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ALL YOU NEED IS VIDEO CAMERAS, SOME EXTRA EQUIPMENT,AND A GOOD EYE, START YOUR OWN TV HUNTING SHOW(PUT ON YOU TUBE)OR TAPE YOUR GUESTS HUNTS, MAKE THEM A DVD TO REMEMBER,JUST ADD YOUR PRODUCTIONTO THE COST OF THE HUNT, THEY WILL LOVE IT,IF YOU WANT TO GO BIG TIME OR SMALL STARTING OUTLET ME NO ,I WILL BE GLAD TO HELP YOU OUT.EMAIL ME AT [email protected]

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I beg to differ. At the minimum, here's what you'll need to consistantly produce great hunting shows:

Video camera's, dry cases, lenses, vehicles, vessels, insurance, good editing software, monitors, computers, batteries, sound design equipment (portable audio and post audio equipment, wireless mics, omni mics, booms, etc), legal, marketing reps, media purchasers, website, hunting equipment, personal accommodations equipment, outfitter contracts, cell/satellite phones, the know how to operate all the equipment professionaly/efficiently and the time to produce 12 to 16 shows per year, including the "bust" excursions.

More into it then heading out into the field with a consumer or prosumer camera and the standard 16X lense. You also need to be disciplined, comfortable enough in the outdoors to spend days - up to months in the field or just away from home at one time. Be able to handle any weather in the world, from 120f with high humidity - days of rain to freezing rain, to a consistant -50f below. Good angling and hunting experience wil help you, as well as knowledge of your quarry's biology.

Don't quit your day job!

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AMEN!!!!!:)

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Want you need is desire...you will figure out the rest...

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RD/OPC

Tell us how your really feel, get it all out.....

Just joking, sounds like you might have some exp in that field.

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Everyone has to start some ware, don't give up we have a show that runs on local cable it is fun but hard work! I am working a deal to go state wide by Jul, on ONN! (Ohio News Network) Keep at it!

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i think if i were to do something like this, the #1 item on my first to get list would be one hell of a high quality crystal clear video camera that doesnt produce fuzzy or bouncy images when you zoom in on the target.

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An old girlfriend of mine said Do what you truely love and the money will follow.Well,im still waiting for the money,but i started trapping for a living and ive been happier than a clam ever since.
Stick with it,Nobody is going to make anything happen for you,YOU have to make it happen for yourself!!!

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Please, no more hunting shows! Hunting has been turned into enough of a "prostitute" already.

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I have made my own movies of the elk hunt for the past ten years it does take allot of time and you do need some equipment and software. Your camera should have 30x optical at least, I use Pinnacle software and edit at home. note for the true capture of the hunt you should not be hunting or have filled your tag already. As far as to many shows on hunting I have to agree as far as canned hunting shows go. but get the reality of it the Truth of the hunt. That makes a great vid. here is part of last years video.
http://melrose-elk-camp.googlegroups.com/web/2006%20short.wmv?gda=-BJywkQAAACZw6f6FWhYsYdflTGn9e1uswMVV9o4AUt83qmAPQG hXBVJVT3hrgKrn_IySc8la3J6nw6-y1dEc-vmtnKcA6c20Qk3COw9Y2Ws58dbCfLF5g

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I've been thinking of doing the hunting show thing for a while now. I have a friend in the t.v. production field. He said that he would produce my show with all of his professional equipment. It will cost about $1500 per show. This can be financed by hitting the local outdoor shops for sponsorships. They can put you into contact with major named brands of hunting equipment for further funding opportunities. I feel this is the best way to get a professional product on the air without having to purchase, and learn how to use, very expensive and complicated equipment. If you decide the "hunting show" thing isn't for you after a while, then all you've waisted is your sponsor's money.

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You will have to buy your air time as well. The Sportsman Channel doesn't put you in their line up because you are great, they charge for air time.

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I can tell you this.......if you were asking for my sponsorship dollars with that attitude you wouldn't get very far..........also no company i have ever approached will just "give" you money to go out and "try it" you have to have a professional resume' and even then most companies already have enough"pro's" using thier products and monies.

Also I have to ask, who will be running the video camera if you don't want to learn how to use or purchase "expensive and complicated equipment"........from what you are saying all you have to do is go out and hunt and sponsors will give you money and networks will air your show for free:eek:

Good luck with that though..........

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Breaking into the TV business is a unique challenge. I spent the last year calling on alot of different sponsors. I was working with an existing show on two major networks. Each "Pro-Staff" was required to raise a certain dollar figure in sponsorship money. I called everyone you can think of and spoke to many retail stores. I have never been treated so rudely by alot of well known companies. Some of the largest names were the worst. They know you need their money, they don't need you and will gladly tell you. Remember that is for an existing show, not someone with no show.
You can get a 1/2 hour slot once a week on The Sportsman Channel for about $120k a year, so you have to factor that into your costs. The big sponsors are really hard to get to. A good spot to go for some sponsorship opps is The ATA show, but if you head to The Shot Show be ready to get treated real rude if the vendors don't know you are coming.

Jake

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Man you make it sound so easy. Let me know when your show is on. Most half year shows have 13 weeks of new shows and 13 weeks of repeats. You'll need at the bare bones 13 successful hunts at the rate of one hunt per week. Who's going to pay for those hunts? They cost a lot more than 1500.00 a week. People aren't going to give you jack if yo don't already have something to show them. Then like mentioned before, you have the cost of buying the time slot. If you think you can produce a show with local shops funding it, you've gotta lot to learn. I'll be watching for your show! LOL!!!

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You Tube is not exactly "Big Time"....and why have you not came back and responded to the thrashing your post is getting if this were to be legit? Oh, I know why......

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Not to mention there are people on this forum who are famililar with and involved in the industry that may correct him even more. If I wanted to start a show I would come here to look for the information to do it right. Maybe he should have done the same thing.

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WOW!!!! These are the people who should not be involved in the outdoors. And thanks for WASTING our industries money on you wanting to be in the spotlight for your minute of glory.

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it might take awhile but if half you guys are worried about getting the vids in on time with the weeks...just do 3 years of filming right there if you get6 good edited hunts=2 hunts a year...in then your set to have a show once a week inNov/Dec or what ever......then the next year mabysponsors will look at those vids andget a deal..not only, that hunting guilds will ask you tohunt on there land for advertisement now you can get 2 more good films....and the filming just keeps on rolling

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that made absolutely no sense to me. could you explain it againin a different way?

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Ditto. I THINK he was trying to explain. that you can't produce a high quailty video in one season...to do it right, it's going to take a few years of filming and editing in order to produce a quality product and maybe, sponsors will follow?

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take more time and start smaller...then get bigger....is pritty muchall i was saying

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Right, solocamcan

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ok thanks for clearing that up for me:)

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I don't think it is as hard as some make it out to be, but it's definately not easy either. I've been working towards my own show fora couple of years and finally managed to get 6 episodes together for our local fox affiliate this spring. The show aired here in in the Bowling Green, Ky area as well as parts of MN, IA, and WI on the fox affiliate out of Rochester MN. I ended up spending around $15,000 on eqiupment, airtime, and editing. That doesn't include travel expenses, licenses, etc... I recouped most of the editing expense and airtime cost, but not all of it. I don't own half the equipment RD/OPC mentioned. I paid a local guy to edit the content for me and had a few buddies that helped provide footage. I've been filming for about 3 years now and have quite a stock pile of footage. We're working on our next season now and plan to produce 13 episodes with hopes of getting those shows on the MAN channel. We're putting a little more effort into some graphics, but for the most part, the show is remaining very similar to the first season. I think a guy with a good camera and a desire to succeed can go a long way. I have a wireless mic, and a shotgun mic, nice tripod and tree arm. Thats about it. I rarely use anything other than the factory mic on my camera. I'm a hunter first and producer/camera man second! I'm a regular guy that enjoys filming hunts and thought people wanted to see others like themselves on T.V. I can promise you that you will not get financial sponsor money before proving yourself. Some small companies will give you free merchandise but that doesn't pay the bills. I targeted local companies in a local market to cover my expenses. I'll learn the ropes here locally and grow my audience as my experience grows. If anyone is really serious about starting a show, contact me and I'll tell you what I've learned, bt be prepared to work hard for no money for a long time!!!!!
BTW, if you haven't seen my show, here are the links to all 6 episodes online.

http://www.theaverageoutdoorsman.com/episode-1.html
http://www.theaverageoutdoorsman.com/episode-2.html
http://www.theaverageoutdoorsman.com/episode-3.html
http://www.theaverageoutdoorsman.com/episode-4.html
http://www.theaverageoutdoorsman.com/episode-5.html
http://www.theaverageoutdoorsman.com/episode-6.html

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Awesome Videos Skin Dog!!!

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I have no problem with you wanting to start a new show.Matter of fact-I welcome it.ANYTHING has got to be better than whats left on tv today.Try something different-like doing a show that is FREE RANGE and involves a gun VS the everyday mundane -Bow hunting,TC Encore behind a high fence show.That crap is starting to get real old.

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700rem nothing takin but i much rather watch a bow hunt than a gun hunt any day...its something about archery seeing the arrow and the deer being close that gets good footage..gun hunts are to boring no footage invalved..a deer comes out in the feild 200 yards away and shoot it o thats intence...archery you can move an inch or then deer will pick you like its his job..butwhat ever its just my opinion

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X2.... I do gun hunt, but that's for of a "family tradition" thing, Bowhunting is serious hard work, but the rewards are much greater.

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cool vids skin dog, what kinda setup are you using?

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most all of the first season was shot with either a xl1 or gl2. I'm filming with an xha1 now and use the hunter cam cradle.

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Dont get me wrong-I am not bad mouthing bow hunting whatsoever..Its just thats all you see now when you go to a outdoor show on tv,its either that or a show with a tc encore.Its all about the money and all about sponsors vs HUNTING .

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cool, you have a quality show going, hopefully you will keep expanding

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Unfortuneately it takes MONEY and SPONSORS to be able to afford to have a HUNTING show on TV![:@] Those sponsors don't pay to have someone not use their product and do what they want, they are paying to put their product in front of potential customers, and so the hunters are obliged to use their product to harvest the game with. ;) There is a place for all of it... Bowhunting, Gun hunting, Muzzleloading, Traditional Archery, Spears! [8D], etc. As long as there is a company that makes the equipment and is willing to pay the money to sponsor and there is target audience, then that is what it is! Pick the shows you like best and watch them, they keep ratings and the ones that have the least ratings will more than likely eventually lose their sponsorship and the show will dry up and die! That the way it always will be! That is why new ones are always popping up, someone has an idea or thinks they can do something better than what they see, sometimes they are right, but most the time they are wrong!Ah the beauty of captialism!! :D Every once in a while you have a show that comes along with an idea that revolutionizes the industry for several years, like what Dream Season did, that really sparked the reality type hunting craze and killed off alot of the canned hunt, fenced hunt garbage out there. People wanted more reality and to see how the average type hunter would succeed on video. I think that idea has peaked and now we are over saturated with Dream Season type shows, so I really see a trend that will come about and change it up again, what that is, is TOP SECRET!! [8D] What ever you do, it has to be relateable to the average hunter, it has to have good quality footage, the story has to be shown and portrayed in a easy to watch manner, and you have to be able to sell it to sponsors! So if you can unlock that combination in whatever you are attempting to put on air, you might have a winner! [8D] Good luck and with out dreamers and doers we wouldn't have what we have today, so go for it!

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Sorry to resurrect an almost 2 month old thread but I wanted to say that I have enjoyed filming my own hunts with a consumer camera but I don't intend for it to be on TV.:) As far as TV hunting goes, I've come to enjoy Billy Molls' "The Modern Day Mountainman" show on The Pursuit Channel. He's a guide with a camera and has essentially turned his "home videos" into a TV show. He told me that he frequently uses a little Sony HC26. I suppose it shows that you don't always have to have a $3000+ camera to film your hunts.

Can anyone recommend a good production service that can take your home video footage and edit it into a DVD with some music and graphics? This is strictly for personal use so I'm not looking to spend thousands of dollars for a DVD. I've seen a couple of places on the internet that perform the service for $300-$800 but I don't know about their quality and value.

About the bow hunting compared to gun hunting shows, it does seem that a majority of the shows today are bow hunting shows. I don't bow hunt but I don't have anything against it. Having said that, I do get tired of watching bow hunts where the animals have to be left for hours, and sometimes overnight, when the temps are in the 70's, 80's, and even 90's. That is a pure waste of meat and it seems like the animals are just killed for television purposes. This happens way too often with some of the more well known "TV hunting personalities" too! I do know that there are gun hunters who make bad shots but you do see more clean and instant kills with guns.

Thanks!

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try www.mannionoutdoors.com Seth is a great editor and it's hard to beat his rates. His email is [email protected]

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How much footage are you talking about having edited?

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I offer editing services....................check out my rates and samples of my work @ www.pronghornproductions.net

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Thanks for the replies fellas. I've got several hours of duck hunting and deer hunting but I'm not worried about those right now. I'm going on my first elk hunt in October and I will probably want to have it edited into a nice DVD. Just guessing....I may wind up with 1 to 2 hrs of raw footage of the trip.

Scott

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IMO, you need a drive and passion more than anything if you truly want to do something in the hunting industry. I had a vision to make a different kind of hunting video. I started with a Canon GL2 camera and 9 months later released our first video - "Beyond the Kill". If you want something bad enough, have the determination and work ethic to back it up - you can accomplish anything your heart desires. I'm living and hunting proof!

Shoot straight and don't let anyone stand in the way of your dreams!