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  • Don, I was counting on you :) It doesn't matter if the video is shot with the Gopro or not. I'll have to make the quality match though, can't have a high quality segment making everything else look bad. I don't know anything about contracts for this purpose.

    Dan


    All I need from you is a PM hand shake brother Dan. ;) However I would have your shooters sign a hold harmless agreement in case someone slips on a wet swim step trying to get the action.I would also forbid letting a shooter point a loaded camera mounted gun at a diver.


    I have tripods, and a hi end digital 8 I like to use for land shots and interviews so I can use basic composition techniques on raw footage that are white balanced.


    Regarding the duration of 1.5 hrs of your DVD I would just suggest you start with a 1 hr show of tightly edited content. Our brains have been programed by decades of media exposure to process about 22 minutes of visual data in a 30 min period. It will take a very skilled film maker with flowing footage to keep the average viewer in their seat for 1 hr. Perhaps a two part '' Speros of the World ''release
    (sample title) would work. Shooting raw field footage is the easy part. The editors and producer will be sitting in front of a monitor for many nights. Just as a example Blue Water Hunters used app 22 hrs of pro shot footage. Terry Maas's Hi eight footage was a mere speck in the production and was converted
    for the project.Terry has moved forward to capture some very stunning images of the life of bill fish and bait.
    I have a short film called ''In the eye of the Shark'' I shot and produced in the 90's I'll send you as a resume.


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


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  • I wish I had a camera for the tournament this weekend! Going way west in a 36' Yellowfin...after I pay off the gas bill from this trip I will be getting one of your go pro setups.

  • I'd Love to participate in this so count me in. I also have a really nice dSLR camera if you wanted some stills from above the water. When is this project projected to take place?

  • I have to think about it. I believe and some of you guys concur that this video has good potential, maybe partly because it hasn't been done this way before.


    think dan!:D much more thinking will probably coming up, the further the project goes.
    and the potential may also will get bigger the further it goes.
    it is a very challenging and nice idea. looking forward to the prozess.

  • Just giving this a bump. Has this progressed any further? I'd totally be game to participate if its still on. I will be going down to Baja in another few months, depending on how well I do tomorrow through the 3rd down there, I'll decide if I want to try my hand at filming again at all..



    :toast:

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