with 50 kilos of the camera.”
Gitersonke, who joined the CBS Reality Series as a camera operator in the 2010s
Season 17, has served as DP since season 30. ”I know exactly what everyone is
Going through, “he said.” Although it is an amazing, visceral experience, it is still a
Quite difficult. The people who work with the show are like high levels and fantastic cinematic photographers, because you have to be both to follow a real breed around the world, up hills and down hills, through cities. The show has
complete confidence, because the kinematographers mainly follow through them
I from place to place. The show transforms from a single camera, documentation
Tary-style show to a multi-cam-show minute by minute. Wherever they come,
Everyone must be really good at knowing when other people are nearby. “
A constant in the operators’ tool bag is the show’s classic zoom-in shot like
occurs when a team makes a costly mistake on the road and camera point
out their mistakes without warning competitors. “We’re pretty good about
Pan to things when they don’t pay attention, “Gitersonke said.” You
have only limited time to get the mistake or shoot them run off something
And then also pan up to the sign that says they should have run the other
way. I don’t think I’ve ever known any competitors that really noticed
the camera. They are in blinder, they do not pay attention to what we are
do most of the time, but everyone is trying time on these things so that
They do not telegraphy what competitors need to do. “
For season 37, the 14 teams competed more than 29,000 miles Through ten countries over three continents, careful to follow each country’s laws and customs. “All the crews work with the idea of respecting the country we are in,” Gitersonke said. “Most of us wear light pants and shirts with sleeves, so we don’t run with shorts and a t-shirt if the event occurs in a mosque or a church or a federal building or something like that. Everyone looks respectable.”
And after working with “taking” for 15 years, DP acknowledged that it is impossible to
Choose a favorite place. “With” the amazing breed “you can be in the most innocent country and ultimately see the most interesting,” he said. “We go to places where a regular holiday would not take you, or where you would not go if
You were a tourist. I always tell competitors that it is the best holiday you
cannot pay for. “
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