I’m watching a show about the bomb plot to kill Hitler – I think the series is called “Virtual History”. They’re doing recreations, but instead of the usual recreations with actors, they are morphing real images of the prinicple characters over the actor’s head. Unfortunately the real image looks totally un-animated, making them all look like zombies.
The other stupid thing they’re doing is trying to make the recreations look like historical movies by using bad colour, hissy sound and fake “damage” (scratches, dirt, pops and splices) on both the video and audio. No good can come of that.
I’ve seen bits of this series on Discovery in the UK and its being pushed as a “groundbreaking” series.
I’ve taken one look at it and promptly ignored it for much the same reasons as you give above.