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    The document discusses techniques that filmmakers use in nature documentaries, including taking artistic liberties. It provides examples of adding sound in post-production when filming from far away and deceptive montages of footage. It also describes a famous Disney documentary scene from the 1940s-50s that was later found to have pushed lemmings off a cliff, rather than depicting actual migration behavior.

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    Filmmakers usually use different types of techniques nature documentaries to get

    viewers hooked – even if it means taking some artistic liberties.


    For example, filmmaker Silmon Cade (of DSLRguide) told how, where and what kind of
    methods he used to distort reality in documentaries.
    First, concerning sound as he explained that it is a basic problem with how nature
    documentaries are filmed: “It’s really difficult to record sound when cameras are far
    away from something. Cameras can zoom in, but the microphones can’t.”
    Cade gives the example of filming a wolf hunting from a helicopter. The actual sound the
    camera picked up is probably just a helicopter’s loud rotor. But if the filmmakers kept
    this sound in the documentary, it wouldn’t be very good for the viewer — since no one
    wants their ears blown out by the noise of a helicopter. Instead, filmmakers later add
    sounds to the scene, which imitate what’s going on in the nature.
    Second about deceptive montage. When documentarians want to capture a kangaroo
    fight, it takes them days or weeks of filming normal, boring, and usual kangaroo things.
    Therefore filmmakers can get a bunch of footage that can complement the eventual
    fight: a joey hiding in a mother’s pouch, close-ups of two kangaroos looking at each
    other, and so on. And during the montage filmmakers edit and filter all materials that
    they have and after that, they combine this footage to make a much more emotional
    scene.
    But these methods are not so cruel and radical as the next one.
    In the 1940s and 1950s Disney was famous for its true-life nature films. And there was
    one famous and breathtaking scene that showed how hundreds of lemmings jumped off
    a cliff in the Canadian Artic into the Arctic Ocean below. The film illustrated the
    migration of lemmings. However, a few years ago was discovered that this scene is far
    from true life. Firstly, the lemming scene was shot 2,000 km south of the Arctic.
    Secondly, I think the most awful thing is the lemmings didn`t jump off the cliff instead of
    it they were pushed. And thirdly, Canadian lemmings are don`t actually migrate – and in
    that area of Canada, there are actually no cliffs to jump off at that time of year.
    So, I have negative feelings about using “deception” in documentaries. People become
    insane and cruel because of their desire to increase views and attract more viewers.
    Many documentary filming companies make animals suffer and they can even die
    because of the shoots. People can beat, force, and harm animals during the shoots. I
    hope, nowadays more and more people will try to help and save animals.

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