chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> studio guy Wrote:
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> > TV ads use fake food as props because they hold
> up
> > better under
> > hot lights during multiple takes if necessary.
> > There's a good story
> > about a popular soap opera actress back in the
> > 50's when they were
> > broadcast live and she actually tried to eat a
> > prop food sandwich
> > on camera not realizing it wasn't real. I tried
> > finding it on YouTube
> > but it's not there. Too bad.
>
> For legal reasons, the food shown in commercials
> is actually real, but it's heavily worked over by
> a "food stylist" whose job it is to make the food
> look as appetizing as possible.
>
> For that picture of a Big Mac, the stylist
> probably went through a few dozen packages of buns
> to find the best-shaped one, then glued (using
> Elmer's glue) each of the sesame seeds onto the
> top bun.
>
> The patties were browned (not cooked, just
> browned) using a propane torch, then placed on
> cardboard disks so that the grease wouldn't make
> the artfully arranged buns soggy. They were then
> painted with glycerin to give them that glistening
> shine.
>
> Other, similar tricks were used for the lettuce,
> pickles, special sauce and cheese.
>
> That's real food in that picture, but it's
> thoroughly inedible.
>
> See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjz_eiIX8k,
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8, or
> just search Google for "food styling for
> commercial advertisement".
i remember seeing a commrecial once where they made somebody eat glue