Objectives
1. To document the above and below scenes, flora and fauna that Shackleton and his team would have seen and missed after losing the Endurance - from the Weddell Sea to Elephant Island and the heroic sail to South Georgia. Visual documentation will also comprise of 24-hour non-stop shoots of selected sites.
2. To procure visual documentation of the diversity and biomass of animals, glaciers, land and seascapes captured at the end of the 1st decade of the new millennium – this will serve as an important reference for the monitoring of climate change.
The Antarctic Peninsula is particularly sensitive as annual average temperature has increased about 2.5C in the last 50 years; this is 2 or 3 times faster than the rest of the world average. This makes the Antarctic Peninsula the most critical region for ongoing observation.
3. To produce a feature length movie and a book; this shall be the greatest and most compelling production ever undertaken of Antarctica concocted by the creative interpretation of the world’s best nature conservation photographers, film makers, artists, musicians and scientists. The visual rendering of the book and film shall have a spiritualistic treatment to promote the beauty and conservation of Antarctica.
Whilst the film will be in an artistic nonverbal format, prose, quotes and scientific facts will complement the visuals. An original cinematic style soundtrack including on site recordings of the sounds of the Antarctic, shall be composed for the production.
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