So You Want to Make a Film: An Introduction to Creating Videos for Broader Impacts in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Danylchuk, Andy J.; Morgan, Campbell; Ring, Nichole

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“…An effective video can be produced easily and affordably when these filming production techniques are used in conjunction with preproduction planning and storyboarding, such as those described by Danylchuck et al. (), and postproduction editing. The videos produced using these techniques are useful for science communication and can be used to raise awareness of cryptic underwater subjects, encourage social media interaction and engagement, and enhance education of people about aquatic species.…”

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“…The preproduction stage for use by fisheries professionals has been thoroughly covered before (Danylchuck et al. ) and we will not repeat it here. Our goal is to provide inexpensive methods to produce high quality underwater footage of aquatic organisms to biologists and managers with no previous training in videography, using fishes of Nevada and California as examples.…”

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“…The preproduction stage includes video conceptualization, scene storyboarding, and planning how to collect desired footage; the production phase is the filming process itself; and the postproduction stage is organizing raw footage and editing that footage to create the final video. The preproduction stage for use by fisheries professionals has been thoroughly covered before (Danylchuck et al 2018) and we will not repeat it here. Our goal is to provide inexpensive methods to produce high quality underwater footage of aquatic organisms to biologists and managers with no previous training in videography, using fishes of Nevada and California as examples.…”

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Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Ulrich

Bonar

2020

Fisheries

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Generating public interest in fish and their biology is often challenging. Many aquatic species are cryptic and largely invisible to the public. Therefore, increasing public awareness of cryptic fishes and elevating their visibility to broad audiences requires innovation. Inexpensive technological advancements now provide fisheries biologists, managers, and researchers with means never before possible for documenting fish in their natural habitat via underwater videography. We investigated cost efficient and simple methods for capturing and creating high quality, high definition, and informative underwater videos that could be used by people with little or no previous experience in videography. We tested 1) a variety of filming equipment including cameras and camera recording settings, lenses, batteries, and memory cards; 2) active and passive camera deployment techniques; and 3) a variety of free and paid postproduction software and compared them for ease of use, expense, and quality of output. Highest quality footage, i.e., highest resolution, clearest, and most stable, was obtained using a GoPro action camera deployed underwater in a stationary position mounted to a metal base plate using a combination of stock and macro lenses, and filming in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second. Final production videos were created using Adobe Premiere Pro.

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2020

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“…There is growing interest in and a need for improving how we communicate our science with the public. Conversations about how to make our messages simple and understandable, how to harness social media and fi lm to reach audiences (e.g., Danylchuk 2018 ;Shiffman 2018 ), and how to engage people by using the power of story (e.g., Moore and Orth 2018 ) are improving the reach and impact of our communication efforts. These strategies help to make science attainable and understandable to people who are interested in the information and to engage people who otherwise might not be interested in fi sheries.…”

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Fisheries Volume 45 Number 1 January 2020

2020

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“…Video of fish around aquaculture gear may enhance public understanding of farming practices and contribute to ongoing discussions in coastal communities regarding shellfish cultivation. Sharing of underwater video footage via websites and social media provides an outreach tool that can visually communicate scientific observations to a broader audience (Struthers et al, 2015;Danylchuk et al, 2018). Visual observations of ecosystem services provided to fish by aquaculture gear are critical to effective fisheries management decisions around permitting of aquaculture sites and regulation of farming practices.…”

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Oyster aquaculture cages provide fish habitat similar to natural structure with minimal differences based on farm location

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Oyster aquaculture gear may augment natural seafloor by providing structured habitat for economically important fish species. Underwater video census was used to assess fish abundance and community composition on eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) shelf and bag style aquaculture off-bottom cages and within natural rock reef habitat. During 2018, underwater cameras were mounted on four study cages at a dense shellfish farm of 40-100 commercial cages (dense cage farm), on four single cages interspersed on low relief seafloor (sparse cage farm), and amongst four boulders on a rock reef (rock reef), within an embayment off Milford, Connecticut, which is part of Long Island Sound, in the United States. In 2019, cameras were similarly deployed on two study cages per farm at each of three shellfish farms off Milford, Norwalk and Westport, CT. Video was recorded hourly in eight-minute segments from 7 am to 7 pm. Data loggers monitored seawater temperature, light intensity, and current speed. Fish abundance (MaxN) was calculated for all videos. We compared fish abundance and community composition between May and September, on cage and boulder habitat, on cages at dense and sparse farms and on cages across farm locations. In 2018, abundance of black sea bass (Centropristis striata), scup (Stenotomus chrysops) and tautog (Tautoga onitis) was significantly higher on cages than boulders, regardless of cage number. Cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus) abundance was significantly higher on boulders than cages when cage sites were grouped. However pairwise comparisons indicated that cunner were significantly higher at the sparse cage farm versus the rock reef but cunner abundance on the dense cage farm and rock reef sites was not significantly different. Abundance of black sea bass, scup, tautog, and cunner were not significantly different across 2019 farm locations. Young-of-the-year fish occurred episodically at all sites during both years, with black sea bass and scup most abundant. Fish abundance corresponded to seasonal changes in seawater temperature and was highest at the warmest temperatures. Light intensity and current speed explained less variation in fish abundance relative to temperature, and relationships were inconsistent across habitats and farm locations Our results suggest that multi-tiered oyster aquaculture cages contribute structure to seafloor environments that provide habitat for temperate reef fish similar to natural rock reefs.

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So You Want to Make a Film: An Introduction to Creating Videos for Broader Impacts in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Fisheries Volume 45 Number 1 January 2020

Oyster aquaculture cages provide fish habitat similar to natural structure with minimal differences based on farm location

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