Being absolved of legal responsibility for his documentary subjects, however, does not make shooting the program any easier.
It chose instead to shoot the program in New Mexico, where until this summer there was no law addressing children's work on television or film productions.
Later, he will record the voice-over and shoot the programming close-ups while being coached through the code, line by line.
"We began to shoot the whole program like MTV," he recalls.
"Marked," the seven-minute film she shot while attending the program, won some awards.
The Australian journalist, who was released in February after spending 400 days in an Egyptian jail cell for reporting on political events following unrest, says the government is shooting the messenger in slamming the program.
I smiled, and a green bar at the bottom of the screen shot up, indicating the program's increasing confidence that it had identified the correct expression.
Leaked studio footage, shot just before the program went live and during breaks, showed the hosts, Meher Bokhari and Mubashir Luqman, chatting cozily with Mr. Hussain, discussing the questions and priming his answers.
But opponents of the hunts said they believe their protests were responsible for fewer deer being killed this year than last year, when 324 were shot, and that the program may end sooner.
The beautifully shot and edited program also features the first-ever underwater footage from inside the Arizona, a fragile preserve too dangerous for divers to explore.
