ORIGINAL: kickin_buck
Doug, you make some really good points and it is very true. As I said before, I spent about 3 years as a camera guy for a hunter (I will not say which company he was signed with at the time or his name). I remember one buck we took on camera that made a show. He was the only deer we seen that day on stand, a great buck, but still the only deer we even seen that morning. The buck came in on us fast and we did not have a bunch of footage, but did get some tape of him coming in, as well as good tape of the shot. When the footage aired on TV, they had done some editing to the footage which included other deer we had gotten footage of before this hunt and included as it was all the same hunt. The funny thing was, most of the footage they added to this hunt was filmed in a completly different State than the were the buck was taken. You just have to remember that these shows are for entertainment, nothing else.
Well put kickin. I film also, and rarely do the deer read the script. When a giant comes in a first light, you shoot it, end of story. Film the other stuff afterwards, like panoramas and other deer, and cut-aways. There are very few people that can actually make a living at huntin and those kills are important. Without them, you got nothing.
Don't forget about the entertainment part either...