I am appreciating the contrasts between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian on all sorts of fronts, from amount-of-facial-expressions to costuming and verbiage and yadda yadda yadda. Good times.
I don't know about set photos but there are behind the scenes video clips on YouTube, the relative reality of which I kinda question.
The BTS stuff is promotional material. It's basically something I would characterize as "casual advertising" for the show and/or for the relative fandoms of our cast, many of whom have Other Media Personality Day Jobs like being in boybands and stuff. Is it scripted? Maybe not. Are they aware they're being filmed? Heck yeah.
Because of this, the BTS footage is, at best, real-adjacent and not "documentary real" but also even documentary real has kind of skidded off the rails these days with faux-umentary stuff like reality shows which are not real at all. Regardless of the cameraperson's goals for catching lightning in a jar, when the cameraperson hauls out the camera and starts aiming it at people, "reality" goes to hell anyway because it turns out we're like very large photons in that our behavior is very much affected by being observed. But I digress.
That said, some things in the BTS stuff are probably real-ish and one of the things that is probably real-ish is the fact that the actors are frequently holding small, battery-powered personal fans aimed at the only exposed skin that they have (neck and face). This is probably real-ish because (a) it looks dorky and (b) why on earth would anyone MAKE UP stuff to seem more dorky?
Other real-ish thing in the BTS footage: There is apparently an army of people who go around fluffing and straightening and arranging the hair inbetween takes to make it look so nice all the time. I found this delightful to know and also wow, I could not be an actor for TV or movies because there are way, way, way too many people in your personal space ALL THE TIME when they're not actually filming you.
I do not have any problem at all with delightfully skinny boyos and have not had a problem with them since... since... since the nekkidGackt cellphone commercial. (Also this was when I became fundamentally disappointed with American advertisements because we did not have ethereally pretty nekkidGackt selling us stuff. Greatest country in the world my ass.)
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I don't know about set photos but there are behind the scenes video clips on YouTube, the relative reality of which I kinda question.
The BTS stuff is promotional material. It's basically something I would characterize as "casual advertising" for the show and/or for the relative fandoms of our cast, many of whom have Other Media Personality Day Jobs like being in boybands and stuff. Is it scripted? Maybe not. Are they aware they're being filmed? Heck yeah.
Because of this, the BTS footage is, at best, real-adjacent and not "documentary real" but also even documentary real has kind of skidded off the rails these days with faux-umentary stuff like reality shows which are not real at all. Regardless of the cameraperson's goals for catching lightning in a jar, when the cameraperson hauls out the camera and starts aiming it at people, "reality" goes to hell anyway because it turns out we're like very large photons in that our behavior is very much affected by being observed. But I digress.
That said, some things in the BTS stuff are probably real-ish and one of the things that is probably real-ish is the fact that the actors are frequently holding small, battery-powered personal fans aimed at the only exposed skin that they have (neck and face). This is probably real-ish because (a) it looks dorky and (b) why on earth would anyone MAKE UP stuff to seem more dorky?
Other real-ish thing in the BTS footage: There is apparently an army of people who go around fluffing and straightening and arranging the hair inbetween takes to make it look so nice all the time. I found this delightful to know and also wow, I could not be an actor for TV or movies because there are way, way, way too many people in your personal space ALL THE TIME when they're not actually filming you.
I do not have any problem at all with delightfully skinny boyos and have not had a problem with them since... since... since the nekkidGackt cellphone commercial. (Also this was when I became fundamentally disappointed with American advertisements because we did not have ethereally pretty nekkidGackt selling us stuff. Greatest country in the world my ass.)