Introduction to reality show

What is reality show?
According to Oxford Dictionaries 2014, it can be defined as a television programme in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designing to be entertaining rather than informative.

Winifred Fordhem Metz has stated that reality show is varies from show to show whereby producer propose the concept and people who casting the show are under auditioned and being hired if they have the potential in entertainment. Not only the footage maybe real and it usually extremely edited to entertain the audience.It is not necessary to have script but there will always outline detail as guideline of an episode or part of the show which known as shooting script.

Therefore, reality show is bringing the audiences back to reality world that being designed and edited in way of witty or funny. The main purpose of the show is to entertain the audiences and make them laugh.

Do you know?
"An American Family" is claimed to be the first reality show by TV guide and it featured in 1973. It is about 12 episodes documentary series where Loud family captured day to day lives over 7 months period. 
It is about Loud's marital problem and gay lifestyle of eldest son.

An American Family

Mise-en-scene

According to fundamental of film making it is a French term means "placing on stage". 

Arrangement of actors, lighting, props, costume,decor that appear in framing are 

under mise-en-scene and normally in charge by director. It normally organized by 

4 general areas:

Setting (Lowe)

- creating scene and mood that reflect the character's emotional state of mind

Lighting (Manrodt)

- the arrangement of key, fill and backlight provide the illumination of the scene 

  with the use of lighting scheme

Costume (Mertz)

- the choice of make-up and wardrobes to convey the personalities of the characters and      signify differences between characters

Staging

- most important part where the actors have to make the story engaging to audiences

References:

Oxford Dictionaries (2014) Definition of Reality Show.Oxford University Press.[Online] Available at: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/reality-show [Accessed on 29th June 2014]

Metz,W.(2014) How Reality TV Works. How Stuff Works.[Online] Available at: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/reality-tv4.htm [Accessed on 29th June 2014]

Moura, G.(2014) Mise-en-scene.Element of Cinema, a student's guide to the fundamentals of film making.

[Online] Available at: http://www.elementsofcinema.com/directing/mise-en-scene.html 

[Accessed on 29th June 2014]

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