Ran Gaoming commented that "Strange Story" has a reduction of 80% to himself - a high proportion that he thinks he has; unlike some other jobs that only have the opportunity to show a "very small piece" of personality, the angle and energy of the spotlight equipped with this stage are all-round and high-perspective, allowing him to "prove himself and find self-confidence".
Author: Yi Chao
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The contestants of "Strange Story" never lack the rich definition of terms like a dictionary, and Ran Gaoming may be one of the "strange things" with the most isotopes followed by "AKA": "The leader of the debate atmosphere group", "the small expert in speaking after the break", "the old man who is selected in the audition", making the audience in the bullet screen area laugh and "the man who doubles the speed of double speed".
Part of the reason for these more and more personal images comes from the fact that he has really participated in too many "strange series" shows - the first season has appeared, participated in five auditions in seven seasons of competitions, and gone from obscurity to hot search, from "sunshine boy who loves pens" to "makeup boys who love eyebrow pencils".
"Wow, here he comes!" In Ran Gaoming's view, the audience's reaction to him in the seventh season may have shown that he is no longer the immature, always facing suspicious eyes, and not confident enough.
"I can read my own changes in their growing voices; the audience is like a mirror, and if you really make progress, they'll tell you with applause and cheers."
The intuition from Ran Gaoming actually sketches a silhouette of the audience of "Strange Story": they are a group of people with a high degree of self-consciousness among the variety show audiences - very clear about what they want, chasing after changes with judgment, not stingy affirmation of the point, and no mercy on vague sophistry.
Therefore, if "Strange Story" wants to satisfy this part of the audience, it must use the amplified version of freedom, cosmic-level empathy value, and chicken-blood learning ability to forge itself into a program that will grow itself in the face of encouragement and self-criticism in response to frustration.
Therefore, such as Ran Gaoming, the old strangers who choose to fight again and again, even if there are short life fluctuations and self-doubts, will also choose a clear direction and insist on investing in a long period of time, in exchange for considerable long-term returns.
"Strange talk" progress is never a matter of easy satisfaction
Ran Gaoming's first few appearances in the "Strange Flower Series" variety show were not so smooth, and it can even be said that he fell over his head firmly.
Xiao Ran, who was eliminated after participating in the audition of the first season of "Strange Story", who still had the status of a broadcast hosting student at the Communication University of China at that time, was not too anxious, he seriously looked for jobs and internship opportunities, and felt that as long as he kept himself in the state of recording the program and followed the professional course training route of "familiar with the complete production process of the program" step by step, he could slowly find the expression skills that made the audience recognize himself.
It was the huge controversy caused by participating in the first season of "Strange Flower Conference" that made Ran Gaoming push the quadrant of self-awareness to the attention to life experience for the first time: if the attention to methods and techniques is greater than the content itself, it must not be conducive to the precipitation of thinking.
"Once rejected, you will feel that it is inappropriate, or that you just can't do it." But when you are rejected the second time, after such an effort, you will say in your heart: Disobedience. ”
Since then, Ran Gaoming has officially "opened the bar" with "Strange Story": he continued to study graduate school, went to Sichuan to support teaching, and worked part-time in the park to "spit fire"... He opened himself up, no longer took everything for the purpose of making money, took the initiative to interact with life head-on, and also humbly consulted with life.
Ran Gaoming, who was spewing fire in Beijing's Chaoyang Park.
For example, in the days of volunteer teaching, he was far away from the rush to make quick gains, no longer "afraid of rest", learned to slow down the rhythm, and felt happiness in going to bed early and getting up early; several children in the class, after listening to his nagging stories about the North Drift, asked: "Teacher Ran, can I go to Beijing in the future?" Will I live like you in the future? ”
Smoothly opened the world of these small listeners, but also in a completely different environment, repaired their original blank, "the original switch was broken, now I find that the switch is fixed."
Ran Gaoming compares the confrontation with the "Strange Flower System" every few years to several points marked with an asterisk on the axis of life coordinates, hoping that "each point will change". These points are visible to the audience; it is the lines that string them together, little by little accumulating the energy to reach the next stop.
On January 9, 2021, the second game of the seventh season of "Strange Story", Ran Gaoming, who is the second defense of the opposing side, said in the last speech when arguing against the "former review APP", "Together, we face, facing the vow to move forward hand in hand; when we break up, we are back to each other, and the back is the promise not to bother again", which was choked and recognized by the scene and the screen.
When he threw out the anti-"ex-comment APP" view, Professor Xue applauded him.
On January 21, the second game of the promotion match, Ran Gaoming, who was the second debater, described the parents who "followed the trend in the parent group" every day to "wait for the wind to come" and warned the parents that "the lonely boat is not going to follow the trend"--and double-click contributed a wave of golden sentence hot search.
Some viewers have found that since the sixth season, Ran Gaoming has entered the state of running high-sounding hegemony with intensive laughter points, and the backhand will send you a state of ran gaoming domination of emotional stories.
Ran Gaoming's summary of this style of play is: very delicate to see the problem, and then go to laugh and angrily talk about it.
"I must make sure that all my passages are embedded in logic and opinion." Ran Gaoming wants to weaken the sense of existence of logic, hide it in the breath, breath and expression behind the text, and quietly hand it to the audience.
He said he particularly liked the "state of preparing a debate, finishing it on the field, and hearing applause from the audience" because it was not a "hand-picked thing."
This is not a ready-made program, the output of the contestants determines the content itself; everyone is writing their own and representing the image of "Strange Story" with a three-foot attitude. Ran Gaoming sighed: The last two seasons of the show have almost overdrawn all his "27 years of experience".
Ran Gaoming also said bluntly: his "places that make the audience feel shining are not talented" and "I really cut it out little by little." He envied his "writer-type" predecessors like Fu Seoul, who had a wealth of knowledge reserves, and even in improvised passages, he still had the strength to export and provoke thought.
In fact, the excellence of the novelties is also superimposed on the sense of crisis of the old wonders: 18-year-old Yuan Qiqi, who said "I can stand on this stage, not because I am a flower in the greenhouse, but because I am the butterfly that cannot be blown away by the wind", the 17-year-old TK, who advocates that "parents should be smart to meet the needs of their children and not be too blindly obedient", pointed out that "many things are not without opportunities but without ability", are like a flying knife that people cannot dodge. Stimulates everyone's self-reflection.
Every player who won applause for himself on the stage of "Strange Story" has experienced struggling in fear, moving in doubt, and even if he has some achievements, he will take the initiative to give himself a warning of "killing". "Whether it is thinking about the world or feelings about life, everyone is still working hard", Ran Gaoming feels that every contestant who participates in this show shows "the one who tries his best".
Ran Gaoming in "Strange Story", reduction degree = 80%
"Everyone in the program group knows: girls 10 points makeup, boys 11 points makeup, Ran Gaoming 9:30 makeup." Ran Gaoming talked about his importance to the instrument, and there was a kind of naturalness of being spoiled by the program group.
The "connivance" of the "Strange Story" program group to the contestants is far more than the appearance, in terms of the content of the defense, basically "as long as you dare to be responsible for yourself, what do you love to say and say".
Of course, every player does not expect to be short-lived with a flamboyant personality, but this sufficient degree of freedom can indeed help the players to be true to themselves without being bound to rules and regulations.
"Strange Story" sets a precedent by transforming the seemingly high-barrier form of debate into a variety show, which is a kind of "cultural release" in Ran Gaoming's understanding. Giving a speculative attitude to every ordinary person is the beginning of a grounded atmosphere; and the words of every debater are absolutely necessary to come from real life.
"I'm still quite Drama in life." Ran Gaoming admitted that whether on stage or offstage, he hoped that this desire to express himself would become a way for everyone to like him.
Ran Gaoming summed up: The audience who likes him likes his very relaxed state on stage, and the way he analyzes and disassembles problems with dense paragraphs; he is quite willing to be seen by the audience as a "boy next door" who "knocks on the next door and can come out" - may have a stinky mouth, may not be very annoying, but it must be very REAL.
In the process, he also discovered the strengths of those personalities that deserved to be amplified. For example, an empathic ability to replace direct reasoning with storytelling; for example, the ability to get straight to the point.
To this day, "Strange Story", which has reached the seventh season, has not shown "eccentricity" towards a certain type of player. So players like Chen Ming, Liang Qiuyang, etc., who can always use unexpected views to refresh the depth and breadth of the audience's understanding of the problem, can have a large number of "die-hard fans"; and Ouyang Chao, who inexplicably pokes at your nerve corner like Ouyang Chao, who can't stop medicine, can also become the MVP of the whole field.
Some people love to speculate, some people need to eat, for the program group, what can be done is to pet the strength of the powder, the entire "vegetable market" are moved out for you to choose; whether you are a "value faction" or a "funny gang", do not kidnap, do not favor, do not evaluate, so that everyone can be happy in gaii, harvest their most wanted "turnip or greens".
For the contestants, there is no need to deliberately cater to the audience, because they have also recognized that they like it or dislike it, and may only be based on the personal preferences of the audience. "I'm going to cater to the audience that I want to cater to." Ran Gaoming believes that all his efforts are to not disappoint the people who like him.
In fact, "not pandering" may help create a more open atmosphere, which in turn makes the audience more inclusive.
As Season Seven mentor Liu Qing said in an interview with the show: "What matters is not who is right and who is wrong, a show like Qibao said should provide the audience with a broader vision and see different perspectives." ”
Although Ran Gaoming will also find that the current "Strange Story" has more "reasonable" parts, if "do not pause the play to go to the toilet", come back "really can't keep up" - but the participants, including him, are adjusting in a timely manner, wanting to make the balance between value and variety shows more natural.
He felt that even a BB King-level figure like Chen Ming, who repeatedly staged the situation of "Nüwa Patching Up the Heavens" with deep thinking, was also "taking off from the ground" when he looked deeply--those god-level views on "Strange Story" actually had a core of earth-like atmosphere; without this premise, "Strange Story" would not be the "Strange Story".
Life or "Strange Story", which is more difficult?
"Too tired, too tired of this show." Ran Gaoming complained that the part that the audience can see is "already the most relaxed look"; he feels that "Strange Story" is like a high-speed railway, everyone must follow the high speed, and the pressure really forces everyone out.
The contestants seem to have entered a "Strange Story" university, and everyone has to work hard to graduate.
"Every debate must have people you don't understand, things you don't understand, experiences you don't understand, and when you understand and experience them, they will grow rapidly." Ran Gaoming treats the preparation process of each debate as a "solution", so that at the end of the season, "there is not much difference from reading books".
He will put himself into the role of the debate, looking for the intersection with the emotions of the parties, first through a lot of reading, referring to other people's stories, forming cognition, summarizing views, if it is not enough, simply experience life.
In order to prepare for the blind spot topics related to full-time fathers, Ran Gaoming decided to go to a friend's house to be a "trainee father" for a day: 8-year-old Tong Tong had to go to "countless" tutoring classes, Ran Gaoming then transformed into a full-time driver, constantly shuttling on the crowded road on Saturdays; to prepare nutritious meals for children, steamed sea bass, oyster sauce lettuce, small stir-fried meat can not be less, and then clean up the dishes, tutoring homework... Rushing all day without pause, the difficulty of staying at home has become a feeling that can be seen and touched.
"Will you send me tomorrow?" What about next Saturday? Tong Tong's reluctance when saying goodbye also made the "Gao Ming Dad" who was praised for his good temper harvest a little sweetness.
In addition to working hard to "study by yourself", Ran Gaoming is also seizing the opportunity to learn from his teammates in the "research group" of the team.
At first, when faced with the debate of "whether to praise the teacher in the parent group", Ran Gaoming realized that he could only "discuss things on the facts", but he found that other teammates would try to start from the analysis of the characters, through the combination of different characters and scenes, infer those hidden details - such as children who are not in the parent group, that is, the roles that are not mentioned in the title but are crucial.
"From the scene of the topic to a real scene", Ran Gaoming tried to sort out and diverge his thinking according to the "5W" method when analyzing the debate, returning to real life and getting a glimpse of those overlooked perspectives.
Perhaps this is the ultimate meaning that the contestants of "Strange Story" have realized: the debate from life can only go to life to find the answer.
And "Strange Story" also has the possibility of feeding back to life. "It's not just a pure variety show, after you watch the show, if you encounter similar or similar problems in your life, you may have new ideas and new feelings, you will even become more understanding of others, try to think from their point of view, see the world in their eyes." 」 Ran Gaoming feels that the most valuable value of "Strange Story" is to cultivate the empathy of the players and the audience.
However, as the contestant Xi Rui once said on the show: "Life is like "Strange Story", constantly giving us problems." "In the face of life, we do not always have the opportunity to choose the debate and choose the positive and negative sides.
Debate topics can be avoided, debates can be fast-forward, only life, will not let us go.
But perhaps this is the meaning of the debate of "Strange Story": life raises difficult problems, we team up to debate; the winner in the debate is not necessarily the winner in life, at least we can think proactively.
Maybe watching "Strange Story" can be used as a brain rehearsal of real life, so that we will not panic and be overwhelmed when reality strikes us.
"What Strange Story can bring me is far from saturated, but what I can bring to Strange Story may indeed be a little saturated." Ran Gaoming is worried that after the end of this season, personal accumulation will not be able to keep up with the growth of the show.
"For me, it's a place where I find confidence." Like every adult who still has growth anxiety, Ran Gaoming needs this confident blessing to take him to the next stop.
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