Television Reality Show Content Production

Take a pamoramic view of the domestic television during this two years, the television reality show(TRS) almost occupied the weekend primetime and sub-prime time of many provincial satellite TV. The scale and importance of TRS is increasing during recent 15 years and it has become a significant portion of the TV industry even the whole society. It was considered that TRS not only produced story, superstars, and entertainment, but aslo is an incubator of dream, culture and spring. It reflected life phenomena among family, schoolyard, workplace, troops, zoo and even every corner around the world. In the present study, we divided the program production of TRS into three parts including production of the entertainment as flesh and blood, story of the skeleton, and culture as spirit. From the property of the content, entertainment, story and culture were considered as the superficial, medial and underlying layer of the TRS, respectively. The three dimensionalities were investigated using production element or theme, production approach or method, and production function and influence. First, the production of entertainment was investigated by means of case analysis and data supporting reported in the previous studies which displayed that the peculiarity and trends of entertainment production. Second,content analysis was carried out to understand story-production with a program named Running Man of which the video data was collected and analyzed to demonstrate audience rate varied significantly from different story production approach. Especially, one of which the approach "combination of virtualization and reality moving forward" presented a specific advantage in production of TRS. Final, as culture production, correlation between population and culture style was find out by questionnaire survey. Different culture form explained different population ranking of TSR, of which the cloth, etiquette and communication culture style illustrated relatively strongly positive effects enhancing the population rate. This study elaborated respectively as well as used cross analysis of the interrelation and influence among these three aspects. Final, we presented the innovative direction and suggestion of the production of story, entertainment and culture of TRS.