Chaser created Storm Chasing Documentaries?

[Joey Ketcham]

listen guys, its not meant to seem like a personal attack. from what i understand, you are trying to attract hundreds of viewers? i'm not trying to be the bad guy here, but its not realistic. i do like shanes idea though. people see how real chasing is, and stop driving around like idiots anytime theres a watchbox.

It does seem like you're attacking the guy, and I have no idea why. Who cares about how many viewers it brings in? If this is something he wants to do then let him do it in peace, it's not hurting anyone. I don't see the reason to come on here and basically tell him that he is going to fail at it. How do you know he will fail? He might or he might not. About a year ago a small group of ghost hunters started broadcasting their investigations live over the internet by streaming live video feeds and audio to their website and viewers could come to the site and watch them do the investigation live. This past Saturday they had 300 viewers, sometimes even more watching. To me that is pretty impressive for a small non-profit group to be able to draw in 300 viewers. So to say it's unrealistic, no it's not. If they can do it then why can't Mark?

 

[David Drummond]

When hundreds of people sit and watch traffic cams and tower cams online, I don't think it's unrealistic to think they would watch that.

 

[Mark Sudduth]

Time to start a new thread on this, that was good advice and more appropriate than me hijacking David's original thread here. I shall write something up and explain away...I think it is a good idea whose time has come.

 

[David Drummond]

I moved it to it's own thread.

 

[Steve Miller]

Guess this entry didn't make sense here - I was confused.

 

[Bill Hark]

The closest thing I've seen that is chaser directed is the film "Tornado Glory". It's been shown on PBS and is sold on DVD, The show features Joel Taylor and Reed Timmer. I really enjoyed it and there is some great footage.
http://www.tornadoglory.com/

Bill Hark

 

[Mark Sudduth]

If I may, let's keep this thread about self-produced documentaries and for those interested in entertaining the idea of a live chase pay site, check out that thread. Sorry to have come in here and rolled things up with two related topics. But just to be clear: I am not wanting to make a documentary about chaser life but rather would like to have a site where people can be with us virtually through a subscription based service- live- all during the chase day.

 

[Marc Remillard]

If I may, let's keep this thread about self-produced documentaries and for those interested in entertaining the idea of a live chase pay site, check out that thread. Sorry to have come in here and rolled things up with two related topics. But just to be clear: I am not wanting to make a documentary about chaser life but rather would like to have a site where people can be with us virtually through a subscription based service- live- all during the chase day.

Following this idea, you would have to get a broadcaster who will nowcast the situation and get in touch with chasers. I think it's not a bad idea, it could be great to show what is a real storm chasing day, starting from the morning analysis to the nowcast, with explanations of what's happening.

 

[Jody Radzik]

My chaser-produced/directed documentary which chronicles my first tornado:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4447571058416683043&hl=en

 

[Paul Bowman]

Following this idea, you would have to get a broadcaster who will nowcast the situation and get in touch with chasers. I think it's not a bad idea, it could be great to show what is a real storm chasing day, starting from the morning analysis to the nowcast, with explanations of what's happening.

Kind of like NasaTV does during their missions...

 

[Melissa Moon]

Actually Mick, Chad, and I are gonna do a chaser documentary on ourselves over the Winter. The idea is to finally produce a chaser documentary done by chasers, not crews hired to ride along. Producers never get it right from the beginning, because they don't know the most important aspect: what questions to ask, and where to lead from there. This isn't going to be the documentary to end all chaser documentaries, just something we've wanted to do for a while and finally decided to do.

You won't have to be a chaser or even interested in weather to enjoy this project.

This will be quite entertaining! We never know what's gonna come out of your mouth next, Shane

 

[Kory Hartman]

Live Video, etc.

...About a year ago a small group of ghost hunters started broadcasting their investigations live over the internet by streaming live video feeds and audio to their website and viewers could come to the site and watch them do the investigation live. This past Saturday they had 300 viewers, sometimes even more watching. To me that is pretty impressive for a small non-profit group to be able to draw in 300 viewers...

At SevereStudios, we've found the same thing... we are doing our "storm investigation" LIVE... and we've had up to 1000 viewers in a month (sometimes 200-300 at the same time) watching us whether it's a hit or miss.

Of course, as soon as we are out of position or darkness is coming without a catch, the stats fall off like a rock. But there's something about the anticipation of "what will they find" that keeps people hooked for hours at a time. We too are looking at ways to enhance the live camera experience next year.

 

[Tony Laubach]

We too are looking at ways to enhance the live camera experience next year.

Flip the camera around to film in the cab when things are dead. And just watch out to NOT pick you nose or other things like that!

 

[Maggie Kahman]

Kinda like reality TV....only its actual reality, and not the fake stuff you see now....

 

[Maggie Kahman]

Flip the camera around to film in the cab when things are dead. And just watch out to NOT pick you nose or other things like that!

Why not? It will add to the entertainment...lol (not that picking your nose is entertaining)