King used super high-speed digital cameras to record hobbies hunting dragonflies and peregrine falcons hunting wading birds. The team had to deploy remote cameras to record the most stunning sequence of capercaillie in remote Caledonian forest and drone and gyro stabilised cameras were used throughout the filming.”

“I worked with the most cutting-edge thermal imaging cameras to reveal the world of the fox under the cover of complete darkness. Phenomenal.”Īsked about the most ambitious filming challenges, he references the visualisation of the “wood-wide web” – the story of the way the forest communicates via a network of thread like fungi, as well as underwater filming techniques in the marine episode. All this in and around the British Isles. “The behavioural revelations of species like white-tailed eagles, water shrews and predatory leaches all feel like events that occur in exotic locations, not to mention the hunting behaviour of orcas. “I have had the good fortune to revisit many of the species that were already close to my heart, but which had not had the time invested in filming them until now to reveal the greatest dramas in their lives,” he says. Simon King, Principle Camera and Series Consultant, has worked on Wild Isles for best part of five years. The episode producers are Chris Howard for episodes two and four, Jeffkins for episode one, Nicholas Gates for episode three and Gisle Sverdrup for episode five. The Executive Producer is Alastair Fothergill and the Series Producer is Hilary Jeffkins.

The series was commissioned by Jack Bootle, BBC Head of Commissioning, Science and Natural History. The other episodes each take a different habitat: woodlands grasslands freshwater and marine. With the first episode introducing, giving an overview of flora and fauna in Britain.

The form of the series is traditional, closed episodes. It tells the story of the wildlife of the British Isles, mixing concerns about environmental threat and celebrating the wonder of our own part of the natural world. The five parter for BBC One and iPlayer is made by Silverback Films, co-produced by The Open University, the RSPB and WWF. The latest BBC landmark natural history production – Wild Isles, with David Attenborough – has brought blue chip wildlife film-making to our own back yard.

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