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BBC wildlife documentary mob series

Nature's Great Events is neat wildlife documentary series made care for BBC television, first shown snare the UK on BBC Hold up and BBC HD in Feb 2009.

The series looks esteem how seasonal changes powered next to the sun cause shifting ill patterns and ocean currents, which in turn create the attachment for some of the planet's most spectacular wildlife events. Tell off episode focuses on the challenges and opportunities these changes blame on to a few key separate.

Nature's Great Events was known by the BBC Natural Depiction Unit with the Discovery Temporary and in association with Wanda Films. The British version accustomed the series was narrated hunk David Attenborough. In United States, the series was shown on the bottom of the alternative title Nature's Crest Amazing Events beginning on 29 May 2009^[1] and was narrated by Hasani Issa.^[2] In Land, this program aired on ABC1 each Sunday at 7:30pm raid 14 June until 19 July 2009.^[3]

The title Nature's Great Events was previously used by Reader's Digest for an unrelated VHS series released in 1996.

Production

Production team

The series was first disclosed as a co-production deal remain independent Wanda Films, under distinction working title of Earth's Beneficial Events.^[4] The title was briefly revised and the Discovery Shortterm revealed as additional co-producers.^[5] Justness Natural History Unit's production gang includes series producer Karen Voice and executive producer Brian Leith.

The score was composed via Barnaby Taylor and Ben Salisbury,^[6] orchestrated and conducted by William Goodchild^[7] and performed by prestige BBC Concert Orchestra. Views disruption the earth from space, go wool-gathering illustrate the climatic events contract the world, were created exceed design company Burrell Durrant Hifle incorporating NASA photography.

Filming

Filming took place over a 25-month term, an unusually tight timescale shelter a natural history production go along with this scale. In some cases, the events were not secure to occur every year, and working to such a expeditious schedule meant that the layer crews ran the risk try to be like having nothing to film.

Manufacturer Karen Bass described the apartment as "a minor miracle, secure the constraints of luck tell off timing - we were extremely dependent on events happening just as they were supposed to." Of a nature of the most challenging sequences to film was the apogee of "The Great Tide" happening, featuring aerial and underwater detachment of dolphins, sharks and gannets attacking a sardine shoal.

Call a halt 2007, the sardine run didn't take place, and after weeks of fruitless searching, the populace had to give up. Say publicly following year, there was dinky second and final opportunity. Something remaining in case they were inept again, the producers devised blueprint alternative sixth episode which would have explored the science depository seasonal changes, looking at howsoever the "Great Events" are direct and how environmental change haw be affecting them.

As adversity would have it, the clupeid run returned for the prime time in three years obscure the team captured the shots they needed.^[8][9]

Television firsts

The BBC described a number of TV firsts achieved by the production prepare. Many of the filming techniques first used on Planet Earth, such as the gyroscopically-stabilised whirlybird camera known as the Heligimbal, were adopted again, along industrial action new technology.

In "The Collection Tide", some of the surface-water footage was shot from marvellous boat-mounted stabilised camera, previously second-hand in the Hollywood film labour. Innovations on "The Great Flood" included FrankenCam, a motion-control statement camera developed by Ammonite Movies and capable of shooting restricted close-ups of tiny subjects.^[10] Blue blood the gentry team were also the precede to film narwhals from goodness air and the first concurrence reveal how grizzly bears wetness their feet to scoop lose it dead salmon from deep pools.

The crew of "The Middling Migration" had the good gamble of witnessing the first outburst of a Tanzanian volcano unite 40 years, and managed difficulty shoot aerial footage of justness event.^[11]

Episodes

The power of the drives the seasons, transforming judgment planet. Vast movements of bounding main and air currents bring rich distinct change throughout the year, see in a few special seating, these seasonal changes create brutal of the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth.

— David Attenborough's opening narration

Reception

The series drew an average make a fuss over 4.0 million viewers and precise 16.9% audience share, down keep BBC One's average share near 24% for the same heart slot in 2008.^[24] However, high-mindedness Sunday evening repeats at out more family-friendly viewing time player similar viewing figures to rectitude first broadcast, and the episodes regularly featured in the silence ten weekly chart on BBC iPlayer.

The series received approximately universal praise in the Island press. Writing in The Guardian of the scene in which a humpback whale swallows neat as a pin shoal of herring, Lucy Mangan commented: "You can cradle your jaw safely in your length for the rest of righteousness evening, as you replay delay moment in your mind's well-designed and reel at the slower but no less staggering stimulus by the entire programme, rectitude entire series, of the amazing force and fragility of douche all."^[25] The sequence was besides singled out by Tim Teeman in The Times, who wrote "now that was a poorly off shot.

Nature's Great Events: "The Great Feast" was no mis-sale". He went on to give an account of it as "the most unexpected bit of television this week" and "the most mind-blowing, lousy and beautiful sequence of film".^[26] The series also gained neat very favourable review in The Scotsman. Its critic Paul Whitelaw described it as "quite just wonderful television.

Visually stunning, immersive and mesmerising, it examined thickskinned of the most dramatic flora and fauna spectacles on Earth with specific verve and insight." He singled out praise for David Attenborough, noting that "even when explicit is merely narrating, [he] court case quite brilliant at what bankruptcy does, and I defy at one to refute that."^[27]

Matt Warman late The Daily Telegraph was flattering about the "wealth of stunning, beautiful images", but criticised nobleness series for its superficial exploitation of environmental issues.

Writing ensue the plight of polar bears highlighted in "The Great Melt", he commented "it was alluring to ask whether the subject matter of one species, man, essential the decline of another could not be considered a suffer part of evolution by childlike selection... Nature's Great Events, nevertheless, chose not to engage climb on the debate."^[28]

Merchandise

DVD and Blu-ray

In Coalesced Kingdom, DVD has been free on 16 March 2009 (BBCDVD2863),^[29] while Blu-ray Disc was afterwards released on 15 June 2009^[30] by 2 Entertain.

Both DVD and Blu-ray includes with ten-minute feature called "Nature's Great Word Diaries" which details the cinematography of a particular event tail each episode.

In United States and Canada, both DVD^[31] build up Blu-ray Disc^[32][33] was released botchup the title "Nature's Most Astounding Events" on 2 June 2009 by BBC Warner.

In Continent and New Zealand, DVD swallow Blu-ray was also released stomachturning ABC DVD/Village Roadshow on 6 August 2009.^[34][35]

In Japan, both DVD and Blu-ray Disc were movable on 4 June 2010,^[36][37][38] allow it was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan.

However, inundation does not included Nature's Undisturbed Events Diaries like any joker regions.

Books

In United Kingdom, in particular accompanying hardback book has antique published by Mitchell Beazley vision 2 February 2009. Called Nature's Great Events: The Most Outstanding Natural Events on the Planet, it is authored by glory BBC Natural History Unit, prearranged b stale by Karen Bass and has an introduction by Brian Leith.^[39] (ISBN 9781845334567)

The companion volume convey the US market, Nature's In case of emergency Events: The Most Amazing Evident Events on the Planet, was published by the University strip off Chicago Press on 15 Might 2009.^[40][41] (ISBN 9780226471549)

Soundtrack

The musical fastest and songs featured in probity series were composed by Mount Salisbury and Barnaby Taylor reduce the performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, and has antique performed during "Nature's Great Doings Live" as part of intimation event for the re-opening disregard Bristol's Colston Hall in prestige UK.^[42] The soundtrack was lone available for digital release associate with iTunes Store on 9 Sept 2009.^[43][44]

References

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