Welcome To The

The Boatplane Film Tours

Introduction (German)---KoStatusQuo (German) - - - -The Route ----Mission - - - Contact- - Global Communication

Our Favourite Work?

Discover and Help to Preserve Nature at its Finest !

You are invited - not to watch, but to take part in obviously one of the nicest working holidys you didn´t even think of.

We take a trip around the world - to see places, no tourist agency would ever send us to. (The friendly agent has probably never heard of them - more likely: they may even have no names!) - -

We restore a historic boatplane (offers are on the desk for 2 Catalina PBYs, alternatively: Grumman Mallard). Why do we do this? Mission - - - - - -

We combine the freedom of a yacht with the excitement of flying, we connect the the luxury of modern flying with the overwhelming impression of cowboy and trampers life in nature, we discover the ultimate freedom on water and air, we live between camping under airplane wings and luxury hotel life. On the way, there is work: good, hard, beautiful work with a message: we´ll film the Natural Sites of the UNESCO World Heritage. We stop werever it´s nice to be - to dive, relax, beach, to see really deserted locations and chill out. We live in a flying yacht, see exotic places, no airline would dare to take us to. And we´ll stop to take a good lunch after a nice shower at the most beautiful hotels along the coasts.

 

And on all of this, we´ll produce a documentary series of 13 film episodes:

Format:
Primetime documentary series of thirteen 45- minute films.

 

Content:
Nature Sights, cultural highlights, topics around "Life Alongside Water". Documentation from air and from water of landscape, ecologic and social change. We took the highlights of the routes from the UNESCO World Nature Heritage. (see below for route details)
"The Making of...": The authentic stories of boatplane adventures is being documented, and– optional highlights alongside the trip are used background for brand- promotion / advertising stories dramatically highlighted and used as an advertising / promotion campaign.

 

Route:
1. Pilot project: around the Mediterranian, special about Aeolian Islands
2- 13. Tour: Geographic highlights around the world. Highlights at the UNESCO World Nature Heritage, as far as located alongside water. Probably 2 circumnavigations due to weather conditions in summer and winter on northern and southern hemisphere: Route Details.

 

Positioning, Sponsoring, Marketing:
We know the success of Thalassa on TV5, SlideShows on bike tours around Patagonia, the Cameltrophy, the circumnavigation of Picard in a balloon in 30.000ft, sponsored by Breitling, "In 80 Days around the World" as a spleeny betting by Jules Verne, the charme of plane-yards in "Steelyard Blues" with Donald Sutherland and the fiouriously roaring starengines in the "Battle of Midway". They let the cinema chairs vibrate in the 70ies. Phantastic Photos in GEO by Yann A. Bertrand ... but until now there was no Boatplane Circumnavigation... a last big adventure. According to the documentary character decisions on special topics are with the broadcasting station. Since Nov.2000 storyboard research on specific boatplane stories is going on. Additional topics of social (Médicins sans Frontières), scientific (MIT, Smithsonian Institute) or ecologic field may be contributed. This enables an ethic responsible positioning of the sponsors through the project.

The project is driven by 3 groups:

1.) TV- broadcasting / publishing house
for world- wide distribution, i.e. Discovery Channel, Science, Nature, National Geographic, Elsevier...
2.) Sponsors
Consumer (LVMH, Oxbow, TAG Heuer) Media (Time Warner, AOL,...) IT/ Communication (MCI, IBM, Apple, Lotus... ). Vacant advertising places: Wings, bulk of the plane, product placement within the series.
3.) (Possibly..) the UNESCO itself. (Work on aplication is going on)
Please check out detailed Marketing Assets!

 

Schedule:
Treatments, travel preparation: 6-9 months
Circumnavigation 1,5 years, post- production / broadcasting after ca. 1,5 years

 

 

The Boatplane

Historic types, restoration
Just as the famous 10-engine- "Do-X" and the "Goose" of H.Hughes most are singing "Steelyard Blues". Except the successful Canadair CL215, which still is on duty as waterbombers, most historic boatplanes have disappeared. Except "Catalina PBY", Grumman "Mallard" and "Albatross". Offers are on the desk for several planes of either types.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stories:

"The Making Of... " will take an essential part with the storyboards. Since the boatplane is the "hero" of the trips, it will give backbone to each story, i.e. 10 -15 minutes within every part of the series.

In addition we are in the process of research on treatments of the working title "Living Alongside Water". It will cover stories about boat-building from yachts to tankers, fishing on small one-hand boats and trawlers, and documentaries about how tourism has changed life.
We combine the freedom of a yacht with the excitement of flying, we connect the the luxury of modern flying with the overwhelming impression outback campers life in nature, we discover the ultimate freedom on water and air, we live between camping under airplane wings and luxury hotel life. We stop werever it´s nice to be - to dive, relax, beach, to see really deserted locations and chill out. We live in a flying yacht, see exotic places, no airline would dare to take us to. And we´ll stop to take a good lunch after a nice shower at the most beautiful hotels along the coasts.

 

Sights:

Cultural highlights, topics around "Life Alongside Water". We take the highlights of the routes from the UNESCO World Nature Heritage. (see below for route details)

 

Route:

We pick you up at any international airport and take you wherever you want to go: Otherwise like on cuiseships we don´t lock you in for days - we fly to the nicest spots directly.

Consider landing right in front of the Venice Marcus Place to take breakfast before flying on to Capri ...

Thus we minimize travelling time an maximize the genuine stays at the luxurious beach hotels, golf courses, wildlife resorts, ...

1. Pilot project: around the Mediterranian, special about Aeolian Islands
2- 13. Tour: Landscape highlights around the world. Highlights at the UNESCO World Nature Heritage, as far as located alongside water. Probably 2 circumnavigations due to weather conditions in summer and winter on northern and southern hemisphere: Routes / Suggestions / Details.

What You´ll Get:

  • Luxurious travelling in a persoanally chartered boatplane with your familiy or friends ( only 8-10 seats are available on each tour)
  • Unique combination of luxury - hotel stops and
  • A last big adventure: outback camping / picknick on a deserted island
  • Phantastic pictures like in GEO by Yann A. Bertrand - nobody may have been at these places or even seen these pictures before You
  • Inidividual travel schedule, including a highlite according Your favourate hobby (golf, sailing, ..)

 

Project Management

Thomas Fuegner, Dipl.Kfm., Munich, Germany

Tel. (+49) 89 / 12 41 93 68
E-Mail: Thomas @ Fuegner.de