BBC shoots Nature's Great Events in high definition
The BBC has used state-of-the-art filming technology to capture nature at its best for its new wildlife documentary series Nature's Great Events to be shown on the BBC HD channel.
Narrated by David Attenborough, the series will look at a variety of animal life including grizzly bear cubs, baby elephants, humpback whales, dolphins and sharks in South Africa, and polar bears.
The six-part series boasts a number of TV "firsts", including aerial footage of Arctic narwhal whale migration, high definition footage of polar bears feeding on seals, the sardine run (including pioneering a boat stabilising mount), high definition helicopter camera mount to film a shoal of sardines 15 miles long and 5,000 common dolphins, cape fur seals coming ashore, the eruption of the Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano in the Serengeti, wildebeest migration, grizzly bear families, packs of wolves, underwater footage of bears, salmon leaps filmed with high definition cameras shooting at 2,000fps, extensive Okavango Delta flood filming, and more.
Exact schedules to be confirmed.
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