ARRANGEMENT
OF THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE
You will enter the
Big Brother house through the main entrance. Whether you walk through these gates again after 126 days or after just one week
is mostly up to you. The Big Brother house is completely equipped for 14 people. The bedrooms and lounge are placed around
a camera run from which four cameras record life in the house. Cameramen operate these cameras.
FURNITURE
The following furniture
and soft furnishings, within the confines of the Big Brother House should not be moved at anytime:
- Sofas
- Beds
- Kitchen
table
- Confession
room chair
- Bedroom
Pillows / comforters
- Garden
furniture
- Gym equipment (except
free weights)
BATHROOM
The bathroom contains
a sink, a shower-area and a spa. There are also two separate toilets (one for the males and one for the females). For safety
reasons, the door to the toilet cannot be locked. However, there is a sign on the door indicating when someone is using the
toilet. There is a camera in the shower and in the toilet.
BEDROOMS
There are two bedrooms
in the Big Brother house. Each bedroom contains two cameras, one infrared camera and one microphone next to every bed. Both
bedrooms can also be filmed from cameras hidden behind the mirrored walls. Both linen and towels are provided for each sleeping
place. The doors to the bedroom can not be locked at all times. The cabinets in the bedrooms can only be used for their intended
purpose, that is, to keep your personal belongings and clothing. You are not allowed to go and hide inside the cabinets.
THE CONFESSION ROOM
The Confession
Room is the only room in the house where housemates can communicate with Big Brother and vice versa. It’s here that
you can disclose your personal feelings and observations about other house members. It’s also where
Big Brother can speak to housemates about house issues. The Confession Room is also used for informing Big Brother about a
voluntary exit, joint calls and emergencies. All nominations for eviction will be made in the Confession Room, housemates
may be summoned to the Confession Room if Big Brother feels that there is an issue that needs to be discussed
in more depth. Failure to appear in the Confession Room when requested by Big Brother could result in disqualification. Big
Brother will give you just five (5) minutes to respond to his call.
Big Brother
is the only person who communicates with you, no personal names just Big Brother. The room can only be entered if no one else
is in the room (a light will indicate this), unless Big Brother instructs otherwise. If you want to enter the Confession Room
you press an electronic buzzer. The door opens electronically when Big Brother is ready to let you in, it could take a while,
so please have patience.
Once you are in the
Confession Room it is important, that for your own privacy, you turn off your microphone. Once you leave
the Confession Room please be sure to turn on your microphone again. It is also important for you to turn on the light of
the signage indicating the room is “occupied”.
You will enter the
Confession Room for the following things.
- Nomination
- Voluntary
exit
- To open
up your heart
- Emergencies
- Big Brother
calls you in for a talk
- Private counselling
from a psychologist
It is permitted for more than one housemate to be in the room. The Confession Room is the only
place where you can speak to Big Brother. You cannot communicate through the cameras in the house. If you try there will be
no response from Big Brother.
CURTAINS
Housemates will be
instructed to open or close the curtains, when necessary.
STORAGE ROOM
Everything you and
the other housemates will need is in here. There are tools for the small chores in and around the house and some dry goods,
which will last for one week. A supply of staples (bread, rice, eggs etc) is also stored here along with
vegetables. Only Big Brother can open the door to the storage room and this will happen for fifteen minutes a day. During
this time, the housemates will only get items needed for the day. There is an electronic lock preventing housemates from opening
the door at other times. Games and materials for the tasks will also be delivered to this room. There may also be one-off
deliveries to this room if Big Brother decides to set a task. You may not use this as an extra opportunity
to collect food.
THE PRAYER ROOM
The prayer room is
a special spiritual place in the Big Brother house where you can contemplate, read the Bible or other spiritual materials,
and pray. You are not allowed to hangout and conduct other activities in the Prayer Room. Keeping the place
solemn is the rule.
THE GYM
Heavy gym equipment
should not be moved at all times, except when instructed by Big Brother. Only the free weights can be taken
out of their usual places but should be returned after use.
GARDEN
There is landscaping,
pond and a swimming pool in the garden. The housemates have to water and maintain these plants, as well as to keep the pool
clean. The housemates should also clean the camera windows every morning, and at instances when it rains.
ROOF
You are not at any
time permitted to climb onto the roof of the Big Brother House or to climb on to any other structure within the confines of
the Big Brother House. You can not communicate with people outside the perimeter fence. If you choose to
ignore this rule you could be disqualified and asked to leave by Big Brother.
CAMERAS
Cameras and microphones
make sure there is no privacy in the Big Brother House.
Cameras
film the housemates 24 hours a day. The house is surrounded by a corridor, through which cameras can be manoeuvred. Along
the inside wall of this corridor are mounted one-way mirrors, which allow camera operators to film housemates without being
seen. There are fixed mini-cameras in every room, including the shower and toilet. All rooms are fully illuminated at all
times except for the bedrooms where the lights can be switched off at night, and only at night. Infrared cameras, which can
film in the dark, are installed in both bedrooms. Discretion will be used, but Big Brother reserves the right to broadcast
anything. Other cameras in the house are clearly visible and some of those can be remote-controlled.
You are FORBIDDEN
to use these visible cameras to:
- relay
messages to Big Brother
- talk
to anyone outside the Big Brother house
- talk to anyone in
the production staff
Everyday, you are
required to clean the one-way mirrors through which we film and will provide the appropriate cleaning fluids for this. Cameras
in the toilet and bathroom are for security reasons. Footage from the toilet and bathroom will be broadcast if Big Brother
deems it necessary.
MICROPHONES
Housemates must wear
their radio-mics at all times, except when they sleep or when they are in the swimming pool, shower and spa. When
you remove your mic in these places you must leave it in a specified place. Housemates are responsible for changing the batteries
in their mics every 8 hours. New batteries for the radio mics will be placed in the Confession Room each day.
If you attempt to
communicate without the cameras or microphones recording the communications (e.g. covering or tampering with microphones or
cameras, writing secret messages, mouthing of words off camera, whispering to each other, talking in codes or using code names,
or talking under hidden places like beddings, tables and beds) Big Brother may disqualify the housemate or housemates involved.
When you communicate
with Big Brother in the Confession Room you must first turn off your microphone. Forgetting to turn on the microphone, deliberately
or not, is an offense. Committing this offense will be considered a violation, and may put you up for automatic nomination.
Make sure your lapel
microphones are not covered at all times, keep pillows and cushions away from the microphones.
THE
IMAGES
There
is no privacy in the Big Brother house. The cameras can see everything. There is a camera in the toilet, and the door cannot
be locked. There is a camera in the bathroom. There are infrared cameras in the bedrooms that can also film in the dark. Bedroom
doors should never be locked as well. In short, Big Brother is always watching. The reason for the presence of the cameras
is not only because of the concept of the program, but also because of security reasons. This is also why the toilet and the
bedroom doors cannot be locked. The housemates cannot drop out of the group, because everything is filmed and there are always
other housemates around. The only place where the housemates have privacy is the Confession Room, which
can be automatically locked. Here there are also cameras and Big Brother is also watching.
THE
BROADCASTS
The
program, Pinoy Big Brother, will be broadcast daily on primetime BIDA, a daily midnight show (UP LATE) and 3 big brother updates
throughout the day on ABS CBN. There will be a 24/7 channel on cable and broadcasts in Studio 23. You are
not allowed to ask Big Brother any questions about how you are being shown on the television.
THE
INTERNET
Big Brother will also be broadcast on the Internet. Cameras feed the Internet 24 hours a day.
The images on the Internet have the same rules as the images on television. The images of the toilet and the Confession Room
will not be broadcast on the Internet, unless your actions in either of these rooms is contrary to their normal usage.
You are not allowed to ask Big Brother any questions about how you are being shown on the Internet.
CONFIDENTIALITY
The
audition and screening process that every housemate has gone through is strictly confidential and should not be discussed,
in any manner, inside the house. You must not mention anything about the processes you went through, the
people you have met during the said processes, and names of the production staff and technical people you may have met and
known, including the producers and the story editors.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
The Pinoy Big Brother
house promotes cleanliness and hygiene. We are strongly encouraging the housemates to practice waste management through the
proper segregation of waste products inside the house. Please be guided by the following:
All waste products
used by the housemates should be segregated into three kinds and thrown into their proper waste bins. The
waste bins are properly labelled and should be used accordingly. Plastic bags should properly line the
waste bins and waste should be put inside the plastic bags. Each night, the housemates should properly
knot the plastic bags before going to sleep for proper disposal.
The wastes are divided
into the following categories:
Fruit
peels/vegetables/fish intrails/chicken and pork bones/eggshells/
Spoilt
food/animal wastes/grass/twigs/branches/flowers
Paper/carton
boxes/glass/metals/plastic containers
Sanitary napkins/diapers/rags/ceramics/candywrap and other wrappers/ Styrofoam materials
*Three violations of any of the house
rules will mean eviction or automatic nomination for the housemate.
Any grave violation will also mean eviction
or automatic nomination for the housemate.
Big Brother reserves the right to change or adjust
the rules in this book as deemed necessary. All decisions made by Big Brother are always final and irrevocable
