I have been making TV Shows for about 7 years and they are not all made by the same proceedure and vary between production companies and also the type of hunt. The last few years, we have filmed many, many predator calling hunts. We almost always use facemask as for one, we are trying to call the predators as close to the decoy as we can. Its just the sport we are playing. Many of these hunts that are filmed are filmed
with one camera, and that requires considerable of what we call
"cut ins" after a stand where we have some sort of action. Certainly, we do not call something on every stand. Actually, if you do it right, the filming will cut down on your success, and all other things being equal, you will call LESS predators IF your priority is capture really good footage.
We film with an absolute minimum of 2 cameras, one on a tripod operated by the cameraman and the other on a tripod focused on
the hunters. But, we try to film with 2 cameramen running a camera each plus one or two more on tripods, or barrel cams.
Either way, the views you see of us hunting are realtime and are not cut ins. If we are wearing a face mask, it shows, if we do not show a face mask, we were not wearing one, but if your interest is to get them in close, you should always wear both a face mask and gloves and leave very little human skin to view, as it is highly visiable.
That is all a lot of effort, and takes several people, and it cuts into your hunting considerably, but it is what it takes to
get really good footage.
It just how we do it.