Deadliest Catch

I'd agree with MattinSTL.

I'm thinking what happened is the story is true but the crew weren't there that day to capture it. So with such a good story, they decide to re-enact it and conveniently didn't mention that part.
 
Agree with MattinSTL as well. That perticular part of the show looks re-enacted. I have no reason to doubt it happening, but the footage...?

EDIT: It was cute to watch you guys argue though. It was like listening to 13yos argue about how real thier fav rapper's lyrics are LOL
 
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I don't understand you guys. I just watched the clip and it's pretty clear to me that the guys who were inside the cabin got what they could (because they were in no position to help the guy), and the guys who were outside probably put down their gear. I don't see how the clip supports your argument at all.
 
P.T. Barnum's estimate was low.

Video hangs it's hat on "some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time"... (but not me.)
 
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MattinSTL said:
there's no "hey I gotta' set the cam down to help" moment...
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Actually, as soon as he disappears behind the wave the camera drops. Could it not be possible that the guy dropped the camera to make sure that someone contacted them on the boat? To let them know that they just lost him?

Either way, I can easily see both sides and there is no way that anyone is going to be able to prove the other wrong.

Mike
 
CAMERA 1
Oh sh!t he went under water, I'm gonna help!

PRODUCER
Ok camera 1 go ahead and drop your camera and help, Camera 2 it's important you get as much reaction from the captain as possible! Matter of fact if he touches the throttle you better be all over it.

CAMERA2
Ummm... ok... I guess, sure

PRODUCER
(to self)
This is gonna be brilliant!
 
Johnny Cola said:
CAMERA 1
Oh sh!t he went under water, I'm gonna help!

PRODUCER
Ok camera 1 go ahead and drop your camera and help, Camera 2 it's important you get as much reaction from the captain as possible! Matter of fact if he touches the throttle you better be all over it.

CAMERA2
Ummm... ok... I guess, sure

PRODUCER
(to self)
This is gonna be brilliant!
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It's quite possible that there was only one camera filming from the other boat at that time.

We could do this all day.

Anywho... :cheesy:
 
Eastside Parkway said:
Clearly none of you have been in a survival situation while shooting a doc.

Let me know when you have. Then we'll talk.
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Clearly I've never been a beautiful yet slightly vacuous young white teenager living in the OC, nor a former Public enemy hype man who knows what time it is, neither have I been stuck in a house with 7 strangers to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start being real, nor have I been a rail thin young bolemic woman humiliating myself so Tyra will jump start my carreer, hmm lets see, never had a mullet and chased polonisians across a beautiful tropical paradise spraying them with mace and yelling God loves you bruh! And NO I have never been on a fishing vessel in the raging Arctic seas, hell I DONT EVEN EAT SEAFOOD so WTF would I know about TV?
I prostrate myself in front of you.
 
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Al MacLeod said:
You probably never had a Colt 45 either then....32 oz or six pack...
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Damnit you're right, I DONT EVEN DRINK... son of a!
Also I don't have erectile disfunction, feminine itching, psoriasis, I have no idea why words like "Spring Break" pop up in front of the jiggly parts when girls go wild. What the hell is up with Bob, why does his have a sleigh full of confidence, wtf does that mean? I want a sleigh full of confidence too!!!

I just gonna stop watching TV cause, ya'll, I obviously don't have enough real life experience to understand what's going on!
 
Now you see how I got sucked in, Cola.


I shot a documentary in Haiti for 11 days... and at one point, in a super-crowded city... I made camera contact with some rough looking character who, among the banter of non-english voices, yelled a decidedly english phrase at me... "F*CK YOU!"... and I definitely feared for my life since everything on the travel advisory site warns against guerilla filming in Haiti... but my producer told me that I better keep shooting... so I did.

Other times I had my cam wrapped in a blanket with the lens sticking out... so that we could film in other places where a camera isn't welcome... you kind of had to keep your cool there also. I guess I could have panicked and just shot the inside of the blanket.

To each his own I guess.
 
MattinSTL said:
Now you see how I got sucked in, Cola.


I shot a documentary in Haiti for 11 days... and at one point, in a super-crowded city... I made camera contact with some rough looking character who, among the banter of non-english voices, yelled a decidedly english phrase at me... "F*CK YOU!"... and I definitely feared for my life since everything on the travel advisory site warns against guerilla filming in Haiti... but my producer told me that I better keep shooting... so I did.

Other times I had my cam wrapped in a blanket with the lens sticking out... so that we could film in other places where a camera isn't welcome... you kind of had to keep your cool there also. I guess I could have panicked and just shot the inside of the blanket.

To each his own I guess.
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LOL Absolutely!

And I would have shot nothing but blanket and pissed myself in the process, but I'm a horrible cameraman, actually I think a better term would be "Broke-ass-writer-director-who has to shoot his own sh!t" Good job on making it through that shoot. I really DO have a ton of respect for the badass cameramen that work dangerous shoots like what you described and shows like deadliest catch! I don't have the pair to do it. KUDOS!
 
Johnny Cola said:
Clearly I've never been a beautiful yet slightly vacuous young white teenager living in the OC, nor a former Public enemy hype man who knows what time it is, neither have I been stuck in a house with 7 strangers to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start being real, nor have I been a rail thin young bolemic woman humiliating myself so Tyra will jump start my carreer, hmm lets see, never had a mullet and chased polonisians across a beautiful tropical paradise spraying them with mace and yelling God loves you bruh! And NO I have never been on a fishing vessel in the raging Arctic seas, hell I DONT EVEN EAT SEAFOOD so WTF would I know about TV?
I prostrate myself in front of you.
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Listen, I'm not saying you don't know anything about TV. All I'm saying is that if you're in a situation in which you're with people who you're very close with (which all those guys on the boat are, including the film crew), and suddenly one of their lives are in danger, then I find it hard to believe that you would continue shooting instead of stopping to help.

I spent a year in Africa shooting wildlife docs and we would always put down our gear at the first sign of trouble. We were following a family of elephants in the southern Kalahari and one of our Land Rovers was charged and nearly crushed by the matriarch, and we all stopped shooting and did what we could to stop the situation from getting any worse. A few months later we were on Kilimanjaro and several members of our team came down with altitude sickness, and instead of shooting it we helped them get down to a lower camp. Stuff like that happened all the time, and despite the fact that we were filmmakers and it was our job to capture the drama in our surroundings and all that, there was an unspoken understanding that we're human beings first, and no shot is worth a life.
 
I've done about three years of reality production and I can say that we were never asked to stage anything.

Okay. There is a saying, coined by me, to the effect of, "...it was reality the first time it happened / we shot it". Meaning, it did occur naturally, but we might not have been rolling or missed the shot when it happened.

Also, "ginormous" is mine too - from 1984. I know, you'll all debate this fact all day and I'm fine with that.

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Eastside Parkway said:
Listen, I'm not saying you don't know anything about TV. All I'm saying is that if you're in a situation in which you're with people who you're very close with (which all those guys on the boat are, including the film crew), and suddenly one of their lives are in danger, then I find it hard to believe that you would continue shooting instead of stopping to help.
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I agree with you completely, but to me the clip in questions looks re-enacted with b-roll.
Sorry for jabbing at you though, it was tongue and cheek, hope you took it as such.
My hats off to you and guys like you cause like I said I don't have the skills or the balls
 
Hey guys!

Does anyone know when the next behing the scenes / making of, for Deadliest Catch will air again?

I have a couple friends that have shot that show for 3 years, they start shooting the next season in a month.

Chip
 
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