Outdoor TV/DVD Productions: Are they getting hokey?
When I jumped into the Outdoor industry to film and edit, I had no idea how prevalent camera tricks could be. In many hunting shows, “seeing” should not necessarily be “believing.”
Companies nowadays are either trying too hard to make their work look like a John Moore directed film, a reality show or just simply not trying at all. If you’re going for the cinema look and feel that’s fine, but it is inconsistent to start off talking to the camera as if you know it’s there, then proceed to walk up to your downed game with the camera positioned behind the rack as if to say, “Oh, there he is.” Obviously, the cameraman has already found the deer.
And we all know there aren’t eight cameras in one tree. Why have that many angles of a hunter drawing his bow or of a hunter looking for the buck he just shot? It seems to me a bit superfluous.
Making hits look like misses or placing one hunter with another hunter’s kill are just a couple of tricks often never caught by the viewer. If you pay extra attention you can catch these and more. I’m sure you’ve all watched a show initially presenting the hunter with a full quiver then cutting back to him drawing his bow with some arrows miraculously missing. You may have observed drastic lighting changes indicating a totally different time of day, when it seems only a few seconds have passed. Pay close attention while you watch some hunting shows and I’m sure you will agree that things are not always what they seem.
Big Time | "Seeing and Believing"
WOW! Can’t believe you went there. I’ll start paying more attention. WOW!
Amen! I love seeing good kills, etc. However, when I can tell that multiple cut aways and angles, etc. were taken it takes a lot of the authenticity out of it for me. I want good camera work with a clear vision of what’s going on and a sense of what its actually like in real life. I don’t want to think I’m watching some movie. Isn’t one of the reasons we like hunting because it isn’t scripted?
I definitely think a lot of them are getting too scripted. Great points!
Thats funny how they do that in the videos. I think its gotten better in most cases but it drives me nuts when they do that when they dont need to. I think most watchers would be ok with them just showing it how it is.
i agree with it all, when searching for the kill, you know they already found it. just show the hunter finding the deer and none of the drama
Absolutely, make the show authentic!
I love it when jack Brittingham has a cutaway of him laying his bow on the game everytime he walks up to a dead animal. EVERYTIME
doing a good job showing the footage is key. scripts can get in the way sometime
Speak the truth boys, I’m with all ya.
Yeh, like Walker says..
its ridiculous how these rednecks try to get away with this
Rednecks? I dont think that has anything to do with this…although I agree.
Its funny how guys like Primos try to showcase themselves as “The Truth” but they pull all the same BS.
I know guys that have been on hunts with other companies that said its miserable because you spend half the day doing cut-aways and the other half looking for arrows!!!
I was stuck in the airport one year in Idaho Falls and happen to see Jim Zumbo. I asked him, after some important small talk, why people thought it was a good idea to have the camera man laying by the deer filming the “suprised” hunter as he happens to stumble on the dead animal. He just shrugged his shoulders and said, why does anyone do anything stupid? Or something to that effect.
Or how about when they show a close up of some moron sloooowly taking the safety off the rifle just before the shot. Or how they approach an animal and “poke” it to see if it gets up. The camera man has already pronounced it dead and has cleaned away all the blood so not to offend someone. Man, this could get really good.
That’s hilarious. Great stuff
RIGHT ON! well said.
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