It used to be hard for me to understand why many people like to watch variety shows and reality TV, especially women. If it were me, I would prefer to spend that time watching adventure programs or documentaries.
It wasn't until a female friend asked me if I'd watched yesterday's episode of "The Defense of Love" that I said, "What? I said, "What? I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new one. She explained to me before I realized that this is a reality show variety show. I was curious and asked her why you women always like to watch this kind of stuff, such as love, palace fighting dramas, and so on. The reason why I asked her this was because I felt that it was probably women's nature to watch romantic and emotional programs to comfort their hearts. However, the answer she gave was an instant rejection of my thoughts. She said it was because she could learn a lot of things, such as how to tell the difference between a man and a woman, see how other people live, learn to talk about daily life, deal with daily mishaps, and improve her emotional quotient.
Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea to criticize any of the guys, or any of the women, or to see the women in the show living a romantic, princess-like life, so I'm not going to try to make the same kind of position for myself in reality, or get caught up in the role-playing of the show.
I can feel that she is simply using the program as a source to enhance her knowledge and broaden her horizons, as well as to feel the realities of life through other people's "reality shows", to learn from their experiences, and even to emulate the content and style of the programs. After all, the characters in the program are not only chatting, there are also games and so on, which involves the division of labor, teamwork, strategy and other aspects of knowledge. At the same time there was a "Wife's Romantic Journey" she was also watching, it was to learn about the experience of married life in advance.
But from a psychological point of view, most people like to watch reality TV just to pass the time, or to pursue something good, such as seeing their idols in that program and going after them. At the same time, many programs to capture the audience's psychology, may be the same to package the program character role, the so-called "persona", in order to achieve the effect of the program, and even the emergence of the script, just to present the things that we like to see.
I used to like to watch foreign sci-fi action movies, or adventure, and documentaries, many people think that this kind of movie is long and boring, but it does not affect me to watch the "Ultimate Challenge", "Star Detective" and other reality TV shows, because sometimes I have to look at how other people play the program. Putting aside other utilitarian purposes, life does also need some tools to do seasoning, mobilize their own life of fun, to eliminate the boring, not to be very rigid, but to contact more outside, you know you probably know how much of the world, what they are missing, to what extent.
So a lot of times, it's not recommended to over-interpret reality TV programs, while watching them if you want to, and not affecting yourself if you don't want to, none of it is a big deal.
Instead of saying that we like to see the reality show, it is better to say, we want to understand is the star's life, now the star is more and more far away from the public's circle of life, the feeling is more and more mysterious, then the more mysterious things, the more likely to be speculated to be figured out, but also slowly began to extend the so-called reality show, such as: the life of the past, where to go dad... and so on, if we correctly look at the reality show, we can see that it is not a problem for the public. etc. If we say we correctly look at the stars of this profession, in the end, this is also a career, do not overly aspirational or glorification, or that, to reduce some of the behavior of private life, so that some of the stars have a sense of security, so that they can be with the same as the normal people, do not have to wear masks do not have to take security, so that the public curiosity about them will be reduced, so the so-called reality TV will be reduced in the amount of the bar
I like to watch, the main thing is to make sure that you can see the whole thing.
I like to watch, mainly to see funny, but also not to follow the star or especially like. But it is a way to relax, follow the laugh to ease the work of the repressed, unhappy.
Reality television refers to "a form of television in which the participants show their personal lives in a set environment and rules, and their behavior is recorded by television cameras and broadcast by the media". Professor Yin Hong has skillfully deconstructed "reality TV": "real" is the characteristic, "people" is the core, "show" is the means. The first is the "real" one, the "human" one is the core, and the "show" one is the means.
Since 2004, Hunan TV launched "Supergirl", the major television media have launched civilian reality shows, such as "Happy Boys", "Good Boys", "Dancing Miracle", "Do Not Disturb", etc., and in recent years, they have continued to launch a variety of celebrity reality shows, such as "Running Brothers", "I'm a Singer" and so on.
From the point of view of communication process and communication effect, the success of reality TV programs, and social, audience psychology and other aspects of the reasons, has an inextricable relationship. In fact, no matter how the form of entertainment programs change, how to change the content, their ultimate object of service is still the audience, entertainment programs "entertainment" lies in the audience's psychological needs. The psychological needs of the audience include both material and spiritual aspects. As an entertainment program, we should try to grasp the psychological needs of the audience to produce programs.
Entertainment programs: the pleasure of the mind and body of the spirit of the spice
With the progress of the times, the explosion of information, the rapid development of the market economy, people's survival pressure is growing, the body and mind need to rest after work and relaxation, and watch the entertainment program has become a psychological needs. According to the survey and analysis of TV programs, British communication scientist McGuire and others have summarized "four basic types of programs that provide 'satisfaction', including: interpersonal relationship utility, self-confirmation utility, and environmental monitoring utility". In other words, "TV programs can provide diversion and entertainment, and can help people escape from the pressures and burdens of daily life, bringing a sense of emotional liberation."
Regarding the relationship between television and entertainment, Neil Bozeman points out that " Entertainment is the super-ideology of all discourse on television." "Regardless of the content or the perspective taken, everything on television is designed to provide us with entertainment."
For example: Zhejiang Satellite TV's popular celebrity outdoor reality show "Run for Brothers", which pays great attention to the program's comedic effect, through a series of links set up to create "laughs", when the square dancers put the feet of the plastic mats paved with the stars runway, the program's "laughs" will naturally come out. Laughing fruit" came out naturally, the stars in front of the amazons eager to show their own, the amazons see the stars embarrassing appearance, but also laughed back and forth, this infectious performance on the screen, the audience naturally also get relaxed and satisfied.
Interactive participation: the true beauty of the emotional experience
Levin believes that "when a person has a certain motive or need, there will be a tension system within the human body, this system will tend to relax with the realization of the goal, or to lift the tension; on the contrary, if the need can not be met or the motive is blocked, the tension system will be maintained. on the contrary, if the need is not satisfied or the motivation is blocked, this tension system will remain." The reason for the popularity of television entertainment programs is to meet this psychological need of the audience.
How can it be satisfied? In other words, in the popular sense, to whet the appetite. Today's television entertainment programs are exciting, varied, and generally present the emotions of the audience on the television screen. The program team through a variety of strategies, ideas and ways to conquer the audience, so that the audience to participate in it, it is difficult to extricate themselves, so as to stimulate the audience's desire to watch. For example, some emotional reality TV programs such as "Let's Date" and "Perfect Confession", in which the male and female guests will go through a series of links and face a variety of emotional tests, through the male and female guests' emotional interactions, as well as the host's participation in guiding the guest's emotions to the extreme, and whether the male and female guests can ultimately succeed in getting married, naturally, whetting the audience's appetites.
By setting up suspense, the audience's emotional needs are met, delaying the realization of the motive. For example, the once-hot "Where's Dad" is broadcast in two episodes, which can be said to have whetted the audience's appetite, especially the program's carefully set up suspense mouth, in the plot tension, the contradiction occurs in the disconnect, so that the audience's questions can not be answered, which will lead to the audience to continue to watch the program in the next week, until their own needs have been met.
Role identification: obtaining emotional satisfaction
"Self-confirmation utility", i.e., the characters, events, situations, and solutions to contradictions and conflicts in TV programs can
provide viewers with a frame of reference for self-evaluation, and through such comparisons, viewers are able to cause introspection of their own behaviors
Through this comparison, the audience is able to reflect on their own behavior and coordinate their views and behaviors on this basis.
The popularity of reality TV shows is due to the fact that, in addition to giving the audience a pleasant mental and physical mental stimulation, and the emotional experience of participating in them, they also give the audience a strong sense of role identification, so that they can get a kind of illusory satisfaction on the screen. The audience is easy to integrate into the program in a very short time, to project their imagination on the guests, stars and celebrities or hosts, to get the role of identity.
For example, the parent-child reality show "Where's Dad", in which celebrity family fathers and sons get along and communicate with each other, gives viewers an opportunity to make reference to the show. In a sense, "Where's Dad" not only provides entertainment, the program has an extension, allowing viewers to reflect on themselves based on comparison. In China, "most children's childhood is a lack of father's love, the father in their hearts is just a vague and unclear concept, and even many children in the understanding of the father is still in awe, because the contact is too little when you are a child, it always seems to be very strange. Over time, the gap between the dad and the child is also increasing day by day".
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Like the real thing!
The first reason why people like reality TV is that the first, he is a real person out of the police, the second actor he just like to engage in a little bit of comedy ah, humor, funny ah, or someone else some comical action ah, so that people see the more admirable Oh, feel very intimate, as if with the star, standing in front of the face to face to do the same thing, this kind of so that everyone likes to look at the kind of The real person in the mirror
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