A Research On College Students' Reality Shows

With the vigorous development of national variety shows in recent years,reality shows have won favor in the public at large with combination of unique characters: reality and show.Due to trends of scientific development and audience segmentation,reality shows have self-adjusted and produced more various shows for the purpose of gaining a larger market,including Super Girl and Super Boy,talent shows among civilians,I Am A Singer,Applause Resounded,talent shows among stars,and Where Are We Going,Dad?,an outdoor reality show among star families.There are few college students-centered ones in the wide range of reality show.More and more program groups are interested in the patterns of foreign reality shows,and most reality shows are similar from forms to contents,which aesthetics weariness is caused in public consequently.However,it brings a golden opportunity for the production of innovative and native reality shows.Firstly,with advanced ideas and great vitality,students at universities have obvious advantages among audience;secondly,college students are much more sincere,which makes easier to meet the visual need of audience;thirdly,college students can pour innovative elements into the process of programming naturally,which are rare in other reality shows.With the help of document analysis method,the paper demonstrates the development of college students' reality shows in chronological order.From the perspectives of content selection,audience targeting and narrative features,making a contrastive analysis between University from Taiwan and The First Year of University from Hunan Province,the paper summarizes common features of such reality show which college students participate in and their causes of success.There are three parts in the paper.The first part gives concept definitions of reality shows of the common and reality shows of college students,and then introduces the development of college students reality shows at home in chronological order.In the second part,making a contrastive analysis between University from Taiwan,the earliest reality show of college students in China and The First Year of University from Hunan Province with high audience rating and public praise,from the perspectives of content selection,audience targeting and narrative features,the paper demonstrates the advantages and innovation of them,which will be the theoretical basis of a local college students' reality show: Viewpoints of Gansu Youth.The third part of the paper analyzes the current difficulties faced by reality shows of college students in the market,and puts forward several effective measures for the further development,which could provide reference and inspiration for the development of college students' reality show in the future.