Making of the Successful Wildlife Videography DVD

Successful Wildlife Videography was filmed over a 9-month period from September 2006 to May of 2007. The locations for filming were:

• Mike Linley's production company offices in Wymondham, Norfolk.
• Norfolk Wildlife Centre & Country Park, Fakenham Road, just north of Norwich.
• Hamerton Zoological Park, near Sawtry in Cambridgeshire.
• English School of Falconry, Old Warden Park near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.
• Paxton Pits Nature Reserve in St.Neots, Cambridgeshire.
• Bedford Butterfly Park, Renhold Road, Wilden in Bedfordshire.

Other locations included:

• Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.
• Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
• Rutland Water, Rutland, Leicestershire.
• Malvern, Worcestershire.
• Wymondham, Norfolk.

Due to the nature of filming wildlife we shot an awful lot of footage to get the shots we needed for demonstration purposes. Even the days we spent filming in a controlled environment such as a zoo or wildlife park often proved difficult and taxing at times. On some of the days of filming we would come home with just a few usable minutes from hours of recorded footage. Filming wildlife usually equates to a 40/1 ratio of usable footage e.g. we achieved 1 minute of usable footage for every 40 minutes we actually filmed.

The Equipment Used

Successful Wildlife Videography was filmed entirely on two JVC GY-HD111E camcorders in native HDV 720p/25p shooting mode. Nigel Cooper of Generic Pool Productions explains why his company choose to shoot this 140-minute training DVD on these camcorders. Not only did Mike use a JVC GY-HD111E to film all the wildlife in this DVD, but as Mike carries out the demonstrations and presents to camera, it was also a GY-HD111E that was used to film him. Click here to read the full story.

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