Casting show
A casting show , also a selection show , talent show or talent show , is an event or television program that deals with the casting of potential singers, dancers, models, acrobats and the like.
Basics
Part of casting shows is that the participants demonstrate their skills to a jury . In singing competitions such as Popstars or Deutschland sucht den Superstar , the TV production companies in charge organize mass castings, in which several thousand applicants have regularly participated in the past.
Based on the performance shown, the jury selects the applicants who have to perform again in a further round of the show ( recall ). This reduces the number of participants until a field of participants has been compiled from which the winner is ultimately determined. From this reduction onwards, the jury no longer decides which applicant goes to the next round, but rather the television viewers choose their favorites by telephone ( televoting ). The jury members only give their professional opinion on the contribution of the respective participant. The income from value-added numbers is regularly an important part of the calculation .
Examples of casting shows
The program Popstars was a casting show on German-speaking television . The format was developed by the New Zealander Jonathan Dowling and, after great audiences in New Zealand and Australia, also licensed for the German market. In 2000, Popstars was first produced by the television production company Tresor TV for the RTL II channel (from 2003 for ProSieben). In 2001 a season was shown on the Swiss TV channel TV3 .
In autumn 2002 the broadcaster RTL achieved great success with the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS). The format is based on the British television program Pop Idol , which has been exported to a large number of other countries. In December 2003, the international television competition World Idol took place for the first time . The winners of all Pop Idol competitions held around the world competed against each other. Alexander Klaws, who competed for Germany, was penultimate.
In 2002, the ORF first broadcast the casting show Starmania in Austria. Although it contains elements of the Pop Idol format, it is a stand-alone development. It is interesting that Starmania participant Christina Stürmer , who came second in 2003, has become successful in German-speaking countries. Swiss television bought the Austrian format for the MusicStar program . Again, it was not a winner, but the sixth-placed Sebastian Bürgin from the first season was the most commercially successful participant.
In Germany, Sat.1 reacted to the success of DSDS with the casting show Star Search . Star Search comes from the USA and has produced stars such as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake , among others . The show differs from pop stars or DSDS , as Star Search not only searches for singers, but also for comedians or models . From the two German seasons, only Bill Kaulitz achieved a consistently high level of awareness. He was eliminated in the Music Act 10-15 category in the round of 16, but has been a successful member of the Tokio Hotel band since mid-2005 . The second German Star Search season (2004) was a failure not only because of poor audience ratings, but also because of the winners' lack of commercial success. The lack of success of German casting winners, however, results in Germany from media rejection. Casting winners from abroad are judged differently than those who had won their victory in Germany. It has to be differentiated how the casting shows run. Some of them sing live with a band, while others have a nice performance.
In 2003/2004, Stefan Raab parodied the existing casting formats with the program Stefan sucht den Super-Grand-Prix-Star (SSDSGPS); an allusion to DSDS is easy to recognize from the abbreviation SSDSGPS . In 2005 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize for the show . In the broadcast, the candidate for the German preliminary decision of the Eurovision Song Contest was determined. The aim of the program was to rate the applicants' musical talent more highly. SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD was created in 2007 as the successor to SSDSGPS .
The events and their winners do not have a great reputation among the critics and a comparison with test- tube bands is often used. Other formats exist internationally and new ones (e.g. in Hungary) are planned. In the USA, for example, there was a talent show for children called American Juniors . In the UK, the BBC's first television program in 2008 aired Last Choir Standing , which determined the best of the participating choirs. The 2008 winner was the Welsh choir Only Men Aloud! .
National programs and winners (selection)
Most music casting shows are based on either the British format Pop Idol , the New Zealand format Popstars or the also British format The X Factor . The three formats were very successful and were licensed worldwide.
International shipments (selection)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Blue Couch: With Thomas Godoj. The German rocker talks about his DSDS past, streaming portals, crowdfunding and living room concerts. In: PowerMetal.de. June 15, 2015, accessed October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Padberg's model wins: Anika Scheibe is the "perfect model". In: Berliner Kurier . March 20, 2012, accessed October 14, 2017 .
literature
- Florian Buschendorff : From outsider to superstar . An interactive novel - book for young people on the subject of casting, fame and media hype. 1st edition. Verlag an der Ruhr, 2006, ISBN 3-8346-0172-1 , p. 74 .
- Dietrich Helms, Thomas Phleps (ed.): Nobody will win. Popular music in competition . (= Contributions to popular music research; 33). Transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-406-9 ( full text )
- Martin Kesici with Markus Grimm and Patrick S. Berger Sex, Drugs & Castingshows: The Truth About DSDS, Popstars & Co , 2009, riva Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86883-023-1
- Caroline Roth-Ebner: Identities from the star factory. Young people acquiring the cross-media production "Starmania" . 1st edition. Budrich UniPress, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940755-10-0 , pp. 211 .
- Holger Schramm, Nicolas Ruth (Ed.): Music casting shows. Nature, use and effect of a popular television format . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17891-8 .
- Sarah Wolf: Germany is looking for the superstar: Analysis of the success factors . Ed .: Björn Bedey. 1st edition. Diplomica Verlag , 2004, ISBN 3-8324-8066-8 , p. 112 .
