That's why those of us who've worked in the media can have such critical eyes. We know how it's done, and will quickly be skeptical of a floor director's choice to use a tight shot, a 2 shot, or any other particular angle to cover certain things. A girlfriend of mine was a correspondent with CNN. After Bosnia, she quit her job. She was forced to use a particularly misleading shot, that she felt was unconscionably deceptive. She felt a day of reckoning was coming, and she preferred to face her creator with a clear conscious.
It can be hilarious sometimes because you can look at a promo shot, or a commercial, and the way it was edited, you had to know it was being pieced together from at least 75 different takes. {lol} The average public won't spot it or even have a clue that anything is amiss, but then you meet the director who shot it, and secretly take them aside and ask them how many takes they had to go through before they finally got something useable... and they'll usually roll their eyes and burst out laughing. {lol}
