frankenbite

plural frankenbites

1. alternativeAlternative form of Frankenbite.

   We're all very aware of the possibilities of editing, or the use of frankenbites, but for some people, they seem completely oblivious to their own behavior and are dedicated to expressing how [insert fall person/editing device] is really to blame.

   2014 April 1, Kendra Koger, “It Wasn't Me: 14 Reality Stars Who Avoid Blame”, in Madame Noire

present singular third person frankenbites · participle present frankenbiting · participle past frankenbited · past frankenbited

1. alternativeAlternative form of Frankenbite.

   Shows such as The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent now acknowledge that producers’ votes count for more than judges’: footage is pejoratively edited; conversations are “frankenbited” to manufacture stories; and some singers are pitch-corrected.

   2015 July 18, “Made In Chelsea, Lookalikes, UnREAL: how reality television got weird”, in The Guardian

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   Thank goodness it wasn't a live show. None of the contestants or stage crew were present, and the studio remained fairly quiet. The show was pre-taped, the clips already chosen and the conversations stitched together by frankenbiting, which made them about as fake as you could get.

   2014, Julie Moffett, No Biz Like Showbiz: A Lexi Carmichael Mystery, →ISBN

plural Frankenbites

1. An audio clip on reality TV that appears to be a single, contiguous interview line, but is in fact built from several disparate recorded audio clips edited together.

   Editors work together with writers to splice together lines in what are known as "Frankenbites" to help create storylines with more comedic or dramatic impact.

   2015, Peter B. Orlik, Media Criticism in a Digital Age, →ISBN

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   The "they sign up for this" part of the quote seems to refer specifically to cast members, but Pozner uses the Frankenbite example to reinforce the fact that viewers are being lied to as well, manipulated into seeing a reality that was never really there and buying into whatever moral judgment is neatly manufactured by that contrivance.

   2018, Lucas Mann, Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV, →ISBN

present singular third person Frankenbites · participle present Frankenbiting · participle past Frankenbited · past Frankenbited

1. To edit the audio footage of a reality TV show to combine several disparate audio clips into what appears to be a single line of dialogue.

   People can be 'Frankenbited'; their words taken out of context and edited in a certain way.

   2010, Katherine Lapworth, Get On TV, →ISBN

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   We don't Frankenbite things, meaning we don't take 10 words from 10 different sentences and put them together.

   2012 September 19, Steve Pond, “'Survivor' Host Jeff Probst: Who Needs Emmys When You've Got 25 Seasons?”, in The Wrap

   I don't know anyone who feels that it is wrong to Frankenbite if the essence of what is being said matches the essence of the story.

   2016, Annette Danto, Mobina Hashmi, Lonnie Isabel, Think/Point/Shoot: Media Ethics, Technology and Global Change, →ISBN