Could we do a project to try and get a video of every vertebrate endemic to the UK walking, flying swimming, slivering or whatever it does (is locomoting the general term?)? Something like geograph but with animals rather than map squares.
Things that we would need. A list of every animal endemic to the UK and some way of keeping track of uploads. Wikipedia has a fairly decent set of lists starting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Great_Britain#Vertebrates
Things that would be useful:
Talks on transcoding. How to get the video from your phone or camera to wikipedia with the best results (VLC ffmpeg2theora)
Talks on how to record decent videos. To an extent with photos you can take a dozen pics and get a good one through shear luck. Harder to do with video.
Info from the RSPB and the like on how to record videos responsibly
A page to list publicly accessible bird hides and the like.
Yeah, this is not a bad idea. I'm just not sure how much takeup there would be. If we got no engagement, it could be a bit of a failure. I am myself not entirely sure how I would take slow motion shots of animals in motion. For example, say I wanted to film a mouse scurrying around, how would I get that kind of shot?
On 25 April 2017 at 10:43, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Could we do a project to try and get a video of every vertebrate endemic to the UK walking, flying swimming, slivering or whatever it does (is locomoting the general term?)? Something like geograph but with animals rather than map squares.
Things that we would need. A list of every animal endemic to the UK and some way of keeping track of uploads. Wikipedia has a fairly decent set of lists starting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Great_Britain#Vertebrates
Things that would be useful:
Talks on transcoding. How to get the video from your phone or camera to wikipedia with the best results (VLC ffmpeg2theora)
Talks on how to record decent videos. To an extent with photos you can take a dozen pics and get a good one through shear luck. Harder to do with video.
Info from the RSPB and the like on how to record videos responsibly
A page to list publicly accessible bird hides and the like.
-- geni
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