No. 5359Anonymous 9th December 2021 Thursday 12:54 pm5359Nature documentaries fakes?
There is no way most of these documentaries are real. I'm talking the David Attenborough stuff. Yeah, two giraffes fighting, I believe that. But some little shrew running away from a snake, there are 100 cameras tracking every turn it takes, and every turn the snake takes. How convenient that of all the land in the huge savannah, these few cameras caught the most exciting thing ever, in HD, with perfectly framed shots, without spooking the animals. The only explanation I can think of is that a lot of these documentaries use advanced CGI, and have done for decades. Yes, they probably do capture some actual footage, but the cute little tiny sea turtle baby crawling to the sea while seagulls attack, it's all just an expensive animation.
>>5359 Like otherlad said there's an absolute tonne of editing, so it's kind of bullshit, but it's not fake. It's just trying to get a shot of a tiny rodent running about that lasts more than two seconds is basically impossible, so you get five shots of it running around at different times and string them together. That's probably half of these programmes are in slow-mo too. Filming the turtle feast is probably one of the easier gigs. Throw some chips on the floor at your nearest seafront and you've basically got the same situation going on, except you get to go somewhere nice and warm to film the turtles getting snaffled.
I, personally, can't stomach the amount of drama and spectacle they attempt to cram into natural history programming and I'd be much happier watching a frog sat on a leaf while Attenborough tells me about it, as opposed to watching Disney's Marvel's Salmon Mating Season and having to hear another clumsy analogy to human society.
