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strong shutter, so you don’t get rolling shutter when wrapping it around the room.” CAPTOR AND CAPTIVE Away from the confines of HQ and back on the streets – where Hunters and Hunted are embroiled in a game of cat and mouse – the direction is quite different. “It’s not about what it looks like, but making sure footage is captured,” says Etheridge. “The fugitives are often filmed on iPhones or little Canon 205 Handycams. When we hear from Gold Command – the team with a target on them – that they’re about to be caught, we want to capture that arrest through whatever means possible. We’ve even had crew strap cameras to their feet!” The ratio of camera operators to fugitives is 1:1, and Etheridge alludes that the crew members often get invested in their runaways. “There’s a sense of Stockholm syndrome on the show. They get immersed in this new state that’s created, and are basically on the run too,” he laughs.
CONTRAST Filming the Hunters (top left) needs careful staging, but camera operators out in the wild (above) must be mobile
parts: the headquarters, Hunters and fugitives. As long as these individual elements all look the same, it doesn’t matter if they are different to each other. The goal is to be there, making sure we’re documenting the chase.” Hunted is set to return to TV screens later on in the year.
The Hunters on the move are also given a different direction, with Etheridge employing covert filming techniques, such as thermal imagery and drones. He adds, “We wanted to be a bit more stylised with the Hunters, because even though they’re out on the streets too, they still hail from intelligence. So, as well as all the covert optics, we filmed them on Sony FS7 and FX9 cameras.” With such an array of capture equipment, there were concerns the show wouldn’t be visually seamless. But Etheridge points out that viewers don’t expect this. “It’s split into three distinct
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“As well as all the covert optics, we filmed them on Sony FS7 and FX9 cameras”
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