Sick Wildlife Footage

I don´t know if I would have the patience to do something like that. :violin:

You probably have to sit there for a week or so, just to find out that "IT" happened when you where 2 minutes away in the mens room.... errr bush. :D

Frank
 
I think some of it is 'helped along' by the producers. I would hope not, but...

...there's a popular fishing show in Canada, Bob something... :) where they came to the bay here to shoot an episode, and which I saw on T.V thereafter.

Problem was, they weren't catching anything in a decent amount of time and offered to buy fish from my friends (who were also seen on the show as I saw), but they refused. My friends are hard core fisherman, and, well, they didn't like that idea. But I've heard that bit before, about producers, ya know.

Wouldn't surprise me if they tumbled that poor frog down the rocks in as many takes as they needed to get the shots. Brutal, but, I'd bet my money on it. Not the camera man's fault by any means. But hey, that's life unfortunatley, for producers that it is, it seems.
 
I saw a report on wildlife in documentaries, just like this one. There's actually entire companies whose sole income is renting out animals to BBC and other animal documentaries. Things like bears, lions, etc...

Chances are you'd have to spend a long time and loads of money (time is money) just to get something remotely close to what you can do with a trained animal.

I mean look at the one with the toad. They had crane shots perfectly following his climb with a MACRO lens. I mean to focus that baby and get the perfect shot, it's obviously staged.

Not to mention that amazing, and obviously staged shot of the toad walking along, he goes over the edge, then in the background, perfectly out of focus, the tarantula begins to follow. They were probably holding the tarantula back, then poked it to get it moving at the exact perfect moment. Plus the blocking for such a beautiful shot, wow.

Then there's the Jesus Christ lizard thing. To capture something that fast, with such a short DoF, perfectly like that (and underwater mind you)... Not only did they had to not scare away the animals, but they had to be lucky as hell to be in the right place at the right time...

Basically this entire thing screams staging, blocking, retakes, etc... So it's not that the producer "helped it along," but the producers produced the content completely. They had to, and it's how it's often, if not always done. They probably had a team of experts on set to coordinate everything, to get everything perfect. After all, they always say to never work with animals. Imagine wild ones... wow...

But nonetheless, beautiful.
 
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