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The blue planet sea of life3/30/2024 Here are some series stats to put it all in perspective: These landmark series are big in every way, from the size of the team to the length of production. While I did a substantial amount of work on the series it really is a drop in the ocean (yes got a pun in finally!) when taken in context of the work done by the entire production team. Scientist Steve Simpson pushes an underwater hydrophone rig over the coral at Sipadan © BBC NHU Photographer: Roger Munns – Screengrab Approx number of plunges made on a cafetiere: 240ĭuring the course of filming I also turned 40, got married (to a beautiful and patient woman), had a son and moved house!.Total dive time logged (approx): 560hrs.Countries visited: Malaysia, Australia, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Maldives, Indonesia, JapanĮp.3 Coral Reefs (Cuttlefish, Octopus/Grouper, Turtle spa, anemone fish, whirlpool)Įp.7 Our Blue Planet (Steve Simpson, Alex Vail).Below are a few personal stats from my work over the series. Over the course of production I filmed ten different stories across four episodes. and I about to take the toys down for a few hours.Ī post shared by Roger Munns | Cinematographer on at 11:20pm PST #TBT Hard to believe that it was three years ago that we filmed the clown fish story for #BluePlanet2. These objects were often several times the size and weight of the fish! A few months after pitching the story I was back on Mabul with Jonathan, 350kg of equipment, a closed circuit rebreather and a plan! Fast forward two years to June 2017 and I was in Japan finishing up filming Kobudai (Sheeps-head wrasse) on the final Blue Planet II shoot with Rachel Butler and Dan Beecham, two colleagues from production who have become great friends over the past two years. To solve that problem the anemone fish had to leave the safety of their stinging anemone and push back a hard object to lay eggs on. Anemone fish normally lay eggs on the reef but by choosing a home on an anemone that lived on the sand this particular family of anemone fish had nowhere safe to lay their eggs. I threw a few ideas at him but the one that grabbed his attention was some amazing behaviour by a tiny anemone fish that I knew about from my days working on SWV. My involvement in Blue Planet 2 began in 2014 when I pitched some story ideas to Jonathan Smith, the producer of the One Ocean and Coral Reefs episodes. One of the ugliest and most charismatic animals I’ve filmed – (C) BBC NHU – Photographer: Roger Munns – Screen Grab To have filmed several sequences on the follow-up to the show which was such an inspiration to me at the start of my career is a real honour.Ī male Kobudai (Asian Sheephead Wrasse), Japan. I was inspired by watching the original Blue Planet fifteen years ago in Sipadan Water Village (SWV), while working as a resort-based videographer. I am very proud and honoured to have been a part of that huge, fantastically talented, and dedicated team and to have played a part in making this series. The final episodes you see on your screens are a result of a colossal amount of work by the entire production team in Bristol… plus the cinematographers, scientists, boat crew, helicopter pilots, and even submarine pilots that work in the field! There are often months, if not years, of research that go into each sequence and it’s that attention to detail and preparation that mean the camera team are well equipped to go out and get the footage we need. The amount of time and effort that goes into researching, producing, managing, writing and editing a series of this magnitude is massive. However, even though I filmed several stories, I was still just a small cog in a big machine. I want to say straight up that the purpose of this blog is, of course, to talk about my involvement in the series. It played for seven weeks and was watched regularly by between 10-15 million viewers as Sir David Attenborough, Hans Zimmer and the Blue Planet team took viewers on a journey around the planet’s ocean ecosystems. Blue Planet II hit screens in the UK on Sunday 29th October 2017.
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