BCQtv Wins Best Show Open

After 30,000 online votes and several months of voting, the results are in….And the winner of the 2010 Best Show Open goes to…BackCountry Quest TV!  It was a great night on the Vegas Strip for the 2010 Sportsman Choice Awards hosted by the Sportsman Channel at the Hard Rock Cafe’. Surrounded by our industry peers, Chris and Casey stepped up on the stage and accepted the first award of the night for a project BCQ and Rack Focus started almost two years ago.

The BCQ Show Open was really the first creative project we all worked on together, and since then we have worked on dozens more, so to see our first receive and award like “Best Show Open” was truly and honor for all of us.  It’s amazing to see how far we’ve all come since then and this year we have big plans for a few projects coming down the pipe…which includes a new show open that has been several months in planning.

To see the behind the scenes video for the making of this Show Open go to “The Vault” right here on RackFocusPost.com.

Visionaries

A few days before Christmas the BCQ Crew and I decided we needed to step it up in an attempt to win a very sought after award in our industry, The Nikon Monarch Award.  This award is given to the Television Series that goes above and beyond to represent Nikon Hunting on their show by using creative and effective marketing.  Well, if you follow our production style on BCQTV, you’ll know we have a thing for skits.  We came to the conclusion that we were going to create our entry based on a made up skit.  After two days of production meetings and one solid day of shooting…we created our masterpiece.

The result was a victory and our crew bringing home the The 2011 Nikon Monarch Award.  One of the three finalists was a rap video from The Crush…which really made you want to “put your binos up” and a very well produced entry from “The Zone”.  I want to thank Chris and Casey for really doing an awesome job in front of the camera, Trent Skiba for running the second camera and sound, Chuck Keefer for playing “The Doc” and Katie Keefer for hooking us up with the Doctor’s Office and playing a great receptionist.

To take a look at the award winning video click here:  Visionaries

Sportsman Awards

After all of the votes rolled in there were five categories our shows at The Post survived and are alive for Sportsman Channel Producer awards this January at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Cafe’.  Great job guys, let’s bring home some hardware!

Nominees and categories are as follows:

Best Show Open: BackCountry Quest
Best New Show: PigMan the Series
Favorite Show Host: Brian Quaca-PigMan
Best Shoot Clip: Bowhunting Addiction TV
Best Shoot Clip: Family Traditions

BackCountry Kansas

Recently, Rut Media Photographer Rich Schultz and I spent three days in camp with Chris, Casey and the BCQ Production Crew along with Jared Crider and his whitetail operation, Locked Horn Outfitters.  The goal of the shoot was to grab several stills, build up our video library for a variety of uses and lay down a bunch of footage for BCQ’s Season Four Trailer.

A new piece of equipment on this trip was the Phillip Bloom Pocket Dolly from Kessler Crane, that the guys at Kessler shipped directly to Kansas hot off the press.  Kessler sold out 25 Bloom Dollies in 15 minutes…so I was happy that we were lucky enough to grab one.

I also used a 16mm Bolex to create some retro effects in a few of the scenes we were shooting for the new show open.  It was definitely a learning experience with the 16mm, but it was definitely a different satisfaction, that’s for sure.  The footage from the Bolex was sent to Chicago and transferred to 1920×1080 HD files I can use…and it definitely was the look we were going for!

Take a look at the short trailer we put together with the footage we shot over the three days in Kansas and some of the awesome stills Rich Schultz snapped during the shoot.

Click Here for Teaser

 

A Day with Our Buddy

We recently wrapped up a commercial shoot with the guys from My Bow Buddy and outdoor personality and good friend Kelly Gotch.  Kelly is a fellow Central Michigan Broadcast Alum and has really made a splash with several projects within outdoor television over the last two years.

We had to battle the wind and rain, but by the end of the day, we had a great 30 second spot that we think will be a great vehicle for My Bow Buddy to sell their great product.  To check commercial and website  we created go to www.mybowbuddy.com.

 

That’s a Wrap…Whew!

Well, it’s been a crazy and exciting last three months for us here at The Post.  We’ve pushed out just under 50 original episodes to air and we’re all exhausted.  Television production sometimes seems relentless.  Deadlines are on you every week, and no matter how much we prepare every year and try to get ahead on the production schedule, it seems like we end up in the same spot…using EVERY possible minute we have to get our episodes out the door and to Closed Captioning.  I’d like to thank BackCountry Quest, Livin’ the Hunt, Family Traditions with Haley Heath and PigMan the Series for one hell of a Production Summer!  Now let’s go out and lay down some more great footage!

Throwing the Switch

Recently here at The Post, we completed two new websites that we’re extremely excited about.  The first is a re-design of the homepage from our TV Partners at BackCountry Quest TV.  You can check it out here: www.backcountryquest.com The second is a completely new design for an exciting new product that will change the way we supplement an attract deer.  Rack1 Whitetail Systems hits the shelves next year but will be building the brand over the next several months through commercials, print ads and product placement in some of the best hunting shows on outdoor television.  To visit the site go here: www.huntrack1.com