Cardiff To Costa Rica : Journey Of A Lifetime
‘Journey of a Lifetime’: This factual series, comprising six half
hour episodes, reveals the at times heartbreaking and often
uplifting stories of 34 people trekking through the Costa Rican
Rainforest in aid of the charity Marie Curie. Each has a personal
reason for embarking on the adventure, but all must work
together to complete the journey of a lifetime.
In April 2016 a group of charity fundraisers will leave the Marie
Curie Hospice in Penarth and travel to Costa Rica to embark on
an eight day trek up volcanoes and through rainforest, over some
treacherous terrain, with the aim of raising more than £100,000
between them.
Some are trekking in memory of a loved one, others want to push
themselves to their limits, and every member of the team wants
to raise money for a fantastic cause.
Last year Tracey and Liam Maton lost their brother Craig to
cancer. Craig had been cared for by the team at Marie Curie,
so now Tracey and Craig want to help other families like
themselves. For them the trek will be particularly hard, because
they’ll be marking Craig’s birthday while they’re in Costa Rica.
For Bryan Gunton and Dave Went this trek will be third time
lucky. The two friends met on a Marie Curie hike across the
Sahara, and later went on to complete a trek along the Great Wall
of China. The pair has tales of the trials and tribulations that
trekkers face on these charity journeys and they’ll be integral to
the success of this latest challenge.
While Gina Burke knows better than most why this adventure
is so important. Gina works for Marie Curie and sees, on a daily
basis, the difference fundraising makes to the charity.
Tracey, Liam, Bryan, Dave, Gina and the rest of the trekkers will
be joined on their journey by a crew from Made In Cardiff, who
will join them as they face their journey of a lifetime.
In part one of the series the audience will meet the trekkers, and
watch them setting off on their journey of a lifetime. In parts
two, three, four and five they’ll be facing the rainforest terrain
and volcanoes of Costa Rica, before returning to Cardiff in the
final episode where they will reflect on their exploits.
What We Want
We are looking for support to help make this series look and sound as good as it can.
Natalie and Mariclare are raising £3,300 each for Marie Curie to attend the trek and the commission received from
Made Television has contributed to our financial target. Both of us have raised the minimum amount required
to secure our places on the trek, so we will be going. However, having donated 100% of the commission for the
programme on getting onto the trek, we are having to use our own personal resources to undergo filming.
We have some incredible terrain to cover and want to capture it all using the best kit for the job. We will be ziplining
through the rainforest, climbing waterfalls and swimming in some amazing locations as well as climbing 4 volcanoes.
We already have a Canon C100mk2 and a GoPro4 (provided by GoPro). We are hoping to find the following resources
to help.
- Rode Link Radio Mics
- a good trekking tripod with fluid video head ie Safari R1100,
Gitzo or 3leggedthing.
- wide to telephoto lens for Canon EF fit - ie Canon 28-300
-light weight carrying solution - ie fstopgear Kashmir UL
We will be able to credit all supporters on the final production
and will also sharing details of equipment donations on our social
networks along with many photos of equipment in action.
Who Are We
Natalie Clements is a camera operator who has freelanced
for a range of clients in the creative and broadcast
industries. From filming daily current affairs to shooting
first person perspective interactive games, Natalie prides
herself on her adapting shooting abilities using a range of
equipment, from night vision to action cameras to high end
film cameras.
Currently Natalie shoots and edits content for Made
Televsion, Channel 4 and Hibu, in her spare time she is
passionate about visually exploring unsung and some
popular tourist locations around South Wales with plans
to extend her adventures to the rest of the world, having
already explored Israel and planning to trek the Sahara
with her camera and then onto Costa Rica to shoot this 6
part series.
Made Television is a network of local TV stations, with 4
stations currently broadcasting in Cardiff, Bristol, Leeds
and Tyne and Wear. Under the Made umbrella, each
station produces a minimum of 14 hours local content
each week and shares their less regional content with one
another. Both Natalie and Mariclare currently work for
Made TV and have secured a 6 part series with the station
to broadcast across all of the channels and each channels
online catch up service.
With each local reach as follows
Cardiff - 177,206
Bristol - 252,595
Leeds - 288,312
Tyne and Wear - 235,483
Total Reach - 953,596
Mariclare Carey-Jones has had a wonderful and varied
career in television and radio, working as a presenter
and onscreen reporter. It is a job that has taken her to
the far reaches of Panama, Antigua and Thailand, via
European cities like London, Amsterdam and Zurich.
Along the way she has met some amazing people and has
had the opportunity to tell some incredible stories; from
terrorism, crime and undercover filming, to sport, show
business and even affairs of the heart.
Having spent 18 months getting behind the scenes
learning more about the technical journey of producing
longer form programmes she stepped back into the
limelight as an onscreen investigative reporter on the
BBC’s Wales Report. A few months later she co-hosted the
launch show on Made In Cardiff TV and now Mariclare
presents a nightly arts, culture and lifestyle show for the
channel called What’s Occurrin’ Cardiff? and is currently
in pre-production for 2 new documentary series for Made
Television
Contact Details
Natalie Clements
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 07887742508
Twitter: @natclementsuk
web: natalieclements.co.uk