The Blue Realm
Affected by the epidemic, many travel plans have been forced to postpone, in fact, at home, you can also travel all over the country and travel through the "eyes". If you like to spy on the ocean world, you may wish to enjoy the domestic nature documentary "Azure Realm", let the divers take you into the azure country and take in the great natural landscape of China's offshore stage.
"Blue Realm" is a nature documentary created by CCTV for 4 years, which shows the natural ecology of China's coastal waters in a panoramic manner, and narrates the aesthetics of marine ecology from three aspects: the scenery of the ocean, the realm of the ocean, and the love of the ocean.
"Blue Land" consists of 6 episodes, the first episode "The Cycle of Seasons" tells about the various tests faced by coastal and sea creatures during the change of seasons, such as the first swim of spotted seals, the migration of spring sperm whales and the upward swimming of goby goby, etc.; the second episode of "Rhythm of Tides" tells how marine life can adapt to the tides to find vitality in the ocean; episode 3 "Competition in Wetlands" introduces wetlands to provide shelter and habitat for different organisms, and observe the survival of black-billed gulls, water birds, stone sulphur and other organisms in the wetland.
Episode 4 "Embrace of the Bay" tells the survival strategies of Chinese white dolphins, Bush's whales, Chinese horseshoe crabs and woolly fish that rely on the bay for survival; episode 5 "The Space of the Island" shows how rare species such as turtle monster square crabs, pit vipers, and island macaques rely on the island for survival; and episode 6 "The Challenge of Survival" introduces the survival instincts of small sea turtles, hermit crabs, yellow striped amberjacks, loaches and other creatures that survive in China's waters, so that the audience can explore the beauty of nature from the marine regional culture and cultural characteristics shown in the film.
"The film crew captured a precious clip of a spotted seal mother encouraging her baby seals to leave the ice floes for the first time and try their first swim in the water in Liaodong Bay, Bohai Sea
4K ultra-high-definition shooting, multi-angle display of the beauty of marine ecology
"Blue Realm" was launched in early 2020, under the "zero publicity", it quietly became popular on the Internet, winning praise from netizens, and was called "the beauty of the lens is not inferior to the BBC's domestic marine documentary", with a Douban score of 9.1 points. It is understood that the film crew of "Blue Realm" adopts advanced photography techniques such as 4K ultra-high-definition shooting and aerial photography throughout the process, and it is also the first time that the Chinese documentary team has comprehensively and systematically filmed the chinese ocean group portrait in the form of a nature documentary.
The footprints of "Blue Land" from the frozen Bohai Bay on the sea surface, all the way to the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea with four distinct seasons, and then to the South China Sea with long summer and no winter; from the perspectives of seasons, trends, coastal wetlands, islands, bays, survival challenges, etc., it records the stories of large and small marine organisms and animals that rely on the coastline to survive, and for the first time shows China's marine landscape in a panoramic way.
The migration of sperm whales, departing from the tropics to high latitudes in spring, viewers can also see the splashes of water spewed by sperm whales forming a rainbow in the sun.
It took four years to produce, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the ocean
In four years, the film crew of "Blue Land" has traveled from the extremely cold zone of thousands of miles of ice to the heat of tropical seas; from alkali wetlands and mangroves to coral reefs and seagrass beds, almost all the most representative areas in China's waters, photographing about 120 species, including fish, cetaceans, birds, amphibians and reptiles, including huge giant whales, small coral egg masses and plankton, as well as sea and moon jellyfish and birds traveling around the earth. With delicate production and exquisite pictures, it completely records the beautiful and vivid images of creatures such as foraging, hunting, courtship, breeding, roosting, and migrating, coupled with storytelling, to provide the audience with a rich marine visual feast.
4K Ultra HD technology shoots, clearly seeing the hundreds of eggs laid by clownfish on the sea anemone.
In addition, the behind-the-scenes lineup of "Blue Land" is at its peak, gathering the top marine life experts, first-class underwater photographers, and professional nature documentary creation teams in China, which not only records the natural wonders of marine life fighting for survival, but also provides the audience with rich marine knowledge. The documentary focuses more on the conservation of marine ecology and resources, hoping to provoke the public to think about the relationship between mankind and the future of the ocean, and to find a way for human beings and the ocean to coexist in harmony and develop together.
The chinese white dolphin mother leads the baby to the Beibu Bay to forage, and it will demonstrate the use of sonar to lock on to the target and quickly rush to the prey, so that the baby can learn hunting skills.