As it reaches a new stage of reality, it dreams bigger.
So we're definitely at the "see-what-we-can-do-with-virtual-reality" stage of virtual reality.
In a very literal sense, all films have documentary aspects: once the camera is turned on, whatever is captured, no matter how staged, contains a trace of reality, an element of chance.
By doing so, he stages a fake perception of reality that unveils itself as a dynamic and decadent landscape.
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart When 22-year-old Pamela Smart stood trial 23 years ago for plotting the murder of her husband, Gregory, the case — which became the first fully televised, gavel-to-gavel court trial — helped set the stage for the birth of reality TV.
In the wake of staged reality shows, this is staged unreality, with the canny Scots duo attempting mass hoodwinks, like convincing the people of Stamford in Lincolnshire that their picturesque town has been observed by aliens for years, and now the greys want to make contact.
On Monday, though, his party's communications director, Pia Gulbrandsen, admitted that the video, in which only mild disagreements with the prime minister were voiced, obeyed the conventions of staged reality television rather than those of observational documentary.
So Mr. Scheib is able to summon only two levels of reality on stage, but he does so with panache.
When a couple of reality veterans staged a faux news event engrossing the nation in the flight of an empty balloon, all in the cause of resuming their reality careers, few were surprised.
At the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, fact and fiction combine in the same "blurring of reality and stage-managed illusion" that Ms. Kakutani, writing in The Times, described as a hallmark of both "Dutch" and Mr. Reagan's presidency.
The author finds humor and pathos in the tale of Tharpe's third marriage — a publicity stunt worthy of reality TV, staged on the field of Griffith Stadium in Washington and followed by a concert performed by Tharpe in her wedding dress.
