That is NOT what happened.. Of course people don't iunderstand this..

They covered some of that in Inside the episode 3.

When he thinks "then suddenly it dropped out" it usually means he wasn't heeding what the experts were telling him was likely to happen. Getting his one-sided version about anything requires a lot of guessing on the readers part what the truth is.

He got film over digital after holding his breath and stomping his feet. Worst thing to happen to him, because he probably thought that million dollar house would "suddenly" change to $5 thousand as well if he just waited long enough.

I hope that there will be more interviews from the members of the show along with Jason. Effie has been out for the past month giving her side of things. Now that the final episode is playing, along with the actual product, I hope some of the others will give interviews. Rashomon-style. I think Jason was unfairly portrayed as being difficult when he was just trying to do his best, and seemed to do a pretty good job on the shooting of the movie. The script may have been lacking, but given the time constraints to take a short film script into a full-length feature film, that is no surprise. And given its shoot location (100% union costs), its high production values (mansions, wardrobe, props), it seems to me like they did as good a job as one could do under these circumstances with this budget.

The episode from a few weeks ago (first called Hot Ghetto Mess then changed to The Pivot due to last minute deletion of a scene) prompted an interview from Effie in Variety, where she admits that she did something she didn’t agree with, and she decided to call Jason and apologize and try to make it right. I think it was whatever they took out of the episode, although it might be the fact that she said he was wrong when he told her that she said he could have the car crash the way he originally wanted it.

But she did tell Variety that she stood by her comment to Damon in the first episode and her interaction with Farrelly, but that “you’ve got to take ownership. What happens in this next episode, that’s not who I am as a producer. .... When I saw it I called Jason and talked about it and we’re going to meet later to smooth everything out."

The show almost presented it like the location was locked one or 2 days just before the start of the shoot (I imagine that make very little sense).

I think many assumed that is was staged, all those scene with talking head saying : If Jason does not agree we will choose for him, and him agreeing without any fight was not that convincing acting on is part.

Same for the location for the stunt choose just 1-2 day before it, when you need a permit to close the street and everything. I guess that was also just part of the show.

I would also assume that all the film-digital drama was planned by the show, it is a nice one, a popular one, etc... All the previous greenlight project were shoot on film with smaller budget than this one, how could it become a big issue all of the sudden (and the show didn't show any issue with the film decision during the shoot neither) ?

I would imagine it is all for the tv-reality drama to make those seen as very last minute, when it is probably locked in advance to get thing ready in the reality.

Yeah. Meanwhile, you have the location scout and producer Marc all saying on camera that it was because of Jason's procrastination that they had less time. So, I suppose that they're both liars.


".....edited to make Jason look bad."

Oh, GMAFB. Why would anyone want to purposely make him look bad. They're all there for him. This is his movie.



Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!

Of course it was edited for the purposes of portraying drama. I've never seen a reality show, except maybe for "Cops", that hasn't been edited in a way that was pre-determined to squeeze as much conflict and drama out of every episode as possible.

Smooth sailing and everyone holding hands and singing doesn't create enthralling television... at least not in the minds of most producers. I think that "Face Off" may be the only other reality competition show that I can think of off the top of my head that doesn't try to artificially amp up the drama. All of the contestants on that show have been consistently shown to be decent folks who actually jump in and help their competitors when needed.

Thanks for posting the link to the article. Good read. :)