Is there a script in the variety show?PDs say that

There is a script for variety shows, which is no longer secret for the audience. But what exactly does the script refer to and in depth? To what extent will those staff who are closest to Variety guests and commonly known as PDs participate in the "script"?

The "PD (Program Director)" says that it comes from South Korea, and it first refers to the director and producer of the show. However, even the PDs that appear in the show in the show will not have nothing to do with the program stories of the show.

In China, the concept of PD is closer to "Follow PD", and they have become the one who is closer to the star guests in the actual recording process. In the show, the PD should be responsible for grasping the guest's status, grasping the flash point when they recording, and making adjustments during the recording process at any time. The scene of celebrities calling on its Follow PD on the show has become more and more common.

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However, Follow PD has such a common and important function, but the audience knows very little about their work details.

The poisonous eyes talked with the three variety shows, trying to describe the work portrait of this profession: Why did they choose the professional path of variety PD? Are they really the "supervisor" of the entire script? What do they need to do at the moment when they are not watched by the audience outside the camera?

The following is their self -report-

Lian Zong PD Xiaoyu: You must be good at dealing with people

My university is in Hunan and studies radio and television. I have been watching Hunan Satellite TV's programs from a young age, so I went to the satellite TV variety show to be an intern at the end of my sophomore year. At that time, I did artist director and casting director.

The concept of domestic PD is completely different from Japan and South Korea. South Korea is like Luo Yingxi to be called a program PD. Their PD position basically corresponds to the level of the director of the domestic variety show. Our current Follow PD is different, basically pointing to the artist director.

In addition to the artist director, there is also a profession that can come into contact with the core content of the program, which is the screenwriter. Sometimes the latter will replace the former's functions, but the same is that all links need them to participate.

In the early stage, the large framework and link settings of the entire program were planned by the screenwriter; after the content of the entire program came out, the executive director joined in, and we jointly discussed the feasibility and then wrote a detailed record table book.

Talking about the PD profession, the audience may have some misunderstandings about us. I think that PD is friends with artists and amateur.

This judgment actually ignores the professional requirements of this function. Sometimes, some people even think that a PD is good or not, and the criterion for judgment is whether the person you bring can make him like it.

The first two guests I brought, netizens did not like it. At that time, everyone scolded us and scolded very unpleasant. And when we did a certain program before, a guest was exposed to some bad things, and his PD received a variety of private messages, saying "you are not a good thing." When I do a certain program and a certain program, many people will privately believe in the background, saying, "Please change the industry, you are not good every time you look for."

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The process of being a celebrity guest PD and the PD of an amateur guest is not the same.

When followed by stars, most of the PDs were "artist directors".

If it is a program to enter the shed, the time for us to establish a contact with the artist may be the first two or three days before the recording. Communicate with him the features that you want to bear on this episode, and what you want in this type of program The process of recording is not involved too much.

After the first issue of the record, we will talk to the artist for 10-15 minutes, talk about his feelings of participating in this issue, and see if there is any way to remove these bad feelings and good feelings in the next issue Add a little more.

I personally talk about the topics and events that will appear in the content of the show on the side. If the artist has a good expression in this regard, when the show is produced, I will pay attention to enlarging his expression in this regard.

Back to the main guest is the reality show of the amateur. We have determined that the two steps for candidates and promotion are actually in turn. Perhaps other love comprehensives, the main task of PD is to be an artist director of a guest during the filming, but when our team is doing such amateur emotional programs, we must also be responsible for the previous content planning, the intermediate casting of the intermediate period, Executive and later responsible editors.

Every year, the whole group is stationed in that city, and we are stationed in that city and find someone from the ground, online and cooperative channels. What we have done, including those who go downstairs at a large factory at 8 am, wait for the people who are waiting for them down from another large factory at 5 or 6 pm, if you have resources to enter the office building, we will still get it I will go to the building to do various activities, go to the stations of each floor to see if there is a person with a good relationship.

If there is a suitable person, we will spend a long time to establish a three to 4 months of connection with him, and gradually understand what his or her true personality is like. The first time you meet will not be the nature of the interview. He will drink afternoon tea where he likes to drink afternoon tea. In his familiar environment, talk about at least 3 hours. What happened deep in life. We will also keep in touch with the guests on our mobile phones, and we may talk once the next day when we are busy. In the later stage of the casting, when he was "very suitable for our guest", the frequency of meeting would be improved, and he might even go to his house. A friend of his friends came out to sing and play. What is the most authentic and natural and natural when working with people.

Then when the final shooting, this time will be very late, and there is no way to judge whether he is really suitable before the shot.

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After the first season of a certain program was broadcast, people who knew this IP had become more, and the people we could get in touch would become more. We feel that a reason for a person to be inappropriate may include "the demand is too utilitarian", "lack of investment, sincerity", etc., and some may make some mistakes when they are young. Discovering the most kind of choice is not to throw him in front of the public.

All the love shows may be in contact with the same wave of people. In my WeChat list, there are actually many people who may not be suitable for a certain program, but may be suitable for other love comprehensives. We also recommend each other because the positioning of each program is different.

Will and be good at dealing with people, it may be the ability to work for PD. Because we will encounter all kinds of people, we need to use skills to ensure the sincerity of ourselves to communicate with amateur, and we must ensure that what you want to create can be realized.

In a certain program, when I met a guest for the first time, I found that he was a person who was "afraid of trouble". In order to "open him" and make him feel that I am my own, I will try to stand on a front with him and tell him, "Teacher, when you meet with you last time, you are too cold. Everyone will I feel that you are not easy to contact, you don't want to cooperate with us. "He will slowly change, and when you contact us, you will become more" cheerful ".

Except for the differences in the workflow, the specific image of artists and amateur in our eyes is not much worse. We will look at ordinary people. Moreover, if you look at the artist as an amateur, I may have the opportunity to dig out more new highlights -this may be part of the show and I personally bring him.

Of course, there is another important difference that artists will have their own brokerage team, and there are no amateurs. Therefore, when the show was broadcast, when the amateur encountered online public opinion and was under pressure, we would have more responsibilities to stand with them and soothe emotions.

More than once, after the show was broadcast, an amateur guest called me very long. I also knew that he or she was not what it said on the Internet, but there was no way to comfort. People still live in real life. Go to real life.

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What is the most attractive to me in PD is that it is very important to get in -depth contact with the show, one is the content and the other is a character. As long as these two links are completed, the sense of accomplishment brings to me is very great. As long as a job has a sense of accomplishment, I will be willing to do it.

Our life time and working time are inseparable. This year is the fifth year of my show, and there are indeed some changes. Now I will stipulate that life after 7 pm belongs to myself, just like normal office workers. Then, I am trying to do a new thing with my friends every weekend.

I was talking to my colleagues yesterday. I told them that I was the first time that the first "five -year plan" was accepted. At present, I am quite satisfied with myself. The next plan is to change from one executor to higher coordination or creator.

Dada: If you do n’t do PD one day, I will go to the front desk of the hotel

My university is chaired by broadcasting, not a director. But I don't like the work in front of the scenes, and I will feel happier behind the scenes. So in 2014, I saw some satellite TV recruiting interns online, and I entered into this industry, and stayed in the stage after graduation.

When I first joined the industry, a very powerful director took me to do it together, equivalent to my enlightenment teacher. He will not tell you how to do every step like a school, but he will give you an example. In other words, if you are really interested in studying, you will naturally think and summarize why the teacher does. Basically, you can get started with a project.

I do PD across majors, but I do n’t think that cross -professional is a problem. The question is whether you really love this industry and are willing to use your own efforts to eliminate the gap with others.

The program I am doing now is a reasoning program. It involves a wide range of scope and we need more different voices. There are also many colleagues around me who are not from learning, but he will think about the problems he has learned from the professionalism he has learned. Sometimes he will bring a lot of breakthrough ideas and provide different inspiration.

The reason for reasoning variety shows is very different from the reality show. If the reality show does not develop according to your expectations, some accidents may create different surprises. However, the reasoning variety shows value the overall framework. The control of the details is very strict. A small mistake may affect the player's judgment during the reasoning process and affect the presentation of the entire program. Therefore, many details require us to repeatedly confirm that spending more energy. Is the PD of reasoning variety show higher thresholds? I think the threshold is not high, but special — the PD of reasoning variety shows has certain reasoning knowledge and logical thinking. It is difficult to get started if you do n’t have these. You do n’t know if you do it.

Before 2018, I have been doing other types of programs. Before doing reasoning programs, I haven't seen the inference film and television works and literary works. At that time, I was worried that I couldn't do well, and I did encounter a lot of problems, and I felt the gap with my colleagues. So I tell myself that if you want to do such a program, you must love it and learn related knowledge.

I started to pay attention to many reasoning UP owners. When I went home every day to rest, I went to brush some popular sciences, and slowly explored some doors, such as "killing techniques", "reasoning thinking", and various kinds of puzzles. I usually pay attention to some related things in my life. For example, there are many artistic devices in Europe in Europe. Provide inspiration.

The project of "Start Inference", which we just ended, is actually quite twists and turns. From preparation to recording, ordinary projects are generally about half a year, but this project has only ended from September last year to June this year. It is mainly affected by the epidemic, so it takes a long time. We originally planned to record the recording in March and April, and later dragged back. During the extension, we have been constantly modifying or modifying the content.

And unfortunately, we have found a building in Yantai before, and the space structure is particularly suitable for programs. We are also very attentive, but because the epidemic can only move to Changsha again and re -engraved the scene in the shed 1: 1, but because there are limitations in the shed, the space can be carved by 1: 1, but the upper and lower structures of the floor can be engraved. If you can't do it, the time is very tight, and you are finished overtime, probably less than a month.

"Start Inference Bar" environment

As far as I know, the screenwriter and PD groups of some programs are separated, but our group is different. Our PDs do more and more complicated. From the program planning, story writing, matchmaking artists, and leading clues, and executing directors, the content will be involved.

Many jobs are also relatively fine, such as communicating with the content and modeling plan with the artist, and take them to shoot posters, interviews, arrange diet, rest during recording, etc. In general: solve the artists encountered in the process of participating in the program. All issues.

There are more than 10 people in the screenwriter of our director. During the preparation period, everyone is sitting together every day to meet, plan, and discuss, and we have to open almost 8-9 hours a day. Because the reasoning variety show is very worn during the planning stage, and the process from scratch is very torment. We will go through dozens of overthrows and until the recording of the program, there may be adjustment and modification.

When choosing a guest, we value three aspects. First of all, he himself loves reasoning or is very interested in it, and has enough curiosity. Secondly, there are some wisdom or brain hole. For the stories and clues given by the program group, there are some imaginations and reasoning. In addition, there are also requirements for the expression and empathy of the guests. The guests need to be immersed in the story and bring the audience into the show through his expression and interpretation.

We usually communicate with guests about one month in advance. Understand the state in his life by contacting him. The program "Opening Push" is more interesting that we have tried the model created by the guests and the director group. It is to tailor them to the role.

For example, the ancestor in real life is a clever beauty. Therefore, in the show, "Song Beautiful" is a girl who loves manual DIY. When I took her to visit her room in the show, she would really sit there and start DIY immediately. We talked in the room for 10 minutes, and she DIY released a mobile phone case.

There is also the setting of only three bowls of noodles in the show like Teacher Bai Yu in the show. We communicate together and design this plot together, and they will feel more fun. Other guests will also communicate with the director group to create their people in the show world view.

It must be very busy during the recording. Generally, the scene is obtained at 8 or 9 in the morning, and sometimes it can only leave until 3 or 4 am. In the morning, check the recording site first to confirm every detail.

Source: "Start Inference Bar" super talk

After the artist's guest arrives, we will communicate with them, including the timeline and story background in the plot. In the recording of the show, we will rest two or three times. During this time, we will try to digest the promotional materials that need to be photographed as much as possible, so that the artist will end early. After sending the guests away, we need to prepare for the next day to recording what they need, arrange clues, venues, etc., and then go back to rest for 4 or 5 hours before starting.

In one case, we have more communication with the guests in the early stage. It is Song Zuer in "Opening Push". In the sixth week, I will unlock the story of her as the protagonist, so I will communicate with her more before the recording. I will give her the role card the day before, tell her to remember it. When I arrived the scene the next day, I would let her talk about it in detail. Now the project "Open Push" is basically close to the end, and I have begun to prepare for the next project. Nowadays, there are a lot of domestic reasoning variety shows. We need to make better updates to stimulate them and bring them a sense of freshness, which is a challenge for us. Therefore, the requirements for the director group are that you must be interested in inference variety shows and really like this track. You have to be responsible.

I have done it in this industry for almost 8 years now, and I think this industry is quite attractive. This charm is that if you see many fragments discussed by the audience on the Internet or the highlights of many shows come from your creativity, even if you are always behind the scenes, you will have a sense of accomplishment. Or your guests perform well, and you will be proud. This job often gives me this feedback.

But the job of PD is indeed very, very hard. I am a person who loves life very much, but because I am too busy at work, I have little time to live.

At present, I have no specific plan for my career, and I still hope that I have been doing this track in reasoning for the time being. However, I have thought about it. If I do n’t work in this industry in the future, I may go to the front desk of the hotel -this is the profession of a variety of people every day, it is very interesting to think about it.

Jiachao: PD of a talk show actor, you must also be responsible for urging

I was born in the director. After graduating, I went to make a movie for a year. Later, I returned to the television industry and went to Oriental Satellite TV. At that time, there was a news program in the stage, and I was a reporter for two or three years.

When I first joined the industry, we did not do "variety shows", and it should be called "column" more. There are many forms of weekly broadcasting. Now the director's industry is getting more and more detailed, but when I first joined the industry, the "director" was a position that was responsible for a lot of things. People have such a clear division of labor.

Later, the TV industry also changed. The draft began to rise, so I followed the stage to make a talent show, making programs such as "The Voice of Chinese Dreams", and doing "Extreme Challenge". Later, basically all outdoor categories were outdoor categories reality show.

"Extreme Challenge" on -site Reuters

There was no concept of "PD" in the early days. When doing the first season of "Extreme Challenge", we had exchanged with some Korean PDs and learned something from them: the previous "column", we will write the script, one by one, go according to the Taiwanese book, should be taken according to the Taiwanese book, should be used as a Taiwanese book. Now after the "PD" in this sense, we are required to have more drama skills. At the scene, we have to know what is fun and what is played.

For example, if one guest in the show takes such a line and another guest takes the other auxiliary line, can they have some crosses, can they have some different chemical reactions, rather than I simply put myself. The artist can be finished.

Source: Douban Extreme Challenge Group

Now many people who just join the industry will let them start from "execution". For example, we need to shoot a scene and need to go to the fire brigade. This executive director will give priority to us to go to this environment to do a survey first, tell us what can be played here, we do according to his things according to his things. Some planning arrangements have determined that after the Taiwanese book, he will take the Taiwanese to this scene to guide the props and the like on the scene.

In fact, the level of execution and PD is parallel, but the scope of responsibility is different, and the comprehensive conditions required by PD will be slightly higher. After doing execution and knowing the approximate process, we will let them slowly start PD.

The first point for the work of a variety reality show is "planning". Many times the PD is a screenwriter, and the screenwriter is also a PD. We have to plan a worldview and design a game to make our artist a participant in this game. This is the first step.

In Xiaoguo Culture, from the project to the real recording, there will be a 3-4 months of preparation. During this period, the brain violence meeting of the director group should be used for a meeting for 4 or 5 days a week.

In the second step, we have to have a prediction to the artists we bring. One month before the start of the show, we will arrange several rounds of in -depth interviews with artists. We need to understand him from various angles, including some of his private realities, to investigate the relationship between him and other artists.

"Understanding Artists" will feed our planning, because we have to predict such a person in such an environment. Determine.

At the same time, the personality of the artist and the type of program may affect our communication with them. For example, a certain program, I hope that the artist will have a strong output and communicate with him in advance, but some content needs to present the artist's first reaction. At this time, he must not let him know in advance. In other words, some artists are suitable for knowing more content, and some artists will be better when maintaining "unknown". This requires the PD to explore in the early stage. "Talk Show Conference" is generally a PD and 5-6 people, but now "What to do! "Talk show" is more like a reality show, so our PD and guests are one -on -one. Because the nature of the show is different, we are even responsible for the promotion. There is a reading meeting before the program is opened.

"What to do, talk show special session"

Many audiences will feel that there is a Taiwanese version of the variety show, but in fact we just draft a framework. For example, let the guests play with werewolf killing, we only tell them about the general rules, how to play depends on your performance.

The current audience is getting smarter. If the variety show is "performed", there may be the opportunity to "hide the sky and cross the sea" in the past two years. Now many times everyone can see it. The requirements are getting higher and higher.

In the past two years, due to the influence of various factors, the industry's environment may not be very good, and many people's mentality will be a bit sluggish. I think that firstly as a content creator, the content will always be seen, but the form will change. Like the biggest difference between variety shows and the drama, the drama is the actor in the script, and the variety shows are "themselves" one by one. Essence

I still think that this form has always been in the market. The change is that in the future, can I do some relatively lighter content in the future? It is a thing we want to do. If we can do it, someone will practice, and "real" will always be required.

On the other hand, in fact, there is also a "small project" that can allow directors to try on the market. I think there can be more people to do something similar to micro -comprehensive form. The theme can still be reality shows, and the plot can be lighter and more interesting. We are also trying to try this aspect, which is similar to the combination of reality shows and scenarios.

From my perspective, the industry still lacks a real good PD. If we encounter good directors, we are very willing to stay.

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