July 5, 2015 17:24 Read 3 million+
Recently, I came back to Oriental TV, and many people brought up the reality show The Goddess's New Clothes, which aired last year, and asked me for my reasons for withdrawing from the show at the time. I've never made any public comments on the matter, even when my good friend Mo Xiaoqi was caught up and hurt after participating in the program. Because I always thought, who cares, no need to make a fool of myself to state it. But Mo told me that there were people who cared, that he didn't want to see me attacked and hurt, that my fans cared, and that other people with good intentions cared, because the truth shouldn't be dusted off forever, and that positive energy should be spread. He encouraged me to write this article, and so, for the first time, I put pen to paper.
Last summer, the producers of the show "Goddess' New Clothes" contacted my agent to invite me to participate in the show, explaining to me that the format of the show was to have actresses partner with fashion designers to authentically design and tailor fashions, and then sell those clothes on Taobao after professional judging, and claiming that the show would be aired on the Hunan TV platform. When I recorded the first episode of the program, I was very apprehensive because as an actress I am not professionally qualified in fashion design, so I religiously learned from my co-designer and marveled at his design talent at such a young age, and he showed a lot of perseverance and persistence, which I was moved by and even admired. Especially when he said on stage that he wanted to give love to depressed children like those in his childhood, and that he came to this stage for the sake of art, not for show, I couldn't help but secretly applaud him, and shed tears of emotion.
I also encountered confusion during the recording of the program. Since the first episode, the five of us have been stuck in a large studio waiting for the sixth goddess to show up for hours. There was no ventilation in the studio, and we were sweating profusely in the hot summer heat, but despite the fact that the production team was making such administrative errors and wasting our precious time and energy, the difficulty did not diminish my eager anticipation for the process of making my new dress.
Finally, the producer informed me that the sixth goddess had not yet been coordinated, so there was no need to wait any longer, and the dressmaking would begin! I thought, "Well, shouldn't we start drawing the design? It was so exciting! At this point, my partner designer took out a few pre-drawn drawings, let me cut the paper plate, I was happy to accept the task set. After cutting out the pattern, it was time to choose the fabric! I was going to go into the warehouse to pick out my favorite fabrics, and I was about to leave when the designer's assistant secretly told me where the fabrics she had already picked out were located, so that I wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of searching for them. I thought to myself, "I'm not as good at selecting fabrics as the designer, so let's do it". After I had "selected" the fabric and started cutting a few cuts, the designer took out the already-made costumes for me to iron, and told me that due to time constraints, it was not possible to make a series of costumes on the spot, and that he could only rush to pre-produce them beforehand, day and night. My heart went out to him and I felt that he was working too hard. So, without any input from me, the costumes, which I claimed to have designed with the designer***, were "made" in front of the camera. At that time, the instructor arranged by the production team came to evaluate our costumes and suggested some modifications. With years of experience in dressing in front of the screen, I thought the instructor had a point, and I thought I could make some modifications, but the designer insisted that his design was perfect and suitable for me to wear, and that he wouldn't make any modifications. At that time, I thought, well, I guess my opinion is unprofessional, so I'd better listen to the designer.
Week after week of recording several episodes of the program, such a "clothing process", clothing never my design opinion in the inside, all in the recording of the pre-done, I gradually realized that this reality show is ultimately a "show", do not need to be really real. I gradually realized that this reality show is after all a "show" and doesn't need to be real, as long as it makes the audience feel that it is real and looks good. Until one time, when the photographer asked to film the process of drawing our design, my partner, the designer, picked up a piece of white paper and intended to trace red on the pre-drawn design, my heart "thumped", thinking: does he not know how to draw, why trace? At that time, the environment, watchers, I instantly clean up the mood, chose to protect him, quietly told him: can not be traced, the camera is a high-definition close-up lens shot, will be captured in the description of you, if you can not draw their own, would rather not shoot the process, but also can not be photographed tracing the picture.
The designer is a well-behaved boy with a good family background, and his excellent mother has trained him to study design in France since he was a child, and this time he is also equipped with a strong team of assistants and a PR and publicity team, which is quite impressive. The public relations director is also a lively boy, once I wore a piece of clothing without my design concept, and I really do not think it looks good, I feel y unconfident, but he quietly told me: do not worry, we have with the judges public relations, tonight you are the first place! My heart thumped again, and I asked, "Is that so? The tone of voice did not sound like encouraging me, but rather showing off strong public relations skills. Sure enough, I was crowned the winner that night. The moment I won the championship I did not feel the slightest joy and glory, only shame and frustration, perhaps, my taste is really bad, I think not good-looking clothes, won the championship; perhaps, I should be ashamed of this honor, because there is not the slightest design concept is mine; perhaps, Xiaoqi in the first episode when eliminated from the pain of tears, complaints of unfairness, are right 。。。。。。
There was a TV series crew with an imminent start, and I was frequently urged to get into the crew for filming. Even though I had no contractual agreement with the production team of "Goddess's New Clothes" about how many episodes I needed to complete, I wanted to try to finish the full season because things have to be finished. So I insisted on continuing to record anyway.
While I was discouraged and pretending to make clothes and shoot every day, the fatal blow came. My assistant, Nan, reported that the designer's PR director had told her the truth in private: all the clothes, from design to production, were made by gunslingers, without the designer's participation, and the clothes were only used in the program for show! The judges are also publicized!
So, is my earlier doubt proven? You can't draw, you can only trace? You can't alter any of the designs because you're incapable of doing so? This dress, which I thought was unremarkable, sold for 2 million dollars, and it was all a lie? You came to the show for charity, not for show? I am an actor, I can act, let the viewer feel that the story of the play like real; but I do not want to play the name of "real" let people see false, I came to participate in a reality show, not acting.
The essence of reality TV is to spread the energy of truth and beauty to the audience, but in the process of recording this program, I felt that every aspect of it was not real, which made me think of withdrawing from the competition. I was at Wesleyan Women's University, where I was working as a high school student, and she was like a sister to me, and she came to visit the recording of the program, and she lamented that the program's production and costumes were not good. I reluctantly told her the reason and she supported me to quit the program and not waste my time and energy. Out of respect for the broadcast platform, which had nothing to do with the matter, and out of generosity to the producers, and co-designers, I never commented on the matter for a year. So much so, that when I heard later that the producers had edited my role in the show to make me the "anti-one" due to my withdrawal, I just laughed it off. The whole thing is a fictional story anyway, so it doesn't matter what role you play. But the important thing is: I can't accept the fakery in a program that is supposed to be true to life, and I can't act it out!
Finally, I'm grateful to my friends and fans for their continued support and trust in me. In the coming days, I will also share more good energy to everyone! Plagiarism Sooner or later, Eastern TV will be sued!!!!