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Go Wild With Your Camcorder
Go Wild With Your Camcorder: How to Make Wildlife Films
Code: 029210

Whether you want to film wildlife as a fascinating hobby or are hoping for a career as a professional wildlife film-maker, this book and a basic camcorder are all you need to get started.

Author Piers Warren guides you through all apsects of making a wildlife film, from choosing a camcorder to editing the final product.

A compact guide packed with information and advice on how to select a camcorder, different formats explained including high definition (HD), useful equipment lie tripods, lenses, lights and microphones, subjects for filming, how to choose a documentary theme, camera techniques including handling, composition, shooting sequences, panning, tilting, zooming, cutaways and interviews, fieldcraft and how to be neither seen, heard nor smelt by the wildlife, set building, the end product of DVD, web-streaming, television, showreels, and finally planning post production, editing, working with sound tracks and adding music and narration.


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Introduction
Selecting a camcorder
Other useful equipment - Support - Lenses - Lights - Power - Recording Media - Sound - Be neither heard nor seen
Subjects for filming - Garden wildlife - Holiday wildlife - Special trips
Documentary themes
Camera techniques
Fieldcraft - Hide and seek - Be a chameleon - Quietly now
Set building - Welfare
Ethics - Principles - Guidelines for working in the field
The end product
Post-production - Planning - Editing - Transitions - sound - Foley - Music - Narration - Titles/credits - Evaluation
Further resources
Further reading
Piers Warren is well known throughout the wildlife film-making industry as the editor of Wildlife Film News and producer of wildlife-film.com. After a period as a science teacher he entered the media world as a musician and sound engineer, eventually running his own recording studio.

Although he has experience in many aspects of film-making he specialised in multimedia productions through his company Wildeye before concentrating on training. He has written several books including Careers in Wildlife Film-making, many magazine articles, and has been a final judge at several wildlife film festivals.

With a strong background in biology, education and conservation, Piers has had a lifelong passion for wildlife films and has a wide knowledge of natural history. He is one of the founders of the international organisations Filmmakers for Conservation and was Vice President for three years.

Wildeye provides independent specialist training for aspiring wildlife film-makers. Through Wildeye, Piers leads wildlife tours and training expeditions around the world.
Author: Piers Warren
Publication date: 2006
Edition: 1
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 156 x 234 mm
Pages: 122
Illustrations: Black and white photographs
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780954189969
Publisher: Wildeye

Contents

Introduction
Selecting a camcorder
Other useful equipment - Support - Lenses - Lights - Power - Recording Media - Sound - Be neither heard nor seen
Subjects for filming - Garden wildlife - Holiday wildlife - Special trips
Documentary themes
Camera techniques
Fieldcraft - Hide and seek - Be a chameleon - Quietly now
Set building - Welfare
Ethics - Principles - Guidelines for working in the field
The end product
Post-production - Planning - Editing - Transitions - sound - Foley - Music - Narration - Titles/credits - Evaluation
Further resources
Further reading

Author

Piers Warren is well known throughout the wildlife film-making industry as the editor of Wildlife Film News and producer of wildlife-film.com. After a period as a science teacher he entered the media world as a musician and sound engineer, eventually running his own recording studio.

Although he has experience in many aspects of film-making he specialised in multimedia productions through his company Wildeye before concentrating on training. He has written several books including Careers in Wildlife Film-making, many magazine articles, and has been a final judge at several wildlife film festivals.

With a strong background in biology, education and conservation, Piers has had a lifelong passion for wildlife films and has a wide knowledge of natural history. He is one of the founders of the international organisations Filmmakers for Conservation and was Vice President for three years.

Wildeye provides independent specialist training for aspiring wildlife film-makers. Through Wildeye, Piers leads wildlife tours and training expeditions around the world.

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