Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:00am

Event | Blue Planet Live!

I was lucky enough to go and see a performance of the BBC programme Blue Planet last night in Nottingham. The show featured a live orchestra playing to a specially-produced two-hour edit of the BBC's amazing series about life in the Earth's oceans.

It was a spectacular night with the music from the TV show being conducted by its composer George Fenton and the video being shown on a 15m protection screen.

As someone with a 'professional' interest in shows of this type, I felt that the projector could have been a bit brighter and maybe with an even bigger screen. I was also aware of the visual difference between the High Definition (HD) video footage and the standard definition footage - perhaps a bit more work in post-production would have helped. I imagine that camera technology changed quite a bit over the years spent filming the series.

But hey, I'm being pedantic, the show was awesome and if you get a chance to see it then I suggest you jump at the chance. The scary thing is that it might not be too long before many of the animals shown will *only* be found on video :-(

The BBC excels at natural history programming and it would be great to see more shows of this type.

Author: Sean Clark