Memes appear on the Internet quite spontaneously. As soon as one user posts a funny picture, someone immediately adds a witty comment to it. A successful meme spreads across the world wide web in a few hours.
internet meme
Few people are not familiar with the thousands of memes on the World Wide Web. For those who are in the tank, this term refers to a phrase, a picture, an activity that formed spontaneously and quickly gained popularity. Among the most popular and well-known are “rukalitsa”, “stoned fox”, “suspect dog”, “catastrophe girl”, “both a good toastmaster and interesting contests”.
Where did the term "meme" come from? Many consider it a neologism recent years formed on the Internet. However, this assumption is fundamentally wrong.
This term is quite old and was first used in 1976 by Professor Richard Dawkins in his work "The Selfish Gene":
A meme is a unit of cultural information that can spread at lightning speed.
The term is not active lexicon, but resurfaced in 1994 when Douglas Rothschild used it as a definition special kind media virus.
And the toastmaster is good, and the contests are interesting
Where did this expression come from? Who and when first used it?
Three years ago, in 2015, in the public "Suffering Middle Ages", created by history students, the meme "both a good toastmaster and interesting contests" appeared, from where it quickly moved to the Pikabu portal, and already there it rapidly gained popularity.
Initially, he appeared with this picture:
A priest reading a prayer and a round dance of naked people around.
An inexhaustible source of irony
In just a few months, the phrase was replicated in hundreds of different pictures and videos.
Not surprisingly, the traditional Russian wedding with a toastmaster fell under the guns of sharp-tongued Internet pranksters. The reality is that even in the 21st century, most leading weddings still have not departed from Soviet traditions and style.
Contests typical for a wedding, designed for a well-drunk audience, are usually vulgar and primitive. Interestingly, the vast majority of pictures with this meme are real wedding photos.
This meme is not a copy of any foreign joke and has been distributed exclusively in Runet. Perhaps because of its specificity and comprehensibility only to the Russian-speaking part of the population.
cool and interesting contests will help the guests of the holiday to have a good time. Original draws and tasks with a surprise will give the evening a positive dynamic and amuse the company. Interesting quizzes diversify the feast and will not let everyone who is present at the solemn event get bored.
Plaid game
Play game. Of all the guests of the holiday, 1 most courageous person is selected. It's better if it's a man. He sits in a circle on the floor (on which you first need to lay some kind of rug) and covers himself with an ordinary blanket with his head.
The host says that his task is to guess the wardrobe element (the name of the thing that is on it), which all the guests guessed. After the word “guessed” is heard, the participant alternately begins to name things (for example, a shirt). If he did not guess correctly, then he must remove this element of the wardrobe from himself.
The essence of the game is that the plaid itself is initially guessed. But while the participant guesses, he remains to sit under this blanket completely naked.
Everyone can participate in the competition. They are divided equally into 2 groups. The players of both teams line up one behind the other and receive pens and sheets of paper. The leader approaches last participants and shows them simple drawings(each team has its own picture).
The task of the player who saw the picture is to draw it by applying a sheet of paper to the back of the contestant standing in front. The participant, who felt certain movements of the pen on his back, draws on his sheet of paper what he thought the previous teammate had depicted. So all the players draw until the first member of the team creates his picture.
At the end of the competition, the presenter looks at the result of the work done by each group of contestants and shows the original version of the picture. The team whose drawing is the most similar to the original wins.
Everyone can participate in the competition. To conduct it, you need to prepare cards in advance with different numbers(from 1 to 31). There should be at least 3 times more of them than participants. The competition is held at the table.
Each player takes turns drawing a card. For example, a participant comes across the number 17. He must remember any holiday, a noisy feast, just an interesting or funny story which occurred on the 17th. You have 1 minute to remember. If the player was unable to recover anything in memory, he is out.
The winner is the participant who manages to remember as much as possible more stories associated with the number that fell to him.
Game "Neighbour's Laughter"
All the guests of the holiday play. One volunteer becomes the leader. The game starts with him. The main task of each participant is to make his neighbor laugh. This can be done with the help of strange and incomprehensible actions. For example, the leader pulls his neighbor by the nose. That one - his neighbor and so on, until the last player. The participant who, in the process of pulling his nose, laughed, is eliminated. After the first round, the second stage of the game begins. On it, the host can easily and painlessly bite a neighbor by the ear.
The game is played until there is only one, the most serious participant.
The game "Sharpness of the idea"
Creative game. 5 people participate. Each player receives simple pencil, a regular sheet of paper and a task card.
The task of the participants is to draw what is written on the card in 5 minutes. After the time has passed, all the "artists" present their masterpieces to the public, without naming their main idea. The audience must guess what is drawn. The winner is the player whose drawing the guests “decipher” faster than the rest.
Increasingly, from the newlyweds you can hear the following phrase: "no contests at the wedding." One gets the feeling that the couple is either being modest or imagining “vulgar” contests with dressing up and counting money in their heads. This is where the questions arise: should you categorically refuse to hold contests at your wedding, and if not, how to make your wedding dynamic, interesting and modern? Popular hosts have long found the answer, and it sounds like this - "interactive program".
Interactive, contests, "movement" - you can call it whatever you like. The main thing is that inside there is everything that is aimed at revealing the intellectual, creative, creative, choreographic, acting, vocal and any other abilities of dear guests. In addition to the fact that interactive activities should bring joy and pleasure to all those present, the leader also faces the task of introducing, rallying, uniting people who are unfamiliar or unfamiliar until now, creating a so-called “comfort zone” for them. Today we decided to introduce our readers to those who have long and successfully replaced the "pencil in a bottle" with new experiences.
Roman Klyachkin
Orchestra Man
Roman Klyachkin is a positive and energetic leader, decorating every event with dynamics and lightning-fast reaction. Actor, comedian and presenter, Roman is widely known to the public as a participant in comedy projects on TNT. "Duet Beautiful" together with Ilya Sobolev - the winner of the show "Laughter without rules" on TNT, participants in the projects "Slaughter League", " comedy club"and many others.
Today Roman is one of the most famous and expensive showmen in Moscow. He has a great sense of humor and is able to give good mood to all those present.
Charm, intrigue, evoke enthusiastic emotions, make everyone have fun to the fullest, “charge” the newlyweds with the energy of happiness and positive. These are the goals set by the leader. In the arsenal of Roman a large number of interesting, exclusive, creative interactives and developments. Klyachkin's program is a bet on humor and improvisation: to amuse, surprise, arrange interactive and practical jokes - this is his job.
The novel went through a serious school of stand-up performances, so it is almost impossible to take him by surprise, to confuse or confuse him. He always has something to say. And most often what he says will be met with smiles and laughter. The novel is ideal where freshness, energy and creativity are required from the presenter.
Modern weddings require more involvement of the host in the preparation process, especially when discussing the program. The most common mistake is the use of the same interactive on different audience. Interactive is when the host and the couple prepare for it in advance. He should be with the guys or with their guests. The contest, on the other hand, usually has nothing to do with the couple, and is held solely for the sake of “buying time”.
Interactive and competition are, in fact, synonymous concepts. Approximately as a leader and toastmaster. The main difference is in the associations that people have. When the start of the competition is announced, balls, carrots, graters, ladles, pencils, bottles and running in bags immediately pop up in the mind. Interactive is a modern word and implies activity that has nothing to do with Soviet Union. For this modernity, as well as high-quality humor and general positive mood presenter Yuri Mikhlin fights in his work.
Yuri came to the presenters from KVN, was a participant in the Comedy Battle project and the screenwriter of the show " Ural dumplings". It is the rich experience of the author that helps Mikhlin to come up with new funny interactives using modern gadgets.
“The ideal interactive program at a wedding is a program designed for people of all generations, where it is equally advantageous to be both an interactive participant and to remain in the role of a spectator. The host can communicate unobtrusively with the guests, and if the guest answers him, and when the host asks to raise his hand, he raises it, then, in general, he is already in the game, ”Yuri believes.
The most common mistake that presenters make when compiling a program is “not to take a steam bath”. The wedding for them takes place in two stages: the first is to meet the newlyweds and charm, the second is to appear on time for the celebration. For Yuri milestone is the preparation for the wedding - advance joint painstaking work with the newlyweds and attention to detail. This is elementary: the host should know the newlyweds as well as the guests - their history of acquaintance, key moments in the development of their relationship, when and how the proposal was made. This will allow appropriate jokes and dialogue.
An interactive wedding program could only consist of author's ideas, but still Mikhlin, although ambitious and experienced, believes that one head, as they say, is good, but two ... For a change, Yuri often meets and communicates with colleagues who are close in style and in spirit. Often valuable ideas are borrowed from TV shows and upgraded into wedding games, all the more so for guests to be in the role of participants in shows that are close to them, such as “Moscow Evenings” on the First and “Improvisations” on TNT.
Another trump card in the program - mini-games. They are simple and fast, they close the pause where necessary, they are carried out to laughter, and not to the winner, sometimes they are invented by the presenter on the go. It's not easy and that's why it's interesting. Any unforeseen situation is a kind of challenge, it is an opportunity to show your professionalism by turning a minus into a plus.
In addition to interactive events, there is another important part of the wedding - these are traditional moments. And they simply need to be changed in order to keep up with the times, Yuri believes. Here are a couple of secrets for beginners: iPhones help vote for a boy and a girl, thanks to VR glasses worn by the groom, the bride is stolen in front of everyone, and this season it was fashionable to catch a bouquet in the mannequin challenge style.
“Competition” for me is a concept that is strongly associated with the word “master of ceremonies”. We don't have that anymore. And interactive is more like brainstorming or bringing together guests, much more intellectual by definition. It is designed directly under this group the people whose event we are doing.
“My task as a presenter is to make not just a holiday, but to create a world in which there will be a good mood, humor, laughter, as well as memories, a sincere atmosphere and truly touching moments”, - Vasily Sorokin writes about himself. And it seems that he is sure of what he says, because this imposing blond has over 2,000 events of various sizes behind him.
Vasily tries to keep abreast of modern technologies. On this moment the market for entertainment applications is limitless, and even using a smartphone, you can make pleasant surprises for the event: from editing SDE video to creating 3D models of guests. The presenter is sure that the ideal program is the case when not a single guest was left without attention and could find himself in the program.
But the word "competitions" in his work Sorokin tries not to use. “It's simple: in the competition there is a winner and, roughly speaking, a loser, and in the interactive actual topic that does not require competition, ”says the presenter.
To understand what the couple and guests want, it is best to analyze their hobbies, passions and interests. Sometimes the answer to this question lies in the joint creativity of the presenter and the client. Vasily is sure that any well-spoken phrase, spontaneous initiative of the guest will inevitably become a feature of the wedding day. Therefore, rely on technology, but do not make a mistake yourself. The prefix "digital" takes place as one of the trump cards in the hands of the presenter, but not the basis of his program. Technologies are not always appropriate: content is more important than external bonuses. And do not forget that there should not be many interactives. Golden mean- from three to five.
, head of a wedding agency. The number of interactive events at the wedding depends on the concept of the event. There are celebrations where we do not use them at all: there is a dance block, or the guests are just talking. It all depends on the concept. If the concept is suitable, then the optimal number is 3-4 interactive.
The nature of interactives is simple and has long been known to all presenters. But the secret ingredient that makes a wedding truly special is personal content. It is he who, together with the guests of the holiday and future newlyweds, is thought out and created by the host Denis Drozdov.
“The ideal interactive program is when it is interesting for all guests and the presenter. When you get high yourself and do it with the utmost sincerity and involvement,” Denis is sure.
There are two main models from which all interactives are created: quiz and action. In the first case, you need to guess something, in the second, you need to complete a certain task. It is very important not just to use these designs, but to come up with an idea and personalization that will make the wedding special and will be as close and understandable to all those present as possible. The idea for an interactive, like the concept of a wedding, can come from one word. Children's hobby or a hobby, a favorite song, or maybe even the work of future newlyweds. Moreover, the idea itself can be repeated, this is normal, but the content - never!
Each wedding is unique in that it gathers for the first time different people In one place. The task of the presenter is to find something that will unite them and captivate them for the whole evening. Take, for example, movies and music. The topic itself is not really new. What to attract? Filling. Symbolic for a couple and the most interesting films for a particular occasion. Combine older and younger generation? Making a mix of Hollywood and Soviet cinema. In some cases, you can use the move "from the opposite". Young people guess songs or films known to older people, and vice versa.
The more guests, the more likely it is that one of them will be left without attention. But only not with a competent leader. For weddings with more than 50 guests, Denis uses formats that involve and unite maximum amount of people. For example, quiz.
Quiz (from the English quiz) is a competition during which teams of participants answer several rounds of questions. How to create teams? Easily. They will be guests who sit at the same table. At each table there is a card in which the guests enter the answers to the questions. Time is limited, which adds excitement and unity at the table. After the end of the mini-game, the host or assistant collects the cards, and you can safely take a break, after which the results will be announced and the most erudite table will be awarded. It turns out stylish, atmospheric and personal.
In Denis' portfolio for 2017 you will find a bold and successful experiment - a quiz-style wedding. A game of 5 rounds, composed together with the newlyweds, who received the role of the main judges of the evening. Questions about a couple, unique wedding traditions world, travel, cinema and music, designed into a personalized presentation. In between rounds - dancing, hookahs, drawing a bouquet, men's battle, cake, "wedding fortune" for guests. The evening passed easily, recklessly and cheerfully, introduced and united all the guests among themselves. And the idea that accidentally appeared during the discussion at the first meeting may well become a good tradition in this family. This is, according to Denis, a good interactive component.
Olga Kramar, head of the agency. It is also very important to discuss everything with the organizer and the couple. With four different opinions, truth is born much faster. When compiling the program, you need to take into account the number of guests, artists and general style Events. Optimally from 1 to 4. Sometimes we don't even do one. The most popular this season were video gadgets. Guests are filming, guests are filming, in advance, during the event - it doesn’t matter. People like to see themselves on screen.
Leonid Margolin
Leading XXI century
Leonid believes: an ideal interactive program happens when the hall is ready to participate and communicate, and the host is ready to improvise at every stage of the holiday. Important point for good interactive - sound: it is almost impossible to work interactively with bad sound.
Now interactive and competition are different as concepts, but by their nature they are absolutely the same tools of the presenter. The interactive has more room for the guest-participant to act and the interpretation of the rules from the host is much wider. The competition is stricter and less free in improvisation. Interactive has conditional rules - points around which everything is built on the improvisation of the presenter.
Most often, during the wedding, Leonid uses only phones: other gadgets are too difficult to use in the program. Nevertheless, modern technologies have already changed the world of the event: tracks are downloaded during the holiday, and many interactive events require a screen. The program includes individual developments and a lot of successfully twisted borrowings. Interactions often happen on the go. Leonid says: “For example, recently the winners of a competition who won cars and apartments, right during the gala dinner, showed how they would drive them and how they would live in them. This was done absolutely right away, despite such expensive prizes.”
It does not matter how many interactive events or contests there will be at the wedding: one or two, five or more, or none at all. The main thing is what kind of atmosphere the host creates. An audience that does not want banal contests can be invited to reconsider their attitude to contests in general. Leonid says: “It's not about the competition, but about me. It's like a Caesar salad: it has the same ingredients all over the world: lettuce, tomatoes, and so on. But somewhere he is - you will lick your fingers, and somewhere - just normal. It's all about the chef. The same goes for contests and interactive activities.”
, head of a wedding agency. At our weddings, we carefully work out the guests and their interests, but sometimes the clients themselves give incorrect information: for example, they say that people do not want to dance or interactive when people, on the contrary, want to dance. The advantage of a good presenter is that he can quickly orient himself and correctly present the necessary interactive.
