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October 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm #22647
ITVCaughtOnCamera
For a brand new primetime show about UK road crashes, near misses, scrapes and escapes, ITV are looking for footage filmed on dash cams and helmet cams by road users across the country.
As well as featuring the clips themselves, we are looking to tell the stories behind some of these clips, and speak to those involved.
Please get in touch if you have a clip you think we could use in the show. We’d also like to know if you might be interested in appearing on camera to talk through your experiences.
Please contact us at caughtoncamera@itn.co.uk – we look forward to hearing from you.
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Instead of spending money
Instead of spending money making yet another programme about how nasty people get when they’re driving, why not just fund a re-release of this road safety ad? I recall it won a marketing planning award for effectiveness back when it was livearfa
Your headline says it all,
Your headline says it all, you are seeking trash to titillate the lowest common denominator and dressing it up under the guise of it being “informative”. I wish I could believe your request is genuine but you know it’s not. You know full well the commissioning mantra of the editors is “where’s the conflict and tension” and you come here seeking help for that ? Most of us here are just seeking to get from A to B without some neanderthal thinking his “might is right”, an idiotic assumption perpetuated by media cretins.
So if you really want to do something constructive, head over to Holland and look what they’ve done there. Start with the stop the kindemoort campaign and look what they’ve achieved, how they’re healthier, happier and better off because they’re not enslaved by the cult of the automobile.
But you won’t do this.sanderville
thereverent wrote:Maybe a
thereverent wrote:Maybe a better idea would be to take some people who normally drive in central London (Taxi drivers, delivery drivers, Bus drivers etc)…Excellent idea, but add some cops and any MP who holds a sinecure at the DoT.
But to give a straightforward answer to the original post, I used to commute through central London with front and rear cams on my bike and at one point I was going to post a Youtube video called “Skittles!” purely of clips of pedestrians stepping into the road right in front of me. It could have lasted an hour. But then I realised that when you commute on a bike through London all these scrapes, near misses, and groundless victimisation are just gravy. Why bother posting clips of it anywhere? Every other cyclist has the same experience every day, twice a day.
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ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Hi
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Hi all, we want this to be a thoughtful and insightful film that goes beyond the standard clip show format and doesn’t take a them/us approach, widening divisions on the road – that’s exactly why we’re reaching out to people like you. Please tell us what you want to see, and get in touch.You may have that intention to start with, but it could easily get changed before the program is aired. I think ‘The War on Britains Roads’ was pitched differently to the people taking part, then changed in the editing. Thats why so few people here trust you.
Maybe a better idea would be to take some people who normally drive in central London (Taxi drivers, delivery drivers, Bus drivers etc) and get them to cycle for two days at rush hour. Then see how their attitude changes.
I suggest the people making
I suggest the people making this show all start commuting to work by bike with helmet cams, and in a week or so they’ll have plenty of footage of near-misses, scrapes, etc., of their own.OnTheRopes
I wonder if this is the same
I wonder if this is the same crew that made ‘Road Rage Britain: Caught on Camera – ITV’s documentary Road Rage Britain: Caught on Camera shows shocking footage where frustrated road users take on each other. .https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/road-rage/road-rage-britain-caught-camera-231302375.html
Not sensationalist at all 😉
Quince
teaboy wrote:The sort of
teaboy wrote:The sort of programme I’d like to see would not involve the type of clip you’re after. It would be a programme following a road engineer/infrastructure designers, local councillors (in charge of funding the infrastructure), road haulage managers and bus company managers as they cycle with their children around London in normal clothes and no helmets on the school run, using the roads that everyone else is expected to use, and dealing with the behaviour of people they are responsible for. I’d then like to see the exact same group do exactly the same thing in Assen.I’d like to see interviews (before and after each trip) with both the adults and the kids, finding out how they felt about what they were about to do and why, and how the activity felt and why.
You will pick up your “near miss” footage during the rides, but the programme would have much more value than half an hour of edited youtube clips ever could, and possibly make the future of cycling in this country massively better for everyone. It could be repeated in a range of UK towns and cities if you wanted a series. Call it “A Trial of Two Cities” or something, maybe.
Precisely.
Most people are already aware that much of the country’s travel network ranges from mildly dysfunctional to downright lethal, and the current slew of ‘Road Wars’ programs have done nothing but paint the issue in primary colours and encourage people to take sides. They sell transport as blood-sport, and do nothing to improve our roads and the lives of people who use them (i.e. just about everybody).
Rather than solely fixating on how our awful roads are, a truly worthwhile piece of programming would have the scope to consider solutions; to look beyond our Isles to places where the transport system is built upon different principles (e.g. Assen, Copenhagen), and to compare life between those places.
Throw in a few shaky British helmet-cam videos if you like, but a 30-minute montage will tell people nothing they don’t already know, and only serve to incense those who’ve already committed to an agenda.
Although that might be the point. Everyone knows that ‘sex sells’, but I’m pretty sure that fear and anger sell even better, and can generally be snuck in before the watershed.
If you’re genuinely interested in making an inspiring programme on the role on cycling in British towns and cities, then I’d love to watch it, but past experience – and this call for more adrenaline-fuelled footage – doesn’t fill me with hope.
Andrewbanshee
Perhaps the Road CC members
Perhaps the Road CC members are not your typical audience. I think we are all too aware how programmes are taken out of the originators hands and re-edited for sensationalism to appease the couch potatoes. Even if you truly have good intentions, history of tv, history of how the general public responds to tv that does not inform correctly. People generally won’t watch a show that is more than half an hour, and safety on our roads requires more than 30 minutes to change peoples attitudes. There are some really good ideas here such as Teaboy’s Trial of two cities idea. I think we would all go for something truly educational and contribute too.
I am wondering, do the contributors get a say in how they are represented, or do they lose the rights?Flying Scot
Just keep your clips to
Just keep your clips to yourself and bring them out only if someone suffered injury or loss.CycCoSi
Methinks tis not a community
Methinks tis not a community where you will well received after the last hatchet job.notfastenough
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Hi
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Hi all, we want this to be a thoughtful and insightful film that goes beyond the standard clip show format and doesn’t take a them/us approach, widening divisions on the road – that’s exactly why we’re reaching out to people like you. Please tell us what you want to see, and get in touch.As you can see, folk can be quite passionate about road safety round here!
The thing is, if a sensationalist show (which granted, may not be your aim) shows a stupid white van man, then if as a result, everyone stereotypes white van men, it doesn’t really put those white van men (safe ones or otherwise) at any greater risk – people just think they’re all idiots, whether justifiable or not. On the other hand, when these shows display a reckless cyclist, those same viewers that cast stereotypes think it’s ok to drive aggressively around the rest of us, because “they’re all idiots anyway”, and this directly affects our safety, hence people getting worked up.
How about using clips to highlight how so many road users think that a second off their journey time is worth risking the safety of another road user?
How about highlighting the gap between what cyclists are told (for example, taking the lane), and the instruction/impression that drivers are given (cyclists should keep to the left).
I should add that the title, reflected in your user name and email address, does suggest a “you’ve been framed on wheels”-level programme.
Simmo72
if you want to watch this
if you want to watch this sort of stuff, go on you tube.qwerky
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Hi
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Hi all, we want this to be a thoughtful and insightful film that goes beyond the standard clip show format and doesn’t take a them/us approach, widening divisions on the road – that’s exactly why we’re reaching out to people like you. Please tell us what you want to see, and get in touch.Maybe talk to the wives/husbands/parent of people killed. I imagine that showing a half hour show of someone inconsolable with grief would be pretty moving. Maybe film some kids who keep asking when Mummy/Daddy is coming home because they aren’t old enough to understand the concept of death. Maybe show a family who had to sell the family home and move into a council flat because the main earner is permanently disabled and can’t work anymore.
This might make viewers reconsider their attitudes behind the wheel.
Edit: On a side note, please can you show the Giro on ITV4 this year?
zanf
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Sorry
ITVCaughtOnCamera wrote:Sorry you think that, but we are keen to produce something more thoughtful than the kind of shows you mention – that’s the very reason we’re reaching out to you.I know several people who declined invitations to appear on “The War On Britain’s Roads” because they were fed the same spiel about how they wanted to make a show that wasn’t divisive or played into the partisan mentality of us vs. them between cyclists and vehicle drivers.
The sad fact is that you (collectively) cannot be trusted. You lie to get what you want then twist it up with sensationalism to get the maximum number of viewers to sell the advertising. I say that as someone with insider experience.
Also, the last time that ITV made anything of quality, Eric Morecombe was still alive.
and use this useful safety
and use this useful safety advice provided by Derbyshire Constabulary on cyclists.
http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Safety-advice/Road-Safety/Cyclists.aspxWhich sadly will probably be read by more cyclists than drivers, but you could refer to this in your documentary?
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