When I first got to the desert, I realised how unaccustomed to this environment I was. I have to wear a lot of hats being a producer- it’s part travel agent, part logistical nightmare, the creative side of it is actually a relatively small part of the job, but certainly, before we start filming we watch films that have been made before, find out who the lead scientists are who are working in a particular field like desert ecology, work out what the key species are. I mean, it sounds stupid- it’s very hot! Ed Sheeran said he was thinking of his grandfather, who would have been "pretty proud" Ed Charles Bafta and Emmy award winning wildlife TV producer/director - Planet Earth 2, and currently Perfect Planet for BBC1 Bristol, United Kingdom 500+ connections
It sounds glamorous but when you go away five or six weeks on the trot and you do that six or seven times a year it’s pretty exhausting, but I’m not going to complain, it’s amazing!So the series I’m working on at the moment is a little bit different- we have got one producer doing one show each which is quite unusual but done very deliberately because it meant that we could really focus on one episode and just put our heart and soul into it which has been great.It’s brilliant.
"My grandfather was a massive royalist," he said. So I look at the individual sequences which are going to make up the film and then try and work out how we’re going to weave those together to tell (the audience) about what it’s like to live in a desert so before I go out I know what the sequences are and how they’re going to fit into the story and what we’re trying to say over each of those sequences. In wildlife filmmaking you tend lose at least a third of your time to bad weather but there’s always blue sky in the desert, which is great. BBC Earth. I work on large scale ‘blue chip’ shows without a presenter, 3 years in the making, that kind of thing. The main thing we’re looking for is new stories, that’s the holy grail of all wildlife filmmaking is trying to find something new, which is harder and harder, the more TV is put out there! "He was asking me if I was still selling lots of records and I told him I've got a concert in New York tomorrow, and he was quite surprised I was flying after this," Sheeran said.He also said he was thinking of his grandfather Bill. The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online The scene depicts Charles' meeting with Jackie Robinson, when (after Jackie's train had long since departed) Charles dashed out and put his ear to the train tracks, enthusiastically declaring that he could still hear the train. We’ve got a cameraman who lives just outside Yellowstone and he’s doing a shoot for the ‘mountains’ show on his own because he knows the place like the back of his hand.
Director Ed Charles tells Chris about his trip to Madagascar for BBC Planet Earth II By and large though, there’s always someone from production to help steer it.Yeah I do shoot every now and then, I wouldn’t want to do first camera because I know I’d mess it up but I do second camera which can be helpful because for a behaviour that happens very rarely, it means you’ve got 2 cameras shooting the same thing, so you’re doubling your output! I’m a producer specialising in wildlife television, currently at the NHU. But asked by reporters whether he would do so if invited, he replied with a grin: "Yeah, why not. There are a few deserts around the world which are quite politically unstable though.