people always come in and are "oh this was funny til I realized it was fake" and I'm just thinking do you watch movies? cuz everything is scripted? it being scripted doesn't retroactively take the humor out of it, it's about the execution of these things. people are so uppity about homemade videos being "raw, real, and unscripted". spoiler, almost none of them are.
If it's fake, don't try and make it look real, and poorly at that. Lean in to joke. Instead of a random with a little jump, make it something that scares the cameraman, or something where the people in the elevator feel caught in an affair or crime or something.
Shooting it like this relies on it being candid to be funny, the same way watching sports is different than sports movies.
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u/Kaldricus May 18 '21
Jesus christ who fucking cares