The most spectacular sequences of the award-winning BBC series “Blue Planet II” come to Zurich’s Hallenstadion indoor stadium. Is accompanied by the production of a Symphony orchestra conducted by Matthew Freeman. The music Oscar winner Hans Zimmer wrote. Between the film clips of the German “Terra X”-presenter and environmentalist Dirk Steffens the audience on the journey under the surface of the water.
During the four years of filming, the film team went on 125 expeditions, and traveled to 39 countries, spent more than 6000 hours on dives and filmed on every continent and in every ocean – from the coasts to the deep sea.
Chili-concentrate for eyes
The spectacle of nature takes place on a giant LED-wall, 4K-Ultra-HD. For technology strange Steffens explains: “If HD-TV to deliver a sharp image, then 4K is hellish hot. There is a difference in the degree of sharpness, such as between the tomatoes and the chilies.” For the connoisseur: “HD pictures of 1000 horizontal picture points, 4K footage is about 4000. You can, however, bring the Double to eight times the amount of pixels on the screen.”
And this is not only very large, but huge. “Chili-concentrate for the eyes, but without the Burn,” says Steffens. With television, the have nothing more to do. “The colors have insane depth, and sometimes one has the feeling to sit in the middle on the bottom of the sea, and around the wild rages of life under water.”
high-Risk shooting
the film crew risked a lot. A colleague had been stung by a venomous stone fish, another had swallowed a hair, a 30-ton whale, tells environmentalists Steffens. The film crew encountered strange creatures that seemed to be from another planet. For him the most moving Moment is the scene in which the Walrus-mother for your exhausted Baby is looking for a piece of ice was. And downright scary, the giant bristle worm that crawls in the night to prey dünke him. The most incredible however, Steffens found the deep-sea recordings of the fish with the transparent head.
it had all Begun twenty years ago. Nature films for the BBC set out to shoot a series on the world’s oceans. From unique recordings of the Blue Planet “came to be”. The series set new standards in 2001, to a new level. A Generation later, the camera team turned up once again in the Depths of the oceans and made it possible, thanks to revolutionary technology, a new insight under the surface of the sea. “An Upgrade from the corded phone to the Smartphone.” Dirk Steffens: “We will see more of the behavior of the animals , as it would be with the naked eye.”
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Created: 25.02.2019, 16:40 PM
