[2] The poems give a detailed description of the forest, providing a narrative timeline progressing from dawn to full day.
Ambition closes the film by asserting Lampman's rejection of contemporary society and his choice to remain in nature.
[citation needed] Due to poor weather and spoiled footage, Bairstow shot the film over two seasons, and in autumn, rather than in the spring, when Lampman actually took the trip that inspired the poem.
He wanted the scenes to be linked by a recurring musical motif and commissioned original work from Eldon Rathburn.
He also emphasized the colours of the leaves, which are a defining element of the landscape tradition of the Group of Seven; the images in the film specifically recall paintings by the Group, such as The Red Maple by A. Y. Jackson, J. E. H. MacDonald's Falls, Montreal River, and Tom Thomson's In the Northland.