Or, because there are seemingly infinite ways to dramatically intermingle light and water, whether that is bioluminescent bacteria twinkling like stars in the deep ocean or the way rays of sunlight filter through surface waters to illumine vast kelp forests. Perhaps this is due to the essential, romantic mystery that humans have ascribed to the ocean for most of recorded history - a mystery that bears out, considering that the oceans are still 95% unexplored, and less understood than the surface of Mars, despite occupying 70% of our planet’s real estate. At the time I saw “Planet Earth II,” it seemed as if that was the pinnacle of nature documentary filmmaking. This equipment is on top of the hundreds of human hours spent underwater hanging out with sea creatures - discovering the relevant animal behaviors, finding them, and then taking all that tech down to film.īut even if you are braced for a glorious production, “Blue Planet II” is likely to take your breath away. The producers developed their own camera system and lenses, shot in lush 4K, and used a massive bubble-like megadome lens to immerse the viewer half-in and half-out of the water, that beautifully liminal space on the surface. As the producers told Variety, the gear used in “Blue Planet II” was crucial for getting the intimate footage of some of the world’s most remote and elusive animals. Needless to say, the technology available to filmmakers covering the natural world has made leaps and bounds since then. But while “Planet Earth II” followed “Planet Earth” by a decade, “The Blue Planet,” the original installment of the BBC Natural History Unit’s docuseries about the oceans, debuted almost 20 years ago in 2001. “ Blue Planet II” premieres this weekend, just one year after its sister series “Planet Earth II” returned for a second, triumphant series.
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