the animals who are filmed for hostile
planet have to survive in incredibly
tough conditions but they’re adapted to
it the crew on the other hand that’s a
whole different ballgame making a series
like hostile planet wasn’t simple we
filmed on every continent on on earth
okay
might be worth turning cameras on
gentlemen inevitably if you’re gonna
follow the animals having to survive in
the most extreme corners of the planet
you have to go there too and you get a
slight taste of what their lives are
like and it’s brutal
mountains are a unique environment there
are other places which are hotter like
deserts and there are places which are
colder like the Arctic surprisingly the
greatest challenge of mountains is
gravity because everything is an effort
against gravity everything’s trying to
push you down all right let’s do this
probably the thing that shocked and
surprised me most with these little
barnacle geese chicks in Greenland they
would walk to the edge of a cliff and
then they would throw themselves off
and then they were hit the bottom and
stand up and walk away and you just
think how does life survive something so
extreme as falling hundreds of feet I
would be just shattered into pieces and
yet this tiny little Gosling you know no
filming the barnacle geese on those
cliffs it was probably the single
trickiest thing to accomplish we needed
to get a shot where I wanted the camera
over the top of that nest we needed to
see what those chicks were seeing we
needed to know what it felt so look over
that edge for the first time and the
only way to do that was to get an 8
meter crane with a camera on the end
swung out over that nest but of course
there was no area to put the crane you
are on this tiny ledge that was say no
bigger than a couple of doormats and so
you had to balance the entire crane and
all the weights on top of it so you
probably had 250 pounds of weights you
know and an $80,000 camera on the other
end of
and then you had to somehow swing it
over and get it out there without
everything giving way and collapsing
around you there was speed and left and
that was probably the only time I’ve
ever stopped and thought is this really
worth it for the shot if it all goes
wrong is it worth it from one shot and it was
planet have to survive in incredibly
tough conditions but they’re adapted to
it the crew on the other hand that’s a
whole different ballgame making a series
like hostile planet wasn’t simple we
filmed on every continent on on earth
okay
might be worth turning cameras on
gentlemen inevitably if you’re gonna
follow the animals having to survive in
the most extreme corners of the planet
you have to go there too and you get a
slight taste of what their lives are
like and it’s brutal
mountains are a unique environment there
are other places which are hotter like
deserts and there are places which are
colder like the Arctic surprisingly the
greatest challenge of mountains is
gravity because everything is an effort
against gravity everything’s trying to
push you down all right let’s do this
probably the thing that shocked and
surprised me most with these little
barnacle geese chicks in Greenland they
would walk to the edge of a cliff and
then they would throw themselves off
and then they were hit the bottom and
stand up and walk away and you just
think how does life survive something so
extreme as falling hundreds of feet I
would be just shattered into pieces and
yet this tiny little Gosling you know no
filming the barnacle geese on those
cliffs it was probably the single
trickiest thing to accomplish we needed
to get a shot where I wanted the camera
over the top of that nest we needed to
see what those chicks were seeing we
needed to know what it felt so look over
that edge for the first time and the
only way to do that was to get an 8
meter crane with a camera on the end
swung out over that nest but of course
there was no area to put the crane you
are on this tiny ledge that was say no
bigger than a couple of doormats and so
you had to balance the entire crane and
all the weights on top of it so you
probably had 250 pounds of weights you
know and an $80,000 camera on the other
end of
and then you had to somehow swing it
over and get it out there without
everything giving way and collapsing
around you there was speed and left and
that was probably the only time I’ve
ever stopped and thought is this really
worth it for the shot if it all goes
wrong is it worth it from one shot and it was
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