Some time ago, the famous Nacho Vigalondo he dedicated himself to a job that in his day was highly coveted: screenwriter in ‘Big Brother’. Many of us had a hard time understanding the concept, of course. How is life scripted live? Nacho himself clarified that what they were doing was gather plots and moments that had happened during the day, not give them a few pages of script to follow. But over time, everything changes.
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If you have seen the fabulous ‘UnREAL’ you know what I mean: the writers of the current reality shows they don’t write the situations per se, but they do push (usually metaphorically) to the contestants to do certain things, say what they want to hear in confessionals or take paths that without their suggestions they would not take. It’s something we all take for grantedbut that surprised Oto Vans, a contestant on ‘Survivientes 2019’.
In the ‘Human Animals’ podcast, the youtuber said that TV was not his thing because “everything is scripted”, only to clarify right after “Well, it’s not scripted as such. The director of the program suggests that you make some suggestions as well as soft ones”. The punishment for not doing them (or for not giving content, wow) is not appearing in the videos and that they ignore you. In other words: If you don’t give controversy on Telecinco, why do they want you there?
Vans assured that it did not accept any of the suggestions: “I’m not going to talk to a straight turkey like “hello, I’m going to put your mouth in”which is what they suggested to me”. leave the island, said that He hated posturing and the Telecinco world because he did not want to do “what they wanted.”
When it is said that “these programs are scripted” they are largely right, but there are nuances. At Telecinco, the people who are experts in making this type of television is carried away by the producers. It’s easy to distinguish, for example, if you watch ‘Big Brother’ or ‘Secret Story’ on the 24-hour channel: when some contestants come out of talking with the Super, the fights come out of nowhere. Something similar happens during ‘Kitchen Nightmare’, which is tricked to (paradoxically) seem more real, but in a ‘Beijing Express’-style reality show. The eliminated ones are not agreed or anything similar. It would be a major scandal, after all.