Chapter 790: American-Style Treasure Hunt
Thanks to the perfect, even outrageously detailed legal system in the United States and the Western world, a "Treasure Hunt" program has an ironclad independent copyright, and whoever plagiarizes will be finished.
It is certain that before the United Television Network makes this program bad, any other TV-related institutions cannot imitate the program type, otherwise it will be an infringement, and it is guaranteed that it will be judged that the mother will not know it!
Once a week, the program production department also added some American characteristics to Zhang Nan's original idea: no matter how much the last piece of fine product selected, it will also receive a prize of 10,000 US dollars and a certificate of "a local folk national treasure".
365 days a year, 52 weeks a year, no matter what special reasons, a year is a bonus of 520,000 US dollars, which is a small meaning......
Oh, this money doesn't need Zhang Nan to take out of his own pocket, and the program team funds come out of it.
Well, it seems that it is still Zhang Nan's money, but it has just entered the financial operation, who made the entire TV network his.
In order to ensure that the program can be broadcast every week, the pre-recorded program must be pressed into one episode as stock, and the stupid method of recording one season a year and broadcasting a season for several months is no longer used in the United States.
Using the operation method of Huaxia after 20 years, several groups of people shoot at the same time, the whole United States attacks, and then enter the main selection after the audition, with a time difference in between.
During the audition, the host will generally only record an intro, and the rest are busy with staff and experts who do not appear on camera.
When it comes to the recording stage of the main audition, the experts on the camera may be the same as the experts in the previous audition, or they may all be changed, anyway, they can be ugly.
To this end, the network hired more than a dozen experts in various cultural relics and artworks, so that no one could be unable to arrive at the recording site due to problems with their original work.
At the same time, the local concept in many places in the United States is also extremely strong, such as in Texas, where cowboys are estimated to come up with a bunch of extremely local characteristics of the "cultural relics", such as the guns of a legendary sheriff or a notorious bandit 100 years ago.
Values and cultural connotations are indispensable, and lofty slogans and high-sounding excuses must be there, so that the American people know what a social river crab is.
The building of spiritual civilization is also needed by American society.
Just like for the filming in some areas of Texas, the United Television Network will not take the blame, it is better to let your local experts "show their skills", a bandit's pistol because of the local cultural background to defeat Mo Nai's famous painting, who let you like this Tao.
As for the audience, huh......
The American people can also understand who makes the United States big, and the customs are very different.
Moreover, the filming and broadcasting of the program do not necessarily have to be the Chinese-style "Treasure Hunt" process that Zhang Nan is familiar with, and the form can be flexible and changeable: like in "Treasure Hunting: Into Manhattan", it is divided into three episodes.
No way, a Manhattan has a population of more than 1.5 million, there are many rich people, and there are many antique shops, so you can handle it without three episodes?
As for a certain western town, not only can you get it in one episode, but the mode can also be as relaxed as a rural exchange meeting, where everyone puts their babies on a grassy field, happily interacts with experts and hosts, and even has a village barbecue dinner.
America, you're going to have to play tricks.
Today is the first day of the audition in Manhattan, and in a hall vacated by a public library that provides the venue for free, eight experts are lined up, and at least nearly 1,000 people are waiting in line for the audition.
It's a very familiar feeling, Zhang Nan has seen the audition of "Treasure Hunting" in his last life, even if the time is 20 years in advance, it is still half a world away, and even the race is different, but the atmosphere is really similar.
Manhattan people are really wealthy, and they have all kinds of strange things, and there are even people who drive antique cars to join in the fun.
Fools know that your car is a good thing, and you still come to the show to waste the time of experts and others, and make a!
Then, Zhang Nan lost interest after staying for a while: it was basically a Western old goods, and they all suspected that some rich people were his mother--using this show as a place for free appraisal and valuation.
Famous oil paintings, European antique porcelain and antique jewelry account for a large proportion: if it is considered the monetary value, there is nothing to say, but Zhang Nan is not very interested.
Besides, even the two in their own manor were in the expert group, and they lost interest after a while: they saw a small amount of Chinese porcelain, but it was indeed a brilliant Cantonese porcelain.
Manhattan is also successful, Manhattan is defeated, Zhang Nan estimates that it is difficult to find his favorite objects here!
New Yorkers probably won't look through their attics: no attics, no lofts, high-rise buildings!
With his own experts here, Zhang Nan, who had lost interest, left.
New Yorkers are too philistine and cunning, Zhang Nan can already feel that this issue of "Treasure Hunting" is a great competition for wealth, which is good for a complete layman to see the excitement, but it lacks the fun in the bones of the word "treasure hunt".
"Henry, after doing more than a dozen episodes of this show, try to reduce the share of a type of economic big city and go to a small city.
Treasure hunting is to be found, a city and a district will have dozens of antiques worth millions of dollars, how will the show be played in the future?
One tenth of these Manhattans aren't here to be on the show, they're here to make a big splash, and I don't want the show to be wrapped up in too much money.
We're going to serve ordinary Americans, and let these showy guys see the!"
Henry nodded, and a vice president of the United Television Network and the producer of the "Treasure Hunt" program immediately wrote down Zhang Nan's words in the notebook in his hand.
This habit is only found in the Eastern countries?
No, many people in the United States who were born as journalists have this habit, a very good habit.
As for why two history teachers with a little research on antiques can be treasure connoisseurs?
No problem, Americans see this as a real expert: an antique shop owner can be an expert, a librarian can appraise old maps, and a museum researcher can value 19th-century gold coins......
In the eyes of Americans, experts are actually about the same level as the bricks that Huaxia will often say, and it is very good.
It has only been 200 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the concept of antiques is very different from the culture and traditional concepts of China in the antique circle!
Zhang Nan knew that among the eight experts today, there was only one researcher from the Metropolitan Museum of Art who studied this full-time.
But there is a problem: the researcher is an expert, but this person is dedicated to research, and he is not a second-hand dealer at all, and he is not familiar with the market.
As a result, antique dealers had to make up the numbers...... This is the American-style "Treasure Hunt": there is no way, the background is not enough, and the right expert is difficult to find.
There are those who can see, estimate, and speak, and their identities must be "hard" enough, and such talents will grasp a lot of them in China, as for the United States......
Huh.
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Manhattan is not interesting, the producer recommends going to New Haven, the seat of state government in Connecticut, and tomorrow a film crew there will enter the main selection stage to record, and it is said that there are many more interesting things.
Moreover, the "second-way dealer expert" specially hired by the program team has seen a lot of good collections in the audition stage before, and some object owners may be interested.
The program team would have brought a specially edited video to Zhang Nan at the end of the editing stage of the show to see what could catch the eye: these would be the ones with greater value.
Of course, in case of encountering the level of the bronze plate, the director of the program team and the second-class dealers will immediately think of a way to take down the object for the boss.
The producer also introduced the problems encountered in filming during this period, mainly the difficulties and solutions encountered in the early stage of local publicity: the US government at all levels does not like to participate in the filming of commercial TV programs, if it is changed to Huaxia......
Hehe, the local government propaganda department will invite people to record the show, how good it is to show your face across the country!
People come to shoot, not to mention anything else, at least the local governments must have covered the transportation, accommodation, logistics personnel organization, and venues, and then ......
Then, the choreographer and director of the program team had to rely on the local publicity department and the cultural and cultural protection department to contact the local publicity department to organize and publicize local collectors to participate in the program, and by the way, take some local customs and natural scenery as the beginning of this issue.
After that, when the first batch of audition experts and film crews arrived, everything was ready, the scene would definitely not be cold, and the objects would also be made by some local collectors to press the treasures at the bottom of the box, so that the local government would not be embarrassed in front of the people of the whole country because there were no local treasures.
By this time, the comrades who received it locally were already familiar with the film crew.
The so-called acquaintances are easy to do, and the average TV viewer will never know about it, and it happens naturally: almost everywhere, there will be a large number of the best antique artifacts that will not appear on TV!
Let you see "what you can see", "what you can't see" ordinary viewers absolutely can't see!
What, good things are not released on TV, is there a black-box operation, so that "low-grade goods" become civil national treasures and serve some people?
No, it's not, because even if someone wants to be shameless, the film crew won't be involved in all the mess in your place.
It doesn't appear on TV because the owner of a good object doesn't want it to appear on TV at all!
Most of us dare not say that at least more than one-third of the good things will not appear at the audition site, but will be identified in the room used as a temporary office in the hotel before the audition.
It's public on TV, and everyone knows you have a baby......
Where did it come from?
Is the owner a civil servant?
That's even more lively!
Also, what should the thief do if he is worried?
There is a way, continue to look for support: there is a trust, and even the treasure holder who competes in the final competition can be a trust, and the comrades who can speak the Tao can be selected, and even directly by the local news unit as a host and announcer.
Fun, right? The treasure bearer can "crackle" better than the host of the show, and the effect is very good!
No way, the host of the "Treasure Hunt" program has been doing it for more than ten years, and the "treasure holder" has been doing this business twenty or thirty years ago, and he can cooperate with you by showing his hands casually, and the recording effect is good and fast, and in a few cases it can even steal the limelight of the host.
And it's best to choose a guy from a radio background, who is better than a TV person, and generally doesn't cause too much "joke" in the local area: ", who is the one who has become an antique treasure hunter in the fork news, it's too fake and too hard to be famous locally?......"
There is nothing for the show, this is the difference between a national scope and a single place.
And there is an advantage to this operation: even if it is not on the news, it won't take long, and the local people will know that the treasure holder is a trust, and there is no treasure at home, so don't go to his house to make a fortune.
It can also prevent theft and robbery, and other cases, so what a good setting.
And in the United States, without the strong support of local governments, the United Television Network has to rely on itself, at least there is no one to pay for the accommodation and food.
But it's okay, because it's a real commercial TV network, it still has a bit of energy in various places, and it won't be reduced to the point where you need to go around begging grandpa and grandma like a salesperson.
TV broadcast, then TV pull, all rely on their own publicity.
So the first three issues were placed in the Los Angeles region, the base camp of the United Television Network, which is familiar and has enough appeal.
A few distinctions are carried out, and this has been broadcast for two more episodes, and the influence comes together, and it is convenient to do things next.
Like this New Haven, the local city hall also has a subordinate cultural department, and someone contacted the local agency of the United Television Network, hoping to shoot an episode of "Treasure Hunting" in the local area.
You must know that New Haven is absolutely "long-standing" in the United States, it is the first planned city in the United States, with a history of more than 350 years, and the famous Yale University is also in the city.
"Tomorrow?
Yes, there is time. ”
There is no need for a plane, and the car can run a small half-circle around the Long Island Strait.
But Zhang Nan was too lazy to take a car, and the next morning, he boarded the yacht directly on the pier of his private beach, and it didn't take long to get to New Haven: it was diagonally across the strait, and the car might as well take a boat.
And although the local city hall will not pay for the film crew's accommodation and transportation expenses, the filming venue and security are still solved: the location is the New Haven Natural History Museum, just next to the largest yacht marina in New Haven, only about 100 meters away.
You don't even need a car, it's just a two-step walk from the boat.
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At 10 a.m. the next day, Zhang Nan arrived at the New Haven Museum of Natural History, where he met two presenters: Kurt Dusse, 38, and Anna Phillips, 32, in the hall where the skeleton specimens of mammoths and ground sloths were kept.
Americans have always liked older hosts, which can give people a convincing feeling, and they are also men and women, and they are not tired of work, not to mention that the type of show is still dealing with old things.
Looking at it this way, even 32-year-old Anna Phillips seems a little younger.
Kurt looks 1.85 meters tall, tall and handsome, and as for Anna, she is also 1.7 meters tall, with brown hair and three-dimensional facial features, which is quite feminine.
The two greeted the big boss with great professionalism, and then ......
Anna smiled and said, "Uncle Deboson, you and Mr. Allen are coming, we will have a lot of pressure. ”
Well, this is a relational household, a capable relation: Henry's sister's daughter, who used to work as a location reporter at a local TV station, has easily stuffed her niece into the most popular program of the TV network since Henry became the boss of the United Television Network.
Uncle and uncle are called by adding a specific surname before "uncle" to distinguish it, which is as simple as that, so before Henry explained, Zhang Nan probably knew the relationship between the two.
In this regard, Zhang Nan, the boss of the boss, doesn't care, the objects in "Treasure Hunt" are the absolute protagonists, and the experts are also eye-catching, as for the host, as long as he can reach the business average, he is almost competent.
Relationship is relationship, it doesn't matter.
As for whether you understand antiques and works of art before, it doesn't matter, there are experts, and you have been in this industry for a year and a half, as long as it is not a mallet, you can naturally say one, two, three or four when the time comes.