Cam
Priya works long and slow. The elephant sequence that closes episode one was filmed at a minimum of four hundred metres for thirty-four consecutive days, and she has said since that the eighteen days without a usable frame taught her more than the four that worked.
Series director
Cut the Borneo canopy episode from nine months of unattended rig footage. Believes a sequence is finished when nothing else can be removed from it.
Field biologist
Sets approach distances and can end any shot. Spent the Patagonia winter scat-sampling to confirm the puma's litter before we filmed her.
Location sound
Recorded the Arctic ice-shift audio that opens episode four. Every ambience in the series is location sound — there is no library track in the mix.
