K- 1 is the most influential fighting competition in Japan at present, and its influence is gradually expanding outside Japan. K- 1 broke through the monotonous mode of traditional sports competition in the form of competition, catered to the pursuit of fashion by modern audiences, especially young audiences, boldly borrowed the performance methods of modern pop music and pop song concerts, introduced the most advanced lighting, sound, dance beauty and music into the competition, and successfully combined them.
In a sense, the success of K- 1 is the combination of modern sports and modern performing arts. K- 1 introduced a brand-new form of expression to traditional Wushu, and impacted many inherent concepts of traditional Wushu. The success of K- 1 has attracted wide attention from other martial arts schools in Japan. Part of this concern comes from the influence of K- 1 on other projects, and part of it comes from the thinking of other martial arts schools on their own development prospects under the new technology conditions.
K- 1 is a competition or a performance;
Traditional sports competitions can be summed up as champions or gold medals, and their essence is the results of sports competitions-competition results and gold medals. Therefore, the training, competition organization and referee around traditional sports competitions all serve the results of the competition, and the appreciation and visibility of the competition are only by-products and subordination. Athletes are placed at the core of the competition, and the presence or absence of spectators is not important.
K- 1 Introducing the principle of commercialization into sports competitions. The essence of commercialism is to take the audience as the core. The operation of sports competition is to produce a consumable product and spread it through live broadcast or TV media to obtain commercial value. Therefore, the training, organization and judging of the competition are all for the satisfaction of the audience. At the same time, the products of sports competitions are strongly commercialized. This packaging concept comes from the development of modern performing arts. The packaging form draws lessons from modern lighting, acoustics, music and dance arts, fully stimulates the audience's vision and hearing, and fully meets the needs of people who are full of tension, pressure and anxiety in modern society to relax. Any form and content that is conducive to meeting the needs of the audience can be introduced into commercial sports competitions.
People who hold the concept of championship will find that K- 1 has broken through the traditional sports competition and the publicity of athletes' personality has become an important content when watching the live broadcast of the competition. Some games have obvious "show" and "tricky" traces, the host guides the audience's emotions at will, and the color big screen deliberately exaggerates some details. In essence, it doesn't matter whether K- 1 is a competition or a performance. What matters is the audience. When the audience needs a game, it is a performance.
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More than 95% of the audience at K- 1 are young people around the age of 20, and about 80% of them are young men and women who are in love. People over the age of 50 are rarely found at the scene. There is no doubt that this is the result of the two-way operation of the invisible hand of the market. Young people around the age of 20 are the most energetic and imaginative class in all societies. Their thoughts are unconstrained. They pursue everything they think society should pursue, and they want to be different. However, their economic strength, social experience and qualifications always lead to the distance between their reality and their ideals. They want to be the mainstream of society, but they can only obey. The gap between reality and dreams has caused their pain and anxiety. Therefore, they can only dye their hair golden yellow and colorful, and put on thick-soled leather shoes and wide-mouth bell-bottoms to attract the attention of the society. So they innovate society, and society creates ideas for them. Cool and modern are terms they created and used to describe them. Especially in front of the opposite sex, they are more willing to show their uniqueness, which is sometimes at any cost.
K- 1 competition shows a strength contest and a male charm. Athletes' strong muscles, cold and fearless expressions and powerful fist attacks can easily trigger the audience's hero worship complex. This complex induced their dreams and satisfied their psychological needs. Intense, exciting and changing laser lights, noisy, manic and shocking rock and jazz, and the hysterical barking of the host are enough to vent all the depression, frustration and boredom in the hearts of young people.
K- 1 rules of the game
The competition rules of K- 1 are typical commercial rules, which serve the atmosphere of the scene and the feelings of the audience. Many principles regarded as sacred by traditional competitions have been revised. The rule of K- 1 pays more attention to the game process than the game result. In fact, the result is for the athletes, the process is for the audience, and the audience's attention to the results of the competition is formed by the competition process. Without the intense and wonderful competition process, the boring competition results are meaningless to the audience.
Hugging and passive attack, which are incurable in the traditional rules of the game, are mercilessly interpreted in the rules of K- 1 Bloody and intensely exciting KO are highly rendered. K- 1 is highly simplified in scoring method. Referees not only play a role in dealing with highly professional problems and the results of matches that are very close to those of referees, but also can predict the general results of matches in advance. In fact, the judgment of the audience is the judgment of the rules.
K- 1 technology
K- 1 The technique used by athletes in the competition is very simple. The fist methods are mainly straight fist, swing fist and hook fist, and the leg methods are low whip leg and a small amount of high whip leg. Some high-level athletes with characteristics can occasionally use the swing after turning and swing their legs after turning. The simplicity of K- 1 technology, as the initial stage of the project, is convenient for the audience to understand the sport. However, when the audience has a deep understanding of this project and begins to pay attention to other projects through their interest in K- 1, it is obviously difficult for the simplicity of K- 1 technology to continue to satisfy the growing appetite of the audience.
K- 1 broadcast pictures and media
K- 1 was broadcast live by two TV stations. The broadcast picture adopts the way of combining the live scene with close-up playback and data insertion. In the lens processing, film technology is adopted, emphasizing the description of parts and the rendering of pictures, and fireworks technology is used to create an atmosphere. There are four large screens on the scene, which makes up for the atmosphere when the scene is relatively static and lacks rendering power.
In the use of on-site seats, make full use of the advantages of multiple seats, and set up two cameras for each of the four fixed seats. At the same time, set up a number of wandering seats. The cannon roaming seat is set in front of the stage. One wandering seat always reflects the close-up of the athlete when he enters the arena, while the other shows the close-up of the athlete after he takes the stage and before the boxing match. Through the flight of the plane, the details that the audience can't observe carefully are reflected on the big screen in time.
K- 1 The organizers attach great importance to the media. Television, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, etc. 100. Many media interviewed K- 1 live, and media reporters enjoyed the same treatment as sponsors. Photographers can take pictures at the edge of the ring. The daily TV publicity of K- 1 is guaranteed once a week, so that the daily media can meet the audience's demand for K- 1 information when the competition of K- 1 is not very frequent.
K- 1 and sponsors
In all commercial sports competitions, sponsors' activity funds will account for a large part of the whole activity income. K- 1 not only provides various convenient watching and resting environments for sponsors on the spot. More importantly, it is necessary to consider that sponsors' advertisements are everywhere. Signs and venue advertisements are classic masterpieces of any commercial sports competition, and K- 1 will certainly not give up. More importantly, on the big screen of the scene, the corresponding advertisements are launched at the beginning and when the athletes enter the stage, so as to complete the organic combination of advertisements and the atmosphere of the scene.
K- 1 site layout
The venue layout of K- 1 adopts the way of separating the performance area from the boxing ring. This dichotomy is helpful to overcome the shortcomings of monotonous boxing ring and lack of background changes during the competition. During the competition, if the competition is mediocre, boring or the pause time is short, the changes in the lighting and scenery of the big screen and the performance area can divert the audience's attention in time and reduce the psychological discomfort caused by the silence. At the same time, the performance area is also the first area for athletes to pass through. Under the control of the lighting in the performance area, the confidence of athletes can be fully reflected. A 50-meter-long passage is used between the performance area and the boxing ring, so that the audience can make full use of the live vision and close-up of the big screen to judge the athletes' psychology and strength, observe the appearance of sports and decide their own preferences before the athletes go on stage.
The boxing ring has risen. The height of an ordinary boxing ring is 95- 100 cm, and K- 1 makes the boxing ring 120 cm. It is said that there are two reasons: one is to make the audience more comfortable by raising the height of the boxing ring, especially the audience in the back row is not easily blocked by the audience in the front row. Second, it is convenient for TV broadcast and photographers to take pictures. Because the audience of K- 1 is relatively fixed, in order to give the audience a fresh feeling every time, the beauty of the dance and the background scenery of K- 1 are different every time. This time, with the music fountain and the dragon and tiger made of two big balloons as the background, a dynamic three-dimensional picture is made above the fountain by laser slide imaging technology, and a complete picture is formed by combining fireworks and background candlelight when necessary.
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K- 1 used a lot of high-tech lights, and more than 400 laser lights were used on site. In various fields, the atmosphere of the scene can be mobilized and adjusted through the change of lighting. The specific distribution of lights is: four rows of laser lights (25X4) above the boxing ring, with red and blue colors changing, which are used to adjust the atmosphere when the game stops. Four rows of ordinary lights above the boxing ring are used as light sources for lighting, photography and video recording during the competition. There are eight huge spotlights in the back seats of the gymnasium. Lights used to chase athletes in and out. There are two rows of red and blue laser lights in front of the performance area, which are used as background lights for red and blue athletes during competition and performance respectively. There are two rows of laser lights behind the performance area. There are two rows of laser lights above the performance area. Set laser imaging headlights in the backstage of the performance area. The live sound mainly uses the sound of the gymnasium. Music uses strong rock music.
K- 1 personnel
K- 1 Bureau is an efficient working organization with only a dozen formal staff. The bureau is only responsible for overall planning, advertising and external liaison, and some specific work is entrusted to relevant professional organizations and companies.
Virtual reality and the complex simplification of K- 1
In the imagination of ordinary people, K- 1, as an influential sports event in Japan, must be perfectly organized and all the equipment and environment are first-class. In fact, on-site processing, K- 1 adopts the combination of complexity and simplicity, and the combination of reality and reality. Exquisite places are handled beautifully, concise places are handled concisely, and virtual places are replaced by reality as much as possible. The reality of competitive technology. K- 1 has been played for 8 games, some using virtual technology and some using real technology. Its purpose is to control the emotions of the audience through the control of the game, forming a ups and downs of the game situation.
The strategy of stunning was adopted in the first and second games, which made the audience feel the cruelty of the game immediately. When the audience didn't react, the third game formed a situation of playing five games and calculating the outcome with scores. The audience's mood just stabilized, and the fourth game ended with three knockouts (KO), at which time the audience's mood was completely controlled. The rest of the game is going on nervously, interspersed with various tidbits. In the use of props and lighting, the combination of realism and simplicity is also adopted. The lighting changes extremely carefully, while the props are quite simple. The plane layout, height and angle of the seat are carefully considered, but the seat itself is very simple.
K- 1 The control of complexity and authenticity mainly comes from two considerations: one is to control operating costs. If all the equipment is perfected regardless of the cost, the cost of the whole competition will double. Second, when all the details of anything completely reach the peak, the subjective evaluation formed by the outside world will tend to be mediocre. Just like literary works and artistic works, dull time is dull and ups and downs. Exquisite places are never rough, and rough places should not be exquisite.
K- 1 is considered to be the highest level of standing fighting in the world.