- Title: FJ-HRN-2183
- Summary: Deadliest Catch Interviews / Eric Lange, Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen: Deadliest Catch Interviews Tape 1 Sig Hansen: Blue shirt Blonde Hair Edgar Hansen: Black t-shirt Eric Lange: Camera man solo interview.
- Description:01:00:16 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: Oh at first when they approached us, I thought it was a long time coming, I figured it was going to happen one of these days, you know, and when we did it was pretty flattering even that they wanted us to come. And I thought it was just gonna be a one year deal do the documentary and then done, it just keeps rolling man they want more. 01:00:40 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: Oh yeah having the extra camera man on board you know after the fact, is when I went, Oh man, Im regretting it, because you know its two extra bodies and it is pretty tight quarters so it was a learning curve definitely. Not just for us but for the camera guys and their safety it was a pretty tough deal in the beginning. 01:01:05 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: Oh, anything, anybody gets hurt, even if it happens on deck, its my fault, it comes down on me, so it makes you a little nervous. 01:01:33 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: Well now a days they have a quota system and it was switched just a few years back and it was intended to make the fishery safer and it has made a bit safer because we can stop we have a quota or a an allotment, that Im, uh, that I have earned and so we still have, we know what we are going to fish before we go out there these days, but we still have that minimum amount of time to get it in, you know, youve got scheduled dates that you want to hit, weather is going to slow you down, and things like that, so the race is still on, its just if I have to stop, if the weather is that bad and I have to stop, thats a good feeling. 01:02:22 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: Prior to the new quota system it was open access or a derby system in other words you had one quota and if you had 200 boats participating it was you know a shot gun start, say the season started at noon, next thing you know 200 guys are throwing pots out there and it was just crazy you know and you would fish as fast as you can, as hard as you can, until they figured the quota was caught, and then it was stopped you know. Edgar Hansen: Yeah. It was a lot, a lot better back then cause I mean you got all this, all these guys getting ready for the season and theyre all in town at the same time and they all leave at the same time, there was a lot of tension, a lot of anticipation, a lot of adrenaline going. So, now its, kind of guys are leaving a little bit more sporadic. 01:03:27 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: Well now a days, we have, there are less boats participating, were down to about 70 to 80 boats out of the 250. But whats happened is that a lot of the original crew members have now gotten better jobs. Um, you know the guys that were really in it, to stay, theyre around, theyre experienced, so for a new guy that wants to get a job its harder to get that job cause theres not that many boats to choose from and uh, its one of those things where, yeah theres plenty of guys to pick and choose from, but you still got the pros that have been there for a long time. Guys are sleeping in tents on the beach trying to get a job. Theyre selling their cars to get a plane tickets up to Dutch Harbor, so, its neat to see that enthusiasm but at the same time you know theres less boats. 01:04:17 - Sound Bite: Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen Edgar Hansen: Oh, sure, we get recognized in grocery stores, and you know coffee shops. Sig Hansen: Well even prior to this taping were standing outside and a guy in the Electric caf is pointing at us and going alright. Its kind of, its flattering you know, but I dont think its going to get to our heads; were not going to forget are day jobs. 01:04:39 - Sound Bite: Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen Edgar Hansen: Its flattering, I mean you know, theres been no bad publicity about it, its all positive, anytime somebody recognizes you and wants comes up to you and say hi, its always positive. You guys are the work boat, you guys are nuts, and I love your show. Sig Hansen: Yeah, its good to have that kind of influence and I think its done well, because now youve got that work ethic, that maybe a lot guys havent seen before, you know, to us its just another day you know at the office, it just goes to show, you know that, that influence is out there and the feedback and the compliments are nice. So, I enjoy it. Edgar Hansen: And its real guys doing their real jobs, I mean weve been doing this, Ive been doing this for 20 years and all of a sudden we got cameras with us. So, its just, you know, the routine hasnt really changed and it probably wont change after theyre gone either, so. 01:05:49 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: I think, yeah, people understand the whole concept of the fishing, and I think there really, its amazing I mean there was a 14 yr. old boy and comes up and I mean he knew the hydraulics controls and how the pods were stacked, it was just amazing to me people are really in tune so they are picking it up. Edgar Hansen: Theres a friend of mine who brought, or a friend of a friend who bought his son with, we gave him a little tour of the boat, in Seattle, last year, and the little boy comes on and takes one walk in the galley and he looks over and hes looking around and he goes, Where is yourWheres your game station? Wheres your video game? I go what are you talking about and he looking over and he points, and there is this hallow and empty little shelf where we had our video game stashed. He noticed it. Sig Hansen: Oh yeah Edgar Hansen: It was amazing down to the detail, if youre a big fan of it, you really pay attention. Sig Hansen: Yeah its kind of neat. 01:06:56 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: Weve have had 2 incidents where we have actually saved their lives twice, for sure, and uh, you know, in my case there was a camera man, Doug Stanley, this guy that was filming back there and hes on the rail, so hes got his camera and his head sticking over a railing trying to film the outside of the boat and he is leaning there and I get on the loud haler and I yell across the deck for him to move and he takes 3 steps and there is a 900 hundred pound crab pod that just hit the railing, it would have took his head off, you know so I mean we saved his life, he came up he was just white as a ghost and hes like, Yeah, I think you just saved my life. Didnt you? You know, Edgar had one as well. Edgar Hansen: We were setting the anchor over, we were setting to anchor up and the camera guy was filming, he had, his name was Bryan, wasnt it? And there is a booey bag attached to the anchor for a marker well he had his foot in the coil in the middle of it, this anchor you know is 1500 pounds plus all the chain, it starts going out, in the corner of my eye I catch the line feeding out and its about to go around his foot so I literally reached over the anchor grabbed him by the neck and ripped him off his feet, and hes like, What? What are you doing man? Dude you almost went over the side man. Sig Hansen: But through all this, I mean, the camera guys are much more in tune with whats going on, um, so we had that learning curve, you know and now even the camera guys are way into it and they understand that this is serious you know and theyre living their lives through a lens, they are just like so focused, that what make me nervous, plus my guys are at risk as well, you know, so they are watching themselves or watching out for each other plus the other 2 guys that are looking in the lens. Its not easy, you know, but I know we have done a good job as far as keeping them safe and keeping everything together, you know. And if it gets that gnarly where you cant barley fish, there camera guys, you know, we are going to tell to them to back off a little bit. They do have stationary or mounted cameras on deck so I mean we will just trust those, you know, I have the last call there. If I dont want you on my deck you are going in your bunk. 01:09:07 - Sound Bite: Guy #2, Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Guy #2: It sucks, because you create a bond with these camera men and after a season they have to leave and you get this new group of camera men. So your kind of like, Whos this new guy? You gotta break them in to how youre, the way the Northwestern runs cause it doesnt run like the other boats. So having those guys leave, you get these 2 new guys and youre like, oh. Sig Hansen: And the new guys always want to show up the old guys so there is a little bit of competition between the camera men as well and that keeps the footage fresh, keeps it real, you know, but at the same time now we have that learning curve with the new guys, so its tough. Edgar Hansen: They want their Emmys, and we just want to catch crab, you know. Sig Hansen: You have got to find that happy ground man. 01:09:57 - Sound Bite: Guy #2, Sig Hansen Guy #2: About a year and half now, I have fished with the Northwestern and I had done little pod fishing before that and salmon fishing for 12 years. So I kinda knew the dangers that were involved, I cant believe Im working with these guys, like he said the line to get on the boats is so huge and for me to keep my job is tough mentality on me all day long, I mean, so I will be the first one up and the last one to walk off, because I dont know. Sig Hansen: Hell suck it up, now, he doesnt want to lose his job. Guy #2: Yeah man, I mean everyday; its like that, am I going to lose my job today. Sig Hansen: No, youre not going to lose your job. 01:10:39 - Sound Bite: Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen Edgar Hansen: Its a hard question to answer, I dont do anything. Sig Hansen: Are lives have changed because of this thing. Edgar Hansen: (Coughs) Zig Hansen: I mean lets face it, you know, you got a lot of notoriety now, its great. We never intended for it, we thought we would do one year and uh, it was one of those things, were, you know, I mean, we threw the camera guys off the boat twice already, you know, cause we got tried of it, and its like were fishermen. Now are lives have changed, so if you were to ask me, Hey what are you guys doing in the off season?, well normally the boat is in the ship yard, we are worried about the next season gearing up and all that, and uh, oh I play a little golf right, cause you have this time off, you know, you fish for a few months and then you have some time off, a month or 2 or 3 whatever. Now a days, I mean, we got a video game in the works were making, X-Box 360, we got a coffee line coming out were all busy doing that, Discoverys got us out there promoting the show which is great. You know with the notoriety people want to know and its flattering but at the same time its time consuming, So not only do you have time away from home because youre fishing and earning your money, you have time away from home, you know, to do things for the show. So its a big change in our life, you know. 01:12:20 - Sound Bite: Guy #2, Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen Guy #2: Well you never know when youre gonna get a hole in your soda can. You dont know, how much time your gonna run to drink your soda and it spills all over you and youre wondering why the camera is staring at you. Edgar Hansen: Your soda pop is not safe around me you leave it sitting down I will poke a hole right under the lip. Guy #2: They tied me up, hog tied me at the end of Pelio and its icy out and they dunked me in a tank of cold water. Edgar Hansen: Thats right we dunked his head in 35 degree water. Sig Hansen: Doing all that is good, because, its like he wants to be a team player, he wants to be a part of the boat. Lets face it Edgar can get pretty nasty if he wants to, its almost like you have to earn that rite of passage, you know, and if you cant put up with a couple of jokes or whatever, get off. Edgar Hansen: Put up or shut up. Sig Hansen: So yeah, you have a good sense of humor about it. And then It helps you kind of form this bond, you know, and its a good thing, we dont want a new guy on our boat, put him through a bunch of crap and the next thing you know hes a threat to you, you know, we want to create something, thats gonna be, you know, help us in the future and become a safe player with us thats our goal. A lot of boats will trash a guy, man and they will try to break him so hard that its not helping them and thats not the way I want to play the game. I want it, I want that team effort, I want to be able to go out there, cause if we have to fish hard, when it comes right down to it, you gotta pull so metal and hes gotta have to help too. Edgar Hansen: Its kind of a test too, just to see what hes made of, you know. keep needling, keep needling, and if he breaks, you know, and he cant handle it. This isnt the right boat for you man. Sig Hansen: Now hes start to needle back, you know when the Kid starts needling back thats a good thing cause that shows that his confidence is building, and so you know youre building confidence and all that good stuff. 01:14:29 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: There have been a lot of situations over the years, you know, like man that was a close call, you know, and uh, yeah we have been very close to sinking our boat, um and its one of those things that I pray it will never happen to us, I dont think it will, I think that as far most of the guys in the fleet theyre knowledgeable and deal with these changing weather conditions all the time and so you have to be pretty flexible. But theres time when there is nothing you can do about it, you got a rouge wave thats 30, 40, 50 foot in the air coming at you like a freight train, not a lot you can do. 01:15:18 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: We put a lot of money in that boat and Edgar hes the engineer so hes always trying to keep it maintain but things happen, you know, its out of your control. Edgar Hansen: Just keep spare parts, parts for parts and hope for the best, fix it when youre in the middle of nowhere. 01:15:40 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: Well were fourth generation fishermen; you know, my familys from Norway, Dad came over here in 58 I think and uh, you know, fishing off the coast of Washington and he was one of Pioneers in the Crab fishery, and then as a kid, thats all I ever wanted to do. So it just, I dont know if I they expect it or if it just happened. Edgar Hansen: You just fall in to it. Sig Hansen: Youve got your grandparents and stuff and they just figure, yeah hes going fishing. Except for Grandma she always wanted you to be a preacher. Edgar Hansen: Yeah right. (They Laugh) Edgar Hansen: You know, tough love family, tough boat, tough luck. Sig Hansen: Yeah. 01:16:27 - Sound Bite: Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen Edgar Hansen: Yeah, we dont always get along always as much as we probably should. Its, its, on board its not brotherly family stuff, its work, its work ethic, you know. I respect what he does and how he does it and hopefully the same back, so. Sig Hansen: I mean. Thats the thing. Edgar Hansen: I dont always agree with his decisions, but you know whatever, I will grumble a little bit he wont like me for it but whatever hes got the last call, hes the boss. So. Sig Hansen: Usually, I mean its like, everybody has got their positions. And so Ive ran the boat much longer, Ive run the boat since I was 22 years old, he knows Im going to do my best even if I have to grind his tits to the deck, he knows Im doing it to make money for him and my family, thats the bottom line, he knows that Im programmed to do that and I know he going to keep that son of a bitch running forever, if what ever it takes, you know, so thats just how it is, and together you have a good team. 01:17:35 - Sound Bite: Guy #2 Guy #2: Oh, uh, I dont know, Salmon fishing everythings a lot, a lot easier and there not a lot on the line, so, I respect my Captains, I always grown up to know that, so, when I started working with him, it was a little different hes not nice, you cant go up to the Captains house and be buddy, buddy with him, I mean maybe a little bit more so now but, you know were always scared to go up there, cause hes not the kind of guy who will go up and compliment you, thats not the way crab fishing is, you do your job, thats what your job is, so if you do an excellent job, good you did your job. And so working with him, its great, because Ive gained a lot of respect for somebody if a lot people get on work with him they would walk right off because how it has to work on a crab boat. OC: Its like being in the military. Guy #2: It has to be that way OC: Yeah kind of. Guy #2: You cant be friends. 01:18:53 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: I think, yeah the show is based on danger and fact and it does that. They kept the integrity of our industry in tact and all that. Its done wonders. But, you know, a lot of guys they look at you and theyre like youre crazy and you know they think are looking at a walking dead man, you know, and, and, its like you know that fleet is the best of the best, you know, so being able to do everything that they do and get through these situations, you know, there are going to be accidents, theres gonna be things that happen, but the fact is, thats about how good as its going to get. So a lot of people that you meet on the street or something I think that they think, for me they think that youre crazier than you really are. To us its just a 9 to 5 job. Edgar Hansen: Or a 4 to 12. Sig Hansen: Or a 48 hour a day job. Edgar Hansen: Crabbers clock consists of 4 numbers thats 12 to 4 thats the only time you sleep thats the only time you care about 01:19:56 - Sound Bite: Edgar Hansen, Sig Hansen Edgar Hansen: Staying up man, staying up for days, if thats whats needed. Thats his call, he knows what storms are coming. Or what gotta haul this much gear before we go in, or get this done before it does blow other wise we are in big trouble, cause it gonna take us 10 times longer to get where we gotta go, so you could stay up for 2 or 3 days if needed thats, you know, youre going through your 5th, 6th wind, thats probably the hardest part, you are just a zombie. Sig Hansen: Theres no schedule on a boat, you know. Like we had a camera, When do we eat?, you know, dont worry about it, well eat when we get that chance, because, its the weather, its the runs, from one stream to next, the time it takes to do it, that what dictates, your eating schedule or your sleep schedule, you know so there is no clock. 01:21:00 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen Sig Hansen: As far as the crew is concerned, yeah, you have to be careful when youre driving them. Yeah there is a lot of sleep deprivation, um, but the thing is they will let me know when they have gotten to that point, where hey man enough is enough. We are family, we are brothers, hes not gonna hold back. I just try to keep them motivated if I need that extra little push I gotta justify it, right. If theres a storm coming and we got to haul X amount of gear more, I can justify it and they will suck it up and do it. OC: Edgar Hansen: Which is usually a lie just to get us to keep going. OC: Guy #2: Yeah. (he laughs) Sig Hansen: Yeah, so you gotta have that incentive. OC: Edgar: Yeah theres a storm coming we gotta keep going. Sig Hansen: I mean, youre Captain, its like youre not on the clock, youre a therapist half the time, a motivator, you know, and then you got to worry about finding the crab, number 1, staying on the crab, and so its one of those things, the more these guys are in tune with it, the better off it is, you can always, its amazing what a person can do, I mean they have reached limits to where, its pretty unbelievable. There was one season that we had an 80 hour King Crab season, the boat did really well, we had a 100 thousand pounds of Crab it worth a half a million dollars in 80 hours, these guy were on deck and theyre starting to drop off and I go hey guys we got to go to bed, we need to shut down, And they looked at me and what did you say. Edgar Hansen: We actually took out our calculators and figured out what we were making per string it would take about 2 hours to haul about 20 pod 25 pods we were making over 3 over 3 grand every two hours. So we were like naw, I dont think so. Keep going. Sig Hansen: Not going to bad. Edgar Hansen: Keep goint, It was a derby fishery, when the gun, there was a start and a stop time. So we just kept going. 01:22:59 - Sound Bite: Sig Hansen Sig Hansen: Yeah, oh yeah. The camera takes away all your privacy, you know, it was really hard for me to get over that, and uh, especially when they first got on, there were a couple of spots we got into that were much deeper fishing grounds than normal we were very careful about it, and the next thing you know, the camera guys are wanting to shoot this and that it was a hard to keep that a secret, sometimes I could fudge a little bit and tell them I was here when I was there, because uh, a fisherman is a liar, see, and youre lying to your friends that are fishing out there as well on the radio. Because its your spot and youve only have so much time to catch the crab there, more guys move in, less crab you get, see, so, it was real stressful just to have the camera guys there as well, these are secrets a lot of secrets and its one of those things its really hard to deal with it. 01:24:26 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Ive been doing it for the Deadliest Catch for 4 years now. OC: Tell what your thought process was. Eric: Well, I think the first year it came up I was editing for Tom Bears and when the show came up, he had done a one hour special and you know, the word was out that it was going to be a series, I had cut for it on that first season and I had put my hat in because Im trained as a Cinematographer so I put my hat in right away to shoot it, when word came up for that second season, I said, Wow thats great. You know, it was everything that you hope to do as a Cameraman, you know, all the conditions all the equipment and stuff like that, and then you get up there and your like did I really ask for this? 01:25:21 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Yeah the reality, hits you square in the face. Youre looking at it on the screen for so long, when you get up there its very real, its really cold, hard working conditions and its nothing, you can, I mean, you can anticipate situations but thats just something that you cant even come close to anticipating, I had no, I thought I was prepared for it but when you get up there you got to change your whole game plan. 01:26:25 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Ah lets see, those guys will do, depending on the fishing of course, they will do 32 hour bumps and you maybe shooting for, you always have the camera up, and youre always looking through the lens, you may not always be recording, but youre always ready cause anything can happen, so you always have the camera up on the shoulder all the time, so probably 80% of the time, they are on deck you are shooting or ready to shoot. 01:27:02 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: You are holding the camera on deck in severe conditions for 28 hours, you know at a time. Yeah. 01:27:26 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Right, the first time you get out there. You know, as a camera man in a situation like that you make the camera part of your vision, so everywhere youre looking the cameras going, you dont try to look away to much without bring the camera with you cause thats when something happens and your fixated on it but you forget to pull the camera with you, so youre constantly bringing the camera where your eye is. So, um, plus the camera catching wind and stuff like that so its missing with the shot and everything. 01:28:05 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Day one when you get out there and you start shooting, so much is going on the boat you are trying to take it all in, including your safety, pods are flying around, crabs are flying around, the guys are running around, and lines are flying and youre trying to follow the action and also listen to the story thats happening and pick out things and do pick ups all at the same time. At the beginning your are flying all over the place and you start thinking they not gonna have anything to edit with unless I start focusing on the big picture. Kind of settle, take a deep breath and settle in, on your wide shots you push in start getting your close ups and then you start to figure out what the storey is and follow the action and get to know the guys and then there is that whole dynamic that comes in there. So at the beginning, mass chaos and then you slowly start to itemize, ok, how can I best cover this situation when all hells breaking lose, how can I prioritize that and shoot it correctly, so they can use it in post. 01:29:16 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Yeah on a show like this um, you wear many hats, youre McGiver, youre a shooter, youre a producer, you do many things, and uh, you usually have two shooters on a boat, but everybody is doing the producing and shooting and a little bit of directing not too much. 01:29:47 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Yeah constantly throughout the day, throughout the week that we are shooting. Um the producer and I will get together probably every 2 hours, constantly we are talking back in fourth, whats happening in the wheel house, whats happening on deck, because there is a big disconnect. What happens in the wheel house with Sig, Sig will be screaming and yelling about whats happening on deck, but we dont hear any of that on deck, I just have what these guys are dealing with and they are like whats he doing up there. So the producer and I will get together, and well talk its, Yoshi Stone on the Northwestern. OC: Hold on a minute, talk about, how do you and the Producer get together? Eric: Hell pop his head out and hell call to me when Im on deck shooting. Hell call me over to the wheel house, and hell be like, Hey, Sig is mad at Bradley and hes mad at Edgar, cause theyre not paying attention and theyre not counting the crab, and Ill be like, Yeah I see that happening. I will follow that up with a couple of questions. Well go back and well do that and a lot of times we will switch up, hell go on deck and I will go to the Wheelhouse, so we can get a full perspective of whats going on, so he knows whats happening on deck and I know whats going on in the Wheel House. 01:30:59 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Well, thats how its credited by really everyone does everything. The person in the Wheelhouse is also shooting, so hell shoot Sig, produces Sig in the Wheel House and I shoot the deck and produce the deck, but we also swap those hats. 01:31:23 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Its true Doc style; its really, this show is really a beast of its own. I dont think there is anything else like that out there, its a documentary reality series so. Youre putting shooters and producers on a boat, that have to pull story out of reality, so you there and youre shooting it and youre keeping in mind what is happening that can be story arcs. So everybody has to produce and shoot and they have to do that well. For it to work. 01:31:59 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Its huge, thats a big thing on this show, like Tom Beers and Jeff Conroy and I work at Max Post and thats one of Toms companies, so its Original Productions is the production company and Max Post is the editing facility. So Tom and Jeffs whole plan in this is to try involve people, like editors in as many aspects of the production as possible. You know like you would on a true documentary, you would EDP it, shoot it and then in the end you figure out the edit. So thats like how a lot of the shows are done, there are actually a couple of other people that shot and edit. 01:32:48 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Yeah, theres been a couple of times where youve been, like at the rail we shoot a lot of stuff at the rail so theres waves that come over the rail, try to get those shots, a lot of times, you get out of the wave to protect the equipment, but sometimes we like to get those shots where the wave covers you, but you dont realize that that water is really heavy, and when it hits you it sends you across the deck, so theres been a couple of times where Ive been at the rail, decided oh I think I got enough of that and move out of the way and a wave will come over and it will knock over a 700 pound pot behind me which is basically that would have sent me over the rail and maybe over the boat, thats happened a couple of times. And Sig always talking about you know, theyll say get out of there and theyre joking about it, get out of the way youre going to kill yourself and you move and you know, something crazy will happen like a pot that was not tied down will fall over where you were just standing and that will just crush you. 01:33:53 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: We have on the boat 2 fixed cameras, one that faces to the aft of the boat and one that faces the sorting table so you can cover most of the action with both of those cameras. So in the times when Im in the ready position and Im not shooting or for some reason Im in the middle of a battery change or tape change those cameras will cover the action to cover me, so that then I can do my follow up beats and stuff like that. But as far as my personal set up its just me and my chest pack that protects me. (Phone Rings) What was I saying, oh yeah, as far as my rig goes, um, my A camera when Im shooting its all my support I usually try to find ways to steady the camera the best I can in those situations but when youre moving all over the place its difficult. OC: What do you guys shoot on? Eric: We shoot on HDV, so we shoot on a Sony HD Z1 units. OC: Is that straight in to a hard drive. Eric: No its on to tape mini DV. 01:35:14 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: On board, lets see, total cameras on board at the beginning of the season is two fixed an A camera and a B camera and one back up, plus we have a V1U, which is a lesser version of the Sonny Z1 unit, but thats also a real quality camera and then we have a bunch of specialty cameras we use for dropping in to the tanks and shooting off the boat and coming around like that we usually blow up about maybe and thats like 8 boats, so we blow up a lot of cameras in the season. We try not to, inevitably it happens, you know this year I had my camera smashed in the door of a freezer, Edgar likes to swat at my camera when Im asking him questions, hell knock my matte box off, so theres a lot of that kinda of stuff happens. 01:36:24 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Thats a huge dynamic on these boats. The best way to address that is when we get up there for the season and start rigging the boats is to have a couple of drinks with them, you have a couple of beers with them and get to know them and figure out where your boundaries are right away and that usually helps you out a great deal when you get on the boat. And when you are on the boat its inevitable, they are trying to do their job and you know, they are banging in to my camera constantly. (Phone Rings) So oh yeah, you can of do the meet and greet at a bar, you do this whole song and dance where your smoking and joking with them and then when you get on the boat inevitably your out there for 4 weeks and your working 32 hour bumps and your on little sleep people are gonna get on each others nerves and Im banging cameras off their heads and Im in the way stuff, but you its like the first 24 hours you learn the dance on the deck and you become a part of deck with them every motion they do on deck is exact so once you know that dance they doing on deck you start doing it with your camera, I know where I can go to do my pick ups and where I can go to be safe and out of the way and I know where not to be when something goes wrong and stuff like that, so you work in with them and you become a part of the boat, its pretty cool to see it work like that. 01:38:29 - Sound Bite: Eric Lange Eric: Definitely, usually about the time when it gets to that point where sleep fatigue sets in the hardest thing to do is to produce under those conditions, because I cant remember, its hard to keep track of story, I dont know the questions Ive asked and there, at that point, Ive already worked in theyre not aware of the camera anymore, they see me as just somebody whos on deck with them, kind of forget that the camera is there, so Im just talking to them and they start to give me stuff, you know unaware of the camera, it can be bad sometimes, you know, the
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2183