Although there is a certain "bird watching foundation" and "bird watching enthusiasm", from a technical point of view, shooting "The Big Year" still has a certain degree of difficulty. The novel depicts what happened within a year, and the time span is a bit large for the movie. In order to shoot different scenery throughout the year, as well as some birds, the crew followed the route in the novel to start shooting in North America. Traveling tens of millions of miles, all over the United States, is to present a sense of reality in the movie.
In this film, shooting people and landscapes are actually very simple things. The most difficult problem is shooting birds. Because I am not a professional photographer, it is difficult to take pictures of beautiful birds. There will not be so many birds in the movie during the filming time, so a lot of documentary materials are used and those materials are edited in the movie. The director also hired some people to shoot the birds, because some birds will appear in the shooting, so there are many real shots in the film. In the end, the shots of the birds flying into the North American continent in groups were actually made by computers. In order to make this film, the crew went from Florida to California, and from New York to Canada. They had to shoot different scenes every day.
