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The mountains of Japan are the snowiest place on Earth, providing hostile conditions for a lone male Japanese macaque cast away from his troop. His only chance of survival comes with finding another male whose embrace will provide him with life-saving warmth. But in the frozen peaks, the deadliest force is an avalanche whose full destructive power is captured for the first time using high-speed camera racer drones. Highlights include drone footage of an avalanche's deadly wall of tumbling snow in Greenland and an amazing piece that follows a musk ox through a blizzard (the camera operator lived in a garden shed which he towed around on snowmobile). But it's the Siberian tigers that steal the show – there are only 550 left in the world and it took the Frozen Planet II producers three years to capture them on camera. A female fighting off the amorous advances of a male Weddell seal has never been filmed for television before. The Frozen Planet II team were the very first to be given permission to use rebreather technology for filming in this location. This story would not have been possible to film using traditional Scuba techniques which produce bubbles. Further north, on the featureless tundra, a solitary Arctic fox must strike a living alone head diving for lemmings hidden deep underground. In Siberia’s remote forests camera traps reveal rare Amur leopards on the prowl and, in its footsteps, an even larger big cat, the Siberian tiger.

We meet lonely albatross forming unexpected male-male pairs as there are no longer enough females to bond with, before journeying across the Southern Ocean to meet the largest animal on earth - giant Antarctic blue whales. These are seldom seen, let alone filmed. Under the sea ice we meet a mother Weddell seal who must defend her pup from the attractions of an amorous male In Frozen Ocean the series dives into a world of water and ice to reveal the animals which survive on and under the Arctic sea ice. It’s a seasonal story that begins in the depths of winter. This is a time of plenty for polar bears who can afford to play in the short winter days, through to the perils of spring as the sea ice breaks up, finally to its bountiful summer where visitors are drawn to the ocean from afar to feed up and breed.A whole fleet of light-weight fast-response drones were used to document ice calving from Store glacier in Greenland – a fast and ephemeral event. Frozen Planet S2,Frozen Worlds,1,Male Hooded seals have a bi-lobed nose which they can inflate to display to other males, Arctic Ocean,Justin Hofman,Justin Hofman Our world and our environment has always been a heart matter for me. I’ve believed that communicating her beauty, and her importance through art, music, and film is what touches us the most,” says AURORA. It shows us what it is that is worth saving, it stirs our natural instinct. Being a part of this incredible project, working with such wonderful people - has been an absolute honour. I can’t wait for the world to see the world through the eyes of herself. Captured with patience and respect, and made with love." When was the first Frozen Planet series? BBC Studios Natural History Unit produces the world’s most iconic natural history programmes, such as Frozen Planet II, Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II, which have been watched by more than a billion people globally. Ranging from super-landmarks and technically challenging live shows to long-running series and children’s content, The Natural History Unit programmes include The Green Planet and Seven Worlds, One Planet presented by Sir David Attenborough, Dynasties, Springwatch and Andy’s Aquatic Adventures, and third-party commissions for Discovery, AppleTV+, NBCU, National Geographic, and BBC America. The Natural History Unit is part of BBC Studios. Filming happened on every continent, across 18different countries, all around Antarctica and in space.

Alex is the producer of both theFrozen Worlds&Frozen Peaksepisodes ofFrozen Planet II. In the 14 years that he has been working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit his passion to deliver ground-breaking stories has taken him from the sewers of Bangkok (Wild Cities) to the high peaks of the Himalaya (Mountains: Life at the Extreme). Alex has worked extensively at high altitude and specialises in filming in extreme environments, such as the Arctic Tundra (Alaska: Earths Frozen Kingdom) and the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea (Attenborough's Paradise Birds). Planet Earth III, the third in a trilogy, is a brand-new series for 2022 – set to be the most ambitious natural history landmark ever undertaken by the BBC. Combining the awe and wonder of the original Planet Earth, the new science and discoveries of Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II, and the immersive character-led storytelling of Dynasties, the series will take the ‘Planet Earth’ experience to new heights. It will take audiences to stunning new landscapes, showcase jaw-dropping newly-discovered behaviors, and follow the intense struggles of some of our planet’s most amazing animals.I hope people will feel that, while this is a wonderful celebration and an opportunity to be transported to these magical worlds, at the same time there is a fierce contemporary relevance to these stories. BBC Studios Natural History Unit production for BBC One, co-produced by BBC America and The Open University, Migu Video, ZDF and France Télévisions. The Executive Producer is Mark Brownlow and the Series Producer is Elizabeth White. a b "Who has written the music for Frozen Planet II?". www.classical-music.com . Retrieved 16 September 2022.

Frozen Planet S2,18-09-2022,Frozen Ocean,2,Crested auklets line up on boulders in St Lawrence Island, Alaska …during early summer hoping to find a potential mate.,BBC Studios,Screen Grab When filming caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, the team took advantage of 24-daylight conditions by using solar power to charge batteries. The solar panel kit was good enough to daily charge four cameras, four laptops and two satellite phones every day for four weeks. Filming Locations Polar bears are usually very solitary animals, so filming two young bears, a young male and a female bear, forging a surprising friendship and playing was a first for the camera team involved. The bears spent several hours together, seemingly dancing on ice. Lightweight drones allowed a new angle on their amazing co-ordinated hunting. Viewed from the air, the way they form waves becomes more apparent producing new insights for science as well as television.

This is something we have to get right. Highly charged films about climate change have their place but I feel that if you make it too weighty and too heavy going, you could alienate your audience. Ruggedised timelapse cameras were deployed to glaciers across the world so that the team could document changes in ice over the course of filming. Locations include Svalbard, Antarctica, Greenland, and the Quelccaya glacier in the Peruvian Andes.

Earth Prom, part of the BBC Proms season, is a stunning audio-visual celebration of the BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough’s pioneering early adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century. With breath-taking images, natural sounds, spoken words and music by composers including Hans Zimmer, performed live in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall by Ben Palmer and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In extremely remote regions such as the Southern Ocean the light-weight drone was also key to success in capturing cinematic imagery of Antarctic blue whales, made possible only by the support of an Australian Antarctic Division scientific expedition to study these seldom-seen animals. ForFrozen Planet IIAlex travelled to Pakistan, to capture the splendour of the remote Karakorum mountains, deep into Greenland’s ice sheet to document the seismic changes occurring there due to climate change and to the far east of Russia to film the illusive Siberian Tiger. Eleven years after the phenomenal Emmy, BAFTA and NTA award winning first series, Frozen Planet II will feature unchartered new worlds and pioneering technology capturing new behaviour, showcasing the ever-changing fragile world of beauty and hostility in these habitats. We discover just how much these icy worlds are changing and the dramatic impact this is having not just on these animals’ stories but on the whole planet.Across eight episodes, the series will have a truly global scale, with new technology central to its approach. Crews will spend longer in the field than ever before, and using the latest technology, including robotic cameras, stabilized rigs and deep submersibles, will take viewers from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans, from the darkest caves to the hottest deserts.