Yang Chaoyue and Hou Minghao fall in love at public expense, creating a love script for “drama variety show”

Let the audience chase variety shows while chasing love idol dramas

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Text/Gong Weifeng, All Media Reporter, Yangcheng Evening News

Recently, video platforms such as iqiyi, Youku, Tencent Video, and Mango TV have released 2021 variety shows. The love variety section includes “Love Observation Variety N Generation” such as “Like You, Me Too 3”, “Let’s Fall in Love 3”, “Heart Signal 4”, “Daughter’s Love 4” and other “Love Observation Varieties”, but also “new trends” appear— -“Let’s write love”, “Parallel time and space meet you”, “33-day limited lovers” and other “dramatic variety shows”, openly create “love scripts”, allowing audiences to chase variety shows while chasing love idol dramas.

Popular “drama style” elements in love observation variety shows

As the name implies, “drama-style variety show” is a model that incorporates “drama” elements into “variety show”, aiming to allow the agenda setting of variety show to interact with the plot of the drama. If you put aside the second live interaction of the celebrity guest observation group, the core elements of this model were clearly presented as early as the first scene of love observation variety shows such as “Sign of Heart” and “Daughters’ Love”.

“Signal of Heart 3”, which ended in November last year, took the life details and emotional trends of six single men and women in Chengdu “Signal House” as the main body of the first scene, with Zhang Han, Qi Wei, and Yang Chaoyue as observers Discuss and interpret the emotional problems between amateurs in the second scene, and lead the audience to eat sugar and melon together. In the program, the process of meeting, acquaintance, acquaintance, and love of the unfamiliar guests is like a love idol drama: first the protagonist’s occupation and age are presented, and then his personality is presented during the guests’ relationship, and then the problems are exposed during the continuous dating process. Solve the problem, and finally test whether the two hold hands successfully in the ultimate date.

The “Daughters’ Love” has a stronger “dramatic sense”. The show uses the process of Xiao Yaxuan and Huang Hao, who are in love with the love couple, and the process of seeking love for the three single female stars of Jin Chen, Jin Sha and Zhang Doudou. Come to “chasing drama” and “substitution sense”. In the show, the three actresses “simulated a romantic relationship” with Zhang Jike, Gunn Sihan, Casper and others. Take Jin Chen as an example. She dated three people separately. Among them, her date with Casper attracted a lot of attention-the two played bowling, billiards, fishing, watching movies, doing magic, and juggling in the show. The dating section of the love idol drama was perfectly reproduced in the show. In the end, the finale of the two “successful hand in hand” made it into the hot search list of Weibo.

“Parallel Space and Time Meets You” as a “drama variety show” proofing

Although many love observation variety shows have obvious plot-oriented colors, they are not standard “dramatic variety shows”. The recently broadcast “Parallel Time and Space Meets You” is a sample of this type. The show combines a two-line combination of variety show and idol drama. Two or two teams of six artists and guests work together to create idol scripts, then make short plays and broadcast them, bringing audiences a “live-on-set” viewing experience and An idol drama version of “immersive love.”

One big difference between “Parallel Time and Space Meet You” and the previous love observation variety shows is that the guests do not undertake the task of dating, do not need to date or fake love in their own name, but express their love views through the creation of idol dramas. In the program, the artists and guests after forming the team need to create a short drama together: discussing the script, writing lines, selecting the scene, shooting… Each episode of the program will broadcast one episode, each episode is about 15 minutes. Yang Chaoyue and Hou Minghao created the youth idol drama “I Will Remember You”, a campus couple became “familiar strangers” because of a series of accidents; Qin Lan and Liu Yihao created “You Are the Secret of My Time”, The actresses and modern directors of the Republic of China staged a love that travels through time and space; Li Yitong and Wang Yanlin’s “If Love Has a Taste” is full of comedy, and the chefs and dancers with star dreams encourage people to love bravely.

What’s interesting is that the actors’ interpretation of love can be clearly seen in the show. Take the idol drama created by Yang Chaoyue and Hou Minghao as an example. This drama has an obvious youth campus color, and their understanding of love is also in line with their 20-year-old temperament. In order to find creative inspiration, the two walked into the campus, changed into school uniforms and went to the playground, canteen, classroom and other scenes to experience life. In the series created by the two, there are classic campus romance scenes such as girls sitting in the back seat of boys’ bicycles and girls sending water to boys playing basketball. In addition, young people’s beautiful imaginations of love such as sending love letters, encounters, and wall kisses are also essential.

The production cycle of “Parallel Time Meets You” is longer than that of a regular variety show, because the show not only has a reality show, but also produces three 9-episodes short dramas. The artist is responsible for providing the script and completing the shooting tasks, while the service and post-production need to be completed by the program team.

“Theatrical variety show” is not limited to telling love stories

In addition to the already aired “Parallel Time Meets You”, at least two other “drama variety shows”, “Let’s Write Love” and “33 Days Limited Lovers” will meet the audience this year. According to the introduction in the variety show list, “Let’s Write Love” is an interactive reality show for screenwriters and experience dramas: celebrity partners jointly incubate romance scripts with new identities. The show records three groups of star screenwriters completing immersive script creation The whole process. After the script is completed, it will be performed by a new actor or himself, presenting a complete film and television work. And “33 Days Limited Lovers” features a star limited love reality show: 4 pairs of star on-screen couples, after walking from the scene to the outside, start 33 days of real life imaginary love. There is no doubt that the romantic atmosphere of the future “drama variety show” will still be strong.

It is worth mentioning that there are already “drama-style variety shows” that have broken away from pure love elements and expanded to a wider space. The online variety “Under the Same Roof” that is being broadcast is also a drama variety show. The program revolves around the lives and social interactions of young people today, exposing the anxiety of survival under social competition. In 105 days, it records the “shared” life of six amateur guests under the same roof. Guests such as Li Dan, Chen Jianbin, Wei Daxun, Deng Ziqi, etc., A “chasing drama” observation was conducted on the six amateurs.

At the production level, “Under the Same Roof” features no script concept. The six amateur guests live their lives. What the program team has to do is record, edit, and present. When the show is presented, it has obvious drama-style variety attributes, recording the ordinary lives of a group of people: going to work, going off work, cooking, chatting, sports, and also recording attractive plot conflicts: scenes that violate the co-tenancy agreement, about ” The quarrel about who will wash the dishes, the ambiguity between men and women, etc. The picture of “Under the Same Roof” is also very clean, simplifying the elements of flower characters, barrage, special effects and sound in conventional variety shows, and the lens expression is closer to documentary.

“Under the Same Roof” in which amateurs sang the leading role also attracted some questions from the audience. Many people think that the amateur guests show signs of performance in front of the camera, which cannot reflect their real life and thoughts. At the same time, they are also worried about the rendering effect of “33 Days Limited Lovers” in the future. In contrast, actors such as “Meeting You in Parallel Time” and “Let’s Write Love” are more easily accepted by the audience as screenwriters. Some audiences bluntly said: “I would rather kill the emotional script. Become a love variety show, and don’t want to watch real people pretend to be in love.”

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