Problems in reality show

The reality show in China is not original, and it is not alarmist. The program mainly refers to and imitates foreign successful programs. From the series of Survival Challenge, a field survival reality show inspired by Survivor, our reality show creation has embarked on a road of reference and imitation. For example, CCTV's game gambling program "Lucky 52" is basically the British version of the same name; The educational program "Happy Dictionary" comes from Britain's "Who wants to be a millionaire" ... Look at local TV stations: Guangdong Satellite TV's "Survival Challenge" is similar to CBS's "Survivor"; Where's Dad? Mango Taiwan wrote "Where is Dad Going"? Written by South Korea, the running man of Zhejiang Satellite TV is also written by South Korea. Many games are the same, and the innovation is extremely low. But there are still many forces, such as flowers and teenagers in Mango Taiwan, first-year students and wonderful friends.

You can't keep pace with the times if you grasp the audience.

Based on the psychological consideration of China audience who grew up under the education of traditional culture and moral ethics, avoidance is an important task of China reality show. Therefore, the form of reality show in China is contrary to that in the West: indoor programs in the West are a big exposure of human nature, while all the people in China go into nature. Entering Shangri-La focuses on walking and exploring, fighting with heaven and earth instead of people. Although it's called a reality show, it's like a documentary feature film. Copying from the story of the attic, Perfect Vacation tries to dilute privacy, and at the same time, it adds interviews with sociologists to make a pure entertainment program into a quasi-documentary "Exploring new interpersonal relationships in China's social transformation period"-morality and culture have thus become the shackles of the localization of reality TV. In the discussion of "2003 China Reality Show Forum", Dr. Wang Fu from the research room of the editorial office of CCTV raised an interesting question: Non-reality shows, such as TV dramas, may have bad characters and behaviors, but why not in reality shows? Obviously, there are two basic misunderstandings in China TV people's judgment of local audiences. First of all, the audience has not yet understood the entertainment form of reality show, and the audience has yet to be cultivated. The second is that the audience's acceptance of the content of European and American reality shows is relatively low. It can be said that these two misunderstandings are due to the inaccurate grasp of the reality show audience.

The lingering documentary Complex

China TV people spare no effort to downplay the entertainment color of reality shows, of course, out of consideration for the cultural differences between China and the West, but the documentary complex that fills their hearts is also a reason that cannot be ignored. Therefore, we often see the gripping "original" reality show cloned into a folk documentary with "China characteristics"-for example, the CCTV reality show "Golden Apple" is often set in some ancient towns with "cultural implications", and then some villagers are shown games such as learning to fly kites, crossing ancient cities in the north and south, preparing tofu banquets, etc., and questions about the culture of ancient towns are interspersed in the program. Chen Qiang, the general manager of Weihan Culture Communication Company and the planner of Walking into Shangri-La, once said that he expected the local reality show to be deeper: "Walking into Shangri-La is also different from Survivor. The latter is just a very stylized game, and we also want to integrate sociological and anthropological specimens. "

invasion of privacy

Supporters believe that "reality show" shows the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature through real TV pictures; Opponents believe that these programs mostly report social problems such as domestic violence, the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, attract viewers by speculating personal privacy, and do not respect the rights of portrait and reputation of the parties, which has exceeded the bottom line of the law.

Some citizens think that it is really wrong for TV news media to invade others' privacy in the name of news. Many times, "reality show" actually relies on voyeurism to satisfy the audience's voyeurism. As for "reality show", some people say that some "reality show" programs are under the guise of innovation, but they are keen to exaggerate humble personal privacy and self-interest. To put it bluntly, they take pleasure in boredom and completely lose their aesthetic taste. Some lawyers have called for the program to be cautious in exposing personal privacy and showing the dark side of human nature, and never to expose the ugliness of human nature and satisfy people's voyeurism as a selling point. Today, with the development of media technology, it is not only easy to form personality distortion, but also encourages the rise of bad social atmosphere of peeping into other people's privacy.

"Journalists have the right to interview and record events in public places, especially events with news value, including the use of candid photos. If someone participates, there is no violation of privacy. " Tang Chaohua, a professor at Hunan University Law School, believes that for ordinary citizens, sneak shots are limited to long-distance shooting. If you follow or shoot a specific person at close range, so as to make someone's personality specific, that is another matter. "Interview in private places (such as personal residence, ward, etc.). ) is subject to more restrictions. " Tang Chaohua explained that because privacy is a secret, that is, the parties are unwilling to show their words and deeds to everyone, so the places that happen are mostly in secret occasions. The news act of secretly collecting other people's personal information without their consent may constitute an invasion of other people's privacy.