Target Audience on Invincible Youth

http://ithetimes.wordpress.com/kbs2-invincible-youth-season-1-eng-sub/

Female

Female viewers are more then male because the people in the program are mainly girls. Some part of the show only girls understand why tears are coming out and joy are bursting on a small matter.

Young adults

Young adults from the age of 13 till 24 will want to watch this program because some of their idol maybe in the program and also the people in the program are also around that age. It relates to the target audience itself too.

Seniors
Seniors from the age 50 and above would watch too because they are retired. Staying at their home which are in a village makes them want to watch how a group of young girls work in a village.

Koreans

This is a korean reality program which is captured by using korean. So the target audience in korea will be larger.

International

Saw a link talking about in the program, what viewers enjoy most was interractions within that small rural community, which indirectly also represents the cultural value of traditional simple Korean life. These were the things that international viewers really want to see - traditional Korean lifestyle, language, food, customs, agriculture, family and social values, these sort of things.

References

Sergeantim, n.d. Tumblr. An open letter to 청춘불패2 (IY2) production team. Available at: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/invincible-youth?before=1338301905

[Accessed 5 August 2012]

Values

Bonding between members or different type of people

http://fanwonder.com/?tag=invincible-youth

T-ara’s Hyomin revealed a certification shot with Sunny. The photo was most probably taken during the filming of ‘Invincible Youth 2′.

On May 30th, through her personal Twitter account, Hyomin posted, “Today is May 30th, I’ve received my birthday present. This kid…Sseobyung’s resurrection’. Along with her tweet, Hyomin attached a photo of herself and Sunny.

Sunny and Hyomin showed their close friendship by putting their faces close to one another while having the photo taken. Sunny’s cute facial expression particularly, has been garnering a lot of attention.

Sunny and Hyomin were known for their close friendship in the first season of ‘Invincible Youth’ back in 2010 and the special bond between the two had since become the topic of interest among fans and viewers of the show.

Credit: b89530@Twitter/moneytoday.co.kr

By looking at this, we can see that friendship do comes during a really program because they are not acting it out but trying their best to get along. At the end, they end up as best friends.

True Feelings

I do not know whether did I make this correct. This is the last episode of season one. Some people may think that reality program are fake, somehow people still think they are acting all out. At the beginning, I do agree on people who think that way because I myself do think that way too. My mind will be thinking, how could a group of strangers stay together or even work together like a big family? Maybe they are acting all their fake personality out to give good impression to the audience or fans? 

But after watching this reality program for a year and a half, I see awkward at the beginning, tolerance in the middle or I can say getting along with different type of personality people and at the end, tears showed how thick is their friendship.

In this program, the members meet up together every week for a year and a half without any script. Every episode are real from their heart. The way they act and respond are all real. Thats how reality program touch a peoples heart.

References

fanwonder.com, 2012. T-ara's Hyomin received a special gift on her birthday. 

Available at: http://fanwonder.com/?tag=invincible-youth

[Accessed 5 August 2012]

iTheTime Blog, 2011. Invincible Youth S1.
Available at:http://ithetimes.wordpress.com/kbs2-invincible-youth-season-1-eng-sub/
[Accessed 3 August 2012]

Youtube, 2011. [Eng Sub] Inv!ncibl3 Y0uth Ep58 [1/5].

Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBvdms4K6gY

[Accessed 5 August 2012]

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Narrative
Narrative of the whole program are depending on what are they planning on doing on that day.

This episode is when they have the time to only have a chance on calling someone that they miss the most. They have lesser time to spend with their family and also lesser time to call their family. So by getting one call to their loves one, makes a very big difference. 

This is another episode which is capture during the christmas time. So they placed decoration around the village and presents are giving out. In return, the chief of the group invites some handsome guys artist as guest or I can say presents to them. Although 7 of the girls are from different famous group singers but they are like normal girls when they see guys are around.

All the video links that I've look through is from iTheTime Blog. They have almost every episode from both seasons with english subtitles.

Editing

http://smtownjjang.wordpress.com/tag/invincible-youth/

The camera are mainly still in the program and mainly following each character. There are no fix angle of each scenes. Its just recording our own video. The frame are captured by close up, middle shot and long shot which shows the whole body.

Invincible Youth Season 1 members

G7 members
*Narsha (BEG)
*Sunny (Girls generation)
*Hyunna (4 Minute)
*Hyomin (T-ara)
*Yuri (Girls generation)
*Sunhwa (Secret)
*Go-Hara (Kara)

Afte 10 months, due to the pack schedule on some of the artist. Some members have been changed.

G7 new members
* Victoria (f(X)) replace Sunny (Girls generation)
*Jooyeon (After School) replace Hyunna (4 minute)
* Sori replace Yuri (Girl generation)

Invincible Youth Season 2 members

G8 members
*Amber (f(X))
*Hyeoyeon (Girls generation)
*Sunny (Girls generation)
* Suzy (Miss A)
*Bora (Sistar)
*Yewon (Jewelry)
*Jiyoung (Kara)
*Woori (Rainbow)

The members list I got are from wikipedia because is hard to et information from the other website. But wikipedia is accurate in this part because I watch both seasons.

References

iTheTime Blog, 2011. Invincible Youth S1.
Available at:http://ithetimes.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/eng-sub-091225-kbs2-invincible-youth-season-1-ep-10/
[Accessed 3 August 2012]

Wikipedia, 2012. Invincible Youth.
Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_Youth
[Accessed 3 August 2012]

Youtube, 2011.[Eng Sub] Inv!ncibI3 Y0uth Ep 3 [1/5].
Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sv8fX1Wj_Q&feature= player_embedded
[Accessed 3 August 2012]

Youtube, 2011. [Eng Sub] Inv!ncibI3 Y0uth Ep 10.
Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykh2Ed2q2c&feature= player_embedded
[Accessed 3 August 2012]

Western Vs Korean Reality Program

http://www.collegemagazine.com/editorial/364/reality-tv-rules-world

I read a link about Western vs Korean Reality Program which stated about how boring is a Western Reality Program. The link is http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/western-reality-shows.

I do agree on some part which I feel that korean reality programs do stands out much more. The whole entire programs bring meanings to the audience. But in another way, western reality programs have more strong language during the reality programs. They are much more open minded in stuff like that. Maybe because I grew up as an asian so I still prefer Korean Reality Programs although my parents are very open minded.

Back to my point. The mise-en-scene of both western and korean reality programs are similar. Reality programs does not need to fix any mise-en-scene. Everything are by natural depending on what they are doing on that day or episode I mean. Like our daily life.

Values and attitude are brought up natural in the show because there are no script for it. Everything is so real, it touches the audience easily.

References

Tumblr, n.d. Western Reality Shows. 

Available at: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/western-reality-shows 

[Accessed 1 August 2012]