BBC IGUANA ESCAPING LOTS OF SNAKES SERIES

BBC IGUANA ESCAPING LOTS OF SNAKES SERIES

The BBC trailer for the series used the same music featured in the trailer for the original Planet Earth, ' Hoppípolla' by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. The series was announced by the BBC in 2013 with the working title One Planet, but the title was later changed to Planet Earth II.

It won two Television Awards and two Television Craft Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.Ī sequel titled Planet Earth III is scheduled to air in 2022.Įxecutive producer Mike Gunton presenting about the series at the University of Cambridge. The series received universal critical acclaim, with many reviewers commending the use of new filmmaking technology and declaring it among the best nature documentaries of all time. It aired internationally on BBC Earth and other networks. The first trailer was released on 9 October 2016, and the series premiered on 6 November 2016 in the United Kingdom on BBC One and BBC One HD. Īnnounced in 2013, Planet Earth II is the first television series produced by the BBC in Ultra-high-definition (4K), and set out to utilise new filmmaking technologies that had been developed since the first series. The series is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough with the main theme music composed by Hans Zimmer. It's good to be reminded that nature documentaries have manipulated elements, but all in all, the fakery accusation appears to be completely overblown.Planet Earth II is a 2016 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to Planet Earth, which was broadcast in 2006. 'The final iguana chase in which one iguana escapes the snakes was – unusually for natural history filming – shot using two cameras, allowing us to follow both the individual iguana and the snakes' point of view.

The Mail article also appears to interpret the 'two cameras' comment as indicating two incidents, when it appears that the BBC just cut together two perspectives on the same incident - slightly unusual, but not fake: 'This is absolutely in keeping with the norms of natural history film-making – and absolutely in line with the BBC's editorial policy guidelines, and was a true representation of animal behaviour.' 'As is common in natural history film-making, pick-up shots were filmed separately – for example close-ups of iguana eyes – to make the story of the sequence as clear as possible for the audience. Random clips were used, but those were for closeups of the iguana and the snakes, not for the actual chase portion: But the accusation in the Daily Mail's article is somewhat different - not that the BBC enhanced a chase, but that they basically built a chase out of random clips.īut the Mail appears to misunderstand what White was saying, and what actually happened. Watching 8 hours of boring footage before something exciting happens with crappy recorded sound is not exactly riveting TV.

It's certainly true that nature documentaries are manipulated to a certain extent, and we're pretty much okay with that. She added: 'For continuity, it was better to crop the scenes together based off of the two cameras we had at the time to create the best possible scene.' She went on to explain that the Bafta-winning moment was the product of two cameras, which were both trained on the beach in the Galapagos as the newly-hatched marine iguanas were chased by racer snakes. 'Unfortunately lizards, snakes and iguanas aren't good at 'takes'.' The Mail reported on an answer given by one of the show's producers at a talk:Įlizabeth White, who was in charge of the 'Islands' episode, shocked the audience at the Media Production Show yesterday when saying: 'It wasn't the same iguana no, and often we have to augment it with other clips. The Daily Mail delivered a distressing news item on Tuesday: that amazing Planet Earth II clip of a snakes chasing a baby iguana from last year was faked, the result of cobbled together footage of different iguanas.

Bbc iguana escaping lots of snakes