Lis fans of Mask Singer can rejoice: Season 3 of the Costume Singing Contest returns to the small screen. TF1 is broadcasting this Friday 1is April the first episode, presented by Camille Combal. The principle ? The show sees a dozen disguised celebrities on stage who, one after the other, perform a song. The object of the game is to guess who is hiding under the costume. The investigation is carried out by a good-natured jury made up of Kev Adams, Anggun, Alessandra Sublet and Jarry, as well as by viewers.
During the press conference presenting the novelties of the season in the auditorium of TF1, producer Anthony Meunier, managing director of the Hervé Hubert group, explained “having worked a lot on the costumes so that they are evolutionary and surprise the viewers from episode to episode”. General manager of the French animation production company Moving Puppet, Jérôme Clauss adds: “This season’s costumes are really surprising. » The real stars of Mask Singerthey are more than the stars who wear them.
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Fifteen people in a suit
From the sketch to the final product, making a costume requires an average of 400 to 500 hours of work. After the first drawings, prototypes are made in 3D. A team of fifteen people, all trades combined, works on the outfits. The guest must feel comfortable in the garment, some costumes are made of foam. That of the pig, for example, weighs between 5 and 6 kg.
Founded in 2006, the Moving Puppet company worked closely with production over all three seasons. For season 3 of the show, between 15 and 20 proposals were made. In all, Moving Puppet has designed and made 18 costumes and has put together a catalog from which celebrities and TF1 teams can draw. Each participant chooses his own “new skin”, “it happens that costumes that have not been selected for previous seasons find takers”, specifies Jérôme Clauss. Marion, head costume designer of Moving Puppet, has the immense privilege of being the only one to know the identities of the personalities.
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Confidentiality Required
Multicréation is a company specializing in the creation of show costumes which was created in 1993, in Paris. While she has worked with Parc Astérix and the Paris Opera, she also collaborates with the producers of Mask Singer. “The costumes for season 3 are just as magical as they are magical,” says her boss, Marie-France Larrouy, sculptor and costume designer. The main thing is to come up with good ideas. Then, it takes time: the prototype of the ladybug costume, which mobilized a team of six to eight people, required five days of work.
“My teams had to guess the measurements of the celebrity to whom the costume was addressed using photos. It took them three months to make all the outfits for this new season, like that of the coral fish. The assembly of the 700 pieces of fabric that compose it alone required an effort of more than a week. Like Manon at Moving Puppet, Marie-France Larrouy is the only person within Multicréation to know the identity of the person wearing the costume. This cult of secrecy, guaranteed by the signature with the production of a strict confidentiality clause, is the only way to prevent leaks, which are quick to weaken the audiences of the episodes until the end of Mask Singer.