Well, for sure, we are not scripted in any way. Edited, yes. They follow us and we see what comes of it. Theres often 5 ideas of what we might do or expect to do, depending on just what it is were doing.....when they get there and the weather and machinery do their best to shape that into what ever happens, be it me breaking down severely or catching animals, but FOR SURE, its Edited.4 days average into 13 or so minutes, but the story is really what happened and no one can "Cue the Caribou" or"release the salmon" but they will say "We need a shot of you driving down the river" and we generally spend a day or 1/2 of one doing "Pick ups' where they get close up after close up, or drive bys or more skin scraping and such to fill for visual, little snips in a second or two showing some strangly morbid images ~~LOL!!~~ But its fun and we get to call the shots. If its to crappy to go, we dont, we stay home and do something, and it becomes the episode about what we do when they are there. We often take more days for production because we travel quite a bit, as you might know.
Episodes of us Fishing and being home can be fun and quick to do, those of us out hunting can await weather/parts for weeks.
They leave out alot of the kills, kill shots post kill films and alot of the catch. Its straneg to work and film things like fishing for 4 day, and the ladys proudly filling the drying racks and smoker with the best Salmon they could freshly catch, I building racks and makeinga smoker, getting cottonwood logs to keep the smoker smokin', they showed the first days catch, and me getting poles without bark for the day ,so the sap would dry on the peeled ones. .......we found that perplexing.
Edited, highly edited.....thats the key, and sometimes the editors do not understand when they screw with whats the point of what were trying to accomplish, with fishing, hunting, gathering, and the way the land is set up to have animals do certain thjings on certain terrain features, and how the animals will react to a large crew or 5 people trying to stalk animals, its can be frusterating, but the crew trys its best with what they are given.
Then theres the "Slow Mo" done inna day kind of episodes, withthings like my son being late, they were 1/2 hour ahead of me when he didnt come, and drove out about 7 miles and there he really was, actually over heated and late......but since i was stopping to check for them at the inlaws, they actually went down the trail ahead of me, set up and filmed my arrival, also with the 5-7 mandatory GO-PRO's that are ever present. They get ahead of us when were doing Winter filming too, but the camera man and safety guy are at home on Snowgo's ,getting very familiar with the camps, rivers and locations we are going to or are at, so they flow easily and are starting to know the places we film well enough to know wher ewere going, and that makes it easier. If Im gonna go somewhere, I just tell them where and what time ill leave, and they can get ahead or behind, depending on what shot they look for. Something repetitive and an east to fololow trail on like a trap line is a very easy shoot, even in bad weather.
The longest waits is when we drag ass from 100 mile rides and they travel with us.....then we stop and they take 15 minutes to set up to film our arrival, us all tired, sitting, looking at our warm house at -20....LOL!!! those are the hardest, and thats the closest we actually get to being scripted.
We get paid a bit, hopefully better if we do a 3rd season
I do not personally know the others on the show, outside my own doings.
Im glad some fellas here are familiar with posts Ive made here for years. The same basic rythem in Nature is what Ive been posting, now its on TV ......but the storys dont stop when the cameras leave...
Well, for sure, Ive got another write up to do! The ladys came home today, Ive been home for a week and a half myself, as my mothers here, and Agnes waited out ice and weather for a week more, getting in some killer hunting and beach combing like few can.....
Ivory Teeth from "Floaters and Stinkers"
Qiviut Wool, gatherd and raw from the bushes along the coast, about 8 lbs, I think is worth 90$ an ounce cleaned. I gotta check on that, but still, very nice