692 76-meter Nishigong Niangniang and 'Silk-drawing Play'
The recording locations for The Empress of the West Palace, which is 69,276 meters long, as well as "The Thread Play" and "The King of Masked Singer" are at Fanxing Film and Television City, which has built a large number of professional variety show recording studios.
The equipment is professional, the logistics support is strong, and various other assistance are provided, which can meet more than 90% of the needs of indoor variety shows, and even outdoor variety shows can also satisfy a lot.
Over time, it has become not only the official recording location for the Starry indoor variety show.
Even in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, a large number of programs have their recording locations here.
You know, Gyeonggi is an area with a developed entertainment industry, especially due to the influence of the stars, it is even more prosperous than in the original time and space.
Several TV stations may have their own studios, but most of the programs produced by some entertainment companies or variety shows on online platforms are mainly rented recording studios.
Even TV programs from non-Gyeonggi areas are actually recorded in recording studios in the capital and magical cities.
This not only saves costs, but is also convenient and fast, and being in a big city makes it easy for guests to come and go.
With the presence of a large number of variety show studios and the Fanxing Film and Television Base, it has become the largest film and television city in the north.
The variety show + filming model makes Stars Studios a star-studded place every day, and you can meet two or three well-known artists just by walking around.
Therefore, many reporters and paparazzi even live in Fanxing Film and Television City for a long time, squatting and keeping watch, and some even open their studios near Fanxing Film and Television City.
A large number of real estate and commercial properties in and around Fanxing Film and Television City are all under the name of the film and television base.
In other words, more than half of the landlords of this group of paparazzi reporters are named Cao.
Coupled with other basic necessities, food, housing and transportation operated by the base, Cao Xuan can make a lot of money from them.
There are countless artists in the entertainment industry who have been exploited by reporters and paparazzi, but in turn, Cao Xuan is the only one who can earn paparazzi money, but there are not many who have this ability.
Cao Xuan came to the show today with Zeng Li and Huang Bo. These two "Dear" creators are also professional singers, so they came together.
As soon as the car drove into the vicinity of Stars Studios, the first thing we saw was a giant statue towering into the sky.
That is the statue of Wu Zetian in the [Prosperous Tangcheng] section of Fanxing Film and Television Base.
This statue of Wu Zetian originated from the Tongtian Pagoda in the movie "Detective Dee: The Empire of Tongtian". The movie was a special effects synthesis at the time and was not actually built.
But later, with the success of the movie and the base's intention to create a landmark building, set up attractions and attract tourism, they built one.
The Tongtian Pagoda in the movie is 66 feet high, which is almost 220 meters in today's measurement, which is higher than the 208-meter Central Plains Buddha, the tallest statue in China.
Fanxing Film and Television City is not that exaggerated, but it also has a 76-meter statue, which ranks among the top fifteen statues in China and ranks high in the world.
The main body of the statue is made of copper, costing hundreds of millions, and is equipped with the Ming Palace complex, which was just completed last year.
"The Legend of Wu Mei Niang" independently produced by Fan Xiaopang was filmed here. If nothing unexpected happens, this statue will also become an important plot of the TV series.
However, in Cao Xuan's opinion, the most interesting thing about this statue is not the height and cost, but the shape of the face.
I don’t know which little clever guy suggested it, because the statue is taken from the movie "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven", so when designing, the face and appearance of the statue have some shadows of the movie.
The actor who plays Wu Zetian in "Detective Dee: The Tongtian Empire" is Zeng Li who is looking up at the statue next to her.
Of course, there is a huge gap between the statue and the real person, not to mention that it is only a few shadows of the movie.
Just looking at the statue, no one can tell at a glance that this statue has the shadow of the Empress of the West Palace.
However, if you know the answer and compare it carefully, you can still vaguely see that they are similar to each other.
That is to say, it is Wu Zetian who is standing there, and there is no incense to worship. It is more of a tourist nature, and it seems to be false, otherwise Cao Xuan would never nod, fearing that Zeng Li would not be able to bear it.
It is precisely because of this cause and effect that every time Zeng Li and Cao Xuan come to Fanxing Film and Television City, they will
I have a new look at this statue.
Hu Jing was also admired in a special way. Because of this statue, the Empress of the East Palace was quite jealous, so much so that Cao Xuan even thought about getting a statue of the Four Beauties or Hua Mulan one day, with some of Hu Jing's personal items added to it...
Although "The King of Masked Singer" is not a top program, it is still regarded as a new variety show, and the arrangement and quality of the recording studio are not bad.
Because they were hiding their identities, Cao Xuan and his party didn't alert others much. Under the guidance of the well-informed director, they went straight to the dressing room and then met the program director Su Wei.
Su Wei greeted him warmly, his eyes couldn't stop being excited. If he wasn't still rational, he would have thrown his head back and laughed.
Cao Xuan had some impressions of Su Wei, who was regarded as a director trained by Fanxing himself.
He has previously held important positions in "The Voice of China" and "I Am a Singer", and this time he is taking on the leading role in a new music variety show "The Masked Singer".
As the director and person in charge of the program for the first time, Su Wei attaches great importance to "The King of Masked Singer" and wants to become famous instantly. The arrival of Cao Xuan and others is a good opportunity for him. He really wants to
Play this card well.
Huang Bo was the first to say his name, followed closely by Zeng Li:
Cao Xuan looked at the mask hanging next to him and smiled:
Su Wei:
Say it again, I didn't remember it!
Zeng Li didn't hold back and was stunned:
Cao Xuan was very calm, but still explained:
Zeng Li was silent, but Huang Bo burst into laughter:
Huang Bo did not forget to flatter him in his analysis, but his words were not unreasonable. Cao Xuan had a low-key personality, was mature and stable, and held a high position of authority. He had a special aura in everyone's hearts.
Such a... funny nickname, 99% of people will never associate it with him.
Zeng Li also understood this routine. He couldn't help but complain:
Cao Xuan is not one of those singers who are eager to be exposed. He wants to tell the audience his name.
On the contrary, he wished that no one could guess who he was, and he strictly ordered the program team not to reveal his identity before coming, so that it would be interesting and have a good time.
If he could hide it until the end, Cao Xuan would have two more steamed buns for dinner tonight.
Seeing that Cao Xuan was so excited, the others didn't say anything. In fact, they were wondering whether the judges and the audience could guess it.
One party uses all his skills to hide, and the other racks his brains to guess riddles. This is the biggest highlight of this show...
…
After rehearsals and costume changes, it’s almost time for the official recording.
"The King of Masked Singer" has its own competition system. In each episode, six singers compete in pairs. In the end, the loser is revealed and the winner advances to the next round.
This competition system is similar to the Korean original version, but it is very different from the domestic one.
In fact, Cao Xuan has always wanted to complain about "The Masked Singer" of the original time and space, but he couldn't understand it even if he copied it.
Regardless of the script or not, many singers' hiding methods are too perfunctory. You must know that every famous singer has his own characteristics. If he is more personal, he may be recognized by others as soon as he opens his mouth.
So if you want to hide your identity, you have to work hard, but the singer was perfunctory, and the judges in the audience knew it well, so they followed suit. "The King of Masked Singer" turned into a masked actor, which was completely fake.
It's not that Cao Xuan praises it, but the Korean original version is indeed produced with more care. Although there are some acting elements, the singer is hidden as much as possible.
Some people even disguise themselves and sing in a falsetto, so that people can't tell whether they are male or female.
Coupled with some other deception methods to confuse the video, it can greatly cause trouble to the judging panel and the audience.
This is the meaning of masking in "The King of Masked Singer". If it's half-clear, what's the point?
What is even more speechless is the competition system. The original "King of Masked Singer" in China has a so-called one, that is, the winner is revealed.
The original Korean version is where the loser reveals his face and is considered eliminated. The reveal shows his face, and it is not a loss if he has some buzz. The winner continues on, accumulates popularity, and finally the champion of the finals is revealed and reaps all the rewards.
Glory and heat.
This is the normal logical flow of the competition system, but the results were messed up by domestic changes. The winners revealed their faces and left, and the losers continued to compare.
We don’t know if it’s to take care of the face of those who are eliminated, so we have a rule of “win means lose, lose means win”.
The result is extremely inconsistent, making people laugh and laugh, making them confused, greatly reducing competitiveness, wasting a good selling point, and attracting countless complaints.
The Starry version of "The King of Masked Singer" will naturally not make this mistake. "I Am a Singer" will eliminate them head-on, and naturally it will not take into account the loser's face.
However, Fanxing and others are part of a special event today and will not be counted in the elimination and advancement. Naturally, it is somewhat different from the normal competition system.
The four masked singers use the ring system and perform and judge in turn. The winner keeps the ring and the loser reveals his face. The decision continues until the end. The winner has a glorious reveal and gets some rewards.
There is no way, none of the four masked singers are regular guests, and they will not stay for a long time, so the winner must be decided in one go and their faces must be revealed.
At the recording site, host Jia Ling was introducing today's special competition system to the audience and the jury.
This rising comedy star who grew up from "Run" not only appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, but also developed quite well in the field of variety shows.
In the past two years, he started to get involved in the field of hosting. With his extremely high emotional intelligence and humorous eloquence, he quickly became another popular host in Fanxing.
If Jia Ling hadn't focused more on variety shows and performances, and was not particularly keen on her career as a host, I'm afraid the famous Malanpo sister would have had a headache.
Because of its special format, "The King of Masked Singer" requires a smart and eloquent host to play a role in guessing the identity.
Liu Yan, Hua Shao, Meng Guangtou and other hosts were unavailable, so this task naturally fell to Jia Ling.
As soon as Jia Ling introduced the rules, the audience was okay. After all, most of them were trolls, and the show had just been broadcast, so many people didn't particularly understand the competition system.
But the five people on the judging panel who knew the inside story of the show were confused. Why did the competition system change so smoothly? What about the previous two episodes?
The person asking the question was Wang Ya, an artist who signed with Fanxing at the same time as Sun Yanyan, Dili Rouba, Anze and others. However, her development is not as good as those of these others at the same time, and now she is barely in the third tier.
This time, I also asked my manager to get acquainted with a person in charge of "The King of Masked Singer" and put her into the program to have her face scanned.
Wang Ya can also be said to be the most junior and least famous among the judges. Everyone she sees is her brother/sister/teacher.
The judges who were relatively familiar with variety shows immediately understood it, and they figured out that it might be for some publicity needs, as this is not a new thing in variety shows.
Qi Wei asked with a smile. She was also one of the judges. Although her identity as a singer has become somewhat blurred in recent years and she is more active as an actor, her foundation is still there. Plus her lively and generous personality, she is very suitable to participate.
Such a program.
As for the others, they are variety show comedian Sha Yi, Sunshine Charming Da Zhang Wei and Taiwanese idol godmother Chen Qiaoen.
The number of judges is not fixed. Sometimes there are five people, sometimes seven people. The judges are not fixed either. Some are permanent, some are single-term, and there are even some who run both on and off the stage.
Da Zhangwei was the Masked Singer in the first episode, but was eliminated and directly became a member of the judging panel.
Most of the judges are singers and variety show stars. Since many Masked Singer are Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, there are often Hong Kong and Taiwan artists in each episode.
These judges don't have much power. They mainly interact with the singers, make jokes and make the scene more lively, so they find more variety stars.
People took turns asking questions, but Jia Ling was very tight-lipped, and everyone was not surprised.
The previous contestants also kept it a secret. Some of them guessed it, and some didn't. They kept fighting with the show crew. After two episodes, it even aroused a lot of competitiveness in them.
All the judges were gearing up, and various departments of the program team were also making final adjustments. After about ten minutes, they all took their places and started the official recording.
After the host Jia Ling opened the show, he quickly invited the first masked singer to the stage.
There is nothing special about her clothes, except that she is a little fatter to cover her figure, but she has a round yellow emoticon smiley face on her head. It is none other than Huang Bo, whose pseudonym is [Smiling Mouth Always Open].
The song is "You Are My Eyes", a song sung by Lin Youjia in 2007.
Compared with other singers, Huang Bo's voice is not disguised much, but he is not a singer after all, and he doesn't have many opportunities to open his voice, so his voice is relatively unfamiliar to most people.
If you don’t know him very well, you may not be able to discover him in a short while.
So when Huang Bo was singing, the judges and the audience were analyzing who this [laughter is always smiling] was.
I haven't heard any characteristics from the sound yet. Let's distinguish them based on their body shape first, and then slowly eliminate them.
After singing the song, Huang Bo used a voice changer to turn his voice into electronic sounds and began to interact with the host and the judging panel, giving clues whether true or false, which led to various guesses from the judging panel.
Since it was not the unveiling stage yet, no matter how the judges guessed right or wrong, the program team did not reveal the answer. Instead, they invited the next masked singer——[Tsing Yi].
Compared with Huang Bo, who just put on a hood and wore an ordinary outfit, Zeng Li's [Tsing Yi] disguise was more gorgeous.
What she was wearing was a Tsing Yi costume, a sky blue dress with two water sleeves dancing, and a female ink theatrical makeup mask on her face, which was charming and sad.
Wang Ya, who was born in the Opera Academy and is an expert, looked at it with a confused expression.
While speaking, Zeng Li shook out a few of his sleeves, danced with the prelude for a few moments, stepped back, picked up the microphone hidden in his sleeve, and opened his red lips.
"Who is laughing at someone who relies on their own good looks to show off their power?
How to match if you have no heart
The sound of ringing bells is crisp and clear, and the lights between the curtains are dim
You and I are the perfect match
..."
The sound is clear and melancholy, and the melody is light and sad, as if the strings of a piano are playing, drawing people in and slowly immersing them in the singing.
Several people on the judging panel were a little shocked, especially Da Zhang Wei. He was the only active professional singer among them, and he was also a singer-songwriter.
He asked himself that he was fairly familiar with the Chinese music scene, but he had never heard of this song... Looking back, the announcement just now seemed to have any impression that it was called "The Thread String Opera".
this
In all likelihood, it is a new song, and judging from the melody and lyrics, the standard is quite good.
This made Da Zhangwei a little excited, and he couldn't wait to know who had written such a fine ancient poem again.
However, before he could start to think about it, he heard the lyrics and melody on the stage falling, and suddenly the music changed, and [Qing Yi]'s voice rose, and a high note burst out, which was a dramatic tune.
"The orchid finger twists the red dust like water
Three feet of red platform, everything goes into song
Singing farewell for a long time will not make you sad, the very red areas will turn into ashes
May whoever remembers whom have the best years
..."
This scene is extremely stunning and can be called the finishing touch. The judges' eyes lit up and they immediately selected the candidate for [Tsing Yi].
In terms of performance, Zeng Li was very successful. Unfortunately, the personal characteristics of the song were too strong and he could not hide his identity at all, so he was recognized immediately.
