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Hidden Kingdoms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Kingdoms
The photography is astonishing.
First rate.
Revolutionary!
But it's much more than the best cinemaphotography I've ever seen in a nature doc.
This series brings something new to the nature documentary.
Full on commercial feature-film production values, and musical scores.
For someone like me the last 10 minutes is better than the film itself.
They show the equipment used and explain how they did everything, all the technical stuff.
Also revolutionary, and likely very controversial, is their use of chroma key.
It's a technique to superimpose one foreground video on top of another background video shot separately.
Some would call it cheating for a nature doc.
But they are very up front about what they are doing and the results are breathtaking.
Unfortunately there are only 3 episodes.
Two Kenny thumbs up!
Eight Kenny fingers up!
Ten Kenny toes up!
Now streaming on Netflix.
The photography is astonishing.
First rate.
Revolutionary!
But it's much more than the best cinemaphotography I've ever seen in a nature doc.
This series brings something new to the nature documentary.
Full on commercial feature-film production values, and musical scores.
For someone like me the last 10 minutes is better than the film itself.
They show the equipment used and explain how they did everything, all the technical stuff.
Also revolutionary, and likely very controversial, is their use of chroma key.
It's a technique to superimpose one foreground video on top of another background video shot separately.
Some would call it cheating for a nature doc.
But they are very up front about what they are doing and the results are breathtaking.
Unfortunately there are only 3 episodes.
Two Kenny thumbs up!
Eight Kenny fingers up!
Ten Kenny toes up!
Now streaming on Netflix.