Documentaries can actually be more real

Planet Earth ("Planet Earth" or translated "Earth Pulse") is a set of extremely awesome documentaries published by the BBC. You can see tens of thousands of emperor penguins huddled together in the cold wind of minus 60 degrees to keep warm, you can see hundreds of thousands of birds flying by together, you can see tens of thousands of wildebeest migrating, you can watch In the slow motion of the whale shark pressing down on the seal, you can see the weird Tibetan fox with a square face. "Every shot of the film can be used as a tabletop" "It's so fucking beautiful!" Just look at these comments to know how shocking this documentary is.

The whole set has a huge budget and a lot of time, and it's used by the best people - some experts have been shooting some animals for more than 20 years, and more importantly, they don't mind spending more time in pursuit of a more perfect one. Shots - The film crew waited an extra year for the best location to photograph the snow leopards. Moreover, they also used the most advanced technology. The "Yang Heng" photography technology invented by the U.S. military allowed them to take clear and stable close-ups on a helicopter from a distance of one kilometer, which allowed them to photograph a lot of pictures from the past. Shots that no one can get.

Although this film has won numerous awards, in my opinion, this documentary is strong in those precious shots, and the connection between shots, narration and music may not be the best. In a competition in Shanghai, this film finally won a silver award. What is the reason? One of the judges said that it has won numerous top awards and doesn't care about this one. Moreover, this kind of "military use" is not worth advocating. .

At the end of each episode, there will be a shooting diary of the film crew, telling how hard these exquisite shots were exchanged. These film crews are indeed admirable. However, people who shoot documentaries often have a problem. In order to shoot what they want to shoot, sometimes they don’t care about their concerns. For example, when they shoot wild dogs hunting, they just drive their cars and follow the group of wild dogs and shoot them. The bird of paradise also built a bunker directly next to the place where the bird of paradise appeared. Fortunately, it was later proved that the bunker would not scare away the bird of paradise. I remember hearing people say that CCTV filmed the documentary "Song of the Forest", but it scared away the only 3 pairs of birds left in the forest, and they abandoned their nests and didn't dare to come back. . .

Tumoto mentioned more than once in his blog that in order to present the truth of the documentary, subjective attitudes should not be added when shooting. Although documentary filming of the natural world is less affected by the subjective thoughts of the filmmakers in terms of authenticity, it should minimize the influence of the filmmakers on the scene being photographed. I hope more advanced technology can achieve this in the future.

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