Congrats, I think its brilliant.

All you?

video? story? music? editing?

how much time and video did it take to edit it into that 5 min?

Impressive, have you approached Discovery Channel/National Geographic yet? ?
My favorite channels those, with History channel of course...

Thanks Brent,

I can't take all the credit.

Music is Moby (creative commons license)
Scripting was done mainly by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)

I cut it together - 90% of the footage belongs to us (www.earth-touch.com)

It took a fews weeks with a bit of back and forth between us and ZSL.

Hours and hours of footage....

It was made for the biodiversity summit thats happening now in Japan, in a nut shell- they have just released the new IUCN redlist.

Excellent stuff !!! I just read Bill Bryson's book, " A Short History of Nearly Everything". It goes over all those AMAZING discoveries. The discovery that "conservationists" were often the biggest threat to species was also shocking. No wonder we are so backwards. He lists an example of one who sees a bird that he thought was extinct, then goes ahead and shoots it. I can only imagine it was to keep it for it's "rareity"!!!??!!!

The only solace I have is that there are most likely more undiscovered species that we just haven't found to destroy yet.

An important message put across brilliantly. Well done!

Great piece of work Andrew - I love doccies and the message. :applause:

Very cool. Have bookmarked for kids too.

I wrote what I thought was a pretty diplomatic reply to the various comments above but it seems to have been removed along with certain comments....

So instead I'm just going to say: thank you all for the kind words.

Watched it again, its good. Gets the point across clearly. images/video are top notch
Would like to see more.

I had a look late last night, too tired to comment at that point.

Good stuff Andrew and amazing how much work goes into 5 mins of video time.
Very creative and top class production.

Yeah jack, must let my kids have a peak as well

I wrote what I thought was a pretty diplomatic reply to the various comments above but it seems to have been removed along with certain comments....

Sorry about that. But your thread was being hijacked in to a religious debate and I was getting complaints so I had to sanitise your thread before it got locked down.

Renesongs wrote:

I wrote what I thought was a pretty diplomatic reply to the various comments above but it seems to have been removed along with certain comments....

Sorry about that. But your thread was being hijacked in to a religious debate and I was getting complaints so I had to sanitise your thread before it got locked down.

this place is becoming like a dentistry. ? ?

excellent video. well done! what a cool job to have.. ?

Andrew are you working with Dave Birch there?

makepeace wrote:

Renesongs wrote:

I wrote what I thought was a pretty diplomatic reply to the various comments above but it seems to have been removed along with certain comments....

Sorry about that. But your thread was being hijacked in to a religious debate and I was getting complaints so I had to sanitise your thread before it got locked down.

this place is becoming like a dentistry. ? ?

excellent video. well done! what a cool job to have.. ?

I wish to repeat (since my posts were deleted :-[ ) that I really enjoyed your video. Excellent stuff, including the bit on evolution. ?
I was not aware of any religious debate in this thread.

Excellent stuff, Andrew............congrats.

Eli, my 9 year old is very much into NatGeo, so he naturally loved this..........however, he always has at least 1,000 questions, and I just wish you could listen to some of them........hahahaha........he has this very inquiring mind.........well done!

Aubs1 wrote: Excellent stuff, Andrew............congrats.

Eli, my 9 year old is very much into NatGeo, so he naturally loved this..........however, he always has at least 1,000 questions, and I just wish you could listen to some of them........hahahaha........he has this very inquiring mind.........well done!

I love that kids just naturally want to know how it all works. I read Carl Sagan saying that, if kids didn't have their questions fobbed off at this stage, that they'd all carry on being inquisitive. Instead he said, when he presented at high school classes, the kids were bored stiff.

I remember him also saying, in "Cosmos," that he'd ask people around his home in Brooklyn as a kid, "What are the stars?" And people would just say things like, "They're stars. They're just lights in the sky kid." So he went to the library. Got out a book about stars...

... and blew his freakin' mind ?

Renesongs wrote:

I wrote what I thought was a pretty diplomatic reply to the various comments above but it seems to have been removed along with certain comments....

Sorry about that. But your thread was being hijacked in to a religious debate and I was getting complaints so I had to sanitise your thread before it got locked down.

No, worries - thanks for keeping it alive ? - you should see some of the comments on youtube....

Donovan Banks wrote: Andrew are you working with Dave Birch there?

Yup - it's Dave's voice on the vid.

Aubs1 wrote: Excellent stuff, Andrew............congrats.

Eli, my 9 year old is very much into NatGeo, so he naturally loved this..........however, he always has at least 1,000 questions, and I just wish you could listen to some of them........hahahaha........he has this very inquiring mind.........well done!

Thank you kindly. I'm happy to (attempt to) answer any questions he might have.

A very good production Andrew - beautifully cut.

It makes you wonder whether there weren't humans around at the time the dinosaurs became extinct - I mean we're pretty good at making entire species disappear. I'd be looking for human fossils in amongst the dinosaur ones - that would answer that particular question!

Enjoyed the doccy. ?

lindsmuse wrote: It makes you wonder whether there weren't humans around at the time the dinosaurs became extinct - I mean we're pretty good at making entire species disappear. I'd be looking for human fossils in amongst the dinosaur ones - that would answer that particular question!

It would blow peoples' minds if such a thing were found. Because even the very first primates of any kind that have been found in the fossil record (lemur like creatures. Lemurs and Bush Babies are more similar to the earliest primates than monkeys or apes like us) are from long, long after the dinosaur extinction.

The very earliest evidence of modern humans - people who a doctor wouldn't freak out if they were treating them 'cos they're so like you and I - are a series of footprints discovered by some nifty detective work in Langebaan in the Western Cape. And those are not much more than 100,000 years old. They'd have to be more than 600 times older than that even, to have been around during the dinosaur extinction.