Editing- UKWCT Edit

I wanted to cut down the footage from my visit to the UKWCT. In doing so I will be able to access the best footage more easily when it comes to making my final documentary. For the edit I selected the best interview answers that I believe Mike answered well and that would make an impact on the audience. Similarly I picked the best footage of the wolves that I could use in my final documentary. i wanted to capture the wolves doing a variety of things, the footage that I elected included: Howling, Laying Down, Pacing, Looking at the camera, Walking about.

Link to the edit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_GwJ26B6Q

UKWCT Edit Transcript

1   .     When and why was the trust set up?

The Trust has been open since 1995; it was opened by Roger Palmer. Roger Palmer lives, well lived with the current owner Tsa Palmer and they kept wolves as a hobby back when you could keep any animal on the black market for example and from just pet shops. They basically kept wolves in their private homes for years, they even, I think they had a couple wolves in a flat in London at one point. Then obviously the dangerous wild animals license came in and things started to change. And they were given the choice of doing a few things, obtain a dangerous wild animal license, which means you can keep them if you keep them in certain criteria, put them down, or put them in a zoo. And at the time, zoos weren’t that good in the UK and they felt that they didn’t want to do that. They didn’t want to put their beloved animals down so they decided to open up a trust.

2     .     Wolves are depicted as evil in fairy tales such as red riding hood, do you think this has had a long lasting affect on people’s views on wolves?

(Part of the answer) Religion has always portrayed wolves as the animal that preys on the flock, the flock being whoevers in the church and the Shepard being the priest for example. These guys just haven’t had a break, and little red riding hood for example, not only is it portrayed as the wolf being a predator of children but its also supposed to be a sexual deviant if you look at it, as in a lot of them the wolf climbs into bed and entices a young woman into bed, so they haven’t even got a break in that respect.

     .What do you think we can learn from wolves?

I think we can learn a lot from social behaviours as well with wolves. Every wolf in the family pack does have its own place, they do have arguments and squabble and things like that but at the end of the day they’re a family unit, they don’t want to kill each other and things like that. Humans are very much, are very similar to wolves in a weird kind of way if you think about it. We basically have expanded our species, all over the world just like the grey wolf has. And in the same way that’s why we see them as a threat.  We see them as invading on our space, when actually it’s a space that we should share. And wolves seem to get this as because when you usually find a pack of wolves that live near people, the people never see them, they stick to their own business and mind out their way. I think is people done this more with animals the world would be a bit of a better place, if I’m honest with you.