Lights, Camera, Action Man

It was books that inaugural captured my imagination about faraway places. TV travelogues forever and a day seemed the poor relation to the classic written accounts, although of course the pictures were quite better. And then in that respect was the issue of authenticity. All those pretentious theatrical performance types dying of thirst in the desert, as if we didnt realise there was a camera crew on hand to render for their every need. These days programme-makers know that the audience is more modern and the presence of the camera is acknowledged. But can a journeying with filming equipment ever be anything other than a cleverly constructed fiction?
I recently got the chance to find out, when I was asked to present two one-hour programmes for an adventure travel series. The project was the inspiration of the production company, Trans-Atlantic Films, which wanted the series presented by writers and adventurers, as wellhead as TV professionals. My sole qualification was as a journalist specialising in adventure travel. However, I was thought to have on-screen potential.
The first programme was filmed in Costa Rica. Within 24 hours of my arrival, I realised that this was going to be very diametrical from my usual one man and his laptop expeditions.



For a start, there were five of us - director, cameraman, sound recordist, producer and presenter. And then there was the small national of £100,000 worth of equipment. I soon realised that the director, Peter Macpherson, was a vastly experienced adventure film-maker. In his case, the term adventure meant just now that.
Part of the brief for the series was to put the presenter in unusual situations and see how he or she coped. One much(prenominal) sequence was the night we spent in the rainforest cover near the Rincon de la Vieja National Park in Guanacaste province. I dont have a head for heights and would make a poor rock-climber, so my distress is real enough as the camera catches me dangling on a rope some(a) 30m up, well short of the canopy platform....If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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