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BBC admit there is one part of Planet Earth that is FAKE

Some tuned in viewers have spotted the fakery

By
Goss.ie
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The BBC has admitted that there is one part of Planet Earth that is fake – the sound.

The hugely popular documentary is narrated by Sir David Attenborough and shows baby lizards barely surviving their dash through a literal snake pit to the flamingos slipping and splashing in water.

“Wildlife film soundtracks are a combination of sounds recorded in the wild during the filming, or recorded in the wild previously, as well as sounds that must be re-created in a studio and, of course, music,” the broadcaster stated.

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Fake: The BBC admitted that they use fake sounds in the popular nature documentary series Planet Earth | BBC

After many fans of the show spotted that the sound wasn’t real, an statement written back in April by the BBC was recovered.

“Some sounds are removed because they would distract from the tone of the film (e.g. helicopter rotor blades may be replaced by music over sweeping aerial shots). This is normal in documentary filmmaking,” it read.

“In many ways recording wild sounds for natural history films is an even bigger challenge than getting the shots. Sound recordists face many of the same challenges as directors and camera operators – they cannot direct wild animals in the way you can direct people, and they risk disturbing wildlife by their presence.

“But these difficulties are exacerbated by the fact that microphones have far shorter ranges than lenses.”

Many only found out about this recently and took to Twitter to voice their outrage that the nature sounds were actually fake.

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