Supersized Earth
In this awe-inspiring three-part series for BBC One, Dallas Campbell (Bang Goes The Theory, Horizon) travels the globe, visiting the world’s largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world.
In 1980 the tallest building on the planet was the Sears Towers in Chicago and Dubai was a dusty strip of desert with a single highway. Fast forward 30 years and the world’s tallest building stands at more than 800 metres, cities like Las Vegas have sprawled across the desert and are home to millions, and China is the manufacturing capital of the world, with many of the fastest growing cities on earth.
In just a single lifetime, humans have changed the face of the planet on a scale unimaginable to our predecessors. Supersized Earth charts the epic scale of our redesign of the planet for the first time.
I took this series through secondary development, including marshalling an enormous global list of engineering projects both completed and under construction, developing relationships and embarking on the long process of negotiating access, as well as writing the treatments for the three films.
Nominated:
Photography Factual and VFX, BAFTA Craft Awards.Effects – Digital, RTS Craft Award Nomination