Top Gear Australia

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Originally Posted by barney

...but the thing is that the presenters don't write the show, they have writers for that as does TGUK.

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Not so sure about Top Gear UK - there are NO other writers credits. There's a researcher and a few producers but Jeremy, James & Richard may actually write all their own material - they are all reasonably good writers after all. Also quite a lot of their on camera banter is relatively unscripted and has just kind of evolved from good chemistry.

BTW - I actually skipped TG-AUS in favour of TG series 12 tonight. Nearly lost my lunch when Jeremy rolled out his "stealth" Renault semi.

Win for us!

One Iota got a mention in the RR river crossing.

:D

Cheers
Simon

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Originally Posted by solmanic

Nearly lost my lunch when Jeremy rolled out his "stealth" Renault semi.

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That lorrying malarkey is such a laugh.

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Originally Posted by solmanic

Not so sure about Top Gear UK - there are NO other writers credits. There's a researcher and a few producers but Jeremy, James & Richard may actually write all their own material - they are all reasonably good writers after all. Also quite a lot of their on camera banter is relatively unscripted and has just kind of evolved from good chemistry.

BTW - I actually skipped TG-AUS in favour of TG series 12 tonight. Nearly lost my lunch when Jeremy rolled out his "stealth" Renault semi.

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Actually I think they have a number of writers. I listen to a podcast called Gareth Jones on Speed and one of the contributors is Richard Porter, on of the writers for UK Top gear. He also runs a website called sniff petrol which is a favourite of mine. :) From that site you'll see the quirky humor from TG. Also, he has a HSV clubbie as his drive (they are Vauxall VXR's there I think) and he loves it. I must say I think the only time I'd actually want to own a Holden would be if I lived in the UK too... bizzarely.

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Originally Posted by MarknDeb

G i think they should make Morrison a compare on the show, he was good.

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the same comment was made in our household

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Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Anybody notice how often Mercedeses are featured? Nice that they're willing to cough up the test drives, but getting just a little one-eyed.

I worked out what's wrong with the track shots -

- The sound of the engines should be louder than the commentary.
- All of the shots of the track are shot a lens size or two too wide and everything is too bright and too clean (exposure across the frame).

The car is always fully in the frame and you can see lots detail. Really, who cares? I want it to look fast, and one of the ways that you make a car look fast is make it look as if the camera operator can't keep it in the frame.

One of the great joys of TGUK is how much effort they put into making it look good. TGAU looks like an episode of Burke's Backyard.

At least the boys are getting more comfortable with the job. Still, they don't exactly come across as total unapologetic revheads, which is what I want to see.

Cheers
Simon

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I remember Quiggers saying that TGUK cost something like $1,000,000/episode to get the look right.

I think he said, in his opinion it had the best production values of any show on TV.

With the shooting of the track sequences, how much of a difference does the medium used make ?
ie. video vs film vs HDDV (which I think is all that SBS and the ABC use now ?? I know my mate here had to buy a new HDDV cam so that he could continue to supply footage to the ABC)

Well ... last night's effort won't please the Toyo fans will it .........:twisted:

Well personally I reckon the aussie version is good. The shots from the test track are lacking though, they don't give you a sense of where the tracks goes. Maybe some shots from higher up around the corners or something would help.

As for the route taken last night, it's tougher than it looks even without the rainforest. Those corrugations can shake a car to bits quicksmart, the dirt gets in and wears parts, and the whole lot is much tougher terrain than the majority of owners would ever take on.
Good job TGA, keep it up!;)

I thought it was funny last night when Waz said how the cruiser is the king off the road and rightly so, but not the Lexus, now i might be mistaken but isnt the Lexus version just a 200 series base with some more goodies added on. So in saying that then the 200 series wouldnt be much better.

Go the rangie :D

Well - I suppose you could say that the RR won - if you call that a test.

Other than the little bit of driving through the creek bed - I've driven the same roads in a dunnydore - more than once, and without problems.

There's another post on here where people are bagging the DVD's put out with one of the 4WD magazines - at least when they do a "comparison" on those DVD's, they actually compare the vehicles and give their findings. You know - a few minor details like fuel consumption, actual off road ability, luggage space etc would be a start.

If you were considering buying one of these vehicles and wanted to form some sort of opinion based on last night's Top Gear, about all that you would have learned is that the Lexus V8 guzzles fuel (surprise, surprise) and lets in a bit of dust if you don't actually understand how air-conditioning works and don't know how to use the vents properly, and you're the type of tosser who sits right up the a$$ of the vehicle in front on a dirt road.

Anyway - it was better than watching Australian Idol.