Animals are an important part of the human experience and therefore, they play a vital role in many screen productions. But their trainers are struggling, so are animal wranglers the next endangered species? Georgina Pearson reports.
The old show business saying “never work with children or animals” is a reminder of the power of an animal performance, which can connect with audiences in ways that humans rarely can.
There are always films, TV shows and TVCs requiring an animal cast member of some sort, so the pressure to deliver falls on animal wranglers. And with every scene requiring hours of training, not to mention thousands of dollars, the stakes are high to get it right.
As the industry rapidly moves into increasingly realistic CGI, it would seem that using real animals on-screen is a slow dying art form. It is not; however, in Australia at least, the biggest issues this...
The old show business saying “never work with children or animals” is a reminder of the power of an animal performance, which can connect with audiences in ways that humans rarely can.
There are always films, TV shows and TVCs requiring an animal cast member of some sort, so the pressure to deliver falls on animal wranglers. And with every scene requiring hours of training, not to mention thousands of dollars, the stakes are high to get it right.
As the industry rapidly moves into increasingly realistic CGI, it would seem that using real animals on-screen is a slow dying art form. It is not; however, in Australia at least, the biggest issues this...
- 2/8/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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