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Why not make our own TV series? Think about it. We have all the resources necessary - Chase boats, camera boats, boats for review and testing, (I expect someone can lay their hands on a small helicopter (or a helicam) as well. We have experts on every aspect of boat repair and maintenance. The last job I did for the BBC covered the renovation of a canal cruiser and for six of the eight days shooting there were just two of us on the production side, me and the cameraman! plus the boats owner helping and occasionally appearing on comera. Post production was minimal as the material was shot in the finished order. At that time the BBC was paying £150 per day plus expenses so it is probably a bit more now. So who wouldn't be happy to take their boat out for a days shooting for a couple of hundred quid in their pocket plus diesel paid for?
I suspect that IPC would be interest once it was proven to be viable.
So. who knows anyone involved with TV production companies that are interested in making low cost high quality programmes?

Those with negative attitudes needn't apply!
 
PCUK said:
Why not make our own TV series? Think about it. We have all the resources necessary - Chase boats, camera boats, boats for review and testing, (I expect someone can lay their hands on a small helicopter (or a helicam) as well. We have experts on every aspect of boat repair and maintenance. The last job I did for the BBC covered the renovation of a canal cruiser and for six of the eight days shooting there were just two of us on the production side, me and the cameraman! plus the boats owner helping and occasionally appearing on comera. Post production was minimal as the material was shot in the finished order. At that time the BBC was paying £150 per day plus expenses so it is probably a bit more now. So who wouldn't be happy to take their boat out for a days shooting for a couple of hundred quid in their pocket plus diesel paid for?
I suspect that IPC would be interest once it was proven to be viable.
So. who knows anyone involved with TV production companies that are interested in making low cost high quality programmes?

Those with negative attitudes needn't apply!
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Well I can gladly make myself available to make the tea!

Great Idea if you could make it work better than the boat show that used to be on onlywatchthischannelwhenthere'sabsolutelynothingonanywhereelse.TV
 
There must be grants available from the guvmint for minority groups like the boating community. And what about getting something from the Olympic people / insurance / .... And the big marinas will certainly cough up, ahem.

I'm willing to give it a shot. Count me in.

When's the first committee meeting ?:)

DAN - can we have a new forum and a sticky please ?
 
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PCUK said:
Why not make our own TV series? Think about it. We have all the resources necessary - Chase boats, camera boats, boats for review and testing, (I expect someone can lay their hands on a small helicopter (or a helicam) as well. We have experts on every aspect of boat repair and maintenance. The last job I did for the BBC covered the renovation of a canal cruiser and for six of the eight days shooting there were just two of us on the production side, me and the cameraman! plus the boats owner helping and occasionally appearing on comera. Post production was minimal as the material was shot in the finished order. At that time the BBC was paying £150 per day plus expenses so it is probably a bit more now. So who wouldn't be happy to take their boat out for a days shooting for a couple of hundred quid in their pocket plus diesel paid for?
I suspect that IPC would be interest once it was proven to be viable.
So. who knows anyone involved with TV production companies that are interested in making low cost high quality programmes?

Those with negative attitudes needn't apply!
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I'm not applying 'coz I guess you'll call me negative. I think realistic because you need what you mentioned, plus coding the boat. Plus your commercial Yachtmaster. Plus insurance (the word tv always puts a smile on the brokers faces). The kit needs to be hired and insured. Radio mics, lights, waterproof minicams as well as the production camera (maybe more than 1) if you're going to make a half decent job of it. Talkback kit. Licences for all the RF stuff. Risk assessments done and any safety gear for mitigating risk hired. Permissions to be done, any by laws in the areas you're going? Need to research that and may need to liaise with or pay the HM. A music bed would be nice, need to pay for the rights. Contracts with all those appearing in vision or it might come back and bite you if it becomes a success. Then what about production insurance, if you get all this together and something stops it going ahead you may need recompense. The list goes on.
At least the diesel would be at commercial rates!
 
And I, for one, promise to watch the new show - at least once. That's provided that it is a free to view channel & doesn't add to my already exhorbitant monthly bill from Sky.
 
I'd certainly watch.

I'd also be up for it but I can't see anyone wanting to review my boat! So it would have to be behind the lens and we already have the tea making sorted.
 
Sounds fun

PCUK said:
Why not make our own TV series? Think about it. We have all the resources necessary - Chase boats, camera boats, boats for review and testing, (I expect someone can lay their hands on a small helicopter (or a helicam) as well. We have experts on every aspect of boat repair and maintenance. The last job I did for the BBC covered the renovation of a canal cruiser and for six of the eight days shooting there were just two of us on the production side, me and the cameraman! plus the boats owner helping and occasionally appearing on comera. Post production was minimal as the material was shot in the finished order. At that time the BBC was paying £150 per day plus expenses so it is probably a bit more now. So who wouldn't be happy to take their boat out for a days shooting for a couple of hundred quid in their pocket plus diesel paid for?
I suspect that IPC would be interest once it was proven to be viable.
So. who knows anyone involved with TV production companies that are interested in making low cost high quality programmes?

Those with negative attitudes needn't apply!
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Count me in too, sounds fun, LOL
commercially endorsed YM Power too.
 
Now we need

PCUK said:
Why not make our own TV series? Think about it. We have all the resources necessary - Chase boats, camera boats, boats for review and testing, (I expect someone can lay their hands on a small helicopter (or a helicam) as well. We have experts on every aspect of boat repair and maintenance. The last job I did for the BBC covered the renovation of a canal cruiser and for six of the eight days shooting there were just two of us on the production side, me and the cameraman! plus the boats owner helping and occasionally appearing on comera. Post production was minimal as the material was shot in the finished order. At that time the BBC was paying £150 per day plus expenses so it is probably a bit more now. So who wouldn't be happy to take their boat out for a days shooting for a couple of hundred quid in their pocket plus diesel paid for?
I suspect that IPC would be interest once it was proven to be viable.
So. who knows anyone involved with TV production companies that are interested in making low cost high quality programmes?

Those with negative attitudes needn't apply!
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A how and what are we going to do list of ideas.
 
themes could include:

beginning boating (rag and mobo)
training / experience gaining (schools, remote, online, Europe, snags)
extreme boats (from Hydropetere to that glass submarine thing)
places round the UK where you don't need a marina
anchoring :D
speed skills
navigation
personal gear and equipment
boat gear and equipment
Colregs - dead easy to put ogether a course based on modern pedagogic techniques
Tanker simulators (lakes and big screen things)
Horror stories
RNLI reports
mobo racing
raggie racing
long distance cruising - start with UK, then Europe, then further afield
electronic gadgets
super simple gadgets
Harbour Masters I have known
boats under reconstruction
visit the French frigate building near La Rochelle
visit Gludy's boat and others under construction
administrative problems and how to overcome them
liveaboard hints and stories
follow a family brand new to boats
children at sea
traditions of the sea (ringing glasses, burial, etc)
big ships (Tall ships)
View from the Bridge - from QE to supertanker
The story of a regatta, from prize giving one year, through all the committee stuff over winter, to laying marks and the races (soap drama !)
Sailing round the UK, eg Nathan and others
sailing and boating heroes

come on add a few more :)


Trouble is that by doing this, would we in Oscar Wilde's fine words, be exposing the privacy of boating too much ?

"Each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
the brave man with a sword.
Some kill their love when they are young, some when they are old.
Some strangle with the hands of lust, some with the hands of gold.
The kindest use a knife because, the dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long, some buy and other sell.
Some do the deed with so many tears, and some without a sigh.
For each man kills the thing he loves, yet each man does not die.
 
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PCUK said:
Why not make our own TV series? Think about it. We have all the resources necessary - Chase boats, camera boats, boats for review and testing, (I expect someone can lay their hands on a small helicopter (or a helicam) as well. We have experts on every aspect of boat repair and maintenance. The last job I did for the BBC covered the renovation of a canal cruiser and for six of the eight days shooting there were just two of us on the production side, me and the cameraman! plus the boats owner helping and occasionally appearing on comera. Post production was minimal as the material was shot in the finished order. At that time the BBC was paying £150 per day plus expenses so it is probably a bit more now. So who wouldn't be happy to take their boat out for a days shooting for a couple of hundred quid in their pocket plus diesel paid for?
I suspect that IPC would be interest once it was proven to be viable.
So. who knows anyone involved with TV production companies that are interested in making low cost high quality programmes?

Those with negative attitudes needn't apply!
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great idea, i've designed & am building a wooden gozzo in elba, if you want to film it
 
In Holland there is a show called "Yachtvision".

Look at episode 16, starts around 16 min.

http://www.rtl.nl/components/programma/yachtvision/index_video.xml


It's a nice (and only) watersports programme, but it's very commercial and they only test boats from companies who will pay a lot of money... They aren't very objective...

I used to work at Fairline Holland and we filmed a lot of boats but I can't find them on the internet anymore, it was a couple of years ago... Most of the times I drove the camera boat, it was fun to do!
 
Grand idea. I'll help with your Mediterranean episode. Easyjet will keep it nicely low budget. Coded boat and all that. Plenty of tea provided with compliments, and chocolate hobnobs :-)
 
I dont mind be "hands-on" in filming the "spot the boat" sequence.
And help in applying any fake-tan, as required.
 
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