The Spectacle Presentation Of "Blind Date" Shows On TV

With “If You Are the One” as the representative, the TV blind date shows at home have broughtthe whole country into an era of blind date since2010. However, this program does not exist aimingto successful “blind date”, instead, it exists as the love spectacle presented on TV. With the example of“If You Are the One”, by using the related theories of the spectacle of society and customer society,this thesis analyzes the spectacle presentation of TV blind date shows from the perspective of theprogram elements, program mode, and program forms.This thesis mainly analyzes the characteristics of the spectacle presentation of “If You Are theOne”, including the choice of guests, the role of the host, musical sound, costume makeup, stagelighting, and scene settings as well. It also explains that in the program “If You Are the One”, adramatic stage full of ceremony is created by all kinds of elements, and every host has his own role.In addition, every guest, male or female, acts as himself or herself on the stage.As to the form of the program, this paper discusses the characteristics combined by reality shows,talk shows, TV play series, TV series and the like. It also probes into the relationship between theperformance and reality with the characteristics of reality shows, the unique verbal spectaclepresentation with the characteristics of talk shows, and the shaping of the guests with thecharacteristics of TV series.When referring to the pattern of the program, this paper discusses the conflicts and the suspensepresented by the designs of the program by adopting the theories of drama and narration, with theexample that how the program,“If You Are the One”, is designed by using dramatic approaches,which further explains the spectacle presentation of the program.