We also expected to be filming hawks, birds, and snakes.ĭid the story change when you got to the island? We’ve got the crabs in there and the smaller lizards who eat the flies that fly around the colony. So we came up with the whole story about how the marine iguanas are really successful at staying alive, and how that allows other animals to survive. It’s really cool because they walk up on the plateau of the rocks and these snakes grab them.” It had been filmed twice before, but it never really had much coverage. The problem is, everyone’s seen marine iguanas before, so what can you do that’s different? I was having a brainstorm with one of our cameramen who lives out in Galapagos and he happened to say, “Oh, you know what I filmed a few years ago? The hatchlings. I mean, their faces, they look like Godzilla and they swim and they dive. I was like, “You can’t do a show about islands and not do something in Galapagos.” Because my background is marine, I was like, “I don’t really want to do the finches or the turtles.” I’ve always thought marine iguanas were cool. And I really, really wanted to do a Galapagos story. For me, that was three-and-a-half years about nothing but islands, trying to work out what stories to do.
I EAT LOTS OF SNAKES SONG SKIN
They wanted us to really immerse in one show, one habitat, so we could get under the skin of it. With this series, we had six different producers for six different episodes - each had a single producer. You were the producer of the episode, but that can be a malleable term. I wanted to talk about the iguana versus snake scene because I believe is one of the all-time greatest filmed things.
White explains exactly how the moment was captured, how the story evolved once they discovered the Galapagos Island’s “wall of death,” and what Hollywood blockbuster scores they used while editing. As is often the case with the acclaimed series, they got their shot.Īhead of Planet Earth II’s American premiere this Saturday night on BBC America - which debuts with the standout “Islands” episode - Vulture spoke with Liz White, the producer behind the episode and the iguana versus snakes clip. A camera crew worked from dusk to dawn for weeks filming the exact spot, hoping something would happen, and if it did, that the camera would be in focus. Like many of the best Planet Earth clips, this incredible footage is the result of the kind of extreme luck that only comes with hard work. The music swells and … the iguana is off! This is just the start of what might be the most exhilarating nature clip ever filmed: The iguana freezes as the snake slithers right behind it.
We begin with a close-up of a marine iguana hatchling, followed by a close-up of the nearly blind snake that’s trying to eat it.
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