Jeff Probst takes you on a tour of the show's "base camp," including the production office, unit department, medical clinic and more.
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Jeff Probst: Whenever we're shooting Survivor on location, the area that we all live and work in, we refer to as basecamp. The formation, the layout of basecamp may change from location to location but the departments that are in basecamp and the idea of basecamp always remains the same. It's basically the nerve center of where everything happens, everything it takes to put a show like this on the air where you're halfway around the world, including transportation. I'm just gonna pop in on some of the different departments and give you a little taste of what goes on in a day.
Anything that happens at basecamp must go through the production office. This is the nerve center of the nerve center. It's the middle of lunch. We're going to pop in and a lot of people are gone. We'll make our way over to the queen bee of the nerve center. Two of our producers, Matt and David. What are you guys doing here, anyway?
Matt: We're hiding from the heat.
David: The AC is out. This is the only place we have.
Probst: Are you literally working on the next episode?
David: Absolutely.
Matt: Show two.
Probst: Jocelyn, we're doing a little tour of basecamp. Give me the 411 on what the production office does for Survivor.
Production Office
Jocelyn: The better question is, what doesn't the Production Office do? We're kind of mission control. Everything going on on this show somehow runs through the production office one way or the other. It kind of deals with what we're shooting but also kind of bigger picture stuff. We're the office that liaises with our offices back in Los Angeles and Sydney. We are the office that deals with when people arrive and when people leave. We handle all their accommodation, all their travel. If we need things shipped in from the states, if we can't get something we need for a challenge, that basically runs through here.
Unit
Probst: Without Unit we wouldn't be here. That's the bottom line. They create this entire world.
Dick Becker: Unit is responsible for all the facilities and logistics for the show. If you want to go and film somewhere, somebody has got to put all the power and the water and the fuel and the buildings and air conditioning and the Gatorade.
Probst: One of the nice things about being in China is we do have hotel rooms with toilets and showers. Down at basecamp you have to use portable toilets. So, because we have Western toilets we have to make sure our locals know how to use a Western toilet, so we put it in Chinese. We even have pictures. They use a different type of toilet.
Medical
Probst: Another department we could not live without is our medical department. What's going on? Don't run. We're doing a day in the life and showing people what goes on. Medical department, you guys take care of sick Survivors if they need be. You also take care of a crew of about 400.
David (physician): That's right.
Probst: How prepared is this place to handle basic emergencies?
David: We're very prepared. We've got a full team here. We've got two doctors, four paramedics and two registered nurses. We've got a small emergency department, intravenous lines and other medications and a bunch of expert people who are basically willing to do anything to save someone's life.
Catering
Probst: A tour of our basecamp would not be complete if we didn't stop in catering. Everybody is hungry all the time. Catering makes about a 1000 meals a day which is roughly 100,000 meals while we're on location. Keeping everybody happy and changing up the menu is a monumental task.
Marine
Probst: We also have, as you might guess, a massive Marine department. All kinds of boats and crews and captains that are responsible for getting us to locations and back. We'll just pop in. Meaghen doesn't like to be on camera, I'll ignore her. Just showing you the scope, this is just a little size or shot of how many boats we have. All of them are named, who they take care of, challenge, contestants, grips, medical, dreamteam, all that stuff. When and where they're going. All of these departments run nonstop.
Transportation
Probst: This season we also have a lot of driving we have to do because some of our challenges are inland and not on the water so we have a huge transportation department. They are all local drivers.
Probst (talking to Matt and David): How'd that episode two go?
Matt: Great.
Probst: Who goes home?
David: Uhhh, I don't remember.
Production Design
Probst: If there's one thing Survivor is known for, it is the look of the show. That responsibility falls to our production designers and the producer, Dan Munday. Dan, we're taking a tour of basecamp. Explain what you guys do.
Dan: We incorporate the local culture into the show for the looks, for the challenges, for the rewards, the Tribal Council. Make you feel like you're stepping back into time in that culture.
Challenges Production
Probst: This is the last department I'm going to show you. This is the challenge department. This is where all the challenges get created. John Kirhoffer, challenges is responsible for?
John: For the creation, the development and the producing of all the challenges. This is how we do it. First we come over and scribble an idea up on the board. Most of these [ideas] we come up with back in Los Angeles. Then when we get here we implement them. We come up with a basic design. Our production designer, Dan Munday, will come over and see what's doable. Once we have that done, if we like it, we'll put it on the grid. Give it a name, The Bollocks, The Human Gong, whatever. The Great Wall of Zhelin is one we're working on right now. We just put it into a show, we put that one into Episode 14. Then once we have it in the show, Dan makes a concept drawing for it so that everybody that sees a concept drawing will get the whole story immediately. Dan and his guys go out in the field. They get all the lumber, they get all the stuff. Dan does all the technical drawings and designs up how all the bits and pieces work. Designs all the puzzles. We go out, the boys such as your brother, will then build the sets and we go out, dreamteam tests, rehearses and finally we shoot it. And (sings)... we have the greatest show in television.
Probst: That's going to conclude the tour of base camp. I didn't hit every department. I missed some key areas because people weren't available and I didn't touch at all on reality which are the guys and women that are living out on the beaches, everyday. We're back here at basecamp. We can stop in and get some lunch. We can pop in an air conditioned office. If you are a reality producer or a reality shooter or doing audio out on the beach, they are long hard days and it's also a part of the show that we're just not as comfortable showing you a behind the scenes because that's part of our magic of our show but I want to acknowledge those guys. To not acknowledge them would be a huge omission.
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