Filming the First Five Years of Life (with Hamo Forsyth) GCS249

Filming hundreds of children around the globe from birth to five years old is incredibly complex. Learn how executive producer Hamo Synth and his team did it for documentary series BECOMING YOU on Apple TV+

Hamo and Go Creative Show host, Ben Consoli, analyze the difficult prep involved creating this docu-series, finding the right families to feature, the challenges of filming large format 8K, how each episode was crewed, the complexities of editing all that footage, and much more!

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What you will learn in this episode

• The challenge of filming children for 5 years (02:04)
• Discovering the importance of a newborn's life (06:12)
• Approach to filming a documentary with high quality visuals (12:37)
• Filming with the Red Monstro (20:57)
• Why natural lighting was crucial (22:08)
• How episodes were crewed and directed (23:24)
• All the challenges faced when filming (29:19)
• The big task of editing this series (43:57)
• Advice for aspiring filmmakers (50:04)
• And more!

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