Carib Great Race participants, supporters and sponsors all turned up in their numbers to view the premiere of Carib Great Race 2015—The Movie—at MovieTowne, Port-of-Spain on Monday night.
Members from many of this year’s Carib Great Race participants were in attendance including Vortex and Total Monster, who made it a hat-trick of titles at this year’s edition on August 22. Sponsorship and events manager at Carib Colin Murray, along with former West Indies wicketkeeper Deryck Murray also witnessed the movie.
Produced by Marcus Gomez, the one hour, five-minute film told a story about the thrills and spills of the Great Race.
Gomez, who believes the movie was his best effort to date, says the goal is always to make the Great Race an international event. He hopes the movie will help achieve this goal.
Gomez said: “We have always been striving to make the race an international event. Every year we learn and try to bring different styles. We would like to improve each year. We added a host and commentary to give it an international touch.”
Gino Fusco was the commentator, while Carly Coutts served as the host of the movie.
The Great Race movie will earn exposure, as it will show at the Super Boat International event for the first time in November in Key West, Florida.
Gomez, who has been involved with the production of the film for the past four years, said making a movie about the Great Race is sometimes challenging.
“It is a tricky thing to cover because of the long distance (approximately 103 miles) of the race. We used two helicopters with different flight routes to get as many boats as possible.”
Gomez explained that most of the boats had cameras. Some of the boats were equipped with cameras inside the boat which allowed the viewers to capture the facial expressions of the participants, their difficulties along the course and the reaction of participants when they completed the race.
Gomez and his team also used different effects to grab the attention of the audience. One of those effects was slowing down the boats while in mid-air.
“The boats travel fast, so when you use the super slow motion you can appreciate the height the boats reach and get a great effect.” The movie will be uploaded on YouTube in one month.
“We have always been striving to make the race an international event. Every year we learn and try to bring different styles. We would like to improve each year. We added a host and commentary to give it an international touch.”
—Marcus Gomez