Waverunner, You need to get caught up...
First, Welcome to an interesting board.
With all due respect, you need to go back about a month ago where the announcement was made that they could not start shooting, as they needed to acquire "cameras that could film in HD". I am certain that you can enlighten everyone on the scarcity of such video production equipment. I am in agreement with much of what you say. Perhaps you could even make a call to Bexel for RR?
You are correct that I have not produced a TV show, matter of fact, the most professional video I have partaken in was watching the production of a few commercials for a pet hotel that I have a partial ownership in. That three minutes of final product required immense amounts of work product, and, the team hired to do the job of shooting in multiple locations was about ten people, including the talent (three humans, four dogs, two cats and a voice over guy). It was an interesting experience and the amount of script writing, edits, takes, and back end production work was amazing (and costly). That was jsut to end up with a few short commercials. I never knew how it all worked until I saw it first hand. I even got a little hands on with an AVID(?) editing system which chopped it all up digitally and pieced it all back together, another needed step since the commercial was not shot in the same sequence as the spots would air.
Not meaning to bore you with my little production experience but certainly you would agree that there is a ton of work to do with the contestants beyond filming them going counter-clockwise at 80 or 90 mph in a tight circle. Getting professionals to look good for a camera is work in itself and I have to believe that there will be some editing involved. At this point, if it is done well and done fast, it will not be cheap. Would you agree with that statement?
By the way, there also may not be much (if any) head to head racing so one source told us during our inquiry into RR.
To summarize, it has been purported that RR has a production team (apparently without adequate equipment to do the job), but the production team / company is not doing anything for RR at this time that could be confirmed. That would be a problem from my laymen’s viewpoint. No contestants can state that they are on their way down here to sunny FL. That might be another issue. One more point -- does anyone know where all of those national contestant searches took place? In how many cities? I have only seen photos of one spot - but perhaps I missed those as well.
Everyone should also recall that this show was originally to take place over a year ago. I am in agreement with you that the concept sounds good, until you start turning over stones. It would be my guess that they had trouble putting all the pieces together with the track, sponsors, selling a major network, securing the $750k prize that is yet to be found, and on and on.
Yes, I do not claim to be an expert in your business, but I am not bad at mine (turning stones). I can tell you that there is no rational reason why reasonable amounts of information should not be disseminated to shareholders by the management of RR, and there is only one logical conclusion why restricted shares have been sold off regularly. I have always said that if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it most likely is just that, a duck.
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