Super Small Animals

Client BBC NHU

Post Films at 59

Brief Full post-production on a one-off wildlife documentary in which biologist Patrick Aryee explores the natural world’s smallest creatures.

How it was done Foley artist Richard Hinton adopted a ‘hyper-real’ approach to the sound, make things larger than life and taking the soundtrack down a path the viewer might not expect. For the ants nest, he layered up textures and materials including straw, chopped up 1/4in audio tape and bubble wrap. Stretched balloons were used to mimic Lizard tongues, while a dried leaf crunched in the hands became the sound of an insect’s victim. Colourist Tony Osborne completed the grade using Baselight. The online was done by Martin Ralph. The dubbing mixer was Adam Palmer.

Watch it Now on iPlayer (and repeated at 4pm on 13 August on BBC1)