The most ridiculous part is near the end where a guy gets dragged out of a car by a Bigfoot and there's a handheld reverse shoot, with a (clearly human operated) zoom from inside the car! Where there was literally no way to hide a camera that could also zoom that way. Plus, you can notice all of the things I mentioned before, like perfect reverse shots with cameras veery close to the actors and shaky handheld footage. There's people in the woods, with nowhere to hide a camera in a downhill wood so that it is perfectly at eye level. That sound legit, because you could hide a very big camera under a fake mirror and the camera operator could have come out only because the prank was ended, so I decided to watch another episode. This last thing happens right after gaten has revealed everyone that it was a prank, and he explains that cameras where hidden behind the fake mirrors. Camera following the "victims", zooming in, keeping perfect focus with a shallow depth of field, all with a superb image quality.īonus: at the end of the first episode, when gaten explains the prank, you can easily see an operator's reflection in the mirror! Fourth: camera level is almost always at eye level, because they're being operated by cameramen! Otherwise it would be really stupid to hide a camera at eye level where it is so easy to spot Fifth: REVERSE SHOTS! They somehow achieved perfect reverse shots, where all the points above are combined. Also, a hidden cameras would presumably have to be small, and a smaller sensor means a narrower depth of field, while the images here have beautiful and shallow depth of field. Again, if you're familiar enough with videomaking you will quickly notice that they're probably filming with 50mm-70mm lenses, and you can also tell that the cameras are WAY too close to the "victims" to be hidden cameras. Second: you can often see A LOT of pans and a lot of zooms, so you either have a remote controlled camera which can also zoom and adjust focus (which would be really hard to hide since its size would somehow be relevant) Third: focal length and depth of field. First: most of the shots look handheld, you can clearly see the camera waving because it is being held by an operator and it's not mounted on a tripod or a static support. Two temps cross paths on an isolated stretch of road that has claimed many lives in car crashes because of an angry monster that lives in the surrounding forest. By the time they show up, we’re super confident they are the right person.The show and the host state that it is a very ambitious show with hidden cameras everywhere, but if you have enough experience you quickly notice something is very wrong. A hilarious prank with quality actors and two unsuspecting victims. “Unlike most prank shows, we go through a process for them to do a one-day gig,” says Healey. It’s business as usual until their paths collide and these part-time jobs turn into full-time nightmares.” UPDATE, Tuesday, June 18 at 10:34 a.m.: A spokesperson for Netflix reached out to Decider to clarify that the participants in Prank Encounters were aware they were volunteering for a one-day. The initial description released by Netflix said “each episode of this terrifying and hilarious prank show takes two complete strangers who each think they’re starting their first day at a new job. Participants are told they may be filmed while completing their gig, but no one seems to question why a camera would be rolling. “The idea is that these are two people who never met and have no idea they are going to become stars.” “Every episode is a 20-minute short film with two people who don’t know they are going to become stars of that short film,” explains Healey. Matarazzo wears multiple disguises so he can participate in the pranks. Over eight episodes, unsuspecting marks are “hired” to perform relatively low-skill tasks, be it a babysitting gig or helping out an insurance adjuster at a crash site. They were compensated for being part of something pretty special.” We make very clear to everyone that it’s a one-night assignment. “In the show we do make clear they are one-night assignments,” Healey tells EW. Despite an initial rush of controversy over how the participants or “marks” were lured into participating, Prank Encounters drops today on Netflix and features a bunch of unsuspecting folks who “got paid” and “left super happy.”Įxecutive produced by veteran prankster Kevin Healey ( Scare Tactics, Betty White’s Off Their Rocker) and Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo, the show was initially dinged on social media for preying on folks who were simply looking for work. Prank Encounters is an American comedy web television series, which made its debut in October 2019.Hosted by Gaten Matarazzo, who plays the role of Dustin Henderson in the Netflix original show, Stranger Things, it is a prank show that follows the concept of two strangers that are unwittingly introduced to each other by show actors, under the ruse of a tryout for a new job.
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