It was all thanks to technology. The crew used camera tricks to make it look as though people were in the studio due to coronavirus social-distancing restrictions. You will receive a verification email shortly. Tyrese and Nick Cannon. 31:05 Giraffe performance. Billy: Okay. So this is what they did. Its all for the sake of us at home, so it feels like everything is normal. In season five, Group C was cut out altogether and replaced by wildcard contestants who joined a group randomly, before the merging. However, you know how I was saying, like, the audience cutaways always do feel staged and fake? John: But there are these wide shots, you see? [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. So The Masked Singer was a big hit in the U.S. And I figured if anyone would know the real details of what is going on in this show, it would be the Pixotop / Pixotope / unreal programmer and operator. So presumably, theyve archived a lot of footage of audience reaction shots. And we noticed that in the end credits, in addition to this thing about there being, uh, that the voting is real or whatever theyre saying, theres like a special thanks to unreal engine or something like that in there that I dont think had been in other seasons that made me think, Oh, theyre doing something with like, With unreal engine to generate a set or generate the audience or something like that in real time, because thats a game engine that could be used presumably to make 3D stuff happen in real time. Regina: Underunderstood is Billy Disney, John Lagomarsino, Adrianne Jeffries, and me, Regina Dellea. And then just this episode that you asked us to watch. I think it's just been really fun to get fans back into the room and have them experience it with us." It wouldnt match the lights in the studio. Literally, it's a banana and a scoop of ice cream doing a split. And then one last tweet: seriously, what drugs do they give the @MaskedSingerFox audience? 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. And then there is an audience vote. Regina: I watched one episode an hour ago. Halfway through watching this competition series, a haunting question may emerge. (February 28), How long is Alert: Missing Persons Unit tonight on FOX? With the current U.S. response to COVID-19 varying drastically from state to state, fans are wondering if there is a live audience this go-around. It will last for 90 minutes and finishes at 8.30pm. 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 is officially back in business. 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? 2,550, This story has been shared 2,182 times. And the answers are. During the panel, Thicke lamented about that time he announced on national television that he thought Judge Judy was singing as a poodle because of her legs. There were fans at home who watched and voted for the performances live via Zoom, but all viewers will see when they watch the show is cheering from what appears to be a dimly lit in-person audience. How does The Masked Singer keep the identities of its celebrity contestants such well-guarded secrets? 12 celebrities appear on the show with one singer eliminated each week So that was before COVID was really affecting most peoples daily lives in the United States. Then those two will face off for the first time at the finale before an ultimate winner is chosen. 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. Laura Herzing: Silver Spoon is a performance capture studio. Billy: Its called DMX. Nickon Mirsepassi: But what you can do is if you give the lighting programmer control, he knows what lights hes turning on in real life. This isnt something thats done in post-production. If the song the performers are singing originally contained heavy auto-tuning, the series incorporates that. Adrianne: Light operators are operating the lights live and instead of operating real live lights, theyre operating lights in unreal engine. Fast-forward to where we are now with Season 7 of the show, Nick Cannon at the helm, the entertaining panel of celebrity judges, all-new characters, plus an enhanced set. He grew up on Star Wars, DC, Marvel, and pro wrestling and loves to discuss and dissect most of it. We'll have to wait and see. John: So its, its the average of the judges is 50% or the winner of the judges is 50%. Ill say that. Please refresh the page and try again. Like immediately so obvious. The supposedly virtual audience. 1 day ago, by Victoria Edel Like how much does it tilt? Billy: Okay. And a holdout is essentially a 3D geometry that we make or laser scan. While I suppose its better than a packed house, there is some weirdness in having a live studio audience however small, and not committing to just doing it all virtually. The judges Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke audience members, and viewers at home are unaware of the contestants' So for creating the animations, we started by just capturing of range of human reactions. However, this season does not feel that different than previous seasons. "It's going to feel very much like [previous seasons], it's not going to feel different. So as you know, were tracking the camera. Thats right: who is behind the mask might be slightly less of a mystery to the people watching the show on TV. Michael Becker/FOX Seasons four and five were filmed during the pandemic, leading to the show utilizing a virtual audience. Regina: Its really unfortunate that Trump didnt have access to this for his inauguration. All of this stuff is being taped. Though the series is in the very early stages of casting its second season, the creators said theyre waiting to see responses to this seasons finale before they start seriously casting anyone. "It's almost like we have three finales in our show. Nickon Mirsepassi: We had a type of system called a holdout, right? New episodes of The Masked Singer premiere on Fox Wednesdays at 9/8c. A new twist in season four of the wildly popular series will give some super fans the chance to vote on their favorite performances from home as part of a virtual Billy: Right? 7 min read. Its a move that, once again, gets me thinking about the safety of the whole thing. The Masked Singer Season 4 premiered recently, and much to my surprise, it featured what appeared to be a packed audience. Billy: This was exactly my thinking and then I looked closely. Nick Cannon: Season four of The Masked Singer. The rest of it. Maybe well even play Among Us or, you know, Overwatch or whatever the kids are playing these days. We're augmenting some of the clapping and stuff to get that audience feel, kind of like what sports does. Yes, the weird Fox series got a bit weirder this season and decided to at least give the impression that things are as normal as they were in past seasons despite the fact they are not. And so, you know, on this season, from what I can see. And yes, they will probably have real fans return when they can. Um, you know, its very like tight. Billy: No. "We're kind of going back to what made the show fantastic," executive producer Craig Plestis told Entertainment Weekly. It doesnt have to go to the lights. So that was before it was February 2nd. Adrianne: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The internet doesn't have all the answers, but that doesn't mean we can't find them. No distancing. Theres just something about watching people compete that viewers at home cant resist. Right? Regina: Yeah. It transcends money. How did the crew keep the identities of the contestants secret? Fire Country: How A Character Death And Another Key Moment In Latest Episode Could Impact The Rest Of The Season, Ant-Man 3 Writer Drops F-Bomb Defending MODOK Choices, East New York: Watch Jimmy Smits' Suarez Get Some Complicated Family News In New Episode Clip. Is masked singer filmed in front of a live audience? Billy: Yeah, they did that baseball stuff. All voting was administered by an independent vote tabulation company and monitored by Fox standards and practices. The Masked Singer has announced that they will have both live audiences AND an exclusive at-home voting panel for Super Fans during season 6. The fifth season launched on March 10, 2021, and airs on They have been a great success for the series. The fake audience on The Masked Singer is due to the COVID-19 pandemic. John: Thanks to everyone who supported us so far in whatever way youre supporting us. Yes. Adrianne: Coming up, Billy answers the questions he just asked. It really was all about singing live on the stage. Rob Wade, the resident of Alternative Entertainment and Specials at Fox What does the winner of The Masked Singer get? The Masked Singer Season 4 filmed in a quarantine bubble. You know, its, its, uh, its the perfect world for a celebrity. And there was actually an article in Cosmopolitan about this titled Out of Curiosity, How Does The Masked Singer Voting Work This Season? and in it, it says this time around The Masked Singer is inviting super fans to become part of an elite group of voters who can influence the outcome of the show by watching via zoom from home. John: No that was me singing when was that?. 1 day ago, by Yerin Kim John: Virus non-believers is really good. Pinterest
Theyre voting for their favorites. What did you think ofThe Masked Singer Season 4 premiere? 7 But Laura Herzing can. Its been digitally added in, with producers finding specific clips that would match the performances and what the audience needs to be doing. No masks. But even with that simple premise The Masked Singer has raised oh-so-many questions it has yet to answer. or leave a (nice) review on Apple Podcasts. Like that scene we talked about with the UFO and the dinosaur, it was in the first episode of this season, there was like a really wild opening shot. I know under normal circumstances this wouldnt be a big deal, but when so many other shows are going more transparent routes, The Masked Singer has become the outlier. Like how much does it change the cone of its light? Fox Entertainment's President of Alternative Entertainment and Specials Rob Wade recently told Deadline that the show "went above and beyond the outlines of the CDC and local authorities in order to keep people safe." And so thats something Ive looked into and there arent really a lot of answers about that. According to TalentRecap, The Masked Singer's live audience consists of people 18 ages and up. In early episodes of the series, The Masked Singer would show the heights of each of its performers. Luckily, we have the answer! Adrianne: If you want to be cool like Shane, head over to patreon.com/underunderstood. Im sure there are some who are more eager to leave than others. Not only are the panelists prohibited the luxury of Google, but because theyre placed on a riser far away from the performers its sometimes hard for them to accurately guess peoples heights and hear the clues. And I think it presents a lot of new questions about what is real and what is fake. For years, we have been thetop moviegoers even though the films we watch rarely reflect our communities. I think, you know the drill by now. And you can kind of just use a predesigned light in unreal engine to light them, but it wouldnt look quite right. The reveal is worth nothing. The Masked Singer Season 4 premiere: Who went home and who was under the mask? So we have built in animations for clapping, cheering, booing any kind of reaction that a real audience would have. And what you hear, a lot of it is what they got. THE Masked Singers audience are made to go home before the celebrity is revealed, the shows warm-up man has revealed. Aside from Ibarra and Plestis very few people knew the identities of the singers, including several Fox executives. The one thing I'm expecting is for people to say is 'How come they're not COVID friendly? Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. The Masked Singer may not be broadcast live, but it is filmed in front of a live audience. One of those changes tied back to the audience, which was not present for the shows despite the fact that it appeared as such, per The Sun. How far are they into casting The Masked SingerSeason 2? Best Picture Nominee Triangle of Sadness Is Now Streaming on Hulu, Stream It or Skip It: 'Black Girl Missing' on Lifetime Casts Garcelle Beauvais as a Mother Searching for Her Daughter, When Does 'Black Girl Missing' Premiere on Lifetime? Billy: Yeah, its all composited in real time. So essentially it seemed like I would need to talk to someone who actually worked on this season. You dont have to composite this afterwards. And since this was developed to be able to work live, they were able to add in virtual fans again, all in real time, as they were taping the show. So thats how the voting works. So its safe to say that a lot of people had reactions like this. Its too damn hot. While w, Welcome to If You Know, You Know, the corner of the internet celebrating the most interesting people and dissecting phenomena within our rich diaspora. So people were very confused by what was going on in the audience of season four of The Masked Singer. Billy: So if you look closely at the end of each episode, there is a disclaimer that goes by very quickly. Billy: But I was still highly suspicious. Read the Book Spoilers Now, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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. "It changes the dynamics in the studio," showrunner James Breen told Entertainment Weekly. Auto-tune this. For the first time, the show will allow some lucky fans to see the show early and vote online. (Will there be a season 2? Its not surprising that viewers were confused about how there was a live audience in the Season 4 premiere. I have one coming up that is keeping me up at night because its in the last episode that I say [it], McCarthy told the panel. Each star was asked to pick the character they identified with most. Billy: He has an extremely unique tone. Ill say that. Adrianne: I believe those cutaways are recycled. Do you have any strong opinions on The Masked Singers live audience? Come on. Which takes us to the third question, whats the deal with the audience? Yes, the masked singer did have an audience. Foxs hit reality series The Masked Singer has a new spinoff: The Masked Dancer.. This still has to air.'. Billy: Like theyre just like theyre like standing outside a Trump rally with like handouts.