Temps d'aventura
Encyclopedia
Temps d'aventura is a programme
in Catalan made by Televisió de Catalunya
- the Catalan public television corporation - dedicated to open-air sports or adventure sports or outdoor activities. It was first broadcast during the 2002 season following on from other programmes that had dealt with the same subject -L'aventura (1993–2000) - and winter sports - Temps de neu (1985 - ).
It is a weekly programme and is broadcast on Thursday evenings by Canal 33 from May to November and can also be watched on the international channel TVCi. Most programmes are repeated over the weekend.
Since the 2003 season it has been broadcast in stereo
.
From the 2008 season onwards it has been broadcast in 16:9
format and with subtitles in Catalan for the deaf. The DTTV broadcast also includes English subtitles. This makes it the first programme produced in-house by Televisió de Catalunya that can be watched in English.
TV3
is Televisió de Catalunya's first and main channel. All the people of Catalonia
and Catalan Countries
is potential viewer.
The reports are about activities that take place in the mountains, in the air or on water and are designed to highlight the activities of people who do the sport.
Most of the reports can be categorised into one of these four general groups:
The programme includes or has included the following sections:
and this has increased over the seasons.
It started in 2002 when the programme opened its own web page
.
In 2003 video streaming began and has continued apart from short interruptions until now. It was only the second TV3 programme to incorporate this.
In 2006 the podcasting
of reports began, making it the first TV3 programme and one of the first in Europe to offer this option.
In 2008 a streaming and a podcast version subtitled in English was begun. There is also a streaming version with subtitles for the deaf. Altogether, the programme can be accessed on the Internet in 6 different ways:
In 2008 the programme also incorporated a map browser using Google Maps
which allows users to zoom in on the geographical area where the reports were made and makes it possible to view the complete report broadcast by the programme.
In 2009 simplifies the subtitles system. The programme upload reports to YouTube
to be available the automatic translation to many languages. The quality improve and a HD
720 version is available too.
Most viewer participation is carried out via the web page: photo, video
, competitions, posts on the forum, answers to questions, etc.
Since 2006, and together with Open Natura, it has produced a limited number of mountain bikes painted in the programme's logo
and its colours and can be won by participants in one of the competitions.
In 2007, together with Temps de Neu, it produced a wall calendar with photos of the participants in one of the competitions.
In 2007, together with the publishing house Cossetània Edicions, it published the book "Racons. 22 excursions on foot and mountain bike sent in by the programme's viewers" ISBN 978-84-9791-285-3
In 2008 the initiative was repeated with the book Racons 08. ISBN 978-84-9791-375-1
The programme has also organised several trips and an orienteering
course involving viewers from the programme.
It has also produced Buff decorated with the programme's colours and logo.
2003: prize for the best state
documentary
at the VI Ciudad de Santander International Sport Film Festival for the documentary Blind Summit, broadcast on 7 July 2002. The film shows the experiences of a group of blind climbers while climbing Mt Aneto
.
2004: at the 22nd edition of the International Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films of Torelló the plaque of the Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada
for the "best film by a Spanish producer
" was awarded to Jaume Altadill for Important things walk slowly a biography about two of the pioneers of Catalan mountaineering
: Josep Manuel Anglada and Jordi Pons.
2006: at the 24th edition of the International Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films of Torelló
the plaque of the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sports and Climbing for the "best film by a Spanish producer" was awarded to Jimi Pujol for El Cavall Bernat a re-creation of the first ascent of this needle at Montserrat
, broadcast on 27 October 2005, the 70th anniversary of this feat.
The prize is awarded to the film that is best adapted for television.
Prize-winning films are:
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
in Catalan made by Televisió de Catalunya
Televisió de Catalunya
Televisió de Catalunya is Catalonia's public broadcasting network, officially composed by eight channels: TV3, 33, Super3, 3/24, 3XL, Esport 3, TV3 HD and TV3CAT. K3 was replaced by Super3 in 2009 and 300 was replaced by 3XL in 2010...
- the Catalan public television corporation - dedicated to open-air sports or adventure sports or outdoor activities. It was first broadcast during the 2002 season following on from other programmes that had dealt with the same subject -L'aventura (1993–2000) - and winter sports - Temps de neu (1985 - ).
It is a weekly programme and is broadcast on Thursday evenings by Canal 33 from May to November and can also be watched on the international channel TVCi. Most programmes are repeated over the weekend.
Since the 2003 season it has been broadcast in stereo
STEREO
STEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth...
.
From the 2008 season onwards it has been broadcast in 16:9
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
format and with subtitles in Catalan for the deaf. The DTTV broadcast also includes English subtitles. This makes it the first programme produced in-house by Televisió de Catalunya that can be watched in English.
TV3
TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...
is Televisió de Catalunya's first and main channel. All the people of Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
and Catalan Countries
Catalan Countries
The Catalan term Països Catalans refers to the territories where the Catalan language is spoken.The first mentions of the term date back to the late 19th century, but it never surpassed the limits of a small circle of Catalan authors until its strictly cultural dimension became increasingly...
is potential viewer.
Contents
The programme normally consists of a report, with a duration of between 10 and 20 minutes on average, and several sections that have changed over the seasons.The reports are about activities that take place in the mountains, in the air or on water and are designed to highlight the activities of people who do the sport.
Most of the reports can be categorised into one of these four general groups:
- relatively unknown sporting activities
- profiles of outstanding sportsmen and women in different fields
- competitions
- in-house creations
The programme includes or has included the following sections:
- racons (ideas for discovering new routes)
- nius (short news items)
- i a + ... (short reports lasting 3-5 minutes)
- alerta (safety advice from the GRAE of the Firefighterss of the GeneralitatGeneralitatGeneralitat is the name of the autonomous systems of government of two of the present Spanish autonomous communities: Catalonia and the Valencian Community. The term is also used for the government of the semi-autonomous comarca of Val d'Aran, the Generalitat a l'Aran.Generalitat refers to all...
) - embat (news about water sports)
- vici-bici (news about sports involving the bicycle)
- en forma (tips for getting fit given by instructors from DiR)
- aparador (recommendations about equipment given by specialised shops)
- musical (reports accompanied by music)
- somni d'aventura (competition to win a sports trip to a place of interest)
Internet
The programme has always been closely linked to the InternetInternet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
and this has increased over the seasons.
It started in 2002 when the programme opened its own web page
Web page
A web page or webpage is a document or information resource that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext...
.
In 2003 video streaming began and has continued apart from short interruptions until now. It was only the second TV3 programme to incorporate this.
In 2006 the podcasting
Podcasting
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
of reports began, making it the first TV3 programme and one of the first in Europe to offer this option.
In 2008 a streaming and a podcast version subtitled in English was begun. There is also a streaming version with subtitles for the deaf. Altogether, the programme can be accessed on the Internet in 6 different ways:
- streaming of the programme in Catalan
- streaming of the programme in Catalan with English subtitles
- streaming of the programme in Catalan with Catalan subtitles
- streaming of the report in Catalan
- podcast of the report in Catalan
- podcast of the report in Catalan with English subtitles
In 2008 the programme also incorporated a map browser using Google Maps
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...
which allows users to zoom in on the geographical area where the reports were made and makes it possible to view the complete report broadcast by the programme.
In 2009 simplifies the subtitles system. The programme upload reports to YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
to be available the automatic translation to many languages. The quality improve and a HD
High-definition video
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...
720 version is available too.
Most viewer participation is carried out via the web page: photo, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, competitions, posts on the forum, answers to questions, etc.
Community
In addition to the television programme and its presence on the Internet, Temps d'Aventura has been involved in other initiatives which have broadened the programme's scope.Since 2006, and together with Open Natura, it has produced a limited number of mountain bikes painted in the programme's logo
Logo
A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...
and its colours and can be won by participants in one of the competitions.
In 2007, together with Temps de Neu, it produced a wall calendar with photos of the participants in one of the competitions.
In 2007, together with the publishing house Cossetània Edicions, it published the book "Racons. 22 excursions on foot and mountain bike sent in by the programme's viewers" ISBN 978-84-9791-285-3
In 2008 the initiative was repeated with the book Racons 08. ISBN 978-84-9791-375-1
The programme has also organised several trips and an orienteering
Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...
course involving viewers from the programme.
It has also produced Buff decorated with the programme's colours and logo.
Prizes
2003: Zàpping prize 2002 for the best sports programme, awarded by Teleespectadors Associats de Catalunya.2003: prize for the best state
Sovereign state
A sovereign state, or simply, state, is a state with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states. It is also normally understood to be a state which is neither...
documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
at the VI Ciudad de Santander International Sport Film Festival for the documentary Blind Summit, broadcast on 7 July 2002. The film shows the experiences of a group of blind climbers while climbing Mt Aneto
Aneto
Aneto is the highest mountain in the Pyrenees and in Aragon, and Spain's third highest mountain, reaching a height of . It lies in the Spanish province of Huesca, the northernmost of all three Aragonese provinces. It forms the southernmost part of the Maladeta massif...
.
2004: at the 22nd edition of the International Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films of Torelló the plaque of the Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada
Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada
The Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada , loctaed in the Floridablanca 84 in Barcelona, is the Spanish federation of mountain and climbing sports...
for the "best film by a Spanish producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
" was awarded to Jaume Altadill for Important things walk slowly a biography about two of the pioneers of Catalan mountaineering
Mountaineering
Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...
: Josep Manuel Anglada and Jordi Pons.
2006: at the 24th edition of the International Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films of Torelló
Torelló
Torelló is a Spanish municipality in the comarca of Osona, in the Province of Barcelona, Catalonia. As of 2009 its population was of 13,808.-Geography:...
the plaque of the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sports and Climbing for the "best film by a Spanish producer" was awarded to Jimi Pujol for El Cavall Bernat a re-creation of the first ascent of this needle at Montserrat
Montserrat
Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...
, broadcast on 27 October 2005, the 70th anniversary of this feat.
Temps d'Aventura Prize
Since 2004 the programme has sponsored a prize, which takes its name from the programme, and is awarded at the International Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films of Torelló.The prize is awarded to the film that is best adapted for television.
Prize-winning films are:
- 2004: "Hydrophilia" by Jesús Bosque. Spain
- 2005: "Dhaulagiri 1954: Argentines in the Himalayas" by Ignacio Aguirre and Romina Coronel. ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. - 2006: "GurlaMandata.com" by Johan Perrier. France
- 2007: "Patagonia Dreams" by M. Lecomte, O. Favresse, S. Villanueva and N. Favresse. Belgium.
- 2008: "Knocking on heaven's door" by Robin Kaleta. Czech RepublicCzech RepublicThe Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
.
Team
- Director: Antoni Real
- Producer: Narcís Noguera
- Production Manager:
- Anna Maria López 2009
- Pietat Gallardo (2008)
- Ester Poses (2006-2007)
- Lluís Palahí (2002-2005)
- Editor:
- Jordi Fandiño 2005
- Josep Maria Puig (2002-2006)
- Production
- Jimi Pujol 2004
- Xavier Casillanis (2008)
- Víctor Díaz (2002-2003)
Index for reports
External links
- Temps d'aventura in english with videos
- reports in HD and automatic translation in YouTube
- Temps d'aventura podcast with english subtitles in iTunes
- Temps d'aventura podcast in catalan in iTunes
- Temps d'aventura videos (in catalan)
- Temps d'aventura videos in Google Maps
- Televisió de Catalunya
- TV3 YouTube channel
- How to watch TVCi
- Catalan Broadcast Corporation