"Next up is Wang Jiazhen from the Red Team! He's the youngest and smallest of the eight members. He'll be facing off against the tallest player, Fan Yao, from the Blue Team."
"Okay, now they're standing face to face! Everyone can see they're ready. Wang Jiazhen raises his arm and joins his palm with Fan Yao's, who has lowered his arm."
In front of the camera, Wang Jiazhen blushed at the joke and pouted in mock anger at Zhang Zhaoyang, who was speaking seriously. Fan Yao, on the other hand, was so amused that he had to hold back his laughter.
At the sound of a whistle, Wang Jiazhen and Fan Yao began to push each other tentatively with their hands.
The members of the two teams watched the fun and cheered them on, shouting loudly!
"Come on, Wang Jiazhen! Overthrow him!"
"Fan Yao, push him down!"
"If you can't even push Jiazhen down, you'll be the footbath water for everyone in the dormitory tonight!"
"Wang Jiazhen, I believe you! He is the dumbest!" Then there were all kinds of laughter from the six trainees. The members of both teams hugged each other with laughter, waiting for the final victory!
The game segments themselves were fun. The trainees, who train and live together daily, have become very familiar with each other. Furthermore, they're used to being constantly filmed in the dorms and practice rooms. Although it was their first variety show, the trainees were incredibly relaxed and enthusiastically played the games.
They were just a group of underage kids. When they were playing games, they forgot everything and didn’t even think that they were recording a variety show!
As Wang Jiazhen and Fan Yao were testing each other, Fan Yao heard his teammates saying that if he lost, he would pour out the team's foot washing water. Just as he was about to retort, Wang Jiazhen suddenly did a horse stance and sank down, pushing Fan Yao hard from below.
Fan Yao was caught off guard and tried to adjust his balance, but Wang Jiazhen immediately stood up and pushed him hard with one hand.
Fan Yao fell to the ground, while Wang Jiazhen stood steadily and turned to the camera with a well-behaved sweet smile.
"Brother, the foot washing water tonight belongs to you."
The filming of the variety show went more smoothly than originally expected, due to the added bonus of the game itself and the exceptional performance of the trainees, which resulted in frequent jokes during the game.
In order to make their first newly released variety show present a better effect and have more highlights and wonderful moments, everyone recorded it over and over again without getting tired of it, and reminders from the filming team and Su Yin would be heard from time to time.
"Don't worry about the camera! Laugh if you want to, just laugh!"
"Don't be afraid! There's cushions underneath, so you don't have to be restrained."
"Okay! Let's play this game again later! Everyone, be serious!"
"Zhaoyang, your body movements can be bigger and more exaggerated."
The final episode was a 90-minute variety show. They recorded from morning to night, a total of more than 12 hours. Only when everyone was exhausted did Su Yin decide to call it a day.
Su Yin even joined the post-production staff in the editing room, and spent countless days working on it before finally producing the first episode of "Who is the Yu-Gi-Oh?"
During the post-production of the company's first variety show, Su Yin made a request that caught the production team off guard.
The program should feature dense sound effects, animations, and subtitles, capturing all the interesting information and turning it into a hook and a laugh. Through dense post-production prompts, the sometimes dull reactions and lack of interest from the trainees and host can be masked, making the overall program more dynamic and engaging.
To this end, Su Yin has been staying with the post-production team to discuss what kind of prompt subtitles and animations should be added to each picture.
Before entering the production, except for people like Zou Kangyu who already had some experience with Su Yin, this group of people had not imagined that a small-budget variety show would require such a large amount of post-production materials in rich forms.
To make the subtitles more lively and in line with the atmosphere of a gaming variety show, the letters couldn't be a simple, ordinary font. In this world's entertainment industry, fancy fonts hadn't become popular yet, so the company had to create their own based on Su Yin's description and requirements.
This isn't the first time Su Yin has proposed the idea of using flower-themed subtitles. She started working on it back when she was first recording trainee videos. Now, the company has a decent selection of flower-themed subtitles.
But this time, Su Yin had more requirements. She specially arranged for staff to design the words needed for this variety show to be more visually impactful based on the original fonts.
In the absence of instant feedback from the audience, the company's staff recorded laughter and applause as sound effects.
Su Yin’s requirement is to ensure that the audience’s attention can be attracted every minute, and all the attention that the guests and hosts cannot attract will be made up in the later stage!
It can be said that Su Yin made the post-production staff suffer a lot.
"Is the boss of this company crazy? With so many bizarre demands, does he think he's the boss?" Several new post-production staff secretly complained about Su Yin behind her back. They thought she was just daydreaming and messing around.
Although none of these new hires were experts, they all had experience in post-production. They had never seen a variety show with such a large post-production workload, so they were given all sorts of requirements that were unheard of in the industry, multiplying their workload several times over and pushing production timelines ever further.
"I'm going to resign after this month's work is finished. Isn't this blind command?" A somewhat senior post-production engineer said directly to another young post-production engineer in the tea room, his words full of dissatisfaction with the company and Su Yin, the boss.
"You'll know once the finished product comes out. You have no aesthetic sense and just want to add some fancy tricks. How good can it be? Is innovation that simple?" This person, confident in his experience, made a wise conclusion to the young man.
In today's entertainment world, post-production essentially involves editing, splicing, adjusting voice sync, and the occasional background music. As for animation effects and typography? There aren't many, and the occasional presence is mostly to cover up any unseen scenes.
The young man was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to react. He just stammered twice and made an excuse to go out.
Although he had never heard of Su Yin's novel ideas, and didn't know if all the late nights they'd pulled were worth it until he saw the results, it was still a bit intimidating for a young man to directly speak ill of his boss in the company. He felt that some of Su Yin's suggestions had some merit, and that spending so much money to build a post-production team with clear division of labor didn't seem like a random act.
However, when the company held its first preview of the finished film, everyone in the company was amazed!
This is actually a variety show produced by our company.
The first episode of the variety show has a clear main plot. The two teams gain points through five different game sessions, and the winning team ultimately selects the best game king of the day.
The games ranged from physical combat to quizzes and on-the-spot reaction. They were incredibly entertaining, with the trainees' performances both energetic and hilarious, and the host providing a great interactive experience. The most impressive aspect of the show was the post-production process!
As it turned out, the sound effects, animations, and subtitles proposed by Su Yin made this episode completely different from other variety shows on the market.
The enlarged and impactful captions provide timely jokes and help the audience better understand the members and the current situation on the screen. Even some originally bland scenes, with the help of animation and captions, have nonsensical funny points and cute moments.
The unique animal ears and tails photoshopped onto the members, along with some exaggerated expressions, gave the trainees' performances a more variety show feel. The eye-catching plot was even more captivating with the sound effects, and the entire episode was enriched with post-production.
Instantly, the entire company surrounding the first video was filled with praise and admiration from the staff, especially for the extraordinary post-production effects. Many people directly praised the post-production team members.
In fact, the people in the post-production team had seen the finished film long before them, and they were amazed at the contribution that these post-production effects, which consumed countless brain cells and countless hours of their time, had to the entire program.
However, at the beginning, there were still a few people pretending to be calm and secretly trying to save face by saying "It's not as exaggerated as it is said to be." They didn't dare to say much to Su Yin, but told others that it was just nonsense and had no taste!
However, faced with the constant praise and exaggerated feedback from other people in the company, the few people who originally wanted to find fault with the show were temporarily silent. They could only silently pray that the variety show would flop! Proving that these fancy things are not necessary for variety shows and are all crooked ways!
I had just finished listening to the post-production of the show in the tea room that day, and I was particularly excited. He was actually involved in the production of such a variety show that completely exceeded the level of post-production in the industry! How exciting!
Glancing aside, he saw the post-production member who was somewhat awkwardly accepting the praise from other department staff. The young post-production member who had just sworn in front of him that this company was messing up in post-production and would resign next month, pretended to know nothing and was still discussing the production of this program with the person next to him.
After viewing the finished product, he and a few people who had gotten along well with him during the production process secretly discussed the quality of the show. They came to a conclusion that even they themselves found a little hard to believe: currently, there is really no other variety show with such rich and interesting post-production.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that regardless of whether this variety show can allow the audience to directly accept this new form of post-production at the first time, the many technologies, methods and creativity used in the post-production of this variety show will definitely have a place in variety show post-production.
If this effect is considered a mess, then it can only be said that the pride of these people as professional post-production personnel is simply a joke.
Meanwhile, the young post-production engineer silently warned himself. In the future, stay away from so-called seniors who, despite their lack of experience, think they have it all and criticize others' innovations behind their backs. After seeing the finished product, he couldn't bear to leave. He wanted to stay at this company, with this boss!
After the film, one person boldly resigned. Furthermore, several other post-production staff members who had previously complained about Su Yin later abandoned their jobs altogether. Their unnatural attitudes towards Su Yin became the talk of the town within the Yuexiang Entertainment production team for several days.
However, no matter how groundbreaking and innovative the production staff themselves thought the post-production was, and how much effort they put into it, the company internally praised and affirmed the results of the first episode.
No matter how well a variety show is produced, its true success depends on its audience's recognition and approval. Especially since this kind of variety show has never appeared in the entertainment industry before, with brand new game content and post-production, will the audience in this world be able to quickly accept it and show interest in it?
After seeing the finished film, all the staff of the company began to look forward to the day when the variety show "Who is the Yu-Gi-Oh" will be officially launched and meet the audience's scrutiny.
Can a variety show of this quality really gain the recognition and love of the audience?
Will the company's first self-produced variety show be a failure or a success? Everyone is waiting to see.
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