"There is no budget for props"
The theme of the second season is "beyond"!
The 5,000 Rubik's Cubes wall, the 101 spotted dogs, and the 90-meter-high giant rock-climbing wall in the first season of Strongest Brain are still fresh in viewers' minds. And the second season has only been broadcast for three installments, 3D skulls, square dance moms, honeycomb maze, phantom cubes, all kinds of props have already taken shape. A program can have such a large investment in props, in the history of domestic television should also be rare.
"Our general director said at the beginning of the preparatory period, the budget given to the props team is 'no budget'." The person in charge of the props presentation group of The Strongest Brain revealed, "The general director set this tone at the beginning of the second season, he said, the second season we also don't have to compare with others, we have to compare with ourselves, the first season we made the Rubik's Cube wall, and now we have to do is to go beyond the Rubik's Cube wall! He has been emphasizing this point ever since. Although it is said that there is no limit to the budget, but from our props team, both to be able to make big, cool props, compared to the first season, but also hope that in the small aspects to do more exquisite. Even the tray that the science assistant is holding, we want to make it look better. Especially after the International Challenge, which is a heavy one, we still have a lot of special things we want to put into this stage, such as the 'Bomb Disposal Unit', such as the 'Energized Glass', and I'm sure it will be great when the time comes. "
The props team also took the reporter to see in advance will appear in this week's program another "strongest props" - copper teahouse, they will build a real scene on the stage of the old Beijing teahouse, and there are professional actors! "Transformation" bronze props, players will be staged in which the real version of "everyone to find fault", even DR Wei can not help but marvel at the "column group is really the strongest props group!
Doing the program up IQ
The program team collectively become "Rubik's Cube maniacs"
The Rubik's Cube in the "Strongest Brain" stage appeared on the number of times, counting on a classic to can no longer be considered a classic props. When it comes to the Rubik's Cube, the props team is obviously excited, "We basically haven't played with the Rubik's Cube before we did the Strongest Brain, but now we're really familiar with it, and basically everyone knows how to play it!" The person in charge of the props team introduced that the Rubik's Cube has become the "Strongest Brain" program group's basic hand have "playthings", "Let's say that our group, seventeen or eighteen people, the most basic third-order Rubik's Cube, basically everyone can restore." Seeing the reporter's incredulous expression, he said with a smile, "We started to learn from each other, and then the players will also come to teach everyone, we often privately PK, to see who restore the fast." Asked about the best results, the props group responsible person proudly introduced: "Our group of Xiao Ze, he is the fastest, the specific time I can not say, it is estimated that dozens of seconds. I play also okay, it should not take a minute."
Not only the props group, even the director's group meeting, will bring a few Rubik's Cube, while meeting the side of the disk fiddling. Especially with the Rubik's Cube players responsible for the editor, they are more powerful, "There is a person he talked to the players are playing all kinds of alien Rubik's Cube, and now he is also playing very smooth!" After the first season of "the strongest brain" aired once someone commented that "watching the brain up IQ", now it seems that the production of "the strongest brain" people also up IQ.
Perfect illusion cube from scratch
Five changes to the design
The perfect seven-step illusion cube presented in the last program, many netizens used the "crystal clear" to describe it, speaking of which, the props team disclosed an inside story: "In fact, there was no props at all in the beginning. props, originally planned to use the program presented on the big screen, but a director proposed intuitive enough, the audience may not be able to fully understand the challenge of the contestants, and then we took into account the possibility of cheating any program, originally "the strongest brain" is a scientific program to be more rigorous, so ultimately decided to change the entity props."
Even if it was determined to be presented with props, the Phantom Cube was modified five or six times before it finally evolved into the stage. The props team said: "At the beginning of the design is flat, there are seven layers, each layer is independent, and then merged when the final verification, but we feel that this is not good enough, the lack of three-dimensional sense, I hope to achieve a kind of people can be shuttled in the feeling." So the flat version of the illusion cube was transformed into a 3D three-dimensional version, and then the design team inadvertently thought of the bead curtain hanging, so the decision to use a thin steel pipe to connect the small cube design was once again rejected, and decided to use the line instead. So what kind of thread would be appropriate? "We tried another 5 or 6 kinds of it at the time, before finally choosing the fishing line we use now, which is strong and also achieves the kind of suspension we need."
Wiping a cup for 4 hours
Small props are more "abrasive"
"Some props are smaller but more laborious," the props team said, "especially the microscopic items! One contestant's skill was to see the difference in water, and we had to prepare more than 500 glasses of water for him. First of all, the water cups, we may look and feel is an ordinary glass cup, in fact, it is quite troublesome, both to meet the requirements of the same, sometimes the same batch and will not have so many quantities, our producer Mr. Li ran all over Nanjing to pick out. Every time you go on stage, the players rehearsal, props team partners have to first wipe the more than 500 water cups, with gloves with paper towels to wipe, to wipe clean the water stains, more than a dozen people have to wipe 4 hours it. Because of the dusty scene, the cups have to be covered with plastic wrap immediately after wiping. Every time we have to start preparing in advance, look at the simple fact is still quite abrasive."
In addition to seemingly simple props, some of the smallest details are also called by the props team laughingly "abrasive goblin". For example, in the third issue of the just finished broadcast, there is a Rubik's Cube spell QR code, the Rubik's Cube needs to be embedded in the transparent plastic lattice in order to be erected to show, and this transparent lattice we do not pay much attention to in fact, there are very good points - if the gap is too large, then the Rubik's Cube composed of QR code can not be recognized, can not be swept out. "We experimented many times, and in the end the distance between the partitions was only 2 millimeters, which is just right. There are 343 small cubes in the Perfect Seventh Order Fantasy Cube, and all six sides have to be labeled with numbers, and this process alone took 2 days to label the 2,058 numbers."