![]() ![]() For this film that familiarity was key to showing the speed of change. If you can remember watching Blue Planet then the fact the film crews were only just beginning to witness the early impacts warming waters would have on coral demonstrates just how fast climate change has accelerated and coral reefs have deteriorated. In many English speaking countries and especially the UK, the big Attenborough TV series are true landmarks. People remember watching Life on Earth, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Our Planet and many others. David liked the idea with one proviso- with typical modesty he wanted to be clear he was, through good fortune, a witness to these changes and not a prophet who realised things others had not. ![]() Silverback and WWF could make the film that brought this speed of change to life through the eye’s of the one man who had seen it first hand. Now of course so much of the natural world has been destroyed there simply isn’t the option to rival the experiences David had. We hypothesised that David Attenborough had, most likely, seen more of the natural world than any human who had ever and would ever live. Before David’s time there was no air travel and therefore great though Darwin or Wallace’s travels were they could only see so much in their lifetimes. Stats and reports such as WWF’s Living Planet Report ( ) are vital but they also need storytelling to bring their evidence to a mass public audience in an emotional way.Īlmost by accident we realised there was the perfect story to bring this to life and the perfect storyteller to tell it. That project was called Our Planet and whilst centred around an 8-Part Netflix TV series also featured a wealth of special films for business and education audiences. In the years making Our Planet we realised one of the hardest things to get across to an audience was the sheer speed of change- specifically how fast we had lost biodiversity and destabilised our climate. I had been fortunate enough to spend the previous few years working on a project with WWF and the best natural history filmmakers in the world- Silverback Films. I had watched David Attenborough’s documentaries since I was a kid, worked in conservation for the best part of 2 decades, knew enough top scientists to understand just how much trouble our planet is in and then an idea came along. There are some things you only get one shot at. You have just the right opportunity at just the right moment and you know for sure it wont come again. ![]()
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