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Filming secrets
New technology
The team looked to Hollywood to immerse the audience in the dramatic lives of the world’s smallest creatures. By using 4K cameras and the same cutting-edge techniques used in blockbuster films like The Hobbit, the truly extraordinary lives of these miniature heroes was captured – a feat that was impossible to do any other way.
Slow-motion filming
Slow-motion filming is a favourite of the Natural History Unit, but the technique was raised to new heights in order to give viewers an insight into how tiny creatures perceive their world. Using new HD slow-motion cameras to play out split-second events over several minutes, viewers can experience the world as perceived by these tiny creatures – from a fly avoiding that fateful swat, to a grasshopper mouse dodging the deadly strike of a scorpion.
Time-lapse photography
Thanks to time-lapse techniques, the team was able to speed up the slowest of events, such as toadstools sprouting in autumn from the forest floor, hoar frost encrusting a dragonfly, and stars rotating in the moonlit skies of the Sonoran Desert in America’s Wild West.
Purpose-built sets
It was only by earning the trust of a wild sengi in purpose-built filming territories that the team were able to film the fastidious nature of this super speedy creature in such detail. Low-level tracking and ultra-high-speed cameras revealed not only their extraordinary speed but that, compared to a reptile, a sengi has greater ability to change direction – negotiating the twists and turns in the track with barely a break in speed.
Trackside cameras
Using miniature tracking cameras alongside a zebra-tailed lizard and a collard lizard revealed the power and athleticism of these tiny creatures. These mini marvels accelerate so fast that they end up running on two legs – an adaptation that allows for greater speed. And thanks to their highly developed extensor muscles in their rear legs, they also have the ability to leap many times their own body length.
Blue-screen technology
Ever wondered what’s it like to be a dung beetle caught in an earth-shaking wildebeest stampede? Or a mouse facing a tsunami-like flash flood, which to us would be nothing more than a gentle trickle? Well thanks to blue-screen filming techniques, the team was able to recreate real-life events as experienced by the animal stars, giving viewers a unique new perspective on these dramatic worlds within worlds.
The power of 3D
For the first time ever, the Natural History Unit ran 3D cameras alongside the 2D ones. Multiple Oscar-winning British film engineer Peter Parks, a pioneer of filming small objects, helped develop not one, but two 3D filming systems. The '3D snorkel' lens allowed the team to film creatures as small as an ant, and a second 3D system was able to reveal the slow-motion worlds that these creatures inhabit – at 1,500 frames per second.
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新技术
该团队希望好莱坞能让观众沉浸在世界上最小生物的戏剧性生活中。通过使用4K摄像机和《霍比特人》等轰动一时的电影中使用的同样尖端技术，这些微型英雄们的非凡生活被捕捉到了——这是一项不可能以任何其他方式实现的壮举。
慢动作拍摄
慢镜头拍摄是自然历史单元的最爱，但这项技术被提升到了一个新的高度，以便让观众了解微小生物是如何感知他们的世界的。使用新的高清慢镜头在几分钟内播放瞬间事件，观众可以体验到这些小生物所感知的世界——从一只苍蝇躲避那致命的特警，到一只蚱蜢老鼠躲避蝎子的致命一击。
延时摄影
多亏了延时技术，研究小组能够加快最慢的速度，比如秋天从森林地面上发芽的毒菌、覆盖着蜻蜓的白霜，以及美国西部荒野索诺兰沙漠月光下旋转的星星。
专用设备
只有在专门建立的拍摄区域里赢得了野生森吉人的信任，这个团队才能够如此详细地拍摄这种超高速生物的挑剔本性。低水平跟踪和超高速摄像机不仅显示了它们非凡的速度，而且与爬行动物相比，sengi具有更大的改变方向的能力——在赛道上以几乎不间断的速度通过弯弯曲曲。
轨旁摄像机
通过与斑马尾蜥蜴和领蜥蜴一起使用微型跟踪摄像机，揭示了这些微小生物的力量和运动能力。这些迷你奇迹加速如此之快，以至于他们最后只能用两条腿跑——这是一种适应，允许更大的速度。由于他们的后腿伸肌发达，他们也有能力跳跃许多倍于自己身体长度的肌肉。
蓝屏技术
有没有想过当一只粪甲虫被惊天动地的牛羚踩踏时是什么感觉？或者一只老鼠面对海啸般的山洪，对我们来说，那只不过是一条细流？多亏了蓝屏拍摄技术，该团队得以重现动物明星们所经历的真实事件，给观众一个独特的新视角来观察世界内部这些戏剧性的世界。
3D的力量
有史以来第一次，自然历史组在二维相机的同时运行三维相机。多次获得奥斯卡奖的英国电影工程师彼得·帕克斯是拍摄小物件的先驱，他帮助开发的不是一个，而是两个3D拍摄系统。“3D浮潜”镜头让研究小组拍摄了蚂蚁般小的生物，第二个3D系统能够以每秒1500帧的速度揭示这些生物所居住的慢动作世界。
第3集完结
