Beware Of Hidden Cameras

Answer 1

Hidden cameras have been made to make many hit TV shows. It’s the best way to capture people being their most natural, and many times, their scariest. Older shows like candid camera purposely set people up in different funny situations so that the camera could record the people as they would react to such a situation. This allowed for natural reactions by the people but the situations themselves were often bizarre and not likely to happen in real life.

There are shows now that feature people on camera during real situations that aren’t staged or planned. True crime shows often show footage of criminals in the act of committing a crime at a convenience store, even in scenarios where the clerk was shot. This kind of gritty footage is something that is painful, but fascinating, to watch for most viewers. It’s for this reason that shows like that continue to exist. People can’t stop watching other people being people.

Real police chases are featured on television. People love to tune into high speed chases narrated by the police officers themselves sometimes. When we watch, we get a sense that we’re there when it’s happening. It’s unbelievable, yet there it is, happening right in front of our eyes.

Hidden cameras are all around the world. People know they’re there; they just don’t see them. Many large cities have cameras on every street, capturing crimes in progress. Sometimes the hidden camera helps to catch a criminal. Other times it simply documents something tragic.

Cameras are a big part of daily life now. There’s always a camera on somewhere, hidden, waiting to catch everything you do on film and broadcast it at a later date if it needs to be broadcast. Most of the time hidden camera footage is taken and then discarded, showing nothing but people doing boring things that people do: Stand around, eat, chew gum, and talk. Television’s hidden cameras often make us laugh, hidden camera footage on the news often makes us cry. No matter what reaction a hidden camera’s work gets from us, they will continue to exist today and for as long as cameras and people exist.