Making a natural history documentary is a test of patience and endurance, and Tim Winton had finally run out of both. He was trying to capture the wild beauty of his beloved Ningaloo Reef but Mother Nature wouldn't play ball.
abc.net.au/news/tim-winton-making-abc-documentary-ningaloo-behind-the-scenes/102322206Making a natural history documentary is a test of patience and endurance, and on this particular day of filming on Ningaloo Reef Tim Winton had finally run out of both.
Ningaloo is a rugged, coastal landscape where the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean meet the desert. 'You feel like you're in the world's cloaca, it's intestines, that's narrowing and narrowing. The ceiling is just a few centimetres above your head and the water's up to your chin. It's hard and a little bit scary for an old person but these are really rare experiences."
Rees had never produced a documentary on this scale. It's been four years in the making, delayed at times by the complications of COVID, and he moved to Ningaloo for a year of filming. "It was incredibly satisfying learning the animal's behaviour, learning how to outwit the animal and learning how to build a system or find a way to keep the animal in position so it does the behaviour that you want it to do," he says.
Used to working on his own as a writer, Tim Winton found it confronting having the cameras focused on him."I don't have any qualifications to write a natural history series, I've never done it before, so that was a bit terrifying in the sense of how do I do this? With natural history there's quite a bit of scientific information that you have to convey – there might be five or seven scientific papers and you get 20 or 50 words.
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