Learning every day

Wednesday 27/01/2010

Learning more and more every day!

Location : Entabeni Game Reserve/Waterberg

Not much time left for myself…These last few days have been pretty hectic with lectures from 07h30 till 22h00 (with a few smoke breaks in between, brunch and diner). We had awesome lectures about cameras/sound equipment and since Sunday we’re on animal behaviour. I must say that the amount of knowledge I have acquired in a week is phenomenal…! I now know how to write a script and I have pretty good knowledge about cameras (movie cameras and still cameras) and shooting techniques. I feel a little bit more confident now, even though I still need a lot of practice of course!
But what’s for sure is that I found my path and wildlife film making is what I love doing the most! Another thing which is for sure is that it’s gonna be difficult! Competition is very high, broadcasters are more and more difficult and they allow lesser and lesser budget for documentaries. Difficult…but not impossible!
We went on a few game drives and we had lions on a kill twice in 3 days!! These lions are professional hunters…and they love wildebeest! They can’t stay more than 3 days without hunting! I am pretty sure that during our shooting period we will see a hunt. That would be amazing and I would love to film it! Pretty hard though!
Lots of roaring too…At the moment they are around the camp so sometimes we hear them when we are around the fire or when we’re in bed. Not a bad music to fall in sleep with…
Here a few of my best pictures taken these last few days.
ASAP I will take some pictures of the camp and I will download them on the blog.
I will start shooting my subject from Thursday this week for 6 days so I am not too sure if I will have time to update the blog this week. Maybe yes as my topic can be found around the camp so I might not need to be in the bush the all day. But I’ll still have to go and shoot some landscape, time lapses and certain species of animals.
Will update ASAP.