TV Tonight recently posed some Hunted questions on Hunted to Director of Content, Endemol Shine Australia Marty Benson and Paramount’s Head of Creative Production & Entertainment Tamara Simoneau.
Why do HQ staff wear the same clothes every episode?
MB: It’s two reasons. An investigation can take days and. So for the edit, it helps if they’re in the same clothes. But also it keeps them being easily identifiable because these people aren’t really well known. We’re trying to this year just not focus on too many of them in the HQ. But sometimes they just spent days and trawling through social media just looking for the smallest clue. So it helps us in the edit for them to be wearing the same clothes.
Is HQ real?
MB: I can tell you it’s a set. And I can tell you that it’s not in that building that you might see. I’m a very transparent man. But it does feel like it and seem like it which is good, but it’s not.
TS: All the things work, they’re real computers. They’re not fake typing on a monitor. The lady who is tracking the CCTV is really there working that. So those things all work. It’s just more that the high rise is not (the building).
If the use of ATM cars is simulated does that mean somebody from the crew notifies HQ when they have been used?
MB: Yes. Correct. There’s somebody with the crew. There’s an embedded producer / director that films the people on the run, but there’s also a follow crew that follow people and it’s their job just to get the CCTV footage. And also to get things like a people’s consent. So if somebody’s on camera, and they say, ‘Yeah, I’ll give you a lift’ or they let someone use their phone, once they run away we can hold onto these people and get their consent.
They’re called trigger points. The production is so strict that the people that work with the Fugitives never know and never crossover with the people who work with the Hunters. They’re actually in different offices. So it’s very, very strict.
Hunted continues 7pm Sunday then 7:30pm Monday and Tuesday on 10.
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