MBC。

Dream Center, inside the studio of the performance stage.

Kim Tae-ho PD took Shen Jung-won to the busy scene and explained to the stage of the concert: "Originally, the production team planned to arrange the June 6 concert to be filmed in a larger venue, but after discussion, I felt that the program budget would become tight if the stage was bigger, and now the weather is getting colder, and the open-air venue cannot have the desired effect." Therefore, I simply chose a relatively small indoor stage of five or six hundred people for decoration, and invested the vacated funds in the layout of the scene......"

According to Kim Tae-ho's estimate, when the filming and editing of the June Six concert came out, the first half of the special was stuck at the end of the year, and in order to make a perfect ending to the disaster-ridden year of this year's "Infinite Challenge", he simply invested all the remaining funds in the June Six concert.

"Is this just a relatively small stage?"

Listening to Kim Tae-ho's PD's introduction, Shen Zhengyuan nodded and looked at the busy stage layout at the scene.

In the final analysis, Al Jazeera does not have enough background, so there is no stage studio like MBC that has its own stage studio specializing in shooting concerts. Listening to Kim Tae-ho's understatement and looking at the concert space that was already sufficient in his eyes, Shen Zhengyuan once again felt the gap between the two TV stations.

"In the arrangement of the concert, the most energy-consuming part is the stage effect, especially the singing style of the 90s at our 66 Song Festival, so in order to perfectly restore the scene of decades ago, the art of the program team also spent a lot of thought, no matter from the lighting and stage art, it is as close as possible to the style of the year. ”

"For example, Shen Zhengyuanxi, these picture tubes in front of the stage you see now are the ones that our unchallenged production team spent a whole night finding and arranging, as for the other ......"

Although in the later broadcast, these scenes of stage layout may only be swept away behind the scenes. But in fact, for the staff who are busy arranging the scene, this stage is a big work and mobilization that has been carefully prepared since a few days ago.

"In this way, the layout of the concert stage is really not simple. ”

In the studio, Shen Zhengyuan saw the scene in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

Speaking of which, although Al Jazeera has arranged the stage of the show, compared with the June 6 concert to be filmed in "Infinite Challenge" today, it is completely a petty fight. To put it bluntly, whether it is lighting or sound on the stage, it burns a lot of money.

"It's not easy. ”

Hearing this, Kim Tae-ho PD also nodded sympathetically: "This is just a slightly smaller concert stage, if you really encounter a large-scale concert, the scene is bigger and more busy, and sometimes it is a very energy-consuming thing for us." ”

"Infinite Challenge" has a fixed tradition of holding a song festival every two years, and many viewers hope that the production team will hold more such special episodes, preferably once a year. In this regard, Kim Tae-ho PD is noncommittal, it's not that he doesn't want to do it, but every time the TV station crew is mobilized for the song festival, the staff of the TV station multiplies and multiplies, and sometimes the staff of other program groups must be dispatched to help.

Counting the preliminary preparation plan, it took the production team more than half a year to prepare for the filming of almost one episode of the Song Festival, and often all the music source income created after each Song Festival was donated to charity. The effort and the final gain are really a bit too disproportionate, if it weren't for the fact that the "Infinite Challenge" song festival has become a tradition, in fact, MBC has the idea of wanting to stop.

There is no other reason, it is too expensive.

The song festival is free, and all the income from the music source afterwards is also donated, and the TV station has not received any benefits except for a good name.

It's no wonder that MBC will use his brains in other aspects of "Infinite Challenge" and sell all kinds of merchandise to generate income.

In fact, for TV stations, in addition to the regular advertising revenue, the added value of various programs, such as merchandise and the audio source income of song programs, is also one of the major revenue generators of TV stations. Take the MBC where Shen Zhengyuan is now as an example, just the posters and other peripheral goods of "Dad, Where Are We Going?" have made MBC make a lot of money, not to mention a thunderous national variety show like "Infinite Challenge", and the revenue cost created makes the TV station laugh from ear to ear.

Of course, as far as a big station like MBC dares to play this kind of peripheral income, judging from Shen Zhengyuan's current situation at Al Jazeera, although the ratings of "Please Refrigerator" are strong, there is still a long way to go before it becomes a brand, and "My Little Television" is still on the rise, and it has not reached the level of being able to create peripherals.

The second is that the peripheral goods of variety shows are not made if you want to make them, and the peripheral posters of "Dad, Where Are We Going?" can be successful, thanks to the cute and lively images of the children in the show, and "Infinite Challenge" is a brand effect that has been the same for decades.

Sorry, Shen Zhengyuan really can't think of any suitable products, so he can't make food or guests in the live broadcast room into peripherals.

If you think about it this way, in fact, the income of song programs is the most practical, and the income of music sources is also the majority.

……

Shen Zhengyuan thought a lot here, but in fact, it didn't take long.

After the introduction of Kim Tae-ho PD, I quickly watched the stage one round at a time.

"Jin PD, Liu Zaishi Xi has come!"

Just as Kim Tae-ho was thinking about how to arrange Shen Zhengyuan's next matters, the staff of the production team on the side had already reminded him.

"Since this is the case, then Shen Zhengyuanxi, let's go and meet Brother Shi together. ”

The arrival of Yoo Jae-seok just solved Kim Tae-ho's urgent need, and the filming of the concert is about to start filming, although the two nominal hosts of the concert are Park Myung-so and Jung Jun-ha, the proposers of the June 66 Song Festival, but compared to the two big brothers in the show, Kim Tae-ho still trusts the actual host of "Infinite Challenge", the national MC Yoo Jae-seok.

"It just so happened that I also went to see what the lounge behind the stage looked like. ”

In the face of Kim Tae-ho's PD's invitation, Shen Zhengyuan naturally has no reason to refuse, firstly, he has already watched the behind-the-scenes situation of the concert, and it will inevitably cause a certain degree of trouble to the production team if he continues to stay, and secondly, from the original documentary shooting, or the unexpected appearance of "Running Man" earlier, Liu Zai-seok can be regarded as an artist who is more familiar with Shen Zhengyuan, not to mention that with the national MC's mastery of the atmosphere on the scene, it will not seem embarrassing to meet this person.