Married At First Sight star calls out the show for devious editing trick

Former Married At First Sight star Daniel Holmes has called out the show for its use of a sneaky editing technique that allows producers to ‘twist’ words.

The 31-year-old shared a clip to Instagram of Bronte discussing her relationship with Harrison during Sunday night’s commitment ceremony.

In the video, Bronte explained: ‘I guess for me when I said I wanted to leave, it was because I was scared’. 

However, the tone and volume of her voice changed when she said ‘I was scared’.

Daniel explained: ‘MAFS do this thing where they don’t show you talking and just play audio. They stitch words together you’ve said in other conversations.’

‘Trust me when I say you should not believe a single thing you see on this show in terms of who you think the villains and hero’s are.’

This technique called ‘Frankenbiting’ refers to when various audio snippets are mashed together in post-production to form a new sentence.

Some critics of the method claim it allows post-producers to make it look like somebody said something they didn’t actually say or mean.

However, people who work behind the scenes of TV insist the technique is only used sparingly to ‘tidy up’ messy dialogue or make conversations more concise.

Jaala Webster, the head of post-production for ITV Studios Australia, recently said ‘Frankenbiting’ has its limits and editors ‘don’t have the capacity’ to make someone look like a ‘villain’ unless they were actually behaving badly.

‘[Frankenbiting] is basically where you might take different parts of what someone has said, and you can make a cleaner sentence, which is generally what we use it for,’ she said, according to TV Tonight.

‘I can’t Frankengrab you together having a fight with someone. I don’t have the capacity to do that. So if you look back in the edit, it’s probably because you did say or do something not so great.’

While Ms Webster acknowledged ‘music choices’ and the juxtaposition of scenes can affect how a person’s behaviour is portrayed, it’s almost impossible to make a genuinely nice person into the bad guy using ‘Frankenbiting’ alone.

‘I have very rarely been able to make someone more villainous, or questionable in their behaviour, than they were actually being,’ she said.