The Dream Survivor Internship
‘The Dream Team’ is a group of young college students who score an internship by spending the summer testing out upcoming Survivor challenges. Talk about a dream internship! The purpose is to perfect the challenges and tweak any problems that may come up when the actual contestants perform them. Oh, and the best part: the interns get paid!
Source: thetravel.com
There are multiple stages of filming a challenge. First, the interns do dry runs of the challenges to block out the action for the cameras. Then they run a dress rehearsal, and producers run through the footage afterward to make decisions. Lastly, the interns run the challenge themselves. The internships take place on islands like Fiji, to give you an idea. The interns also help out around the set with prop making and production preparation.