Amur tiger: a wildlife conservation documentary, edited
Years of camera-trap clips, field footage and aerials, shaped into one clear story: why the rarest big cat on Earth needs protecting, and the rangers, vets and scientists who do it.
- Client
- A wildlife conservation nonprofit
- Format
- 9-minute narrated documentary, plus short cuts for social media
- Our part
- Editing, from the client's own footage
- Year
- 2023
The story we built
The film follows the work it takes to keep a rare predator in the wild: rangers who patrol the taiga and face armed poachers, teams who step in when a tiger comes too close to a village, rehabilitation centers that treat injured tigers and raise orphaned cubs, and the release of those animals back into the forest. It closes with the indigenous Udege people, for whom the tiger is sacred.
How we edited it
- From a big archive to one story. Camera-trap clips, aerials, field and news footage from many sources, sorted and cut to a single narration.
- Picture that follows the voice. Every line of the narration has its own pictures, so the film is easy to follow even for viewers who know nothing about tigers.
- Music, sound and pace. A calm build from the forest to the rescue scenes, and an ending that leaves the viewer with the animal.
The highlight above is a new English-language cut of the film.
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