The experience is a bit daunting, because the recording takes much longer than expected, and the scene is more chaotic than in the feature film.
Music blogger “Dao Ruo Mu Yi” tweeted about the painful experience of participating in variety recording: “The most terrible variety recording has been recorded last year. To what extent is it chaotic? The competition system was discussed by the director at the scene. Dozens of players and hundreds of spectators were waiting there, and the recording was more than ten hours. This year is another one. I went in at three in the afternoon and could n’t carry it home at three in the morning. When asked, the artists recorded At six in the morning, it was too bitter to smell the pungent smell of poor decoration with makeup. “
Xiao Qiu, who has been to many variety recording scenes as a media, said to Poison Eyes, “When I participated in the finals of two idol draft shows, I basically arrived at the scene at 12 noon, and the fastest line was two or three hours. Enter, wait another two hours after entering, the recording may take more than five hours, and you can only stand still. This is still the treatment of the media. If you are a fan, you still need to hold a lantern, eat or drink, and take pictures. In another draft show, I also encountered audiences being repeatedly applauded by the directors to create an atmosphere. At that time, the air conditioner was broken in the summer. Hundreds of people were stuck in the shed and the experience was very poor.
The audience is still like this, For the staff who have been involved in variety show production for a long time, it is endlessly staying up all night . The overtime of variety shows is first and foremost determined by limited schedules and costs: popular artists have precious schedules and sign variety shows based on the number of days. In order to complete the recording within the schedule period stipulated in the contract, the program often has to fill up every shooting day. The rent, equipment, and labor costs are also settled on a daily basis. Recording is completed in the shortest possible period, which will inevitably lead to overtime work.
“Actually, this is the way to do it,” according to the director of the variety show Liu Cong, the shooting timeout is to reduce costs. “These cameras, lighting, and recordings are calculated by the day, so you shoot this day One point is also the money, and the whole day is also the money. Basically everyone thinks about cost savings, from early to late shooting-stars also count money by the day. “
Some contrast to the audience ’s perception is that Whether it is a “slow variety show” or an artist is required