Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Planet Earth II - The Best Nature Documentary You’ve Ever Seen

The documentary Planet Earth of BBC, was a sensation in 2006. Now, 10 years later, Planet Earth II, the sequel, came back again in November, 2016. It gained wide public attention when it premiered, the first episode gained 12.26 million viewers, the highest viewing figures for a nature documentary.



When you first watch it, I’m surely you will be attracted by its vivid and super-clear frames. You can see a lizard dancing in the extremely hot desert, which is so funny, but it’s aimed to reduce the contact with the ground. If you are lucky enough, maybe you will see an enormous grizzly bear wriggles his back against a tree, as if caught in an embarrassing dance. Perhaps you will see a lemur leaps from tree to tree in a dense forest, and the camera follows the animal along with every bound. This is planet Earth II, with many interesting scenes you have never seen before from movie or TV, maybe it’s the most splendid documentary you’ve ever seen, a blockbuster nature series the BBC has ever made.



Like season one, the Planet Earth II also walks in the frontier of technology, it uses ultra-high-definition, namely 4K, to shoot its videos. With this top equipment, Planet Earth II is totally a visual feast, every frame of it can be used as a wallpaper of your desktop, as the Producer says: “ Planet Earth II is another game-changer, It will be a truly immersive experience, providing audiences with a unique perspective on the most extraordinary places and animals on our planet.” Besides, the drone was widely used in this documentary while shooting, and with a more stable and mature camera stabilization technology, even the frame of a tiny animal can be captured.

Except the black technology used in this documentary, the group of photography also played a great role. The photographing process took them 3 years, they went through about 40 countries, photographed about 117 times, with their effort, these spectacular videos eventually present in front of us. They once spent about five months, day and night, to film swamp lions hunting for buffalo. Usually when they filmed in the swamps, they were all barefoot, sometimes there were deadly crocodile under their feet. When they were photographing the penguins in Antarctic, it spent them about 7 days to come to destination by a small yacht, then 2 weeks to film. There is no doubt that the crew risk their lives to finish this photography.

Almost everyone who watches Planet Earth II will be impressed by its grand soundtrack, it’s finished by Hans Zimmer, the famous songwriter, also the music producer of this documentary. If you are not familiar with him, but you must know the ending song of Pirates of the Caribbean, which is also come from the hand of this master.

Another attracting portion of this great documentary is the narration of David Attenborough. This 90-year-old man is the father of the world nature documentaries. During his life, he narrates in many famous documentary like The Blue Planet, The Living Planet, and The Trials Of Life etc. You may not know him very well, but you must have seen the documentary he narrates. Although grandpa Attenborough's explanation is not kind of voice that let your ears pregnant, but it can make you remember the past time when you are a child, obsessed with time listening to grandpa telling a story.

Now just see the trailer of the documentary, and you can hardly wait to watch the whole part.



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