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Worthy - October 21, 2007 02:59 AM (GMT)
There is quite a bit of info on BWH so my thought is to try and make something like a BWH encylopidia! So why not search for anything possible to do with BWH.

So one else can go first posting up an article though...

Alrighty, scrap that, Im gunna post up all the BWH stuff Iv got on my computer.
Ive fogotern where ive got most of it from though lol.


They are largely unknowns but the cast of the new television series Blue Water High is set to be watched by millions of viewers around the world.
The co-production between Germany and Australia, being shot on Sydney's northern beaches, will be unveiled to international television executives at the annual programming market MIPTV, to be held in Cannes in April.
Producer Southern Star expects the 26-part series about an elite surfing academy to sell well internationally.
Blue Water High, which will air on the ABC in May, stars rookie actors Tahyna Tozzi, Kate Bell, Sophie Luck, Mara Scherzinger, Khan Chittenden, Chris Foy and Adam Saunders as teenage surfers vying for a spot on the pro circuit.
They are working alongside established names such as Nadine Garner, All Saints' Martin Lynes and television veteran Liz Burch. With its backdrop of surf, sand and sun, Blue Water High is tipped to be Australia's next big television export, with France and Britain already expressing interest.
"All those poor Europeans stuck indoors in the middle of winter will lap it up," said Garner, who plays a sports psychologist on the series.
"It looks beautiful. It's idyllic. It's Australia the way Europeans imagine Australia to be: fit young people, surf, sand and an easygoing attitude to life in a country where anything is possible and you can live your dreams."
Fifteen-year-old German schoolgirl Scherzinger, who was picked from 100 teens to play Anna, believes the series will do well in her homeland of 80 million viewers.
"I reckon they will enjoy it because there is nothing like this in Germany," she said. "The beach and surfing and sunshine is quite different from what we see on German TV. In Germany there is not even any surf."
Blue Water High has been under way in locations on Sydney's northern beaches since October and shooting finishes next month.
It marks the return of teen drama to the ABC, which has been pursuing younger viewers with the introduction of the dedicated hour of viewing for 8- to 14-year-olds between 5pm and 6pm, under the RollerCoaster banner.
It is understood to be part of a long-term strategy to lure young viewers to the ABC, which traditionally attracts an older audience.
With the core cast aged 15 to 21, Blue Water High targets the young people the ABC wants to attract.
Tozzi, 18, is probably the most recognisable face of the drama, thanks to her modelling work and friendship with Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe.
The show marks Tozzi's leap from modelling to acting and she is thrilled about the international exposure she is about to receive.
"I'm only just starting out, so the fact that it will go internationally is a great bonus for me," she said.
The 18-year-old from Cronulla in Sydney's south grew up around the beach and was involved in surf lifesaving but admits she has struggled to master surfboard riding.
"We did a two-week intensive surfing course and we've all got the bug for it now - it's addictive," she said.
In Blue Water High Tozzi plays Perri, a "spoilt little rich girl" from the Gold Coast.
So far the hardest aspect of the show has been shooting surf scenes on days when the water temperature has dropped to 15 degrees

Heres another:
Budding teen stars line up for the ride of their lives in an ABC surf soap. Sacha Molitorisz reports.
With the sun bouncing off the perfect sets at Bilgola Beach, two familiar faces are giving a bunch of young actors a pep talk. "OK, guys, listen up," Martin Lynes from All Saints tells an audience of teenagers dressed in boardies and bikinis. "It's business as usual." Lochie Daddo adds: "Don't hold back. Whoever pulls this off walks away from here a champion."
Lynes and Daddo aren't giving career advice. Instead, they're co-starring in the climactic scene from the final episode of Blue Water High, a new drama series for teens that aims to blend Heartbreak High and Home and Away.
A German-Australian co-production, it's the tale of seven 15-year-olds given the opportunity to spend 12 months at a surfing school, where their education is supplemented by intensive sports coaching. A lot is at stake. After 12 months - that is, after 26 half-hour episodes - one boy and one girl will be selected to compete on the pro-surfing tour.

It's a good idea that makes you wonder why no one has done it before. "I think they have, and I think it was called Baywatch," jokes Nadine Garner, who rounds out the cast's trio of grown-ups. "But this is about the kids as athletes rather than sex symbols. Sure, they're good-looking and they're healthy, but they're not there to be ogled. They're there in the context of the surf academy, where the sport comes first. It's about young people excelling and fulfilling their potential and working hard. There's a very positive message in it for kids."
Unlike Baywatch with its slo-mo jogging and heaving cleavage, Blue Water High is aimed at 11- to 14-year-olds. A lot is at stake also for the seven young actors filling the lead roles. Aged 15 to 21, these newcomers all have showbiz aspirations. Blue Water High might just be the perfect launching pad.
Ralph Strasser, director of the opening and closing episodes (among others), is expecting big things. "I'd be very surprised if they all didn't go on to something big," says Strasser, a veteran director of children's TV who loves to surf. "A lot of them are 18 to 20 years old and have made a decision to pursue that life. That means they're a great age to work with. They still have the enthusiasm and naivety and will get up there and try anything, but they have a skill base and drama background, so they come really well-equipped to do the job."
Some of the cast members made a splash even before diving into the breakers at Blue Water Beach, the show's fictional location. One is Tahyna Tozzi, the model and gossip mag regular often spotted on the arm of the swimmer Ian Thorpe. "Growing up in Cronulla, I lived on the beach," says Tozzi, who hopes to build a career as an actor or musician, or both. "I did a little bit of surfing. But we all did two weeks' training [in the surf] for the show."
Kate Bell, 21, is even less at home in the breakers. After growing up in Hong Kong and Armidale, Bell studied drama and journalism at Wollongong University, then landed several theatre roles and a part as Susie in Home and Away. "We've had plenty of wipe-outs," she says. "We've had a couple of injuries and been tossed around a bit. It was a little confronting at first to be working in the water, especially when you're not that familiar with it, and I've had a couple of big scenes about five kilometres from the shore."
It's just after midday. The cast and crew trudge up from the sand to the shade of a marquee for lunch. For one extra, sadly, her behind has already eaten her undersized bikini. Clearly, this is not a shoot for anyone insecure about their body. That's especially true for girls - each of the boys' board shorts contains enough fabric for about five of the girls' swimmers.
"I'd never done any modelling so this is a big change," Bell says. "Having to wear swimmers all the time, it was like, 'Can I have some pants? Or how about a big bag?' " Even Tozzi, an experienced model, found the wardrobe confronting. "When I'm on my own I'm fine, or down the beach, and then all of a sudden here it's like, 'Oh my God, I just noticed there are 30 people watching me.' "
The cast also includes Sophie Luck, a talented 15-year-old who had a role on Home and Away, promising Sydneysiders Adam Saunders and Christopher Foy, and Khan Chittenden, a Kiwi who learned to surf after moving to Perth at age 11.
The final star is Mara Scherzinger, a 15-year-old from Cologne. "I've done quite a bit of acting in Germany," she says. "But this is the first international thing I've done, and the longest shoot."
There's a lot at stake for the ABC, too. It's gambling that Australian 11- to 14-year-olds will go for a show aimed directly at them.
In Australia and internationally, the ABC has notched up child-friendly successes, including Bananas in Pyjamas, The Wiggles and the Aussie-Canadian co-production The Saddle Club. These, however, were all aimed at pre-teens.
Blue Water High - like Heartbreak High - is shooting for an older audience. "The ABC is filling a gap that has long been waiting to be filled," says Claire Henderson, head of children's TV at the ABC. "Quality Australian drama created for the teen audience." If it's a success, of course, more series will follow.
A co-production with Southern Star, the Film Finance Corporation and the NSW Film and TV Office, Blue Water High has also attracted finance from German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. That explains the German cast member. "They'll love it," Scherzinger says of a German audience. "Because we don't have surf. Also, I think
it's a very interesting storyline."
Apart from Germany, the series has been sold to France, Belgium, New Zealand and South Africa. It was shot up and down the northern beaches, in part to avoid irritating residents. "We've come into Bilgola with the best will in the world," Strasser says. "But after six months I'm sure most of the locals will probably be pretty happy to see the back of us, because it does disrupt their day-to-day lives."
If keeping the residents happy was one challenge, another was making the cast members look like surfers. As Strasser admits, too many surfing dramas look fake. One minute a character is sitting on a gently lapping ocean, the next he or she is hurtling down a 10-metre face. From '60s comedies to Point Break, verisimilitude is usually a wipe-out. For Blue Water High, young pros from the northern beaches were hired as doubles. Sometimes these stand-ins have a tough job - Luck's double, for instance, is a boy. Mostly, they manage admirably.
Shot over six months from spring until mid-March, Blue Water High had luck on its side. Not only was there an unlikely number of sunny days, there were also several big swells this summer.
As an occasional visitor to the set, Daddo says he had a lot of fun. "For it to look like this," he says, pointing out over the orange sand and clear blue sea of Bilgola, "to sell Australia, it's just fantastic. This is the ultimate Australian drama. It's everything Australia is and everything Europeans love about Australia. Everyone looks great, the girls look fantastic, the guys look so fit, and they're good actors. I've loved being a part of it."



Heres a German interview with Mara (Anna) there are some spelling errors...:

Mara, with 16 years you are the only German Hauptdarstellerin in the Surf series “Blue Water High” just started. When do you have begun to actors?
That is difficult to say. When I was still completely young, I had already rehearsed plays and fashion shows with a friend. To our performances we invited then friends, acquaintance and neighbour. With nine years I participated in a Kids Camp. There I moderated, sang and danced. And stated that large fun for me makes. When I was twelve years old, asked I mean nut/mother the same training as her in New York to make to be allowed.
What for training?
With the training it concerned “High performance Leadership”. It was shown one, how one finds an occupation, which develops on it, what one in the life fun makes. Because only if one has fun at a thing, one gets ahead in the life. Since I wanted to absolutely participate in this training, I had together-done with three girls, whom I could do from the Kids Camp, and songs and Sketche had written and dances had choreografiert. We were old between eleven and 13 years and called ourselves “Pretty Girls”. With a friend of my father, who possessed a theatre, we arose. So we wanted to finance ourselves the training.
Were you how old, when you got your first correct role?
Twelve, on the first turning day I became 13. The film was called “love and demand”.
You spent straight one year in Australia. How was it added?
Last year before summer holidays I was invited briefly to a Casting to Hamburg. Actors for a Surf series, an GermanAustralian Koproduktion were looked for. The Australian producer went through with me English text and placed themselves to questions to my family and to the school. When it communicated to me that I could get a private teacher, I was sure me that I had the role. Two days later called it actually and assured.
Thereupon you pulled then completely alone to Australia?
No. My family and I decided us to the fact that we drive all together. My parents and my brother were seven months there, I at a Gastfamilie remained three months longer.
How did a typical turning day look?
At 6.30 o'clock I was fetched and made up. Then there was breakfast. The travel to the set, thus to the beaches, at which we turned, took 45 minutes. To 17 o'clock then mostly there was I.
A relay of the series of “Blue Water High” is finished - for which it goes?
Filters Surfer want to be taken up on an Surf academy. Since however only two places are free, they must complete a Surf and a school program of twelve month on the “Blue Water High” - the two best ones are taken up and to famous Surfern.
Could you surfen before?
No. We have to practice two weeks before turning beginning begun: how one carries the Surf board, whereupon stands and sits. The jumps were placed behind.
Are there actually sharks in Australia?
Yes, it gives. But there one has then really pitch!


Erfurt (ots) - the KI.KA extends the summer in this year with the new Surf series Blue Water High. If it becomes slowly uncomfortable in the autumn, the Erfurter transmitter presents the exciting Surf adventures of seven young people before the dream window blind of Australia. The material series starts on 29 September. The KI.KA points the Making OF to the series on Sunday, 25 September around 20:40 clock.

The German Hauptdarstellerin Mara Scherzinger takes the spectators also behind the window blinds of the new Surf series Blue Water High. Nearly one year long the turning work of the GermanAustralian Koproduktion persisted. A camera team accompanied the 15-Jährige during this time and documented its experiences at the dream beaches of Australia. Mara reports Fly from its life, the turning work and its friendship to the play colleague Sophie Luck alias „“. She presents also her family, which accompanied her to Australia. In addition Mara leads the spectators to the set of Blue Water High and betrays or other trick of the trick of the spectacular Surf Stunts.

To history: The Australian Northern Beaches is a terrestrial Paradies with fantastic beaches, crystal-clear water, meter-high waves and is enough sunny day. Filters Blue Water High an ambitious training and Surfprogramm completes dte rodents in the Surf Academy - to become everyone with the goal professional. Anna (Mara Scherzinger), which has itself 15-jährige girl from Hamburg, in Germany already as Kiteboarderin a name made. In addition, Bec, Perri, Fly, Heath, Edge and matte qualified themselves for the Academy. At the end only two of them will be able to carry out their large dream - the admission into the professional league. The seven Surfer place themselves to daily new challenges. Refrained from hard training, regular Contests and psychological instruction units the four girls and three boys must master also their life as group house. But the team rauft itself together and at the end of a turbulent yearly, in which for fun, love and success likewise much place is as for jealousy, homesickness and setbacks, counts the friendship more than the victory.


So if any one else wants to contribute lol!




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