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Fabio

Thu Mar 12 2009, 10:52AM

Registered Member #122 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148

Hi guys!

me and some other coilers were "selected volunteer" for become competitors the TV show "Incredibile!".

the show was originally intended to be a competition between 6 different (and really strange!) hobbies but unfortunately the script was changed many times to make room for singers, actors and many others "television fillers" and the hobbies's shows was shortened on 3 minutes each; for worse, the show was in live broadcast so we had really little time to mount and dismount, high possibility of wrong shots, and pratically no chances to fit up BIG coils.

the results was a really disaster: too low audience to retain the program (3.189.000 viewers, 12,54% of share), the TV show was cancelled and this was the first and the last episode!!!

anyhow, this is our short piece

Ciao!
Fabio.

RayeR

Thu Mar 12 2009, 01:55PM

Registered Member #333 Joined: Mon Mar 20 2006, 06:02PM
Location: Czech Republic
Posts: 45

Hm, such commercial action suxx. So I rather go to spark on local teslathon with friends, where's planty of time for every couil, no stress, relax... :)

Sulaiman

Thu Mar 12 2009, 03:13PM

Registered Member #162 Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 3140

THAT WAS GREAT ! THANKS !

WELL DONE GUYS.

Hope you can have some more fun,,,,and maybe make some MONEY too ?

Good Luck to you !

Mads Barnkob

Fri Mar 13 2009, 02:10PM

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Posts: 1968

Wonderful interference from the SGTC :D

Austin

Fri Mar 13 2009, 10:08PM

Registered Member #1169 Joined: Wed Dec 12 2007, 09:16AM
Location: Portland OR
Posts: 251

i was just thinking the same thing lol. you really had the cameras going for a bit.

Tesladownunder

Sun Mar 22 2009, 05:01PM

Registered Member #10 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
Posts: 1424

Well done. Must have been a challenge to set up quietly in a couple of minutes. Still 3 million viewers is one big audience. They've shown the Tesla coil and so it doesn't matter that the show closes.

This was my Tesla contribution to Italian TV a couple of months back.
Also on my site with lots of other languages that ran it. I particularly liked the Italian one for it's rockin' soundtrack.

Fabio

Sun Mar 22 2009, 07:25PM

Registered Member #122 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148

Well done. Must have been a challenge to set up quietly in a couple of minutes

Of course, we previously prepared everything on the tables and under the tables, all cables was unrolled at the exact lenght required and tied togheter with cable ties, all connectors on the cable and on the powerbox was labeled to avoid confusion, all tables and all big items was on wheels, everything was previously switched ON and double checked to avoid possible problems during the live broadcast..... everithing should be prepared and ready to use in less than 80 seconds!

we have done it without particular problems, in fact, everything was easy and neither the setup nor the live show was a problem; unfortunately after our show we had a two hours "endurance test" on the first seats of the public whit tens of kilowatt of lights directed against us and no drinking water, but this was part of the game!!!

Still 3 million viewers is one big audience. They've shown the Tesla coil and so it doesn't matter that the show closes.

3 millions viewers is a nice result for an ordinary TV show, but "Incredibile!" was on air on the first italian channel, in live broadcast and during the peak and the expected results was about two to three times higher!

They've shown the Tesla coil and so it doesn't matter that the show closes.

Isn't true!
There was some other strange technical hobbies in table for the next episodes and some of my friends was in the competitors list for the following weeks!
But unfortunately the program was closed and there are no more possibility to see amateur nuclear fusion, amateur chemistry and amateur laser shows/holograms in TV!

Renesis

Sun Mar 22 2009, 09:37PM

Registered Member #2028 Joined: Mon Mar 16 2009, 08:13PM
Location: Norway
Posts: 319

I dont like these commersial glamour freakshows. If they really wanted people to see and be amazed by tesla coils and the other unusual hobbys, they should have made a documentary instead. They could have filmed at a teslathon, for example. I'd watch that, but not this.

It was brave of you to participate though, the risk of anything going wrong must have been sky-high.

Tesladownunder

Sun Mar 22 2009, 11:39PM

Registered Member #10 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
Posts: 1424

Renesis wrote ...

... If they really wanted people to see and be amazed by tesla coils and the other unusual hobbys, they should have made a documentary instead. They could have filmed at a teslathon, for example. I'd watch that, but not this.

I don't agree. I have now had 8 TV documentary's shown made about my Tesla stuff and have been seen in 17 countries. None of them were based on a simple Tesla coil. All had some unique angle or element of the unusual or dramatic or perceived personal risk.
A Teslathon is about people and their Tesla coils, technical details and spark length. I have never been to one but they don't strike me as interesting enough to Joe Public to attend personally or take them away from their other competing prime time TV shows.
On the other hand give them a short article about an eccentric backyard scientist who appears to be taking a crazy risk with half million volt, 6 foot sparks coming to within a few inches of his face without flinching, with clear shots of everything and a few other dramatic and risky looking strange things, give it a name (Electrickery) and you might get Joes attention for a 60 seconds. (30 secs in the US!) The technology is not of as much interest since we are surrounded by technology we can't understand. It is the human interface that people understand and can relate to.
I have various clips here which illustrate that.

TDU

Fabio

Mon Mar 23 2009, 12:37AM

Registered Member #122 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148

I dont like these commersial glamour freakshows

ME TOO!

I also don't like the TV in general and i might never have imagined to be convened at a generic "meeting" with the director, discover to be finished in a screen test organized specially for coilers and the day after receiving a telephone call that warned me that i was selected as a competitor for a TV show!

this is probably the strangest part of whole story and seems incredible, but, in fact, this was exactly the name of the show!

It was brave of you to participate though, the risk of anything going wrong must have been sky-high.

Why?
We was "selected volounteer" exactly as the other competitors, all of them were a true hobbyst, no one had fully understood why they were in that place and nobody cares about television, we simply played with coils (as other competitors played with their hobbies) and probably if something gone spoiled would make the show more spectacular with sparks and smoke!

Ciao!
Fabio.

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