They’ve answered one Traitor’s question today, about how the filming of the murders happen.
Sounds like the turret scenes are not a set!
Transcript (AI generated so there may be spelling issues!)
MH “Can I ask you one Traitor's question, please?
RO: Yes, because we're doing a bonus episode with lots of Traitor's questions.
Because the sheer deluge, holding back our metaphorical door. Josephine Bradley says, I can't get my head around how and when the murder is done. We see Claudia leave the letter on the chair once voting has happened, and then the murdered contestant picks it up from the chair.
MH: But people seem to leave and arrive in groups in the Land Rovers, and they arrive in groups to the breakfast room. How do they choreograph the sort of leaving and departures and all of that business then?
RO: Well, everyone lives in their own separate accommodation, and everyone's driven in separate vehicles, just so you can't ever say, it was interesting that John didn't come home last night.
MH: They're like a band that have fallen out of separate limo stages of life.
RO: Exactly, separate limos. And if you're one of the murderers, then your Range Rover simply does a few laps around the block until all the Range Rovers have gone.
MH: The block is quite big in the Highlands though, isn't it?
RO: The block is very big, exactly.
MH: You could be driving by in Venice.
RO: Exactly. And so they will come around and they will then come back to the house, park up, and they will then film the discussions about the murder. You will, right at the end of the whole series, anyone who has been a traitor at any point will go back and film lots of other little shots of them just walking and talking, you know, just establishing shots.
MH: All that interstitial bit with the hoods in the...
RO: Yeah, exactly. So they're not having to do any of that on the time. Yeah, so the cars will all leave as if they're going to where they're going.
Three of the cars, or two of the cars, will then circle back, go back to the turret, film the stuff and then take them back to their place. The actual murders, the one thing you always see the person coming in and looking at the bit of paper with their name on it, that will always be shot afterwards as well.
MH: Well, they're in different clothes for that, so next morning and not. But the great thing about that is, which I'm so relieved as a perennial watcher of reality TV is when they've just come out of, they're still coming down off their round table, you don't have people go in and burst into tears. I really like the fact that on that show, you don't have to watch people just heave through tears and snort and whatever while they're explaining what they've been.
RO: As so often in-game shows, the truth of the story is always there, but occasionally there will be shots that they do afterwards because you cannot do everything at the time, because every single shot you do takes about an hour to set up, and so the actual mechanics of the day have to continue.
Occasionally things are shot out of order just because you have to be making a television show. But we will have loads more Traitors questions on our bonus episode, which will come out tomorrow.