How Do They Film Animals In The Wild

The stunning nature docuseries sequel featuring leopards, penguins, sloths and more volition be simulcast on AMC, Sundance and BBC America.

It's been a decade since the original "Planet Earth" became a cultural event on Television receiver, thanks to its stunning filmmaking and unparalleled access to the natural world. Since then, the team has surpassed its previous efforts to capture footage for "Planet Earth 2," thanks to innovations in technology and good old-fashioned human tenacity.

Being able to detect the natural world is not as like shooting fish in a barrel as sending out a cameraman to just point and shoot. Elusive snowfall leopards are rare and avoid humans, soaring birds screw upwards and down heights with dizzying speed, some predators are too dangerous to get about, many casualty animals are as well skittish to hang around humans, and some animals — such every bit a massive population of penguins that rule a remote island — are simply also difficult to access considering of the unfriendly terrain.

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Fortunately, "Planet Earth II" used a diversity of sneaky means to moving picture their animal stars. Executive producer Mike Gunton and "Islands" episode producer Elizabeth White spoke to IndieWire at the Television Critics Clan press tour about how they were able to capture the priceless footage.

one. Camera Size Matters: "Cameras are then much smaller — you can now take them on a kind of handheld gimbal, y'all can put cameras into remote boxes and leave them upward a mount," White told IndieWire. "Fifty-fifty filming 'Frozen Planet' five or half dozen years ago, the size of the cameras was massive. Mostly information technology was tied to a tripod. Then with this you could be much more costless to move and free to send a camera upwardly in a tree with a rope. It's just and then much more portable."

Chinstrap penguins on "Planet Earth II"

BBC America

two. Set on of the Drones: "In terms of remote places, the only affair that was massively useful for 'Islands' was drones because nosotros couldn't have taken helicopters," said White, whose most difficult claiming was capturing flick of the chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island, which is an uninhabited (except for all of those penguins) volcanic island in the South Atlantic.

Although White and her team set up up campsite on an outcropping of rock and used handheld cams to shoot penguins up close, almost of the sweeping vistas showing the millions of penguins and how they leap into rocky waters had to exist achieved with drones. Having a good pilot for the drone equipped with an expensive camera was essential, but there were other issues likewise involved with the apply of drones.

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"In the fourth dimension that we've been filming, they've gone from existence something quite unheard of and not particularly popular to being massive," said White. "All the legislation involved in piloting round the world is big. And then you normally need quite skilled pilots, people who take flown drones in that country. Some countries, not. Some countries haven't even begun to think about drones yet."

Golden eagle on "Planet Globe II"

BBC America

three. Farthermost Eagles: Following the flight of a bird of prey like the golden eagle is no easy feat. The speed, the distance and the steepness of its flying is a claiming that a regular cameraman could hardly replicate. "Planet Globe II's" solution was to care for the eagle as if it were an extreme sports athlete and strapped a Get Pro-similar camera to information technology.

Gunton explained, "Nosotros thought, 'How can we show what information technology's similar flight at that extraordinary stoop?' The ultimate mode of doing it would be to actually go an eagle to show you what it's like. And so they got an eagle and put a photographic camera on the back of it. Obviously it was a trained hawkeye. That causes all sorts of trouble because then people would say, 'Oh, you've used the trained bird.' In some ways, I regret that shot…but that is a genuine POV, a genuine shot of what it'south like to be an hawkeye flying."

White added, "It's only about three shots, but …the thing I do dearest about it is you run across its head twitching, you run into its eyes going."

4. Hanging Out: Although non quite as accurate, another way "Planet Globe II" mimicked an hawkeye's flight was with an expert hang glider. At that place's a twist to this approach though, which you can find out more about in Episode seven, "The Making of Planet Earth II."

A snow leopard, "Planet Earth II"

BBC America

5. It's a Trap! Advances in the technology of camera traps, which are triggered by movement, helped capture footage of very rare animals such as the snowfall leopard, which is endangered and lives a solitary and secretive existence.

"It immune us to tell that story, which was untellable without that technology. In some ways, it is my favorite sequence in one sense — because even the racer snakes, which I think is one of the all-time greatest pieces of television ever — nosotros could all go there potentially and sit downwards with our binoculars and encounter that," said Gunton. "Y'all could never see what happens with those snowfall leopards. It's only through that photographic camera that you tin do it. I think there's something rather also kind of old-fashioned-ly magical virtually it. You get out those cameras in that location, at that place'southward no cameraman involved other than setting it upwardly and so you go away. And yous come back and think, 'Well, what's in here?' You accept this card out, you put it in the motorcar and and then recollect, 'Nothing.' And so of a sudden, equally if by magic, over the crest comes a snow leopard."

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"The crew who put those in position did such a beautiful job because they were working with scientists who knew that certain rocks — they called them kind of 'pee mail' where they spray," added White. "And so on those item rocks they would rig a camera and so that yous had a view that also gave you lot the landscape. Then you could put the context in, but they would also take a couple of others that would give the close-ups and and so on."

"The bears scratching is some other case of yous probably wouldn't be able to run across. You certainly couldn't get that perspective," said Gunton.

White agreed. "A cameraman up a tree would be distracting the behave."

Bank check out a clip of the bears scratching themselves on trees (prepare to music!) after emerging from hibernation below:

six. Packing Oestrus: "Planet Globe II" focused one episode on a surprising habitat that hasn't been featured before: cities. "It felt very, very personal. It was kind of unmined territory in a sense," said White. "Yous can't avoid the fact that cities are a cardinal habitat and that many, many, many people live in cities. So it felt fresh and contemporary but information technology also felt like it was very, very relevant. Information technology was timely.

"The leopards in Mumbai were filmed using old military machine technology that films heat signatures," she said. "That story you wouldn't be able to do without that technology."

The leopards featured in Mumbai hunt at dark, and the heat signature technology presents the large cats in an eerie fashion that highlights some aspects — such every bit the way their muscles movement and the texture of each hair — but downplays others, like their eyes.

Leopard seen with heat signature in Mumbai, "Planet Earth Two"

BBC America

Gunton added, "It was of import that the approach to film that was to say, 'This is a habitat.' Then it'south cute and it'south filmed with the same technology. The same techniques, the same grammar is used. And then the choice of the stories is the same in that how you choose the stories is exactly the same as you'd choose it in these other shows. It'southward another three-dimensional jigsaw. Y'all need dissimilar types of behavior and dissimilar types of creatures: yous need mammals, you need reptiles. You as well need different types of emotion: you desire some scary stories, you lot want some pitiful stories, thought-provoking [stories]… So you've probably only got ane funny mammal or 1 scary reptile or one thought-provoking bird. It'southward like a matrix."

Enter the matrix when "Planet Earth II" premieres Saturday, February. 18 at 9 p.m.,  simulcast on AMC, BBC America and Sundance.

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