The documentary is mixing "lie" in this way

ByJonathan Rice

BBC Wildlife DocumentaryEtc. are created by a number of ingenuity, long photographing time, and perseverance of photography crew. However, "photographing wild animals" can not produce characters and sets like ordinary movie shooting, so it is necessary to create stories by editing images. How documentaries that follow nature and wild animals are mixed with "lies", the filmmakers'Simon CadeI'm explaining in the movie.

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Documentaries record what they actually did and make images, but in reality many of the "sounds" that you hear while watching documentary movies are retrofitted.


This is because the camera is often separated from the subject at the time of shooting and recording work is difficult. You can zoom the camera, but you can not zoom the microphone.


Sound effects to be attached to documentary movies are those recorded in the studio in many cases, and it is also a problem to say that "This documentary image is a fake."


Below are the bamboo waggers and the effect sound "shu" is being recorded.



Of course, if you put a microphone on a wild animal or a person with a microphone stands beside the bear fought, no sound effect is necessary, but that's not going to be true either. Because sound effects play a very big role in the experience of the viewers, many documentaries with the theme of nature have sound effects afterwards.


Besides sound effects, there is a part that corresponds to "fake". For example, in a documentary picture chasing after a wild kangaroo, the crew has to keep waiting for a long time until the moment of "This is it!" Can be photographed.


And at that time, a kangaroo child crawls into her mother's bag, for example to drink milk.



Also, I took a close-up video of a quietly standing kangaroo.



And then, it is finally able to shoot the battle scenes between kangaroos.


In a movie where a series of flow has been completed, it will be as follows. Before one kangaroo stands quietly and looks at ......


Another figure of kangaroo who challenges the battle.


Here, when close-up images shot at different timing are projected, it becomes a meaningful image like a western play.



Furthermore, if you stick the picture of the baby kangaroo that is retracted into the bag, it will make you feel as if you are running away fearing fighting.


And the battle begins.


In order to make 30 minutes or 1 hour of video, creators will perform editing work from days to weeks to maximize the ability to appeal to the emotions of viewers.


At this time, editors and others are figures of "anthropomorphized" animals like Pixar films.


However, the above work should not be blamed. Even if you are told that "making a story" is attracting viewers and sometimes it is said to be "fake," there are many things you can learn from the images created.


Movie makeers can usually "create" what to shoot.


However, it is the documentary movie that can not do it, and another way to emphasize the picture is to do it.


In documentary movies often focus on fawn and the like. This is because fluffy cute animals can draw attention of viewers alone.


It appeared there was a wolf.


The wolf finds the fawn earlier.


This wolf does not eat anything for several days, whether or not you can eat a fawn is a division of life or death, but in the movie it is a "villain", so the background around that is not drawn.


Like a movie villain wears a mask, a villain's "true face" is not necessary.


A wolf starts chasing a flock of deer ......



Fawn without physical strength lags behind the flock, lock on to wolf.


Whether the audience is interested in "Whether a fawl can survive" or "Wolf whether it can be baited" does not it?


And, if the ending does not exist in the pursuit play of Fawn and the wolf, what do viewers think?


This is the reason why "making stories" is important in documentary movies. Even a documentary that reflects "reality", viewers strongly demand "ending". If there is no "story" in the real image, it is necessary to produce it.


If you make the video perfectly in line with the reality, you need to live stream the state of nature. However, there is neither cut nor music, and the image that the "what happened there" reflected in the picture, many people would be bored.


However, if you make too much a picture by using CG etc., however, this time it becomes a picture of a lie which misunderstand the viewer.


In 2009, an incident was reported in which the rabbit's legs were made to track the predator by creating predictable images.


In other words, it is important to balance the two factors "accuracy" and "entertainment" as described above in order to create a documentary image.