This Sunday, the Discover Channel will roll out the first of 11 episodes of its new mini-series entitled "Planet Earth".
This past weekend, as I was preparing for my fantasy baseball auction, I had the "Dirty Jobs" marathon on my TV and it seemed that every commercial break featured clips from "Planet Earth" and I was in awe of every single one of them.
The New York Times had an article earlier this week about the program. According to the Post; "Viewed in standard analog, each of the 11 hour long episodes — “Pole to Pole,” “Mountains,” “Deep Ocean,” “Deserts,” “Ice Worlds,” “Shallow Seas,” “Great Plains,” “Jungles,” “Fresh Water,” “Forests” and “Caves” — make previous conservation films look pedestrian."
"“Until we started ‘Planet Earth’ the only aerials you could film in nature documentaries were wide angles because if you flew close enough to get a tighter shot you’d frighten the animals,” Mr. Fothergill [producer]said. Among the various photography systems employed by his vagabonding camera crew — 70 men and women who traveled to more than 200 locations on five continents — during their five years traveling the globe, the Cineflex heligimble was by far the most revolutionary. The gyroscopic stabilizing mechanism, once reserved for Hollywood studios, can support a lens four times more powerful than any previously used in nature photography. As far as animals on the ground are concerned” the helicopter “is just a distant buzz, an annoying mosquito in the sky,” he said."
One descriptive moment in the Times article stated; "On the plains of Botswana a crew drove around in open-top Land Rovers with special infrared lenses to film a pride of 30 lions on the prowl for elephants. 'This whole pride, 30-strong, jumps on the back of the elephant and kills it.'" I think this mini-series will really bring things to the general public that we haven't seen before, in a way we've never experienced before.
The Discovery Channel site has some great clips from the show to entice you to watch. They also have a great game, along the lines of Oregon Trail, that you can play and watch some other exclusive video clips.
The mini-series, with a "sweeping cinematic score" and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, is on Discovery Channel starting this Sunday. Three episodes will be shown this Sunday; "Pole to Pole" at 8pm, "Mountains" at 9pm and "Deep Ocean" at 10pm.
This past weekend, as I was preparing for my fantasy baseball auction, I had the "Dirty Jobs" marathon on my TV and it seemed that every commercial break featured clips from "Planet Earth" and I was in awe of every single one of them.
The New York Times had an article earlier this week about the program. According to the Post; "Viewed in standard analog, each of the 11 hour long episodes — “Pole to Pole,” “Mountains,” “Deep Ocean,” “Deserts,” “Ice Worlds,” “Shallow Seas,” “Great Plains,” “Jungles,” “Fresh Water,” “Forests” and “Caves” — make previous conservation films look pedestrian."
"“Until we started ‘Planet Earth’ the only aerials you could film in nature documentaries were wide angles because if you flew close enough to get a tighter shot you’d frighten the animals,” Mr. Fothergill [producer]said. Among the various photography systems employed by his vagabonding camera crew — 70 men and women who traveled to more than 200 locations on five continents — during their five years traveling the globe, the Cineflex heligimble was by far the most revolutionary. The gyroscopic stabilizing mechanism, once reserved for Hollywood studios, can support a lens four times more powerful than any previously used in nature photography. As far as animals on the ground are concerned” the helicopter “is just a distant buzz, an annoying mosquito in the sky,” he said."
One descriptive moment in the Times article stated; "On the plains of Botswana a crew drove around in open-top Land Rovers with special infrared lenses to film a pride of 30 lions on the prowl for elephants. 'This whole pride, 30-strong, jumps on the back of the elephant and kills it.'" I think this mini-series will really bring things to the general public that we haven't seen before, in a way we've never experienced before.
The Discovery Channel site has some great clips from the show to entice you to watch. They also have a great game, along the lines of Oregon Trail, that you can play and watch some other exclusive video clips.
The mini-series, with a "sweeping cinematic score" and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, is on Discovery Channel starting this Sunday. Three episodes will be shown this Sunday; "Pole to Pole" at 8pm, "Mountains" at 9pm and "Deep Ocean" at 10pm.
Do you plan to watch? Once you do, please return here and let us know what you thought!
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