The set and the lighting in the two shows are very different. In the weakest link the lighting is very dark with the spotlight putting a lot of pressure on the contestants .the wheel of fortunes lighting is very bright with no spotlights anywhere this puts a relaxed and happy feel to the whole show .the lighting also stays the same all the way through so the feel to the show stays happy .The two sets are very different as well . The weakest links set is based a lot around the presenter which puts even more pressure on them. The set is rounded with all the contestants round the edge and Ann in the middle. The wheel of fortunes set is square with the contestants facing the wheel not Nicky .
The contestants on both shows are usually normal people from the public apart from in the weakest link where the sometimes have celebrities or a certain job category of people in. There are contestants on the weakest link and only three on the wheel of fortune
The music in the two shows are used to create the mood for that part of the show . The weakest link is never happy so the music is usually minors which creates a evil atmosphere and a nervous tense atmosphere. The wheel of fortune is happy most of the time so the music has a lot of majors in it and is fairly fast. This creates a happy cheerful mood for the show.
Both shows have set rules which never change and the contestants all know those rules before the dhow starts. The wheel of fortunes rules are that you have to spin the wheel to reveal how many point and then they have to guess the letters on the big board to reveal the word. Then they get how ever many letters they guessed timed the number they span on the wheel. They can also spin things like lose turn and prizes etc. Then whoever has the least points goes out until there is only one contestant left who has a chance to win even more money by guessing more words. The weakest link has a similar eliminating procedure apart from the contestants vote for who they want of the show. You have to make a chain of correct answers and bank those answers before you get a question wrong. There is also a time limit which gets shorter every round. When there are only two people left they have one more round which is shorter, but you double the amount you won on that round and add it to the total amount . Then they have to answer 5 questions alternately and whoever has the most answers right at the end wins. If they draw then it goes to sudden death where it is whoever gets the first question wrong goes out and the other person wins. In the wheel of fortune they don’t have to answer question they have to guess letters and they don’t have a time limit which makes them more relaxed.
Conclusion:
There is definitely a tense and nervous scene created in the weakest link this is done by almost all of the aspects of the show. The lighting, set, music, host, and the game rules .The wheel of fortune has a much happier feel to it which is also created by all of those aspects . The hosts are completely different people and are the extremes of nice and mean which would bring a lot of viewers to the show.
The weakest link and the wheel of fortune are both set to a family audience. You don’t need to like computers or anything else to watch them it is just fun to watch. This means they both appeal to most of the country therefore when they first came out they would of got a lot of viewing .
Overall we can see that the wheel of fortune has a very old fashioned set etc compared to the weakest link and that the weakest link has lots of effects and lighting etc This would bring more viewers to the show now but we have to take into account that the wheel of fortune is a lot older than the weakest link and that could have been really sophisticated at the time.