Watch Into the Forest on Amazon Prime
Into the Forest is my latest nature documentary about the animals that inhabit a forest of southwest Germany. It documents the forest creatures as they emerge from Winter and flourish into summer. Animals filmed range from tiny plankton, to the amphibians, and the Wild Boar and Red Deer. Into the Forest focuses particularly on the amphibians and the Fire Salamander. I filmed and produced it solo, over 90 consecutive days in the forest.
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Into the Forest is told as a fable, and is a marriage between folklore and scientific documentary. A backdrop of medieval German villages, and lush deciduous forest creates a mystical realm in which the lives of the forest animals unfold. Into the Forest was filmed over 90 days from March to June in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Filming was done in several small forests near the city of Stuttgart, including Denkendorf Alter Aichwald, Naturpark Schönbuch, Silberwald and Wurmlingen/Rottenburg. One segment was filmed on the Isle of Krk, Croatia. The story-line is portrayed as a single forest, and is based on the Alter Aichwald of Denkendorf that I explored as a child. Video elements include aerial drone footage, underwater, timelapse, extreme-macro, and night. Into the Forest is an independently funded and produced film by Wilderness Media LLC/Bryan Maltais. Post-production was done in Ft. Collins, Colorado USA. The film will be narrated in English and German versions.
Film Equipment used:
Recently, very powerful equipment has been put in the hands of the truly independent film-maker, which in the recent past would have been vastly more expensive and bulky. Below is the list of equipment that I filmed Into the Forest with. In a few cases I’ve listed better gear that has become available in the meantime. I meticulously evaluated and selected this gear to yield jaw-dropping footage in a small, mobile package. This gear shoots crisp slow motion footage, image-stabilized in-lens and in-body, from the air, and underwater. After having completed the documentary I consider it the ultimate field kit.
- Panasonic GH5 with 12-60mm IS Lens 4k Video body with primary shooting lens
- Panasonic 100-400mm IS Lens Ultra Tele 800mm equivalent with Image Stabilization
- Panasonic 45mm IS Macro Lens
- Raynox 250 Super Macro Lens Attachment Doubles the effective magnification of macro lens
- SLR Magic 25mm f/.95 Lens 50mm equivalent with extremely shallow depth of field and creamy bokeh
- Pansonic 8-18mm Ultra-wide zoom
- Gorillapod 5k Tripod Fast, flexible tripod for quickly setting up shots on the ground
- Syrp Genie Mini Motorized Head for timelapse and serving as automated crew
- Tiffen 77mm Variable ND Filter For keeping proper frame-rates, make sure to get step-up rings for each lens
- Mavic Air Drone Extremely portable with great 4k video quality
- Mavic Pro II Drone Alternative to Mavic Air, better video quality, but less compact
- Olympus TG5 Action Cam Waterproof 4k video camera with better zoom lens than standard action cams
After stumbling upon your web site, I watched you film on Amazon Prime. Most enjoyable story line and and first rate videography. Well done! Now, let me finish perusing you site …
Hi John, thanks for the thoughtful comment!