Observation about White Collar - USA TV Show

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So I like the show White Collar, on USA. However, there is one annoying pattern I’ve observed.

A lot of the scenes involving Tiffany Theissen involve her and her husband having a conversation - in person or on the phone. What’s unusual is that most of her scenes appear to involve blue-screen backgrounds, as opposed to everybody else. Not the ones in the house set, but anything in a restaurant or on the street, you can bet it’s blue screen (or is it green screen now?).

You can tell by the lighting, it just looks off. Also, what stands out to me is that her face looks distorted in all of those scenes. It’s like her face is really lopsided, which exaggerates the visual disparity.

Does anyone know what that’s about? Is it that the show is mostly filmed in, say, New York and she lives in LA? Why is it just her scenes that are this way? It’s only her scenes.

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She was in LA…being all pregnant. And it was really distracting.

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Or more exactly, not being pregnant anymore (last season, they hid her behind things).

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Yeah, last night was the first time she’s been back, and she was in the house with Peter and again with Mozzie.

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So my guess is correct and they film in New York, but she was in LA? Thanks for the info on the pregnancy.

Let’s see if they still do the crappy bluescreening. Yeah, they have people walking around in the backgrounds, but it still looks crappy.

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What everyone else said, but I’d like to add that during several of those scenes they also adjusted her aspect ratio- I guess her face got too full during her pregnancy, so they decided to artificially slim her down. It did *not *work. I can’t tell you what the characters talked about during those scenes because I was too distracted by the painfully bad greenscreen.

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I was wondering the same thing. Most of her scenes were her talking to Peter while she was elsewhere on a cell phone or over a web cam.

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Does anyone else think the guy who play Peter might have dentures? I keep hearing a weird lisp/whistling thing when he talks. Dentures/speech impediment/USA audio crappiness. Also, while Matt Bomer is such nice eye candy, I hear that he ain’t for the ladies.

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Interesting about Matt Bomer’s orientation, though not surprising if true. Have you noticed how sometimes he looks like he is fresh off a bender–red-rimmed eyes, gaunt, etc.? He also went through a period of being cringe-worthy thin; his clothes were just hanging off him. As for the dentures on Peter…I have two episodes recorded but not watched, I’ll have to check that out.

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Lightnin’ said:

THANK YOU! That’s what I was trying to say.

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Yeah, they did such a shitty job of sticking her in those eps, and her part was so unimportant, they’d have been far better off just leaving her out of the show until she was ready to really come back.

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I don’t know about that. There’s something to be said about a show that shows a loving marriage that isn’t based upon the man being a complete idjit. Yeah, her part didn’t really do much to interact with the main storyline, but it does flesh out Peter.

I just think the digital stuff was horribly executed and detracted from the suspension of disbelief.