Mantracker can you travel night

The way that they do it for the most part is there was one cameraman with each unit. They follow you the whole time. This question is, I believe, the result of a misconception. How do the camera people get all those great shots without being seen? How do they get ahead of the prey for shots of them jumping over fences or something? After the chase, the producers will identify portions of the chase for which there is no footage or poor footage.

Those portions of the chase, not affecting the outcome, will be reenacted by the prey and Mantracker. From Canadian Cowboy Country Magazine :. After the chase is over, the crew and participants go back to the noted locations - which are generally gorgeous - and reshoot some segments to get better footage.

For four days afterwards, you return to where they hit their GPS, and they watch the video. It looks like you came around this bush, and you stopped right there.

All right, you ran across that creek and then up that side. You have two Cameramen with you, one with a shoulder mounted HD steady cam, and another with a small hand held HD cam.

They are both dressed in full camouflage and have shot every single episode of the six seasons of Mantracker. They are both experts at what they do. If you drop down to hide, they drop. If you sprint indefinitely through the forest, they are with you. Anything you do, they do. However, they do leave footprints — but so do you.

The truth is you are going to be leaving footprints no matter what. For the record, both the Cameramen are really good guys too. What about the helicopter shots? Helicopter shots are also shot after the chase. Too noisy during the chase. But that is not the main reason they are passed over. The audience must connect with them - either love them or hate them, but nothing in between. But nice and funny…absolutely! Also, the show is a theatrical way to demonstrate the art of the Tracker.

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I suppose it can be helpful for the Prey but if they don't really plan on travelling at night then maybe they figured it wouldn't be of much use? Plus, those things can easily get damaged or lost and they're pretty expensive aren't they. I think I'll stick with the physical dangers of night travel in unfamiliar territory. Or maybe there are rules about night travel.

It would be awesome if someone who's participated in a chase would shed some light on this and the other hundred questions we have about the show.

I think there's probably an unspoken rule that once the sun sets, he is off the trail and they're safe. I did just see an episode where the two people said they talked about going through the night to make time and distance. And the one guy said [paraphrasing of course] "I know a lot of people think they will, and wonder why the prey don't.

I'm here to tell you And we just can't. We're absolutely wiped out and depleted. There's just no way. That's why no one does it. Because I have never seen anyone caught the first day, though often a few close calls. And I find it hard to believe that no one ever gets caught on day 1.

Other than So I wonder if he's supposed to not catch them the first day, but he can give them a few close scares, and then just make sure to get them sometime the second day. Does anyone know if there have ever been any day 1 catches? A thing I am beginning to wonder Never seen a first day catch either, and they wouldn't need a rule for that Completely with you on that.

I think the real question is whether the rule is unspoken to the contestants or just the audience. If someone tried the night strategy it would run into the biggest obejective of the show -- filming it. Since melatonin is "inhibited" with daylight, and "permitted" by darkness, this means that for your average person, as it gets later in the day and therefor darker, they start to feel more tired as their brain starts producing melatonin in quantities to permit them in a natural setting to be able to go to sleep.

Melatonin is one reason why some people who work graveyard must sleep in rooms that have been completely blacked out. To make matters worse, when the game starts, the prey keeps running to get the most distance away from the trackers, which when combined with the nightime melatonin release, causes them to be to tired to be able to continue.