Please show us Crew berthing, Captains Cabin, Anchoring, Dry and Cold stores as well during your walk through's. It really helps us to understand how these yachts function as both a home and moving hotel. How the crew work and live on a yacht has a direct impact on the services they can provide to the guests.
I'm not sure about this walk through, but many times, since this boat is in full use and completely crewed, not to mention this was at a boat show, the crews quarters, galley, and captain's areas were most likely off limits due to being used for the normal operation of the boat. So that's most likely the reason that they didn't show those areas.
I feel compelled to apologise for my honesty. This is meant as constructive criticism. I hope it is taken that way. This is a bad walkthrough. I don't know if it was the videographer or the editor, but rarely did we actually get a proper shot of the rooms in this yacht. Many were completely missed. We would get a few closeups of details and loads of face time with whoever was talking, but we are not here to 'watch' talking, we are here to 'see' the yacht. Talking can happen while the camera actually looks at the room they are talking about. Do a full walking pan of the entire room, every time. Show us the bathrooms, again full pan. These can be shot as B roll and added in post with voice-over. 'Cutting' to each new room breaks the viewer's understanding of 'where' the rooms are in the yacht, it does not give us an intuitive flow of the walking space. It is better to actually show a walk from one room to the next. If you feel you cannot do this then give us a few seconds of screenshot of the general arrangement of each deck you are showing so we can visualize the layout. There are many things which are crucial to a good walkthrough that were simply omitted here. The quality of a yacht experience has more to do with the quality of a crew than it does with the yacht itself. Pursuant to this, the facilities and space devoted to the crew is crucially important. A good walkthrough MUST show the galley and store rooms. It should show the crew galley/lounge and ideally show at least one of the cabins. Number of crew cabins should be explicitly stated. We should get at least a glimpse of the captain's cabin. We want to see the laundry facilities. We want to know how easily the crew can traverse the yacht, do they have an easy connection to the guest cabins without walking through the guest areas for instance? What sort of 'toys' does the yacht carry? What is the size of the tender it can carry? Does it have more than one? Where are they stored? What sort of gear storage is available abord? It is nice to show the anchor station as there more than anywhere is the ruggedness of the vessel on display. Some numbers MUST be explicitly stated. Clearly state how many passengers the yacht is rated for. Tell us how many crew. The range of a yacht is an absolutely essential detail to not miss, ideally including the fuel consumption at economical cruise speed (state what that speed is). Finally the point of these videos for the yacht builders and designers is to show off the capabilities of their company. Do include a bit more talk about their brand (specifically repeating their name) so they stick in the mind of the viewer. We want them happy to show off their workmanship so they will let us have more walkthroughs. Including all this will make your video longer, but it will NOT detract from your viewers, rather the contrary. I sincerely hope this is taken in the constructive spirit it was meant.
The shipyard CCO, the Senior Project Architect and the founder of the design studio were all onboard during this yacht tour. What an opportunity to really explore and discuss in depth the yacht's build process, technical developments and the like. Instead, we were bombarded with frivolous details about the soft furnishings, children's toys and random pieces of art without seeing any of the yacht's technical areas (the only exception being a cursory glimpse of the engine room). The drone shots ever-so-fleetingly showed twin gull wing doors in the bow for tender storage, a sunken ground tackle handling area was mentioned, yet we saw none of this on the 'tour', and of the galley and crew mess, there was no sight or mention. As was made abundantly clear to everyone by the fact that changes in interior decor were made to a brand new boat by its new owner, the interior soft furnishings are the least interesting aspect of a yacht because they are so subject to personal taste, whim, fancy and current trends. Yet the walkthrough was almost entirely dedicated to the soft furnishings. Please show us the entire boat, not just the bric-a-brac of the owner's wife and some of her children's soon-to-be-outgrown toys. So frustrating !
We missed all the galley, crew quarters and some bits and pieces here and there (like day-heads). ❤ the out-takes though! What a fabulous vessel - I can see why the owner would not want to chart it out!!!
That tree explanation was the most 'artistic' nonsense I've ever heard. A tree? Lol. Ok. 'The beds are like those of the lions paw! Big and massive, soft and tough'...marketing people
