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Frozen Planet Index
Dec. 29th, 2020 10:32 amBelieve it or not, I had not to this point watched the BBC series Frozen Planet, despite having had the DVDs for several years. I still have the DVDs, but thanks to ~technological progress~ no longer have a DVD player built into my computer, and my external drive is all the way upstairs, so I checked to see if the series was on BBC iPlayer, and it was! So I have gone through and harvested all sorts of colour reference for interesting lighting conditions in icy environments, and had a little cry about missing Antarctica. Apparently when David Attenborough was a guest of the USAP he refused to be treated like a VIP and wanted to eat and hang out in the Galley like a normal person, in case you needed any further proof that he's a Good Egg. I hope he's keeping safe.
Anyway, while I was harvesting, I thought I should probably draw up an index of the show for future reference, in case I needed to look something up again. I wrote it on a piece of paper, but those have been known to get lost, and if I type it into a word document on my computer it will certainly get lost, so I'm posting it here – mostly so I can dig it up again when I need it, but also on the off chance it might be useful to someone else. Time codes are approximate but should get you roughly where you need to go.
( The Great Frozen Planet Index, With An Antarctic Bias )
I skipped through most of the northern stuff, especially the subarctic bits (I'm sorry, Canada; not this time) but it was great to get more in-depth on things like orca hunting strategy and Adélie life. Also got a few Easter eggs, like some views up the Beardmore Glacier (I had only flown down it) and a nice aerial shot of Minna Bluff, but I think my favourite was the bird's eye view of Cape Crozier, as when I was there, Mt Terror was covered in cloud:
And then another one, later in the year with lower light, where ... the clouds ... just happen to be identi... HEY.
I hope they've re-aired this series because Frozen Planet II is about to drop. There were, I think, two or three different film crews down there while I was there, getting footage for it, but as they were mostly on nights for the sake of more photogenic light and more active seals, respectively, I didn't really meet them. I can't remember if they said it would take one or two years for the series to come out, but here's hoping ...
Anyway, while I was harvesting, I thought I should probably draw up an index of the show for future reference, in case I needed to look something up again. I wrote it on a piece of paper, but those have been known to get lost, and if I type it into a word document on my computer it will certainly get lost, so I'm posting it here – mostly so I can dig it up again when I need it, but also on the off chance it might be useful to someone else. Time codes are approximate but should get you roughly where you need to go.
( The Great Frozen Planet Index, With An Antarctic Bias )
I skipped through most of the northern stuff, especially the subarctic bits (I'm sorry, Canada; not this time) but it was great to get more in-depth on things like orca hunting strategy and Adélie life. Also got a few Easter eggs, like some views up the Beardmore Glacier (I had only flown down it) and a nice aerial shot of Minna Bluff, but I think my favourite was the bird's eye view of Cape Crozier, as when I was there, Mt Terror was covered in cloud:
And then another one, later in the year with lower light, where ... the clouds ... just happen to be identi... HEY.
I hope they've re-aired this series because Frozen Planet II is about to drop. There were, I think, two or three different film crews down there while I was there, getting footage for it, but as they were mostly on nights for the sake of more photogenic light and more active seals, respectively, I didn't really meet them. I can't remember if they said it would take one or two years for the series to come out, but here's hoping ...
