I’m a big fan of survival shows and adventure/exploration shows. I have always wondered how the camera crew manages to film in tiny caverns or in the middle of the desert. I’m certain that TV magic is used to an extend, but I’m still in awe of the camera crews. Thoughts?
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I work with documentary film crews pretty often in my conservation work.
It’s a lot of preplanning, setting things advance, reshoots and multiple takes, knowing or scouting the area ahead of time, and editing.
I know my area well and ai discus with the film crews far in advance about what kinds of shots they want to get and what story they want to tell.
I suggest places to them and we go over the options together.
When filming everything is planned out in advance, shots are made, and redone to get different angles and such, different days are edited together to make it look like a single continuous sequence, etc.
Sometimes three days of filming in 6 different locations will be edited down to a few minutes (or even less than a minute)and made to look like a single sequence at one location.
I usually push back a bit in order to maintain continuity and I’m very insistent that film crews don’t misrepresent the area, the work, or the species, but other than that, I’m ok with the ‘magic’ process of it as ai understand that they also need to tell an engaging story.
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