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BBC Post Production Script - The Blue Planet: ‘Introduction’ - UK Tx version

`BBC POST PRODUCTION SCRIPT

THE BLUE PLANET

‘INTRODUCTION’

BBC TX VERSION

narrated by
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

SHOT T/CODE COMMENTARY MUSIC

VT CLOCK
Ident

THE BLUE PLANET

Introduction
BBC Tx master
NBS K535F/71
16:9 FH

10:- 10:-
Opening titles 00.00 00.00
sequence, - CU sea
swell, S/I BBC logo,
followed by vars shots SEQ. 1
U/W and ocean
surface, curled wave Opening
reduces and freezes, titles seq.
inset into bubble,
S/I series title: 00.26
THE BLUE
PLANET

Aerial HA LS Blue 00.30 OUT

whale at ocean surface 00.30
IN
00.32
00.33 Dwarfed by the vast expanse of the open ocean -

the biggest animal that has ever lived on our planet.

(00.39)
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LA MLS blue whale 00.43 SEQ. 2

at surface swims away
from cam, dives, tail
flukes submerge
00.46 A blue whale, 30 metres long and weighing over

200 tonnes. It’s far bigger than even the biggest

dinosaur. (00.55)

00.57 Its tongue weighs as much as an elephant. Its heart SEQ. 2

is the size of a car. And some of its blood vessels

are so wide that you could swim down them.

Its tail alone is the width of a small aircraft’s

wings. (01.13)

Aerial MLS blue 01.27

whale at surface,
swimming R/L

01.32 Its streamlining, close to perfection, enables it to

MS blue whale U/W 01.34 cruise at twenty knots. It’s one of the fastest
passing R/L
animals in the sea. (01.40)

01.45 The ocean’s largest inhabitant feeds almost

Mix to MS Krill 01.48 exclusively on one of the smallest - krill, a

swarm
crustacean just a few centimetres long. (01.53)

MS sea surface 01.55

coloured red

01.58 Gathered in a shoal, krill stain the sea red and a

Aerial LS blue whale 02.00 single blue whale in a day can consume forty
with throat swollen,
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krill in water, red million of them. (02.05)

patches visible

MCU blue whale with 02.07

throat swollen moves
slowly L, krill in
water around it

02.15 Despite the enormous size of blue whales, we know

very little about them. Their migration routes are

Aerial LS 2S blue 02.24 still a mystery and we have absolutely no idea

whales at surface
where they go to breed. (02.25)

02.30 They are a dramatic reminder of how much we still SEQ. 2

have to learn about the ocean and the creatures that OUT
Mix to MCU Earth in 02.37 02.37
space (animation), live there. (02.37) IN
track L to Atlantic 02.38
Ocean f/g
02.41 Our planet is a blue planet. Over seventy percent

of it is covered by the sea. (02.46)

Mix to MCU Pacific 02.48 SEQ. 3

Ocean from space,
track L past Hawaii
02.49 The Pacific Ocean alone covers half the globe.

You can fly across it non-stop for twelve hours and

still see nothing more than a speck of land. (02.58)

03.00 This series will reveal the complete natural history

Mix to MCU Indian 03.03 of our ocean planet - from its familiar shores to the
Ocean from space
mysteries of its deepest seas. (03.09)

MLS gannet dives into 03.11

sea f/g (slo-mo)

MS 2S gannets same 03.15

(slo-mo)

MS gannet same 03.18

(slo-mo)
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