“Galaxy” competition, new season on TV

Fars News Agency, TV Group: Looking at the history of television networks, we realize that the largest volume of television programs in the world belongs to television competitions. These television competitions have not been uniform and similar. From easy and just fun competitions to difficult questions and difficult stages, in some of them only one thing was given to the winners as a souvenir of the program.

Questions similar to interrogation, guessing people’s occupations, heavy scientific questions, riddles, rich cultural and specialized content were among the contents and topics of these competitions, and sometimes in these competitions, competition was the main goal of the program, and sometimes improving the level of knowledge of the society was the intention of its program makers.

In Iran, the creation of new networks with new productions in the national media has greatly contributed to the growth of these programs, because each network has been trying to create new productions. From Channel 1 to Afog, they are looking for various programs, and these days, Channels 1, 3, 5, Qur’an, Nasim, Omid, Puya, and Afog have competitions based on the focus of their channels.

A race with augmented reality technology

The big competition “Khekshan” is one of the prominent programs of the second half of 1400, which was broadcasted on Panj Sima channel, and now its second season is being broadcast. “Khekshan” is a special and unique competition in the history of television competitions, which for the first time It has used the attractive technology of augmented reality.

Augmented reality (AR) means adding something where graphics, sound, and tactile feedback are added to our natural world. In this case, unlike virtual reality where you are in a completely virtual VR environment, augmented reality uses your natural environment and simply puts virtual information on top of it. Augmented reality often adds digital elements to a live show using the camera on a smartphone, and most smartphones today support heavy AR applications.

“Galaxy”, in addition to using the variety of locations and technologies such as AR and VR, is the first television competition in which the show and the competition are combined, in which the participants of the competition begin a journey in the heart of history.

“Galaxy” has tried to involve audiences of different ages and tastes by depicting ancient Iran and Safavid era Iran, to the nostalgia of sixties games to the advanced space of the future and today’s technologies, as well as the presence of participants of different ages.

The characteristic of the competition is that it has nothing to do with public information, and physical skill, speed and intelligence are the first words in it, and the mobility of the stages makes the different parts of the competition attractive and exciting, and it can attract the attention of teenagers and young people, while entertaining. In addition to their exciting parts in the “Literature” section, which is a narrative of the Qajar period, from the voice of the character “Maryam Amin”, who is a journalist; On the one hand, to tell them the historical events and on the other hand, to introduce them to the rich Iranian literature.

The creators of “Galaxy” have been able to manage three different atmospheres of the competition at the same time; Both the space where the participants are present, the spaces where the actors play their roles, and the command room where the presenter is present. Complete coordination between these three parts has been granted so that the audience can face a quality competition and put themselves in the place of the participants at every moment and experience the height of excitement.

Modeling foreign competitions instead of copying

It should be noted that in the past few years, most of the television competitions that are broadcasted on domestic networks have been copies of successful foreign programs. In recent decades, we have rarely seen a creative competition, and the programmers argue that they should not reinvent the wheel and go to copy successful foreign competitions, but the creators of “Galaxy” claim that the “Galaxy” competition is not a mere and blind imitation, but the crystal competition. The English table and the French Fort Boyard competition are among the most famous competitions that have been modeled on the design of the stages of this competition, and in fact, in “Galaxy” they first completed their design and then went to check foreign competitions to complete the design.

last word

In the end, it should be said that one of the attractive formats of programming is television competitions. Therefore, there is no doubt about the necessity of this television structure, but the quality and manner of producing the matches is very important. For this reason, in addition to creating innovation and creativity, programmers must use cultural, media, psychologist and sociologist experts in the competition design group to give new freshness to this programming structure by producing exciting and informative competitions.

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