Life

[TimberWolf]

With David Attenborough, BBC1. Most excellent series, but do the sound effects bug you? Most of the sounds (who knows what proportion, perhaps some are even real, but you'd never know it) are a fiction accomplished in a sound lab with coconut shells and whotnot. I get a bit fed up with them until I detach myself from the action and perhaps concede they add to the drama, or am snapped out of it forcefully when, for example, a fish roars.

[Spacecadet]

I know what you mean, The Blue Planet (only narrated by Attenborough) was terrible for it, especially for the deep sea segements

[Pondlife]

Excellent TV although I think I enjoy the "how they filmed it" at the end best.

The young chappie free diving to film the humpbacks was great IMHO.

[scooterscot]

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[Paddy]

With David Attenborough, BBC1. Most excellent series, but do the sound effects bug you? Most of the sounds (who knows what proportion, perhaps some are even real, but you'd never know it) are a fiction accomplished in a sound lab with coconut shells and whotnot. I get a bit fed up with them until I detach myself from the action and perhaps concede they add to the drama, or am snapped out of it forcefully when, for example, a fish roars.

There was a news item some time ago about the long established BBC sound effects department being closed down and work being outsourced.

Coincidently I was watching a BBC program an architecture last week and the camera work was so poor (like an amateur first time home made movie) I just switched it off.

[Andy2]

Excellent series
totaly worth paying license fee for