Blogging on Web Site Again
If you enjoyed reading our blogs from the road, you might enjoy reading about our work in making the Our Longest Drive film. Go to www.ourlongestdrive.com and search “Recent Posts” in the right hand column of the Home page. Beginning today, I’ll be posting periodic reports.
Tuesday will be a big day for Dan, Jim and me. It’ll be the first time we see footage from the trip. Our editors have roughly edited nine days of the 21 days of our trip to Inuvik. This may not seem like much, but on the main camera only there was 360 hours of footage. We had four cameras going non-stop.
Stick with us, please. This will get done, ultimately. Please visit the site now. There’s more to come.
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Creator Vic Zast on October 14, 2012
If you haven’t been to my facebook.com page, watched the Golf Channel or heard the shouts of glee coming from my house lately, you may not realize that Our Longest Drive, the 5500-mile RV trip that Jim Thompson, Dan Johnson, Mike Allen’s ashes and I took to the Arctic Circle for golf a year ago, is going to be a primetime, network television series.
The Golf Channel will televise our adventure in 30-minute episodes each Tuesday evening and five additional times each week for six weeks beginning Tuesday, October 16 at 10:30 pm EDT. Set your DVR right now. Watch the shows live to help with the ratings. Over time, Our Longest Drive has the potential to reach 40 million viewers in 62 countries.
Episode 1 is titled “The Guy in the Box.” The show introduces Golf Channel viewers to the characters and allows us to show off our golf swings at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette, IL. Boy, that’s a pretty thing to see.
To re-read some of our blogs, you can visit the Golf Channel’s Our Longest Drive showpage by clicking on www.golfchannel.com/tv/our-longest-drive/. The content will change weekly.
About 9000 films are made in the USA each year. Only five percent of the films made are screened. Fewer than one percent of the productions are made into a TV series. Our Longest Drive was our first attempt at filmmaking. We beat the odds. Please join with us to celebrate by tuning in to the Golf Channel next Tuesday.
Vic Zast