Kokatat » Reel Water Productions http://blog.kokatat.com Watersports Wear Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bryan Smith’s The Season Web TV Series Launches http://blog.kokatat.com/index.php/bryan-smiths-the-season-web-tv-series-launches-1512/ http://blog.kokatat.com/index.php/bryan-smiths-the-season-web-tv-series-launches-1512/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:00:10 +0000 Bryan Smith http://blog.kokatat.com/?p=1512 “This summer I embarked on a new project with Fitz Cahall of the Dirtbag Diaries called the Season. The idea sprouted during some late evenings at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in 2008 when we both realized we had a mutual interest in trying to bring professional adventure media and strong story telling to the web. I had just finished two sea kayaking DVD’s and was looking for something new. Fitz had been wanting to bring the video medium to his work on the web. We asked ourselves a couple questions. First, could we take compelling stories from our community, combine it with tightly crafted footage and create small installments that reveal a bigger story? Second could the events of a single season reveal the bigger stories of individual athletes? I’m not sure we knew the answers and we still remain to find out, but we were confident that we had something that just might work, so the Season was born. We started working on the story lines, pitching the project and shaping the look. Then we spent an entire season lugging big HD cameras, a cable cam and various other tools around the Pacific Northwest chasing after five athletes. This has been a labor of love, but we are both excited to share all of our hard work.

The Season is a 22 episode, web TV series following five athletes through the course of a single season. A veteran climber invents a new piece of gear. A pro snowboarder searches for a way to return to the roots of his sport. A boulderer returns from a series of injuries with new perspective. A family man goes to Whistler to test himself against the mountain biking’s elite. A young sea kayaker with a troubled past sets out to reinvent his sport. Kokatat paddler Paul Kuthe is the featured kayaker and we captured some incredible new tidal locations for his epsiodes up in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. You can subscribe to the HD downloads via itunes at www.theseasontv.com. The trailer has just gone live and the first episode releases at the end of the month. Enjoy!”

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