"EARTH LIVE" this wkend - Nat'l Geo special, live on-air documentary from 6 of 7 continents

[leashedForLife]

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this will be groundbreaking,  but also - as with any live event - unscripted. Stuff may happen that is rare, commonplace, or dull - animals don't always show up conveniently when the videographer is waiting. 

 We'll just have to see what happens - it's sure to be interesting, in any case. // Docus are often heavily-edited, which is to a degree inevitable - we don't want to watch footage of the videographer trudging around the area for 4 days with no shots whatever, but some "documentaries" are anything but - BBC crossed a definite line, IMO, when they pre-planted a forest glade with over 200 different plants MONTHS in advance of shooting there, so that they could set-up a time lapse camera & record all these introduced species, sprouting & blooming.
Not 1 plant in 4 was there PRIOR to their planting it - only the trees that they planted many epiphytes on, & many ferns under, were original to the site.

They never mentioned on camera that this was a human-sculpted setting - the presumption was that this lush growth was entirely natural. Cheating - & lying, by omission.

This time, there's no chance for such "spontaneous" set-ups. It's on the spot, & wild animals do [or don't do] what they will.
 - terry

 

[leashedForLife]

more info here -

https://www.livescience.com/59727-earth-live-animals-national-geographic.html

 

[eingana]

I watched a NG 'safari live' programme the other day and it was just edited to make it look more exciting and to have mini-cliffhangers before each break, which meant that it got turned off at the second break.  That sort of programme is insulting to my intelligence and I hope that the above programme is organised with higher editorial values.

Do you ever get any of the UK Springwatch, Autumnwatch type programmes over in the US?  Over here we're very good at sitting and watching patiently while we wait for a bird to return with food for its chicks and the like.

Hell, we even have test match cricket over here.  That's about as exciting as watching paint dry.

 

[leashedForLife]

Nope, sadly Springwatch / Autumnwatch, etc, can't even be viewed on UTube nor Sky - they won't allow viewers outside the region.

BBC-America has never seen fit to run UK-centric nature programs; the international spectaculars [gnu & zebra migration in Africa, snow leopards in Tibet, etc]?
Sure.

Commercials in the U-S are constant interruptions; 20-mins of a 60-minute 'special' is commercials, sponsors, transition tabs, etc.  Wait for a songbird to arrive on scene with a beakful of food? - H***, no. :lol:   Never happen. They cut from the nest with waiting chicks, to the incoming parent - the rest of the footage is trash.
 - t

 

[eingana]

I never much took to the TV when I was in Canada, for exactly the same reasons.  I'm much more of a 'slow TV' person (it's actually a genre, if you look it up).  I'm quite happy to watch an unscripted film that lasts an hour which shows you how to blow the perfect glass bowl, or the one I watched last week was watching a very dedicated man spin silk, dye it and weave it into beautiful cloth.

There are Scandinavian channels that just watch a fire burning for several hours at a stretch, or take you on a train ride in real time, watching the surroundings go by.  If you can't genuinely educate me by sharing something that I don't already know then at least you can let me avoid the adverts!

 

[arealhuman]

@leashedForLife - have you tried using a VPN to access BBC iPlayer?  That'll do it   Be quick though - soon they're going to tie access to TV licences (quite how, I don't know).

 

[leashedForLife]

thanks much, @arealhuman - 
i'll have to think about that, i use Ethernet hookup at one clients' home [live-in shift, weekends] & WiFi at BnBs during the week.  Given my work schedule & the constantly changing hardware & software, as i shift locations, i don't know how well that would work - but it's a possibility.