#141265 - 07/24/08 11:49 PM
Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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"Hi Cameron, I came across your Meetup group and wanted to see if you could pass this info off to you and your hikers/backpackers to see if any of you would like to apply. We are casting a new show for the Discovery Channel, the network that brought you The Alaska Experiment. Their next Alaska wilderness project is in the works and we are looking for anyone up to the challenge and once-in-a-lifetime experience of joining a band of adventurers to journey across America's wild frontier. This link will take you to our official pdf for downloading so you can read, email, and/or post it. http://www.mediafire.com/?awj7ulxmgzzPlease let us know if you are willing to distribute it to your members. This really could be an experience to remember for a lifetime. Sincerely, Joshua Murphrey Casting Associate Pilgrim Films and Television, Inc. 6180 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Suite 350 North Hollywood, CA 91606"
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#141271 - 07/25/08 12:02 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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You have to be at least 18 to do it. (Trust me, I asked )
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#141283 - 07/25/08 12:41 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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I'd like to do it. But from what I saw of the first season, somehow I think they want people who aren't even the least bit prepared. A fish out of water is more entertaining than moving a fish from one pond to another pond.
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#141290 - 07/25/08 01:05 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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Real survival is way too boring to make it on TV, and they would want to send you out without the right tools (tools and supplies we all talk about right here every day) because it makes for better TV.
Reality shows are not about reality, they are entertainment. They are less scripted then normal TV but they are not real. They edit the heck out of them; change the chronological order of events and statements to make it more dramatic. Create conflict between constantans; pick stupid egocentric people that can’t work with others. By the time it hits the tube (or now days the plasma screen) it has little to do with what happened.
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#141301 - 07/25/08 04:00 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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#141302 - 07/25/08 05:15 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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If only it wasn't the Discovery network.
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#141312 - 07/25/08 11:14 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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I watch a lot of Discovery Channel shows and enjoy watching Les, but hadn't heard anything about the Alaska Experiment until the surfing into the post finale reunion. I thought it was interesting what little I got of it and how it changed people on the show.
Was the show any good to watch for a whole season or best veiwed ala Deadliest Catch, back to back to back, like they have done recently and the only way I have become invested in watching it.
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#141320 - 07/25/08 11:58 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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Reality shows are not about reality, they are entertainment. An important truth. We need to remember this when Grylls and company do something silly. Nothing is more pleasing to TV producers than comment on their show on a forum like this. Positive or negative, doesn't matter. In order to properly hate a performer or show, one has to actually watch 'em. The more viewersip, the more money for the producer.
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#141322 - 07/25/08 12:14 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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All this negativism may be true, but if folks who hike, camp and know a bit about the rule of threes don't apply, Discovery Channel will get another group to do it anyway.
Imagine a group of guys who actually know land navigation, how to build a shelter in the snow, how to build a fire on the snow, how to avoid freezing to death, et al applying to do this show. It would be a great way to see Alaska.
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#141329 - 07/25/08 01:03 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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Reality shows are not about reality, they are entertainment. An important truth. We need to remember this when Grylls and company do something silly. Nothing is more pleasing to TV producers than comment on their show on a forum like this. Positive or negative, doesn't matter. In order to properly hate a performer or show, one has to actually watch 'em. The more viewersip, the more money for the producer. The key to that is that they have to keep me watching the show. I like watching Less, but I gave Bear more then a good chance by watching a dozen shows and it was not worth it to watch them. I now keep scanning with the remote any time I run across his show. My comments don’t mean I watch the show any more.
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#141333 - 07/25/08 01:21 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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Reality shows are not about reality, they are entertainment. An important truth. We need to remember this when Grylls and company do something silly. exept Man vs Wild isn't a reality show (per se). Reality shows like The Alaska Experiment focus on interersonal drama, and the setting is irrelevant apart from the (slightly)varying levels of drama it creates. They never claim that what you see on the screen is what you should do in that situation. Man vs Wild is touted as a serious educational endeavor, and Grylls is passing HIS stupid stuff off as legitimate survival techniques, and therein lies the difference. as for signing up: i'd LOVE to spend a few months in Alaska, but i won't even bother with this. i'm short, chunky, hairy, well-muscled, and know how to get along outdoors. In other words, perfectly suited for actually living in a cold climate, and therefore exactly the OPPOSITE of what they're looking for. Like BOBS said, sticking people in a harsh climate who are well suited for that climate doesn't make for very entertaining television.
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#141335 - 07/25/08 01:32 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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. . . as for signing up: i'd LOVE to spend a few months in Alaska, but i won't even bother with this. i'm short, chunky, hairy, well-muscled, and know how to get along outdoors. In other words, perfectly suited for actually living in a cold climate, and therefore exactly the OPPOSITE of what they're looking for. Like BOBS said, sticking people in a harsh climate who are well suited for that climate doesn't make for very entertaining television. Cop-out -- you don't know that they are not looking for a few serious outdoor types until you apply and get turned down. They may want a couple good guys to serve as adult supervision for the guys/gals who have never seen snow before and don't know that crossing a 33 deg F stream can kill you. That and it's not a petting zoo, the animals are not domesticated. Sure, it may become another BS show, but that doesn't mean that you have to be part of the BS. At first glance it looks like a hoot to me, but the devil's in the details of the contract. Give yourself an out if you don't like the details. I have a real job that would not look kindly on my absence for a couple months. (that is my cop-out)
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#141338 - 07/25/08 01:52 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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[quote=Erik_B]They may want a couple good guys to serve as adult supervision for the guys/gals who have never seen snow before and don't know that crossing a 33 deg F stream can kill you. That's exactly how they did the first season. They had some experts on Alaska give some instruction to city slickers, and then we all got to watch them suffer. If they don't still have the same experts from the first season, I'm assuming their new experts will also be from Alaska. I'm also assuming that if you aren't from Alaska, then they're only interested in you to be the one who suffers.
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#141340 - 07/25/08 01:56 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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Except there's a psychological element that most of you are forgetting - cabin fever is real, close living with a group of people of varying personalities and abilities is real, the wolf or bear stalking the cabin can be real (if that bugs you), the harsh environment and the long months of winter cold and dark will wear on you. I'm not saying that someone with survival skills can't cope, but put you in a smallish cabin for a few months with ongoing food and fuel needs and a half dozen folks of lesser abilities, you'll sure feel some stress, you need some coping skills as well. Physical ability or knowledge isn't the half of it. There's a reason why depression, alcoholism and suicide are endemic to the Alaska winter. Hardy folks, for sure. Disclaimer - I have no idea if I could be one of them.
If I had a complaint for the Alaska Project its not quite long enough to truly test the participants, but a longer duration show isn't marketable. And there just aren't that many Dick Proeneke's out there.
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#141347 - 07/25/08 02:36 PM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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I would be entertained to see someone experienced in that kind of environment get onto the show even if he/she had to understate their experience (say pose as a greenhorn.) Once on the show they could periodically utilize some true survival skills without coming off like some ringer. Like a savant survivalist.
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#141362 - 07/25/08 03:57 PM
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How did cabin fever come up? I get the impression this show will be about traveling and sleeping out, not staying in a cabin. . . . Our newest series raises the bar for our adventurers by sending them on an epic JOURNEY through the wild. . . Did I miss something in the write-up?
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#141371 - 07/25/08 04:27 PM
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Erik_B wrote
>as for signing up: i'd LOVE to spend a few months in Alaska, but i won't even bother with this. i'm short, chunky, hairy, well-muscled, and know how to get along outdoors. In other words, perfectly suited for actually living in a cold climate, and therefore exactly the OPPOSITE of what they're looking for. Like BOBS said, sticking people in a harsh climate who are well suited for that climate doesn't make for very entertaining television.
In the first series the less suitable you were, the easier they made it for you. The chap with two daughters got a cabin another couple just got a tent in the coldest wettest place they could find for them. The threesome had firewood and food to sit out the rest of the series easily; so suddenly they were off on a hike. Go ahead and apply Erik! Just don't be suprised who gets the heaviest load :-). The Sock
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#141465 - 07/26/08 01:51 AM
Re: Joshua at Discovery Channel's alaska project
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