The popularity of realistic fashion of TV program in the mid-1990s opened new horizon of the entertainment programs in Korea. It was used to be utilized for Documentary programs, but most popular entertainment programs start to adopt the fashion just ...
The popularity of realistic fashion of TV program in the mid-1990s opened new horizon of the entertainment programs in Korea. It was used to be utilized for Documentary programs, but most popular entertainment programs start to adopt the fashion just for fun in these days.
In this background, I paid attention to what are the nature of the confidence about reality of those programs, so I decided to figure out how the realism that the audience experience through 'the real variety show' can be composed.
Results showed that the most important premises to understand the audience's experience about 'the real variety show' was the attributes of the show and how do they recognize the genre of the show. Most studies about how the mechanism of reality effect on the level of consumption was classified into 'intra-textuality' and 'inter-textuality', because in the process of field work, 'intertextuality' was found as an important concept to understand 'the real variety show'. Accepting 'the real variety show' is accomplished while many different kinds of texts surrounding it interact with each other. It is because the boundary of genre, the real variety show, is ambiguous and circumstances of broadcasting and the way of acceptance of the text also have changed.
First, as mechanism of reality construction, I observed characters, the effects of realism about trust in genre, exposure of production team, use of caption, open narrative and use of subject matter. Especially, the character could affect preference about 'the real variety show'. In the process of character construction, probability was needed to contribute to realism, and the process should be show realistically. Also, when the characters in the show express their emotion frankly, the audience tend to immerse in that situation, and eventually, it contribute to realism.
Next, prior to direct consumption, the audience expect that program will show obvious reality because the program stand for realism. Thus they believe that, even if its official 'stage' is virtual, specific situations, especially the emotion between characters are real. In other words, the tension between 'virtuality of stage' and 'reality of emotion' leads the audience to immerse in text.
Meanwhile, 'the real variety show' compose realism as giving a margin that the audience can intervene in production through letting producers appear in the show to make the audience feel that players and producers make all the situation together in that place, and making the audience directly watch the processes. Also, the audience feel intimacy to producers who appear repeatedly in the show, it was another mechanism which amplify realism about text.
The caption that have utilized for fun in the entertainment programs for a long time is utilized as a window of 'communication' and 'conversation' in 'the real variety show'. It means that producers not only express their opinion and communication with viewers through the caption, but also it play a role in representing viewers' opinion. Eventually, the audience of 'the real variety show' think that they can communication with text through the caption, and they experience realism by thinking that they intervene actively in process of the consumption.
The next mechanism is 'open narrative'. 'The real variety show' present 'unexpected' fun by taking next situation according to the player's choice and acting off the cuff. They are not running just according to planed order and minute rule, so the viewers can experience realism by intervening in the text with active and polysemous interpretation instead of passively following presented text that adjusted their pre-experienced expectation when expectations and common senses were broken.
The last mechanism is utilization of the 'subject matter' in the 'intra-textuality'. Every kinds of entertainers' rumors about their private life that ordinary people cannot access easily can be treated naturally in the process of story development, and at that time, the viewers experience realism through the way of communication as if they communicate with their friends in reality. 'The real variety show' also adopt familiar subject matters and places to the text, thus the audience experience 'empirical realism' that they consider the real life where they live and presented life in the text are same.
The 'inter-textuality' is especially explained by analysis of 'character'. Namely, I found out the character of 'the real variety show' can complete realism when it maintain same pattern in other texts as well as the character changed gradually in one text which have affected from any other text.
But this 'intra-textulity' and 'inter-textuality' that I explain for understanding realism of 'the real variety show' and realism that the audience can experience are not in the same level or affect in the process of reception equally. Even though some mechanism is separated to 'intra-textuality', in the 'real variety show', it is not constructed by itself, but it can contribute to realism eventually when it was affected from 'inter-textuality', the unique feature of the text. In the other words, realism of 'the real variety show' has a close connection to 'inter-textuality' that this mixed genre have, and the 'inter-textuality' affect all of elements surrounding 'intra-textuality' impact on the audience's realism though combination of them.