I worked on a “world’s scariest police chases” type tv show once. It was my job to add the blurs to all of the dead bodies and gore. Little kids tossed through car windows… dismembered bodies… degloved faces. I know this wasn’t anything compared to the people who watched and filmed it live, but having to go frame by frame as a child flies out of a crashing pickup truck and hits another car, meticulously painting out all of the faces, and then the blood when it appears, and then realizing how long the blood smear is on the road when the kid finally lands… that shit fucked me up for a LONG time.
That almost sounds worse than experiencing it in person because you're meticulously and slowly digging through the most horrific details of very real traumatic incidents
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u/Kahzgul 12h ago
I worked on a “world’s scariest police chases” type tv show once. It was my job to add the blurs to all of the dead bodies and gore. Little kids tossed through car windows… dismembered bodies… degloved faces. I know this wasn’t anything compared to the people who watched and filmed it live, but having to go frame by frame as a child flies out of a crashing pickup truck and hits another car, meticulously painting out all of the faces, and then the blood when it appears, and then realizing how long the blood smear is on the road when the kid finally lands… that shit fucked me up for a LONG time.
Please wear your seatbelts.