Life_on_Location《Life制作特辑》
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- 中文片名 ：Life制作特辑
- 中文系列名：
- 英文片名 ：Life on Location
- 英文系列名：
- 电视台 ：BBC
- 地区 ：英国
- 语言 ：英语
- 时长 ：约 10 分钟/集
- 版本 ：TV
- 发行时间 ：2009
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Four years in the making, shot in HD, using state-of-the art filming techniques and filmed on ever-continent and in every habitat across the globe, Life is the latest epic blockbuster from the BBC’s award-winning Natural History Unit.
These location stories are as fascinating as the wildlife films themselves, and feature the production crew explaining what it took to capture key sequences, each episode correlates to an episode of Life.
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Ice Alliance
(Life Programme 1: Challenges of Life) Of all of Life’s filming locations, working in Antarctica was the most challenging and only through collaboration could the team hope to achieve their goals. One team was diving under the ice of the Ross Sea; another camped out in a chinstrap penguin colony; and a third ventured down to the Antarctic Peninsula in search of the two top predators.
Cameraman Doug Allan set out on the Golden Fleece but got stuck in the ice. They wanted to film leopard seals hunting chinstrap penguin chicks – something that only happens for 10 days each year.
Filming killer whales hunting crab-eater seals proved even more difficult. To help them find the whales in the vastness of the Antarctic Peninsula, series producer Martha Holmes and the crew of HMS Endurance set out in the ship’s helicopters. Eventually, the teams managed to film the whales as they hunted – something never filmed before in this, the most extreme continent on Earth.
Chasing The Dragon
(Life Programme 2: Reptiles and Amphibians) No one has ever followed or filmed a Komodo dragon hunting a water buffalo – this was the challenge for Life cameraman Kevin Flay. At one water hole, and after a long wait, he managed to film a dragon biting a buffalo.
He followed the buffalo constantly over the next three weeks as it was trailed by up to seven dragons. This meant staying close to the dragons, which was potentially a very dangerous position.
The tracking process was emotionally difficult, as Kevin could not help but feel for the buffalo, which was weakening daily from the dragon’s venomous bite. Yet he was also impressed by the power and charisma of the dragons. Finally, the buffalo died and he filmed 10 big dragons reduce it to bones in just four hours.
The Heat Run
(Life Programme 3: Mammals) For the first time Life has succeeded in filming a complete sequence of the colossal humpback whale courtship battle - known as the ‘heat run’. It was filmed from the air, surface and underwater to give the full picture. This was a dangerous assignment for underwater cameraman Roger Munns. The team of free-divers placed themselves in position to film a fast- moving train of fighting whales, each weighing up to 40 tonnes.
For the first three weeks, all they found was an inquisitive and playful calf. When the heat run began, Roger placed himself in a precarious position to capture the action. Holding his breath deep underwater, he filmed seven male whales as they battled for position behind a female. Roger was confronted by the most remarkable underwater experience of his life as the males charged past. It was like “standing in a stream of traffic”, he said.
Fish Out Of Water
(Life Programme 4: Fish) Sailfish are cameraman Rick Rosenthal’s life passion, so he jumped at the opportunity to film them off the coast of Mexico. The crew was lucky to hit a bumper year and, with over 30 sailfish in the water at once, the action was extraordinary. For the very first time using a hi-speed camera in an underwater housing, the team was able to film unique footage of these top predators.
Meanwhile, in Tobago, another crew led by Doug Anderson were after flying fish. When flying fish start spawning, they do so on a huge scale, and anything and everything becomes a target for their eggs– including cameramen and assistants! Eventually the team was forced to abandon the area, as the numbers of flying fish were so huge that they risked sinking the boat by laying such a weight of eggs on it.
Undeterred, the crew spent the remainder of the trip filming high-speed images of the fish doing what they do best (flying), with astonishing results.
Hide And Seek
(Life Programme 5: Birds) The very last filming trip for the Birds episode for Life was perhaps the most challenging for cameraman Barrie Britton and assistant producer Stephen Lyle. Their aim was not only to film the male Vogelkop bowerbird weaving and decorating his extraordinary bower, but to also capture his courtship behaviour and the mating ritual itself – an event which has never been filmed before.
To do this Barrie, Stephen and their field assistants spent a month camped deep in the forests of West Papua. Though there were many bowers to choose from, picking the right one to film was always going to be a gamble.
Day-in, day-out, Barrie returned to his trusty hide, and after several weeks of concerted effort his patience was wearing thin. Though he had managed to film some wonderful bower construction and decoration, the actual courtship event still eluded him.
It was not until the last few days of the shoot that Barrie was able to capture this extraordinary piece of behaviour. It only lasted a matter of seconds, but it was well worth the wait!
Flying With Butterflies
(Life Programme 6: Insects) The team wanted to ‘fly’ a camera through the thousands of monarch butterflies during their mass hibernation in the Mexican forests. First, they worked at a special place where thousands of butterflies come to the ground each day to drink from a small stream. Climbers Tim Fogg and Jim Spickler took three days to rig a very complicated spider’s web of cables among the trees, all to support the central one which was the runway for the camera. The result was a unique series of camera shots flying alongside butterflies.
Then they rigged the whole system at 50 metres in the trees, in order to fly the camera close past vast roosts of butterflies hanging from the branches. This was a much more demanding and delicate job, as the roosts disperse at the slightest disturbance.
Rock Pooling
(Life Programme 7: Hunters and Hunted) Cameraman Mike Pitts and producer Adam Chapman travelled to the Falkland Islands on a tip-off that a pod of orca had learnt how to hunt na?ve elephant seal pups when they first venture into the water. Despite over-inquisitive seal pups, bad visibility underwater and South Atlantic storms, the crew managed to film a unique hunting strategy and discovered in the process that it is actually only one female in the pod that dares to edge into the small pool where the seals first swim.
Sink Or Swim
(Life Programme 8: Creatures of the Deep) The Life team travelled to the freezing waters of the Antarctic to film the slow-motion world of the creatures living under the ice. First, they drilled a huge hole in the ice to feed all the equipment through. It took over 150 dives to gradually construct and operate a tracking time-lapse rig. Finally, they could film the behaviour of starfish, sea urchins and giant worms swarming over a dead seal pup, speeded up 500 times.
The Life team also discovered that creating their very own shipwreck in the Bahamas was much more difficult than they imagined – but in the end the boat sank perfectly, settling upright on the bottom. The team returned several times during the next two years to watch nature take a hold on the rusting hulk.
Timewarp
(Life Programme 9: Plants) The team was trying to achieve a shot that had never been attempted before – the entire growing season in a woodland, filmed in one shot. It would bring together elements of time-lapse photography in both the field and the studio, computer graphics, and a lot of hard work and patience.
The team carried numerous wheelbarrow-loads of kit the 1.5 miles to the site (a secret location on Dartmoor) and took two days to build the track. With a bicycle wheel, a piece of string, a ladder and a stills camera, the team finally managed to get the base shot.
Then the track had to be rebuilt in the studio to exactly the same length and angle, and the forest had to be reconstructed around it in blue screen by time-lapse cameraman, Tim Shepherd. It took over a year to be fully completed, including a five-week track to film the foxgloves opening, getting spiders to spin webs, and even a high-speed camera-shoot to get the water droplet falling at the end of the sequence.
Then it was over to Mick Connaire, the graphic designer, to bring it all together.
Ninety-Nine Per Cent
(Life Programme 10: Primates) As the majority of primates live in tropical forest and spend a lot of time up in the trees, or concealed behind leaves, filming them is a tough challenge. The Life team had to use all its intelligence on primates, forward-thinking, field craft, and hand-eye co- ordination to succeed.
Camerawoman Justine Evans, primatologist Tatyana Humle and their field assistants filmed chimpanzees using tools in the forests of Guinea, West Africa. It took a month of intense effort for Justine to capture some unforgettable behaviour, and earn the trust of our closest-living relatives.
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