A new style of film

I thought the chart overlays were great. I also liked the feeling of the new crew member finding everything about the trip so new. But it could have been a bit tighter and a bit more at sea or coming into/leaving harbour.
 
jonic said:
Well done Pete.

It must be catching, as we have just shot a different style of film too.

We had a 74ft Schooner for sale on the Isle of Wight and were preparing to do our usual interior flythrough filming, but the yacht went under offer before we could do the shoot.

However the new owner wanted to sea trial her and check the sail handling, so we found ourselves on an almost deserted Solent, with very light airs, a crisp colbalt blue November sky and a shot lot of sails instead.

An unexpected shoot, but great fun.

Link here:

https://youtu.be/jL6nY2pCX70
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Nice one John … town hall style of yacht design! I particularly liked the park bench. Assumed she was steel and was disappointed to find 'ferro' half way down the description!
 
Oh dear... Don't like it at all. Let me know if you go back to your old style (complete with dirty window). Thanks
 
I disagree with most of the comments here, I like the new format; the chatty relaxed and informal approach of the crewman. Perhaps he may be more appealing to the younger audience rather than Scuttlebutt's demographic.
 
steve350 said:
I disagree with most of the comments here, I like the new format; the chatty relaxed and informal approach of the crewman. Perhaps he may be more appealing to the younger audience rather than Scuttlebutt's demographic.
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At 34 I'm not sure I count as a younger audence but I really don't like the face to camera style of films/blogs unless they're done very well like Sail life. I didn't want to comment as I didn't want to offend but I wasn't sure if the chap was putting on an accent or not? I had hint of a "normal" British accent, a lot of London "youth" and even South African, going in and out of If I'm honest after a few minutes I turned it off. I could see if working if you had a presenter that didn't put me off and it was put together well but I appriciate film making isn't you primary business.

I do enjoy your films, and I do enjoy dialogue, fair play for trying something different.
 
Yellow Ballad said:
At 34 I'm not sure I count as a younger audence but I really don't like the face to camera style of films/blogs unless they're done very well like Sail life.
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Well said. It can be done well; it just wasn't, here.

It would be a sad reflection and rather insulting to 'younger viewers' if this unscripted, unedited performance was reckoned to be suitable to their mindset.

Perhaps the crewman ought to have cursed freely, kept the top of his underpants on show and chewed bubblegum throughout? Y'know, because it's generational. :rolleyes:

Steve350 called it chatty, relaxed and informal...

...and so it was...but that's only a VERY kind way of saying it was lazily prepared, apparently unedited, and wasted our time with the presenter's equivocal stream of consciousness, rather than staying focussed and telling us what we'd switched on to learn.

Fortunately it was lousy enough not to be imitated, but it doesn't benefit Halcyon's hitherto reliably good videos, if anyone suggests a dip in quality is demographically justifiable - it isn't.
 
I liked the maps.
I always like maps. drives me bazonkers when I look up a place, hotel, shop, whatever and it does not include details of where the place is. The situation is the first thing I like to know.

I thought the presenter had his moments, his weaker sallies just needed to be polished out.
I agree that his accent sounded a bit modish..... hate to mention this, for my diction is not top drawer, but the dropped final consonant does grate on my earholes - Mornin, Leavin, Goin.

I look forward to the next one, I think it is a good idea to shake things up now and again.
 
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