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This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: River Monsters – Back on TV Next Week
Hoorah! I can't wait. :w
I just don't "get" Jeremy Wade. I've tried to watch most of his stuff, but usually end up annoyed with him; especially the way he treats his guides on film. Surely they don't need to be told three times to "get the net, get the net , get the net". Nor do we need to be told "It's a fish! It's a fish! It's a fish!" every time the rod twitches. I might be doing the guy a dis-service but he ain't my cup o' tea. Thing I found strange was during one episode using a multiplier he persisted in retrieving with the ratchet still on until a hand appeared knocking it off! Funny though; I was never very keen on Matt Hayes either, especially during his "porn star" phase; but after watching Mainstream, and especially with Mick Brown in Rod Race, I really like the bloke now. Not enough detail regarding rigs though, but enough to get me concentrating on what he's doing. He got a lot of bad press from Flyfishers when a couple of articles appeared in one of the fly mags, but I thought he talked good sense and shook things up a bit.
The reason Jeremy needs to verbalise, 'its a Fish, its a Fish'...... or uses the catch phrase 'fish-on' is to do with the way the production team and equipment work...
the Camera used to film wildlife and other forms of film that require a lot of waiting around has a facility to be left running on the subject. the camera captures and stores units of film in five second chunks and then cleverly deletes the passage of time.
If you picture your own fishing which at times can involve a lot of waiting around, when the Jeremy has a bite, the 'fish-on' is a verbal prompt to wake the camera man up and run VC. Thus retrieveing the vital 5 seconds that would otherwise have been lost.
There's an old guy who does barbel fishing video's on the Swale; he must spend a fortune on memory and batteries recording 'barbel fishing inactivity'That is really interesting Prof........ I have often wondered how you could film hours of inactivity and not end up with wasted film/memory.You have explained it!! Cheers.