And Fox tried to do some additional sort of weird virtual studio stuff that were like after shows where they would have video calls from people who are just eliminated celebrities who are just eliminated. So The Masked Singer was a big hit in the U.S. Considering were just coming off a season that featured the horrifying Night Angel, thats really saying something. 3,298, This story has been shared 2,899 times. John: But its flying out really convincingly. First up: question one, what is it like to be in the audience of the show? It is disappointing not to be able to have the audience there, but its the safest option forThe Masked Singer filming. And heres why: Nick Cannon: Its time to release the dragon. It really was all about singing live on the stage. Why did The Masked Singer take away its height graphic? The Masked Singer is an ongoing competition, where a group of masked celebrities compete against each other in costume. WebHave been having a great time on set of The Masked Singer as an Audience Coordinator with OCA! Turns out, it was all arranged to appear that way and the audience was actually virtually in attendance. Theres just something about watching people compete that viewers at home cant resist. Like, theres that opening shot like whats going on with the set? The Masked Singer returns TONIGHT (January 16), on ITV. Billy: What I, what I love about hearing about this stuff is that this is the stuff that people at home dont notice for the most part, you know, no one was tweeting about the lighting on the picture frames in the Giraffe performance. It's almost time for The Masked Singer Season 4 and the addition of a virtual studio audience for tapings gives fans the chance to join in from the comfort of their home. If the panelist is right, the contestant has to immediately unmask and leave the competition, giving the panelist two points towards the Golden Ear trophy. Though they were offered the information, many of Foxs top brass were too worried about leaks to learn the spoiler. Billy: But I was still highly suspicious. In the show trying to give a sense of normalcy Im even more reminded of how unprecedented this time really is, and I just dont feel like I should be thinking about that while watching this show. Laura Herzing: For all of our virtual audience applications, we have an actual operator there onsite whos watching the game or the show and triggering what the audience should be doing in real time as well. Build your customFanSided TV email newsletter with news and analysis onAll Television and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. So I just asked Kyle straight up. And they have no memory of any of this. Kyle Montplaisir: They have an audience coordinator whos going through in the commercial breaks was doing fun games and things to keep everyone entertained. If you love The Masked Singer - then, you will love THE MASKED DANCER! The Masked Dancer will feature celebrity contestants shaking their tail feathers, while covered from head-to-toe in elaborate costumes and face masks, leaving audiences to guess their identities. Yeah. We did try every kind of piece of lawyer paper possible as well, executive producer Craig Plestis said during the panel. John: Well, you only do it once though. Billy: The virtual audience was added using the same software, in the same studio, but in a different isolated room by a different team. And it was actually written as Pixotop, but I quickly found out that that must be a typo because Pixotop is not a thing, but Pixotope is a virtual production system that uses unreal engine. 1 day ago. And it just kind of the idea stuck. Google+, Apple Podcasts SpotifyGoogle PodcastsOvercastPocket CastsStitcherCastroCastboxRadioPublicTuneInRSS, https://underunderstood.com/podcast/episode-player/1929/masked-singer-audience.mp3, How Does The Masked Singer Voting Work This Season? Nick Cannon: Season four of The Masked Singer. Nickon Mirsepassi: Essentially, we get these DMX controls, which are like a, an order of numbers, right? Published Nov 15, 2022. Seasons 4 and 5 of The Masked Singer certainly threw some fans off, but the utilization of a virtual audience was necessary in order to follow the social distancing guidelines that were in place at the time. John: There was an episode on this season where that happened, Adrianne, and they didnt vote because the participant took off their mask at the end of the episode. 1,610, This story has been shared 1,454 times. But Why Is The Company Losing A Billion? And they have to make a new season post COVID, but the virtual studio experiments, they did with the after show stuff went terribly. So presumably, theyve archived a lot of footage of audience reaction shots. One of the first things Nickon did when he got on the actual set is work with the lighting person to figure out how he can tap into that data and use it. 4,099, This story has been shared 3,718 times. I don't want to watch another Zoom. It was on this awful virtual set that looked like they had bought it from like, the cheapest stock source that you could find. So the concept of The Masked Singer, first of all, I feel like whenever I tell people about it, I note that it started as a Korean show, which explains some of the zaniness that is like, its like up a notch from American television zaniness. I think were all exhausted being on Zooms every day and so is the average viewer,, If you are hoping Cannon will confirm that what youre seeing isnt real, youre out of luck. Adrianne: So youre looking into the camera and you see what the audience will eventually see or something closer to it. Billy: The studios more or less shut down completely for a while. Sign up for our Celebrity & Entertainment newsletter. But this year, an audience albeit a smaller one will be back. Billy: Laura is the executive producer at Silver Spoon in Brooklyn. The Medusa is saved by the judges from elimination for the first time in 'The Masked Singer' history. Start Time, How To Watch, Will There Be A 'Sex/Life' Season 3 on Netflix? 'Mandalorian' Funko Pops up to 77% Off Baby Yoda and More for Season 3, Who Plays the Armorer in 'The Mandalorian'? Going into The Last Of Us, a series about a zombie apocalypse, you expect it wont be a lighthearted romp. Its really hard this day and age, but we can confiscate phones. They say that there is like a virtual reality aspect to this season, but I havent seen any specifics as to what that is. And what I would do is then just, you know, code in C++ and unreal blueprints and digest that data through the network, bring it to like a front facing area inside the game engine where you can use game programming to essentially access those numbers and be like, okay, now that I have these numbers in front of me, I can apply these to a fake, uh, like a virtual light. Like the Poodle before him, we have another dog breed-inspired costume. With that being said, here are a few of the key reasons why I think the show shouldve gone a different direction on how it handled its fake audience this year. Thats recording everything that you normally would during the TV show and then superimposed onto that are computer graphic elements that essentially exist within that set. So this is what they did. The guessing game, with DeGeneres and her DJ Twitch, has featured celebrities such as Howie Mandel, Sean Hayes, Derek Hough and Colton Underwood as well as The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong. Everyone I talked to that wasnt there for the taping of that episode was like, Oh, we thought that was just done in post. Host Nick Cannon said he had to help The Deer, aka NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw, out of his costume. He grew up on Star Wars, DC, Marvel, and pro wrestling and loves to discuss and dissect most of it. 2,182, This story has been shared 2,048 times. Audience members are required to show proof that they have been vaccinated and a negative coronavirus test before taping. Mick likes good television, but also reality television. 2020 FOX MEDIA LLC. It feels more staged to me than the cutaways. Based on the South Korean reality series King of Mask Singer, Foxs version pits 12 celebrities in insane costumes against each other in various karaoke duels. They have their own weird Masked Singer electoral college going on. We still need to unmask five more celebrities, but the creators are already looking ahead to the future. In season five, Group C was cut out altogether and replaced by wildcard contestants who joined a group randomly, before the merging. Get the daily inside scoop right in your inbox. The painfully unfunny Ken Jeong, the brainwashed ditz with the IQ of soap in Jenny McCarthy, the zero talent Nicole Scherzinger and the equally untalented Robin Thicke. The Masked Singer Season 4 theories: Could Sun be Christina Aguilera? Billy: But then an interesting thing happens and hes like, check out the set.. Kyle Montplaisir: They had essentially like a little remote and, you know, you press like A or B, who you wanted to vote for. Is he going to sing a song? During an interview with a small group of reporters at TCA, Ibarra explained why that feature was quickly removed. Well, that live audience wasnt actually live. Adrianne: I think some celebrities, especially some of the bigger celebrities may not want to commit to an entire season of being jerked around and may say, Oh, itll be fun to do one or two episodes and perform and get back in the mix a little bit, but not do the whole entire competition. So they film this stuff ahead of time. Its amazing looking how good, the match is between lighting on the character and lighting on these props, like is the lighting system also being simulated in this system? It was not that hard to get off. Fox Entertainments President of Alternative Entertainment and Specials Rob Wade confirmed a small number of real people are in the audience and can be spotted behind the judges. Nickon Mirsepassi: We had a type of system called a holdout, right? So I figured I would try reaching out to someone from the crew directly. "It changes the dynamics in the studio," showrunner James Breen told Entertainment Weekly. So technically, you can forward it to wherever you want. Billy: The U.S. one is designed to be like a certain type of competitive reality show. The buzzer can only be used once in Group A and once in Group B, meaning that not every panelist will be able to use it. Audience members are also not allowed to interact with any of the judges, and the number of crew members that are permitted on stage is limited. Adrianne: I watched all of the first season at the beginning of COVID and then a little bit of the second season. Alright, are you seeing this? For sure. And number three, what do they mean when they say theyre using innovation and virtual reality? Along the way each performer gives veiled hints about who they may be, turning the whole series into one giant guessing game for both the panelists and audience members. John: All of the episodes, Billy. They can see these effects happening as theyre shooting it, which made me wonder, is this set even real at all? Or, have they been hypnotized somehow? The Masked Singer is officially back in business. For Aimee Carreros character Patti in the Ama, For Sheryl Lee Ralph, playing educator Barbara Howard on the hit series Abbott Elementary came pretty naturally. Support Underunderstood on Patreon to hear twice as much of us every week. And what you hear, a lot of it is what they got. Hes been writing online for over a decade and never dreamed hed be in the position he is today. Jeff Dye: Well, every time I hear real beautiful music or something like that, like I was like, ooh, this kitties a hot one or I go, whos this purple faced lady?. And then everything thats not real are things like the floating props on stage, the props that exist, like maybe, around, off the stage. Nick Cannon: The Gremlins telling me he wants to take this off. From an app. So, uh, in a matter of just a few weeks, we developed an entire virtual crowd platform to allow us to place, you know, 40,000 people in a venue. [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Masked Singer Season 9 Episode 3 New York Night.] Start spreading the news another Masked Singer contestant has been eliminated. . Nickon Mirsepassi: There is a giant X in the middle of the stage, just like on the show, right? I dont get it. This might be a challenge, but I guess thats kind of the concept of this podcast. But, was there actually an audience on the set of the Fox competition? Ken Jeong: Kerri Washington in the house! The goal was to make things appear as normal as they possibly can on, It makes sense that the series kept audiences for the new season because it would be painfully awkward to watch these masked celebs perform in silence. The internet doesn't have all the answers.But that doesn't mean we can't find them. But he couldnt really, he couldnt really speak directly to that or how it might work. The mystery stars compete two at a We'll have to wait and see. WebShow Information. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. Each week some people vote on the different performances shown throughout the night, and the performer with the lowest score has to reveal their identity. Billy: Right, maybe the whole crew is virtual too. THE Masked Singer returned for season five with a live audience sort of. Adrianne: Theyre like these gold picture frames hanging above the stage. So youre saying those cutaways look recycled, right? You'll notice that the audience will feel like it's behind the judges. So I literally had to go through frame by frame and I eventually found a role in the credits titled Pixotope/Unreal programmer and operator.

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