LOS ANGELES – Filming animals in their native habitats lets directors and cinematographers tell a multitude of stories. “If you’re looking for a love story, you’ve got that. If you’re looking for a horror story, you’ve got that.
Action, you’ve got that,” says Anna Dimitriadis, a wildlife cinematographer working in Africa. “It hits you when you least expect it. You drive out in the morning and you have absolutely no idea what you’re going to see.
” For the PBS series, “Big Cats 24/7,” Dimitriadis and others find those stories from their base camp. The goal is to help viewers understand what the animals are like – even when the cameras aren’t rolling. New technology enables cinematographers to get closer to cats to understand their behavior.
It's demonstrated in the series, "Big Cats 24/7," on PBS. PBS Because they now have cameras that enable them to shoot during the night, those photographers can “peel back the curtain on a bit of their lives that we may have seen little glimpses of,” says Rowan Crawford, the series’ producer. The cameras are portable, have stabilized technology and long-lens capabilities.
“Military grade technology allows us to see extremely far and in detail (in ways) we’ve just never seen before.” People are also reading..
. Among the discoveries: Cheetahs are “scaredy cats,” Dimitriadis says from the camp in Africa. “They’re scared of everything, particularly lions, and we’ve got one of the biggest lion pr.