![]() It’s very paced, very carefully delivery of the lines,” Downer says with enthusiasm. “He’s got a certain style of delivery and a certain way of expressing himself. Narrator David Tennant (“Doctor Who,” “Broadchurch”) started working with him around five years ago. “The filming style, the editing style, the music style they’ve all grown together to complement each other.” He uses two editors working on the “thousands upon thousands of hours of footage that’s recorded” in the rushes. His teams are people who worked with him often for “years and years. “I think it’s very rare that we see something that we don’t get on video,” he says. Now, he uses digital cameras and just lets them run. The first documentaries were done with film, which was frustrating because he estimates that they’d miss about “} of what we saw just because the film’s run out.” In those days the technical limitations held him back, so he put the idea on a shelf. He set about learning how to create a way for humans to “see what it was like to fly like a bird rather than learn about it.” He thought, “If I want to tell animal stories, I want to be in their world.” His first film was “In Flight,” about bird flight. “In 3-D the birds just come out of the screen and you become one of them,” he says, “and, that was the dream to me.”ĭowner started his career in wildlife photography around 25 years ago at the BBC. “While we were making the program (‘Earthlight’),” he says, “there were three or four sequences that we knew we’d never ever be able to repeat, such as flying out with birds, flying over Venice or whatever.” So while he shot it in 2-D, he also “shot the sequence in 3-D.” “In 3-D, you are up there with them.”ĭowner created the award-winning BBC documentary TV series “Earthflight.” “The 3-D experience is the closest I’ve had of realizing the dream I had many years ago when I wanted to go into the animals’ world,” says wildlife documentary filmmaker John Downer. In theaters for the first time June 17, the world premiere of the documentary “Wings 3D” will give humans a bird’s eye view of the world. ![]() You can almost stroke the gorgeous feathers. ![]() From “Wings 3D” a Macaw flying over river. ![]()
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