Great Blue Heron - Chased and Chasing in CSSP

[Charline]

* Sorry this clip has been deleted, I am making a new one. Will post when it's ready.

I made this video because the GBH did so many interesting things that it's best seen in a 5-minute video.  I also filmed an immature yellow-crowned night heron making sunning pose to cool its body temperature.

My video skill is very poor, I made a lot of mistakes. After finishing editing, I can hardly move my arms.


Still hope you find the story of the Great Blue interesting.

[Shortsighted]

What's with the subtitled? You couldn't get Sir David Attenborough? Well, at least you managed to get his film crew. Nice job and mind-blowing when viewed from the usual context of this forum. Imagine that ... video, although film sounds so much better. There I go reminiscing again. That pond of yours, from now on we'll reverentially refer to it as the pond, looks so much like ponds around here where us still photographers grab a pint, except that apparently not all of your pond is choked in duckweed and scumweed, only the naughty bits, which look like shag carpet ... there I go reminiscing again, although who would want to shag in that. You did a nice job and you have the sore arm to attest to it. Wonderful cloaking device too, but then I bet your film crew has all the cool stuff for going about your filming without detection. Also, I know no herons were harmed in the making of your film. I guess the BCNH took off set when it discovered the GBH was getting top billing. What do you call a heron fishing on the Don River? A Don Herron. There I go reminiscing again. I miss Charlie Farquharson. Imagine getting his voice to narrate ... what a disaster. I can't wait until next week's episode. Nice to have you back, except after that performance I feel so inadequate, which is not quite the same as feeling so dirty, there I go reminiscing again.

[Charline]

Thanks for your musing.

The various clips were made before I thought about making a short movie. I haven't figured out how to make voice over yet, being a newbie in video editing. On the other hand, the sounds of various birds are better than my voice. 

[Shortsighted]

Therefore, am I to understand that you can't sing, sing like a bird? How about a chirp? I get your point. I can only imagine how difficult video editing must be to create an 'apparently' seamless transition from scene to scene, such that the viewer perceives it as a natural progression. Narration is grand when you find the right voice. Many people cringe when they hear a recording of their own voice. I know I do! Strangely enough, I noticed that the narrative soundtrack improves when the voice is slowed-down and slightly exaggerated. You can feel quite ridiculous when talking that way but the result is way more interesting. I guess Sir David was busy and alas, David Suzuki is retired, David Caruso can only talk really slowly when standing sideways and doffing his sunglasses with and equally slow melodramatic flourish. You need to team up with a smooth talker. Perhaps a women with a low breathy sultry voice. The marsh whisperer. That could be the title of your first full-length feature film.

[Charline]

LOL, I could not talk when I was shooting, otherwise the birds would disappear, don't you think?? This is the first longer bird video I have ever made. Hope I will improve over time.


Actually, the panting immature heron was a young yellow-crowned night heron. I have made a revision.



By the way, please subscribe my YouTube channel. I have a lot more to upload, including piping plover dad herding his chicks.

[Shortsighted]

Step #1: Get excited about it. (You're already there)
Step #2: Practise every chance you get (We'll see about that)
Step #3: Add narration in post ... not at the scene.
Step #4: You will need to look that one up

I don't subscribe online to anything. I made one exception in the form of this forum site because I felt guilty referring to its contents without previously contributing anything in return. Guilt eats away at you, just as Dostoevsky. My subscribing to anything else, especially if it's online, is not going to happen. The only footprints that I leave behind from my activities are in the dirt, where they belong, although I don't routinely turn around and scrutinize my footprints; although there was this one time when I noticed only a desultory trail of single 'foot' prints. That was unexpected, but then I realized that I had one foot in my mouth.

[Charline]

Understand, no problem at all.


I am re-making the video. It will take me a few days. I will replace the old video when the new one is done.