Thread: Winter stag hunt

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I guess for me it just takes away from the realism and makes it feel a bit too reality tv/scripted.
If there is two and one goes ahead to film the other walk past with a nice background etc it makes sense.

Maybe just me.

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All good, I know exactly what you're saying - can guarantee none of that's scripted tho. I just wander around and carry my rifle in one hand, camera in the other and randomly think as I'm walking along, 'oh that might look interesting' then plonk the camera down and record it - there's ALOT of stuff that gets deleted! Haha. I suppose it's not much different to people/hunters setting up the old self timer on a camera for a photo either. One thing about hunting by yourself and filming yourself like this is, in most cases I am always the one filming and my hunting mates are the ones getting filmed, not me, I'm usually behind the camera. So it give another perspective to the videos I edit. It is pretty weird editing clips of yourself! Haha


Also got to remember that it's not just hunters watching these videos too - I share them on other social media and my YouTube channel is public, so for example a lot of my wives friends, some of my extended family and mates that don't hunt watch them too. So having a bit of other content in there helps them understand what we love do, and how we do it - the effort that goes into a hunt, and hopefully most importantly helps to explain why we do it. The amount of cool feedback I get from non-hunters is one of my main motivators behind trying to film and photograph decent content - to shed hunting in a positive light!