WILDLIFE AT HOME

c 1991 Tristan Winter

 

This is a program documenting the lives of exotic animals all around the world. The series is comprised of hour-long installments, totaling a projected run of 500 episodes.

Budgetary requirements must allow for the finest cameras and sound equipment, both manually and remotely operated, so as to produce the most unobtrusive footage of the creatures in their native and migratory habitats. Patience will be necessary throughout the shooting and editing phases.

Adhering to this strictly covert filming technique will allow the actions of the animals to display their instinctive as well as their evolved social organization as they live their days and nights meeting such challenges as eating, watering, brutalization, courtship, birthing, and chance encounters with other species, both cordial and lethal.

Finally, what will rivet the audience will be the real-time descriptions explaining what the viewer is seeing. The narratives must be added in hushed, rich, tones of awe. But, instead of the voice-over being done in “Received Pronunciation” (or “BBC English”), each segment will be narrated in the actual voice and language of those animals on screen at the time.