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A television reality show features talent culled from the ranks of
'ordinary' people, not professionally trained actors. Reality show
producers typically shoot hundreds of hours of footage per episode and
use creative editing to create a narrative thread. Subjects of a
reality show may be given some rudimentary directions offscreen, but the
point is to allow the performers to act and react as normally as
possible. A reality show is not to be confused with a documentary, in
which the subjects are asked to ignore the cameras and behave naturally.
Many reality show producers encourage participants to play to the
cameras as characters or use private taped conversations, called confessionals, as a form of narration.
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