Product Description

Whether you want to film wildlife as a fascinating hobby, or are hoping for a career as a professional wildlife film-maker, this book and a basic camcorder are all you need to get started! Packed with information and advice acquired over years of teaching wildlife film-making Piers Warren guides you through all aspects of making a wildlife film from choosing a camcorder to editing the final product.

Includes:

Selecting a Camcorder - different formats explained (including High Definition)
Other Useful Equipment - tripods. lenses, lights, microphones and more...
Subjects for Filming - in the garden, on holiday or on a special trip
Documentary Themes - how to choose a topic for your film - with numerous examples
Camera Techniques - handling, composition, shooting sequences, panning/tilting/zooming, cutaways, interviews and many other techniques discussed
Fieldcraft - how to be neither seen, heard nor smelt by the wildlife
Set Building - how to construct and use wildlife sets
The End Product - DVDs, web-streaming, television, showreels - the possibilities explained
Post Production - planning, editing, working with sound tracks, adding music and narration
Author Piers Warren is the Principal of Wildeye Wildlife Film Training, editor of Wildlife Film News, producer of wildlife-film.com, founder of Filmmakers for Conservation and author of Careers in Wildlife Film-making. Through Wildeye, Piers leads wildlife tours and training expeditions around the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126261 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

About the Author
Author Piers Warren is the Principal of Wildeye Wildlife Film Training, editor of Wildlife Film News, producer of wildlife-film.com, founder of Filmmakers for Conservation and author of Careers in Wildlife Film-making. Through Wildeye, Piers leads wildlife tours and training expeditions around the world.

Excerpted from Go Wild with Your Camcorder: How to Make Wildlife Films by Piers Warren. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Welcome to the wonderful world of wildlife film-making! Whether you want to make wildlife films with your camcorder as a fascinating hobby, or are hoping for a career as a professional wildlife film-maker, this book aims to give you a good start. We will be exploring all aspects of recording wildlife with a camcorder, from choosing equipment, to shooting techniques, fieldcraft, documentary themes and post-production.

Making wildlife films ticks many boxes – it gets you out in the fresh air, is a creative pastime, helps you to understand animal behaviour and the natural environment, and involves you in documenting a wild world that is changing increasingly rapidly. For those who fear technology, modern camcorders are easy to use – pick-up-and-shoot, for those who love gadgets there is a plethora available, and for those who relish a challenge wildlife film-making presents many."

Customer Reviews

At Last!
As a keen amateur camcorder user with a passion for wildlife I've been looking for a book like this for years. It's answered many questions, given me loads of new ideas and all in friendly language I can understand. Various technical matters that were confusing me have been explained and I now have a much clearer idea how the professionals do it. I'm already getting better results from my camcorder and have ideas for movies queuing up in my head. I've realised how previously I was just pointing my camcorder at wildlife and recording - now I am making movies!
I've even found myself contemplating a career in this field.
Highly recommended for anyone wanting to get more out of their camcorder - especially if wanting to record wildlife/nature.

You will be pleasently surprised
Not a large book, or what you would expect from Waterstones. The main point of this book is the knowledge that is inside, it is to the point, and it isn't needlessly fattened out with talk that is irrelevent.

This book is magic - straight to the point in ordinary english but by no means simple. It hits the nail on the head every time from equipment (on a budget or otherwise) to intelligent bushcraft. The writer speaks to YOU with passion about his trade and shares the secrets of getting that all important footage. I am a semi professional filmmaker dabbling in wildlife videography as a hobby at the mo and using the techniques within the book I got some great Kingfisher footage today - it was worth every single penny tenfold.

There is also lots of advice and resources if you wish to pursue a career in wild life filmmaking (check out his other book, it's interesting reading).

If you are interested in wildlife and own a camcorder, it will bring a new dimension to your hobby. If you are a pro, I'm sure it will jog the memory of a few techniques you have forgotten.

Go buy it - there is no other book out there like it, and for 12 quid what have you got to lose.