America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 11 will be the eleventh cycle of America’s Next Top Model and the fifth season to be aired on The CW network. It will premiere on September 3, 2008, with a 2-hour premiere. The winner of this cycle, similar to the past four cycles, will win management and representation by Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, and a cover and six-page fashion spread in Seventeen magazine. The promotional catchphrase of the cycle is “Feel The Love”.
This cycle features 14 contestants, similar to cycles 3, 4 and 10.
This cycle included a first for the show – having a transgendered contestant named Isis participate and qualify for the final 14. The inclusion has been noted as an “unprecedented opportunity” by Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD.
Top Model Inauguration
Original Airdate: September 3, 2008
In part two of the season eleven premiere, the competition kicks off as the final fourteen models move into their luxurious home and must later participate in a photo shoot that has them portraying different political issues
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America’s Next Top Model (often shortened to Top Model or abbreviated as ANTM) is a competitive reality television show hosted by former Victoria’s Secret model Tyra Banks. The first “cycle” premiered in May 2003 and was one of UPN’s highest rated shows. The show’s seventh cycle was the first of the shows among regular programming on UPN’s successor network, The CW, and thus far is the network’s highest rated series. The opening theme is sung by Tyra Banks and is produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins. Banks co-produces the show with Ken Mok and Anthony Dominici.
Each season of America’s Next Top Model has from 9 to 13 episodes and starts with 10 – 14 contestants. Generally, one contestant is eliminated per episode (though there have been cases of a double elimination or no elimination) by consensus of the judging panel. Makeovers are administered to contestants early in the season (usually after the first elimination in finals), and a trip to an international destination is scheduled at about two-thirds of the way through the season.
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Each episode of Top Model, covering the events of roughly a week of real time, features a fashion challenge, photo shoot or commercial, judging, and critique of each contestant and her performance by the panel led by Tyra Banks, and the elimination of one or more contestants. Each episode is usually associated with a theme in the world of modeling, such as dealing with the press in interviews, selling a commercial product, or appearing in a runway show.
An episode usually begins with the contestants receiving training in an area concurrent with the week’s theme. For example, contestants may get coached in runway walking, improvisational acting, or applying make-up to suit various occasions. A related challenge soon follows, such as a mock runway show or interview, and a winner is chosen by a judge. She receives some prize, such as clothing, a night out, or an advantage at the next photo shoot, and she is usually allowed to share the benefits with a certain number of other contestants of her choice.
The next segment is a photo shoot, and each contestant’s performance will reflect heavily on her judging for that week. Each season features photo shoots such as bikini or lingerie shots, beauty shots, posing nude or semi-nude, posing with a male model, and posing with an animal. Usually one photo shoot per season (excluding Cycle 4), is replaced with a commercial shoot, though in one episode of Cycle 2, the remaining contestants appeared in Tyra’s music video for “Shake Ya Body” in lieu of a photo shoot.
The final segment of each episode is judging. During judging, contestants are often given a challenge in some area such as posing, selling a product, runway walking, or choosing a representative outfit or make-up look to satisfy a given prompt. Then each contestant’s photo is shown and evaluated by the judging panel. After all photos have been evaluated, the contestants leave the room as the judges deliberate. The elimination process is ceremonious, as Tyra reveals and hands out the photos of the contestants that have not been eliminated one-by-one, each time saying, “You are still in the running towards becoming America’s Next Top Model.” The last two contestants who have not received their photos are brought up as “the bottom two,” and Tyra critiques each one before revealing which of the two has been eliminated. However, there have been two exceptions, as Cycle 4 had a double elimination, and in Cycle 5, both of the bottom two were spared.
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The format varies slightly when only three contestants remain. In the series finale, the three remaining aspiring models compete in one last photo shoot and/or commercial, followed by a judging session in which the judges eliminate the contestant they feel to be the weakest. The final two then compete in a runway show in front of the judges, and both their performance there and during the entire competition is considered when the judges declare a winner.
