Original sentence: Breaking from the series' pure documentary format, the film does not include any footage of the actual meerkats being depicted.Filming took two years to complete.For the film, a much larger crew was used.Instead, untrained wild meerkats are used to represent Flower and her family; Flower is depicted by approximately eight female meerkats.Meerkat Manor normally films episodes using a small film crew of only two or three people to avoid disturbing the meerkats.The camera crew sought out meerkats of the approximate age needed for each scene, then filmed them until they displayed the behaviors needed for the scene
Edited sentence: Breaking from the series' pure documentary format, the film does not include footage of the project meerkats depicted in the story.Instead, wild meerkat "actors" represented Flower and her family; Flower was depicted by approximately eight female meerkats.Meerkat Manor normally films episodes using a crew of only two or three people to avoid disturbing the meerkats; the film was shot over two years and employed a much larger crew.The camera crew sought out appropriately aged meerkats for each scene, then filmed them until they behaved in ways the script required