Mantracker

[Ref]

IMHO - Scripted.

Kirk's fight with the Gorn has as much reality as mantracker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQqJbW-ohw&feature=channel

 

[Big Sleazy]

anyone else hooked on this series?

http://www.mantracker.ca/

No...I have a life.

bS

 

[blackrock13]

No...I have a life.

bS

So you don't have 48 minutes to spare or multi task while eating you dinner?

 

[Moraff]

you could even go as far as to send a crew with the trackers. the prey should have handheld. there should be no recreation in my opinion. yeah they do it once cool then recreate it fine. it should just be the once threw though. re doing it for effect is kinda gay i think.

Well it's kind of the difference between watching a staged sword fight and a real competition..... one is big, showy and fun to watch, the other is often confusing and over quickly. As long as the premise of the program is held to - that Mantracker has to find the prey w/o any help other than the local guide and the prey have to find the finish w/ the map and compass - I have no problem with them going back to recreate the more interesting parts of the chase. If we just had the prey cam to deal with there wouldn't be much interesting to see. Trees, trees, more trees (whether walking or hiding), camera bobbing wildly as prey runs from tracker,.....

 

[blackrock13]

Well it's kind of the difference between watching a staged sword fight and a real competition..... one is big, showy and fun to watch, the other is often confusing and over quickly. As long as the premise of the program is held to - that Mantracker has to find the prey w/o any help other than the local guide and the prey have to find the finish w/ the map and compass - I have no problem with them going back to recreate the more interesting parts of the chase. If we just had the prey cam to deal with there wouldn't be much interesting to see. Trees, trees, more trees (whether walking or hiding), camera bobbing wildly as prey runs from tracker,.....

Just recall the quality of some news video taken by citizen reporters for broadcast on local news. I'd get a migraine in no time.

 

[smurf]

Know your land...know your prey!

 

[simon482]

I'm guessing here you never worked on a film, video, or tv show on either side of the camera/clapper.

what's that have to do with my opinion on the show looking staged and hald held cams would give it a more real feel.

 

[Dewalt]

I love how "Canadian" this show is. Right down to the prize at the end: there is none, you just get to have beaten Mantracker. So typically Canadian, at least they could have thrown in a 72 pc ratchet set and a new vacuum from Sears?

 

[blackrock13]

what's that have to do with my opinion on the show looking staged and hald held cams would give it a more real feel.

The suggestion won't hold up, Survivor man aside and he's not running a lot and uses tripods in various configurations, it's a format that just won't work 'well'. Think Blair Witch Project. The prey need both hands to do what they do. Holding a camera just takes that a way from them.

 

[night ride]

I also enjoy the show but if you filter in the reality of having the camera crews you realise it is scripted or re-enacted. The prey hide and Mantracker doesn't see them or their camera crew? Oh and the prey don't see Mantracker coming up behind even though the camera crew is focused behind the prey? Unbelievable.

g_27

Yeah, that's the part where I figure the show isn't honest...and what's with the potty mouth on MT?

 

[simon482]

The suggestion won't hold up, Survivor man aside and he's not running a lot and uses tripods in various configurations, it's a format that just won't work 'well'. Think Blair Witch Project. The prey need both hands to do what they do. Holding a camera just takes that a way from them.

man vs wild does a good job of it as well. i watched 3 episodes of mantracker and got bored of it pretty quick. it is a good premis but it looks far to staged to be beliveable. if you have to recreate something to make it work then it doesn't work.

 

[blackrock13]

man vs wild does a good job of it as well. i watched 3 episodes of mantracker and got bored of it pretty quick. it is a good premis but it looks far to staged to be beliveable. if you have to recreate something to make it work then it doesn't work.

They recreate it after the challenge is completed, It like a rerun for the audience. What wrong about that?

 

[simon482]

They recreate it after the challenge is completed, It like a rerun for the audience. What wrong about that?

it looks fake and contrived. just a little to hokey and fake for my taste. likea previous poster said when he rides up and says something stupid to tip them off it just ruins the show. i would rather see him sneak on up on them and they spin the hand held camera cathes him riding up, they scream and run. just seems a little more authentic.

 

[ryick]

They recreate it after the challenge is completed, It like a rerun for the audience. What wrong about that?

Well alot kinda..I like the show and its awasome you were on there!! I also know a bit about how "reality tv" works, and I always wondered how they dont see the camera men and sound crew I mean he has to see them especially when the prey are running..as to the rerun for the audience...it kinda takes the whole (real chase out of it) Like it like winning the amazing race and saying ok do it all again this time for the camera..you already did it and must now make it "look" like its the first time..either way I like the show, its cool to know now how its done!! Kinda didnt wanna know actually kinda like the show cheaters..I like that show too!!

 

[blackrock13]

Well alot kinda..I like the show and its awasome you were on there!! I also know a bit about how "reality tv" works, and I always wondered how they dont see the camera men and sound crew I mean he has to see them especially when the prey are running..as to the rerun for the audience...it kinda takes the whole (real chase out of it) Like it like winning the amazing race and saying ok do it all again this time for the camera..you already did it and must now make it "look" like its the first time..either way I like the show, its cool to know now how its done!! Kinda didnt wanna know actually kinda like the show cheaters..I like that show too!!

One correction. I've been on a reality show as a contestant/actor, but aside from that your comments are well put.

 

[blackrock13]

it looks fake and contrived. just a little to hokey and fake for my taste. likea previous poster said when he rides up and says something stupid to tip them off it just ruins the show. i would rather see him sneak on up on them and they spin the hand held camera cathes him riding up, they scream and run. just seems a little more authentic.

the bruises, cuts, bug bites and sprained knees aren't faked.

 

[blackrock13]

Dewalt, got some info for you. Send me a PM

 

[blackrock13]

Any tine the show heads north of 60, I like to watch it closely.

This time, it was in the yukon, with a local cowboy who name rang a bell and the arial photograph clinched it.

Their opposition were two London firemen in their late 20's, formidable from the start,but the battleground was weaker than normal, zig-zagging along a hydro cut out in the early fall and crossing the Takhini River, no further than maybe 2km from the Alaska Highway out of Whitehorse. They tried to hide it by clouding over the aerial map of Whitehorse and the highway, but the 50,000 hectare late 1990's Fox Lake Burn in full fall fireweed bloom just down from the famous Lake Laberge, was like a red light in the middle God's country. One fireman made it the other came thaaaaaat close. I'm sure they were able to cool their aches and pains in the end at the hot springs down the road.

Still a good watch and learn.