Premise • Documentary Clips and possible sequencing

Documentary clips are about 2 minutes long, as seen from the videos embedded at the bottom.
my current ideas are is on this image, though I now have a little more of an order.
but not what should stay or how they should interact.

Images 1 moves to 3 and then to 2, this should be an introductory shot, showing the landscape above water.

5 leads straight to 8, or the other way around, showing that dangers lurk everywhere and that these turtles hide in plants.

4 introduces the multi months leading to a short chase leading to 9.

7 shows a looming threat leading to them hiding with the froths in 6, showing not all wildlife is nasty.

The script and a proper storyboard are needed.
Seeing as this is more based on its interactions, it's more of a show of how harsh this creature's environment is, but showing that it survives, it is possible to introduce it quickly showing that the environment is calm, but then that below the surface things are not as they seem, showing image 8 leading into image 4 where the creature swims a little too deep, into bad territory.

There is also the possibility of treating this as a clip from something bigger, but this might make it make a little less sense.

I could also switch to different members of the species to make it a little faster than saying this one swam from this situation into this one.

Either option I would need to only model about three scenes,
above_water
below_water_turtle
below_water_multimouth

The below water scenes will need fog and caustics, it is also possible that I might use a different renderer to create the water pattern to be composited in afterwards, as I know Blender has an option to create waves, so sorting out that render should be fine, which means I'll need to render a pass with everything above water as a mask for this.

I am pretty certain I am going to do cuts rather than fluid change between the scenes.
The main reason for this is the switch between underwater and above the water would look strange.
It could be explained as one is an underwater drone and the other is a floating one, so they can't quite switch. but cuts like that appear to be used as long as it's focused on the creature it needs to be.

Documentary Clips

'How do frogs swallow food? - Natural World: Attenborough's Fabulous Frogs - BBC Two'

'Wild Hamster Has A Graveyard Feast | Seven Worlds, One Planet | BBC Earth'

'How Beavers Build Dams | Leave it to Beavers | PBS'

'The Glass Frog: Ultimate Ninja Dad | Animal 24'

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'STRANGEST ANIMAL EVER - Nature Documentary with David Attenborough'