Survivalist Pro
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In Mongolia, the contestants each had about five square miles to themselves. What is this? That doesn't include the buffer between their plot and other contestants' space. There was at least four miles between the participants' plots of land.
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Read More »Locations also need more than just space. Some locations have the land but not resources, such as fresh water or edible plants. For example, the production would love to film in Transylvania, but “every time we’ve scouted it, it just does not have any of the resources or the land,” Witt said. During pre-production, the team narrows a list of possibilities to three or four locations, and then “we do a pretty aggressive scout using fixers who can feed us a lot of information about the resources,” he said. That includes finding out critical information, like whether or not there might be hunting and fishing restrictions based on the time of year. That process narrows the list to two locations, and the production—including survival experts, executive producers, and production management—go check them out. One practical concern is the location of the “production hub”: the crew’s base camp. In Vancouver Island, Witt told me, “We had the luxury of cabins our production crew could stay in that had wifi access. It would be a 15-minute boat ride to where the closest participant was, but we still had that infrastructure—we still had power and running water.” That was not the case for season five. “Mongolia didn’t have anything like that. So we had to bring in a yurt village. We built yurt for the entire production crew; we had to bring in all of our food, all of our drinkable water. We had to bring in satellites for wifi and generators for power,” he said. “It was our most expensive season to date for all of those reasons, and just logistically very challenging.” Among the challenges: “a local wild cow ran into our craft services tent and was eating Pringles, and knocked the whole thing over. It was definitely a wild experience for the production as well as for the participants.” But the challenge, he thinks, was worth it for what ends up on screen. “It feels so much different than Vancouver Island and even Patagonia,” Witt said.
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Read More »So I wondered if the production chose locations that are very challenging, making it impossible to survive, alone, for extended periods of time, in order to prevent one season from dragging on for years and years. Witt told me that, in fact, the opposite was true: “We were trying to put people in situations that would, in fact, let them last longer.” When the show was just a concept, Witt said one of the working titles was “Survival 365,” because “there was a hope and a belief that with the right resources … they could survive for up to a year.” “Believe it or not, season one, the network budgeted for a year, and we came nowhere close to having people out there for a year. That was the initial goal,” Witt told me. “We were actually trying to find ways—and assume they could—for people to last as long as possible. Not to save money and make it so difficult that they could not. I think one of the big concerns was: what if people are gone in three weeks? Will we have enough content for 10 episodes?” Instead, in season one, people started tapping out much more rapidly than the production expected: six contestants tapped out within the first eight days. “I remember how freaked out we were when we got consecutive phone calls over the course of two days when three people had tapped out,” he said. He immediately got on a plane to Vancouver Island “because we were really worried that the season and the whole show were going to fall apart and we weren’t going to be able to make it.” They did: the next person to drop out lasted 39 days, and the winner, Alan Kay, eventually survived for 56 days. “We’ve always picked locations that are not so extreme that it would ruin our ability to make a show. And safety as well: We don’t want to put people in a situation where they’re not only trying to survive, they’re trying to not die by extreme predators or weather or something,” Witt said.
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