The big transcript – Part 1
Here is the first part of my transcript. It was a little short so I’ve decided to find an other video to transcript in part two (soon on your screen).
Penguins April Fool – The Making Of – BBC
THE TRANSCRIPT:
Speaker: In the world of special effects, anything’s possible espacially on april fool’s day.
Natural history presenter : Is that amazing !
Speaker: they wanted flying penguins for a TV trail. It will join a long tradition of BBC april fools. Stretching back to the nineteen fifty’s. But how did it happened ?
Richard Hall: What we wanted to do is create a hypothetical moment that might come from BBC natural history unit and use it talk about a sort of unmissable content you’ve got on BBC outlet.
Speaker: We’re going behond the scenes to see exactly how the impossible was maked possible.The first stage was to find some real penguins footage
Neil Riley: It started by throwling through XXX hundreds of stock footage to find our best penguins shots from the BBC librairies.
Speaker: It was then the job of the animators to create the flying penguins.
Darren Walsh: Our task was really hard to get a penguin able because they ‘re clearly not designed to fly. We tried several approaches. I think the very first was vertical take off. Most of it looked to XXX. During our search we discovered one specie of birds Gilmarked that seemed to most close resemble the penguins. That is pretty much what we based our flying penguins on.
Neil Riley: We started by building a very rough wireframe skeleton of the penguins. And then knot needs to be textured and leaked to get the realism required for then to sit well into the stock footage.
Speaker: with the animators on the way creating the penguins, it was time to film the live action and insert our natural history presenter played by Terry Jones.
Director: We’ve shooted Terry Jones on green screen and on a set of snow that we’ve got to made up to look like the antartic.
Speaker: To make him look like if he was really in the antartic, he was sprayed with faked snow and ice and wind machine created a breezer on his fur collar. The special effects people worked also on set to check that the shot would work with the real background and the animated penguins.
After the filming, the footage was send to the post production team to bring it all together. When an actor is filmed against a green screen everything that is green become cancelled out and replaced with the required background.
Composer: For a job like this which takes in all form of footage: we’ve got a stock footage, we’ve got a live action being shot, we’ve got computer generated penguins. There is an awful lot of details need to be taken care of to put together something that creates a believable piece of nature history
Speaker: So with the mastery of special effects the impossible was realised.BBC I player. Making the missable unmissable.
