User:Lordelver/the clarkson view

The Clarkson View is a theory, stating that anything you see, filmed by a camera, might be staged. While this may not always be true, it does compel viewers to apply some critisism before trusting what they see, without further proof.

The theory refers to the former host of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson. The Top Gear premesis was to provide a viewer with the feeling, that what they saw was in fact happening, though it often was not. An example of this would be the trans-european races the hosts of the show performed, traveling from A to B in various vehicles, to see which was the fast method of traveling. The camera crew would always be able to film the cars from along side the road (even with Clarkson traveling in the worlds fastest street-legal car). This of course would not be possible without pre/post filming of the process.