PD Choi Baobi, who is famous for fighting with guests in the national Korean ensemble "Running Man", returns with a new ensemble. On March 9, "School Trip Without Mathematics" was broadcast in prime time on SBS TV, and although the ratings were not as good as North Korean TV's strong music complex "Mr. Trot 2", and the premiere ranked sixth in the same program, the network praised it very highly: "The more you watch it, the more interesting it is" and "Unexpected chemistry".
"Shugaku", which means travel for the purpose of studying, is common in elementary and junior high schools and higher education in Japan and South Korea. School trips are divided into several categories depending on the content of study, such as historical travel and nature travel. The six guests in the program studied in Hokkaido, Japan, and through a six-day, five-night trip, they learned more about the Hokkaido region.
Although the concept of "study" is not popular in China, the creative idea of this show is still very suitable for the Chinese market. Especially at present, social networks are full of social emotions such as "special forces-style tourism" and "weekend travel circles", which are in line with the production ideas and cuts of the program.
The six-person group studied Hokkaido
The process of the show entering the theme was very fast, and the same 92line Du Jung-so, Zico, Crush, Choi Jung-hoon, and the post-85 eldest brother Lee Yong-jin and Yang Se-chan gathered at a restaurant in South Korea, and after some pleasantries broke the ice, the six-man journey to Hokkaido officially began.
Generally speaking, in addition to viewing the scenery and tasting food, "acquiring knowledge" is the most important part of the trip. The school will arrange knowledge classes and conduct on-site tests on school trips, and such content will also be reproduced in the program.
Whenever they arrive at a new travel destination, the program team will arrange a guided tour to give simple information explanations, such as "Hokkaido is the second largest island in Japan after Honshu" and "the reason why Hokkaido is snowy", and at the end of each day, the program team will arrange six guests to take a casual test to check their mastery of local information.
If it is limited to this, then this show is just an ordinary travel variety show with knowledge quizzes, which is not new. What really makes Leng Yin feel bright is the program's disassembly of the elements of study travel in reality, and the integration with the program mechanism after disassembly.
It's all about travel, and school trips as a student are very different from trips as adults. The latter has independent economic ability and behavioral ability, and controls all the right to speak in travel, while the former is often constrained by money and cannot do whatever he wants, and the travel organized by the school, food and accommodation will not be much rich.
So at the moment of arriving in Hokkaido, the program team told the guests that everyone knows that the money available for study trips is limited, and you may not be able to eat very heartily, if you want to eat better, such as tasting Hokkaido's local specialties, you need to win in the Q&A.
In addition to limited accommodation and food conditions, another key word in school trips is sharing. One person has limited funds, and two people's money combined can buy what they want. Based on this, the show set up a wish ticket called "opportunity", for example, the person who loses in the competition is punished for not having food, and the guest who holds the "opportunity" can stand up and say "let so-and-so eat a little", and share the food he won with his peers.
And the only way to get a "chance" is to win in the exam. This approach makes the existence of the problem of knowledge in the classroom more reasonable.
Other details are also designed according to the real school trip: the general study trip duration is 3-5 days, and the program is six days and five nights; In school trips, students are often organized into groups of 4-6 people, and activities are carried out in groups, and the guests in the program happen to be groups of six;
The school organizes limited funds for trips, students have to share a room, some rooms are not comfortable, some have to make bunks, and students sometimes decide who will stay in the better room through small games. In the show, the sixsome also have to play games to decide who sleeps with whom.
It is these rules and details made by dismantling the real school trip that make the show more realistic and reasonable. The evaluation of the Korean website also confirmed this, "Kokoko, I remember the days of studying with my relatives."
Of course, no matter what type of variety show, "people-to-people stories" will always be the core focus of the show. School trips basically take place between classmates of the same age, but if you get together to travel with a group of friends of the same age, it is not much different from travel shows such as "In the SOOP Friendship Trip".
"School Trip Without Mathematics" adopts the combination of four 92line relatives of the same age + two post-85 brothers in the guest setting. "Old and young" is not a new way to pair up in travel variety shows. However, "School Trip Without Mathematics" requires the six guests to speak plain language to each other and get along in the same way as peers.
South Korea's predecessors and predecessors are well known, and the "disorder" that appears in variety shows is undoubtedly a different look.
The four younger brothers of 92line, from the beginning of speaking plain language, but the body language still maintained a humble appearance, to later completely treat the eldest brothers as friends of the same age, the whole thing is not merciful, and even want to continue the "plain language time" after the recording.
And the eldest brothers, occasionally want to play the majesty of their predecessors, and they will chant "We are relatives, we are relatives", obediently admitted.
This kind of flat language and the rule of getting along with friends of the same age undoubtedly minimizes the age scruples of the guests in the duel.
We will see that in the game of deciding "who will eat hearty food", the younger brothers of 92line calculate the big brother and resolutely refuse to release water, while the big brothers can only go hungry and accept the cruel truth.
Some pity study themes
Although the show has highlights, it also makes the rules more reasonable by dismantling the cultivation. But watching the six episodes of the program currently broadcast, the cold eye still feels a pity, "study" is a good cut, but it is a pity that Cui PD has not fully used it to the extreme.
As mentioned above, the meaning of "study" is to acquire knowledge during travel, and the program also sets up tour explanations, answer questions and corresponding reward and punishment systems. But this kind of question-and-answer session that is really related to knowledge does not account for a large proportion of the program, but is a series of small games that are not closely related to learning, filling the 80-minute program.
These games can be divided into two categories, one is set up by the program group, and guests are asked to win or lose through the game to obtain certain "props", and the other part is a spontaneous game duel between guests.
In the cold eye, these two types of games can be completely distinguished in content, under the general theme of "study", the role of the program group is like the school, is the organizer of learning, then the games set from the program group, may as well be associated with "knowledge", emphasizing "learning"; The spontaneous duel between the guests can be more casual and interesting.
For example, the first meal of the six-person group in Hokkaido, the six hungry and cold finally had the opportunity to taste Hokkaido's local specialties, while the program team said that not everyone can eat every dish, and they have to play mini-games in groups.
The show chooses a Korean guessing mine game here, but if it is related to Hokkaido or simply a local dinner, it may have a closer connection with the theme of the show.
Second, the motivation for the show is not clear.
Why is the destination of the school trip Hokkaido, and if it is just to see the snow, then why not choose South Korea's own Gangwon province, which has not been answered for more than half of the current broadcast.
There is not much portrayal of Hokkaido itself in the show, except for a few shots of outdoor skiing, most of the content of the show is recorded indoors, so what is the meaning of running to Hokkaido to record? Cui PD did not give a reasonable explanation.
If outdoor photography is restricted by weather or other external factors, it is entirely possible to shift the focus from outdoor to indoors with the theme of "Hokkaido Gourmet Study" or "Hokkaido Humanities Study" as a reference to the actual school trip. Instead of traveling in Hokkaido as it is now, but spending most of the time playing games indoors.
Of course, because most of the time is recorded indoors, it is difficult to see collisions between guests and locals.
In fact, this collision is often a source of laughter because of its uncertainty, such as in the first episode of the program, the six-person group guessed whether the driver's master had real hair or a hat on his head, and the moment the mystery was finally revealed, it was very funny. Unfortunately, such a collision almost ceased to exist in later issues.
So when it comes to localization transformation, what are the references and avoidances of the gains and losses of "Study Trip Without Mathematics"?
Recently, Leng Yi happened to brush such a note, some netizens said that in Changsha Pedestrian Street, some tourists pointed to the bronze statue of Huang Xing and asked his companion who it was, and the companion replied: Chef Fei.
If there is a variety show with Changsha as the destination, perhaps this tourist will not make such a joke.
The current social mood determines that travel variety shows have a market and audience, from Xiaohongshu and other platforms of "listen to advice" and "seek strategy" notes are not difficult to find that in addition to checking in and taking photos in Internet celebrities, in fact, tourists are still eager to understand the human history of the destination, so "study" has a target.
Domestic travel variety shows are already abundant, but there are not many programs like shuxue that "acquire knowledge for the purpose of travel".
Perhaps we can take a new tourist city in China as a study destination, through quiz games and exams, to deepen the audience's understanding of the city's relevant knowledge and historical background, and even resurrect the former hotline gameplay, for example, when guests take the exam, the audience can also answer questions synchronously through online participation to strengthen the interaction between inside and outside the screen.
Or perhaps, we can go further on the basis of Han Zong, abandon the mini games that have nothing to do with "knowledge", and make the show into a "study version of "The Strongest Brain" mode, so that guests can go to enough task locations in an extreme time, complete knowledge acquisition, and achieve knowledge + travel to the extreme.
The special situation of the past three years has made travel variety shows in a state of ruins, and several travel variety shows with micro-innovations have performed poorly, which makes people sing about this category, thinking that "short videos have revolutionized the life of travel variety shows".
In fact, from "School Trip Without Mathematics" to find the right cut, in the case of a certain hard injury in the program itself, still win a good reputation and ratings, we can find that as long as there is real innovation and meets the real demand, there will naturally be audiences willing to pay.