MrBeast’s ‘Beast Games’ interviewed 100,000 participants for the show
What happens when the top YouTuber in the world, Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast, organizes a competition show and is in Emmy consideration for Outstanding Reality Competition Series and Host? Children of all ages and adults stand in line in advance at the headquarters of the television academy in North Hollywood, waiting to go into the room for prime videos FYC for ‘Beast Games’. And almost three hours later they wait for a meet and greet with one of the greatest celebrities in the world.
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Yes, MrBeast would be in the Chamber, together with his fellow makers and executive producers Tyler Conklin and Sean Klitzner; editor, maker and fellow gastheer Mack Hopkins; Casting Director Katy Wallin; Production designer Stephen Leonhardt; And winner Jeffrey Randall Allen, also known as player 831, to discuss that first season. The show has also been renewed for seasons 2 and 3 at Amazon’s Prime Video. The conversation was recorded for the variety streaming space presented by Prime Video.
The wildly successful “Beast Games” competition became the most beaked series of the streamer ever. The series reached 50 million viewers in the 25 days after the premiere of December 19, according to Amazon.
Speaking of the show spoken, Donaldson told the audience that after making YouTube videos for more than a decade, the creatives behind the video wanted to tell more stories and “longed to do something where we had told a story about nine or 10 episodes and started working on a major project.”
After talking to the forces that are with Prime Video, the pieces of the puzzle started to come together. Donaldson said: “What happens if you take more people than anyone with a larger cash prize with larger sets and it just goes crazy? And it turned out to be better than I had ever thought.”
Conklin revealed that during a phone call with Donaldson he suggested that they had 1,000 participants, in addition to the $ 5 million prize money.
The series brought 1,000 participants together, in which a large party was eliminated with any intense challenge. One of the challenges were Potato Sack races, a front door elimination game and a train elimination game where a team leader had to choose between removing a group of players or overcoming someone else.
Donaldson wanted it to be an authentic game show, which meant that cameras were active 24/7: “So we can actually record what they feel, so we don’t have to tell them when they can talk or whatever. There are only cameras that always roll on a thousand different participants, so you need a cam and a B -Cam and broad shots.”
Hopkins left that with 2 million gigabytes of data to by sifting and editing. Hopkins, who edited the videos of Mrbeast on YouTube, said: “If you wanted to sit down and just wanted to look at all the images in a row of episode one, it would cost you two years. I learned many things about myself during this editing. I have learned that I can listen to four to five people who can talk at the same time, but not six. That sixth person just breaks.”
Leonhardt discussed his work as a production designer in the show and the challenges he was confronted with. Among them received the call that he not only had to design Beast City, who had to accommodate 500 people, but he also had to design the 1,000 -piece fall door set.
When building the house, Leonhardt needed not only to function to keep the participants alive, but also to make them move. “They have to go to the bathroom somewhere. That’s not easy,” said Leonhardt. He managed to get it done, except that nobody explained it again. Two days before the shoot there was a thunderstorm, so the paint treatment was washed. “We had about 80 painters on lifts that painted the whole thing again in the 48 hours before photographing.”
Wallin was present to talk about her experience in casting the show and finding the 1,000 participants in less than 12 weeks.
“We actually spoke with more than 100,000 people while casting,” Wallin said, explaining how it became a 24/7 job and needed a strategy. “We had to bring out 250 minimal people per day with which we zoomed.
All then won a historic $ 10 million. But he did it for more than just the money. His youngest son has a rare brain disease called Creatine Transporter deficiency. Allen did not just want to tell the world about the disease, he wanted to find out how he could find treatment for himself. He added: “I said,” If I can continue, I might tell the world about his rare disease. ” I mean, he is the number one YouTuber in the world and I was just strange enough to tell the story.
At the winning moment, all chose a briefcase with the prize money, and it was a bowel instinct that made it chose for suitcase number six. In the days before the final, all explained: “The number six kept coming to me in the days before. I was in Bunk number six, got important number six, I was in the top six and said a prayer with six words in it. For me, when I saw the briefcases, I saw them numbered, I am like, it is number six.”
