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Nature documentaries and the footage they shoot
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:01 pm
So I'm currently watching a Nature documentary about the wildlife in the Caribbean's.
How in the hell do these guys get some of the footage for these animals?
For instance, right now they are showing the mating rituals of some jungle songbird.
How in the hell do these guys get some of the footage for these animals?
For instance, right now they are showing the mating rituals of some jungle songbird.
This post was edited on 2/22/15 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:05 pm to gaetti15
They sit out there for a long time. Those nature doc cameramen are some of the most dedicated in Hollywood. Watch Planet Earth and all the shite they had to go through to get five minutes of a snow leopard in Pakistan.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:10 pm to gaetti15
Time.
Lots of it.
Planet Earth is my #1 television series of all time (BoB is #2). It's absolutely gorgeous, on top of being interesting, awesome, etc.
Lots of it.
Planet Earth is my #1 television series of all time (BoB is #2). It's absolutely gorgeous, on top of being interesting, awesome, etc.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:11 pm to gaetti15
They're basically hunters without guns. Lots of silent stalking, probably some baiting, tons of patience and state of the art technology.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:13 pm to PowerTool
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They're basically hunters without guns. Lots of silent stalking, probably some baiting, tons of patience and state of the art technology.
This. Plus a little luck.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:25 pm to CocomoLSU
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BoB is #2
i've been sitting here trying to figure this out... please help
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:30 pm to gaetti15
I went on a backpacking trip in Denali. You'd see photographers set up in the same place day after day trying to get the shot they wanted.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:31 pm to Fusaichi Pegasus
Band of Brothers maybe (since he mentioned TV)?
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:31 pm to geauxjuice
Bombs over Baghdad or Band of Brothers... I'm not sure which one it is
Posted on 2/22/15 at 6:41 pm to CocomoLSU
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Planet Earth is my #1 television series of all time
that's what got me on this nature documentary kick.
I'm an oceanographer by trade so I've already watched Blue Planet a million times.
Currently watching Wildest Islands
Posted on 2/22/15 at 7:25 pm to gaetti15
I just recently watched the 6 or 7 part series by BBC called Frozen Planet. The episode was 45 minutes or so and then there were about 15 minutes of behind the scenes looks of how they got the footage. That 6 or 7 part series took 5 years to shoot. The had 4 separate teams in Antarctica alone. It was shot in both the Arctic and Antarctica. They got the first underseas footage of a killer whale pack hunting a seal. They had cameras on long sticks and got right next to the killer whales to stick the cameras under water to shoot. Those whales were very curious and raised out of the water within 5 feet of the guys. The whales could have snatched them and drug them under water to drown them, which is one of their hunting techniques. Another team of scuba divers was filming beneath the ice in Antarctica. They also had ridiculous resources with helicopters and submarine cameras.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 7:28 pm to gaetti15
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I'm an oceanographer by trade so I've already watched Blue Planet a million times.
Blue Planet was great. It was so successful that BBC commissioned Frozen Planet and Human Planet. I watched all of Frozen Planet, which was amazing and somehow avoided any politics about whether or not there was man-made climate change. Human Planet showed groups of people living in extremes. I watched a couple of episodes of it but it was not as interesting. Both are narrated by the fantastic David Attenborough.
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