Well, a few winks of sleep here in Pocatello, and I am heading the truck back south to prepare for the next episode of On Your Own Adventures.
This will be an archery elk hunt in Utah. A good friend, Andrew Crow, drew this tag at the Western Hunting Expo in Salt Lake City, last February. As he was filling out the application, he laughed and said if he was lucky enough to draw, he would love to let OYOA film it. Little did he know.
This will be a different type of hunt from a production standpoint. We are going to try do this different than all our past episodes. I am not going to be in the episode, but will be there to help with all aspects of production. Especially the most important aspect, such as carrying an extra pack of batteries, water, tapes, supplies; cooking and anything menial that needs to be done around camp; and doing whatever the two camera guys tell me to do.
Andrew's side kick on this hunt will be his brother-in-law, Mark Seacat. Yup, this is the Andrew and Mark of Mystery Ranch Backpacks. Not only are they co-workers and have been friends for a long time, but they are also now related through marriage.
This hunt will be on the famed Monroe Unit. Not sure how famous it was prior to last year, when a big bull, called the Spider Bull made his appearance and became the talk of the hunting web world as he grew all summer, and then when we was shot last fall. I don't think Andrew has any Spider Bull expectations.
I am going to try my best to keep you updated on the hunt, but will also try to give you an idea of what goes on behind the scenes of producing one of these episodes. Something Bugler probably got too much of while being the focus of the New Mexico archery antelope episode.
My goal is to show just how much extra work goes in to producing 22 minutes of hunting TV. Not just following guys around and taping a kill shot, but telling the entire story. How tags were acquired, why the hunters find OYO hunting so compelling, providing information so others can learn from this hunt, bringing to a focus the history of these hunters and their experiences that have brought them to this point, and many other things.
I am still amazed to see how much tape we end up with, and how little gets used. Not because lots of it is low quality, but because we end up with so much good stuff, that it is hard to pick what to use. Example - we just returned from New Mexico and on that archery antelope hunt, we took 25 hours of tape, for 22 minutes of TV. We will use less than 1/60th of the tape we took.
That is a lot of extra work. You cannot take that much tape without have some disruption to time you would have been hunting, or to the tactics and strategy of the hunt itself.
If you saw all the tape, you would see why we set up in a manner that might be our fourth choice option from a hunting perspective, but a slam dunk strategy from a filming standpoint. When you make capturing the best film as your highest priority, you have to make a lot of accommodations to your hunting. And as such, you will need a stroke of good luck, or plan on working very hard to muster many more opportunities, hoping one of them will come together as that perfect set-up, and an animal is taken on film.
Anyhow, re-loading for Utah. Wish us luck. More tomorrow.
This will be an archery elk hunt in Utah. A good friend, Andrew Crow, drew this tag at the Western Hunting Expo in Salt Lake City, last February. As he was filling out the application, he laughed and said if he was lucky enough to draw, he would love to let OYOA film it. Little did he know.
This will be a different type of hunt from a production standpoint. We are going to try do this different than all our past episodes. I am not going to be in the episode, but will be there to help with all aspects of production. Especially the most important aspect, such as carrying an extra pack of batteries, water, tapes, supplies; cooking and anything menial that needs to be done around camp; and doing whatever the two camera guys tell me to do.
Andrew's side kick on this hunt will be his brother-in-law, Mark Seacat. Yup, this is the Andrew and Mark of Mystery Ranch Backpacks. Not only are they co-workers and have been friends for a long time, but they are also now related through marriage.
This hunt will be on the famed Monroe Unit. Not sure how famous it was prior to last year, when a big bull, called the Spider Bull made his appearance and became the talk of the hunting web world as he grew all summer, and then when we was shot last fall. I don't think Andrew has any Spider Bull expectations.
I am going to try my best to keep you updated on the hunt, but will also try to give you an idea of what goes on behind the scenes of producing one of these episodes. Something Bugler probably got too much of while being the focus of the New Mexico archery antelope episode.
My goal is to show just how much extra work goes in to producing 22 minutes of hunting TV. Not just following guys around and taping a kill shot, but telling the entire story. How tags were acquired, why the hunters find OYO hunting so compelling, providing information so others can learn from this hunt, bringing to a focus the history of these hunters and their experiences that have brought them to this point, and many other things.
I am still amazed to see how much tape we end up with, and how little gets used. Not because lots of it is low quality, but because we end up with so much good stuff, that it is hard to pick what to use. Example - we just returned from New Mexico and on that archery antelope hunt, we took 25 hours of tape, for 22 minutes of TV. We will use less than 1/60th of the tape we took.
That is a lot of extra work. You cannot take that much tape without have some disruption to time you would have been hunting, or to the tactics and strategy of the hunt itself.
If you saw all the tape, you would see why we set up in a manner that might be our fourth choice option from a hunting perspective, but a slam dunk strategy from a filming standpoint. When you make capturing the best film as your highest priority, you have to make a lot of accommodations to your hunting. And as such, you will need a stroke of good luck, or plan on working very hard to muster many more opportunities, hoping one of them will come together as that perfect set-up, and an animal is taken on film.
Anyhow, re-loading for Utah. Wish us luck. More tomorrow.
