Ok so first I want to thanks all of you for all your feedback!
Steve,
I checked your website, It’s very nice and you have very detail information, thanks for sharing that.
As if there are agencies that focus on wildlife videos, I know one called naturefootage.com, if someone else know any other ones please let me know.
I have seen a lot of wildlife documentaries using stock footage (you can see the agencies in the credits), even in big documentaries like planet earth. I don’t know if this is a wide or main market though, I hope it is.
George,
I’m open to all possibilities and I like your idea. I have never work with tv networks so I don’t really know how all that works, but I’m going to start to make some research. Can you recommend me any webpage, forum, etc were I can learn more about this?
Martha,
Wow! That’s a lot of experience you have in the business. Thanks for sharing your insights.
Thinking out loud… maybe it’s not a bad idea having money to buy new gear and travel. Since I’ll not invest money in these trips (the investment would be my time doing what I love), doing this as a part time “hobby” doesn’t sound bad at all.
Is good to know and to corroborate thanks to all of you that this is not probably a full time job. Is good to “hit land” to take good decisions.
Increasingdifficulty,
Thanks a lot for your reply, and also for the fun part. I understand these numbers are very relative, but since you give some detailed numbers I’m again intrigue, in this case with your results in your particular situation.
So what I would like to ask you then is how many clips you have on your portfolio? And how many downloads you had the last month, lets say, for not only wildlife footage? I don’t want to be annoying though, so feel free to skip this if you prefer.
Also keep in mind that a clip of a great white shark will probably sell 1,000+ times more than a viscacha...
Try to capture interesting behaviour, like hunting, fighting and mating, and the chances of selling go up 10-100 times.
Totally agree, and this is what’s really drives me into this. I have a lot of opportunities to capture rarely documented behavior. I would like to give you two examples.
Last year there was an active Harpy eagle nest with one chick near the lodge, you could get great footage of the mom bringing prey to the nest and feeding the chick and, with some luck, get a shot of the Harpy hunting. I will also have access to a moving platform, so logistics isn’t actually a problem. (I’m now waiting for the next year hopping they breed again). Here is a playlist where you can see this, although it was done with security and trap cams for scientific proposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fiWBMDKjt0&list=PLbI535UFO9JyFomD1JNdf9zeo3omc-gP6Another example is that this area is probably the second place in the world where you have most opportunities to see jaguars, been the Pantanal in Brasil the first. You can get great shots from the boat but using a blind in land is totally possible for better results.
And these examples brings me to another point. The filming crew doing documentaries for big TV networks usually don’t live near this places and have to invest good money to have their crew for a few weeks on location. Were I, since I live here, can stay for a long period of time all year round, having more opportunities to get those nice rare shots.
This post have gone to long hehe sorry, but I wanted to give you guys a better understanding so new ideas can come up. Maybe contact BBC directly, for example, is not a bad idea if I got those shots (the equipment meets their requirements at least).
What do you guys thing?
Best
Daniel
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