Traverlling Birds

This video had spent Jacues Perrin and his crew 4 years, 460 kilo-meters of film and over 40 million dollars across over 50 countries and regions. 600 people involved, including 17 greatest pilots in the world and 2 scientific expeditions. A large amount of shots taken in different places, such as south pole, deserts, valleys and sky, make the nature admirable. During the first year of the project, they didn’t frame a lot, instead, they followed the migrant birds and off their guard. They didn’t start framing until the second year, they use special tools such as small planes, dynamical umbrellas and flying objects in the similar size as birds with a special hidden camera to frame the birds. Meanwhile, they fed some wild birds as actors to frame with the aircraft carrier and factories. All this serious preparations they have done made the video admirable and great.

The video was framing in many amazing angles which make the audience feel like they are really there, flying with the birds, so do I. There are a few words in the video, instead of it they use lots of live recorded sound and songs singed by choir. The whole video is the explanation of the first sentence of the video ‘The migration of birds is all about a promise’ which stay in the audience mind for a very long time. You will find that the earth have been changed a lot by human being by following the birds fly all over the world in 30 minutes. In that 30 minutes, the birds are the king of the world whole their living environment is now seriously damaged. The music playing when the bird was hit and the parrot successfully escaped really shocked me. The music mixed with sounds of birds flying and chirping in New Age way created the whole atmosphere of the whole video.