Hi Ben. I have been searching for a YT channel which can guide me to become a Wildlife filmmaker. But after many hundreds of searches, I wasn't able to find any... Until I stumbled upon your channel. Your videos are fun to watch and are very informative. Absolutely love your work. Keep those videos coming. Love from INDIA.
Great tips, very specific and informative. Would love to hear your thoughts on process about story research and concept building. I find it most difficult coming up with interesting story.
There are 3 things generally that most animal stories are based around, their search for food, their quest to reproduce, and their evasion of being preyed upon by another animal. Often all 3 are interlinked. If you have one of these as the central concept you film, you can generally build a nice sequence of behaviour and tell that story. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Just document the struggles of the animal.
@@BenTutton thats awesome. Thanks, that helps. In couple of my projects I am also trying to include human element to make it connect to viewers. Loved the octopus teacher approach.
@@KIRANGHADGE In that case, it’s about finding people who have good stories who help people change their minds about animals and the way we treat them. Examples are ex-hunters who are now conservationists, people who were attacked by animals but still want to save them. Animal/human stories are often complicated and nuanced. But a strong narrative can really change peoples minds and push conservation forwards.
@@BenTutton thats exactly i was looking for. Great. I want to work on impact films along with pure wildlife films. With so much content available now its becoming difficult. Thanks a lot. Looking forward for more awesomeness.
If you can film animals that live near you, and find interesting stories, then people may find your footage and get in touch. The animals near you which you may find boring, often other people will find interesting and exotic. So it’s always with documenting those local stories.
Cheers Matt! There aren’t really many qualifications required. The ability to fly a drone is useful on most shoots (GVC/PFCO qualification in the UK) Diving work also requires specialist qualifications as does rope access/tree climbing work. Other than that it’s really all about gaining experience. Think about what you enjoy doing and get good at that. Whether it’s Macro, Birds, camera trapping, Timelapse, Whatever really. I’d say I’m still very much a generalist and I quite enjoy the variety associated with that.
Hi Ben. I have been searching for a YT channel which can guide me to become a Wildlife filmmaker. But after many hundreds of searches, I wasn't able to find any... Until I stumbled upon your channel. Your videos are fun to watch and are very informative. Absolutely love your work. Keep those videos coming.
Love from INDIA.
Thank you Yash!
Perfect first tip
Yes. That are the top 5 tips. Know it from other photographic areas
Great videos man, really enjoy them
Thanks for Ben for inspiring me to be a wildlife videographer …. It’s very interesting to learn from the pros
No Worries! Good luck on your journey! It's an amazing job!
Thank you for sharing Ben! Fantastic stuff!
No worries! Thanks for watching Liam, I hope they were useful.
Great tips, very specific and informative. Would love to hear your thoughts on process about story research and concept building. I find it most difficult coming up with interesting story.
There are 3 things generally that most animal stories are based around, their search for food, their quest to reproduce, and their evasion of being preyed upon by another animal. Often all 3 are interlinked.
If you have one of these as the central concept you film, you can generally build a nice sequence of behaviour and tell that story. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Just document the struggles of the animal.
@@BenTutton thats awesome. Thanks, that helps. In couple of my projects I am also trying to include human element to make it connect to viewers. Loved the octopus teacher approach.
@@KIRANGHADGE In that case, it’s about finding people who have good stories who help people change their minds about animals and the way we treat them. Examples are ex-hunters who are now conservationists, people who were attacked by animals but still want to save them.
Animal/human stories are often complicated and nuanced. But a strong narrative can really change peoples minds and push conservation forwards.
@@BenTutton thats exactly i was looking for. Great. I want to work on impact films along with pure wildlife films. With so much content available now its becoming difficult. Thanks a lot. Looking forward for more awesomeness.
Make more videos please. Stuff from the field and building projects
Really inspiring ben!, I'm a young naturalist aspiring to be a wildlife film maker, keep these videos coming dude
Cheers Zak! Hopefully more on the way. I’ve been busy with work!
Thanks fot it. Im trying to enter the professional production teams as well, but it hard from where i'm currently live
If you can film animals that live near you, and find interesting stories, then people may find your footage and get in touch.
The animals near you which you may find boring, often other people will find interesting and exotic. So it’s always with documenting those local stories.
Great advice!
If someone was looking to add to their skills (qualification wise) to give themselves a USP so to speak, what would you recommend?
Cheers Matt!
There aren’t really many qualifications required. The ability to fly a drone is useful on most shoots (GVC/PFCO qualification in the UK)
Diving work also requires specialist qualifications as does rope access/tree climbing work.
Other than that it’s really all about gaining experience. Think about what you enjoy doing and get good at that. Whether it’s Macro, Birds, camera trapping, Timelapse, Whatever really.
I’d say I’m still very much a generalist and I quite enjoy the variety associated with that.
Cameraperson, lmao