HD Marine Cinematography & Programs
Plankton Productions is David Hannan's Australian based media company with a full slate of projects based on an extensive footage library resource, from TV Documentary, Online Science Education to Marine Video Art.
Apart from 9 new Video Education Modules and a new TV series entitled Undersea Edens, several other HD titles are also in release including Antarctica Dreaming - Wildlife on Ice, Serenity - Southern Seas and David's current all new film Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken.
In recent years David Hannan and crew have filmed in tropical and temperate waters all around Australia, undertaken several field trips to Antarctica and established a current filming base in Papua New Guinea.
Cinematographer, Director and Producer, David Hannan first won international acclaim for his tropical coral reef images in his now classic video Coral Sea Dreaming - An Evolving Balance originally released in 1992.
Many years, TV documentaries and musical programs later, David remains passionate about all things marine and since 2001, has filmed on HD in a joint venture with ProCam in Brisbane Australia. read more...
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David Hannan's - Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken
September 27, 2009
by Toni Houston, Howard Whelan
After many years dedicated to filming and editing in glorious High Definition, David Hannan's new underwater masterpiece is coming out now.
Over 84 extraordinary minutes, Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken enters into the very heart of life - and death - on a coral reef. It is a story that spans 500 million years and stars some of the most exotic and wondrous marine creatures on earth. Coral is the planets greatest natural architect, and coral reefs boast the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem.
Emmy Award-winning cinematographer David Hannan has filmed for 7 years to create this magnificent testimony to our extraordinary undersea world, set to an original score by Tania Rose. We meet thousands of reef inhabitants, from ancient turtles to feeding sharks, adorable pygmy seahorses and savage sea slugs, witness a manta ray ballet and courting octopus. Specialized state-of-the-art High Definition technology captures these lives with unprecedented intimacy, illustrating elaborate courtship displays, mating rituals, feeding frenzies, intense night-time predation, cannibalism and chemical warfare.
Many of the sequences have never been filmed before. Some may never be filmed again. Corals have survived 5 mass extinctions. But can they survive us?
Filmed over 2000 dives on three great coral reef ecosystems; The Great Barrier Reef, Ningaloo Reef, and Papua New Guinea, Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken is a celebration of reefs now under threat of climate change and ocean acidification. There is much to be done to safe-guard these precious ecosystems for future generations. And very little time to do it.
David Hannan is renowned not only for his filmmaking, but also the conservation that is activated by his films. This is the driving force behind his work.
→ For more information go to www.coralseadreaming.com
