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• How can we make nature documentaries?

Listen and read. Which programme doesn't show real animals?

FILMING NATURE

There are some great nature documentaries coming out this
month, so we wanted to hear from some of the people behind
the magic. They told us about how new technology brings
viewers closer to nature.

I started working as an underwater New technology means we can
camera operator 30 years ago. Making now make really exciting nature
documentaries was very different then. documentaries. In Migrations, we used
My video camera was big and heavy, drone cameras to film animals from
with batteries that didn't last long. the air. We film hundreds of animals
Unfortunately, there isn't much light moving across the land together. In the Working on How Dinosaurs Lived
underwater, so the cameras didn't film past, we filmed from a helicopter. Some was so much fun! I create computer
very well. Now, the technology is amazing! people still do that, but I think using drones animations of animals and make them
We use small, low-light cameras and long- is much better. You can get closer to the look real. Dinosaurs are extinct, so we
life batteries, so we can stay underwater for animals. In the first episode, I filmed the filmed the landscape they once lived in.
longer. amazing elephant migration in Botswana. I created the dinosaurs with computer-
generated images (CGI), and we added
For Discover the Deep, I went deeper into Lucy Hall, Director of Photography
them to the landscape. The effects are
the ocean than ever before. I filmed some excellent - much better than the ones
incredible underwater animals we never
I used on films in the past. I created
knew about!
some amazing dinosaur fights!
Adrian Hems, Camera Operator
Ben Sharp, Special Effects Technician

Read again and complete the diagram.

Past Present
big, heavy cameras small, low-light cameras

Which programme sounds more interesting to make and why?

I'd like to watch Creating dinosaurs with
Discover the Deep. special effects must be FIND OUT MORE-
Filming deep a lot of fun, so I really What is the most expensive
underwater want to watch How nature documentary ever made?
sounds amazing! Dinosaurs Lived!

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