BBC Picks Unit For 'How Earth Made Us'

One of the UK's post-production and creative service companies, have announced a major deal with the BBC to do the audio, online and delivery for the new BBC Science series, How Earth Made Us, due for broadcast this month.
Working in conjunction with the BBC's Media Village, UNIT, Soho's only all Apple post production house, was chosen for the three-month project due to its ability to integrate with the Media Village's workflow, which uses a Final Cut Pro and Apple's colour set up. UNIT's state of the art editing facilities, including its Final Cut Pro editing suites and audio facilities including ProTools HD 3 and 5.1 Dolby E, are all being utilised on the project.
The five-part series How Earth Made Us for BBC2 will look at how our planet has shaped human history for the last 10,000 years. It examines the way that different planetary forces have influenced everything from the development of farming through to the industrial revolution. It also shows how the planet is still a major factor in our lives today.
This project follows UNIT’s previous work on the BBC's Timewatch and Classic Goldie.
Alex Finch, UNIT’s Senior Account Manager said: "The BBC is known for its fantastic science series' and this is no exception - UNIT is committed to producing content that's of the up most quality. How Earth Made Us is a great opportunity to enhance our portfolio and relationship with the BBC. The audience will enjoy watching it as much as we are enjoying working on it."
UNIT's portfolio spans commercials, promos, feature-length programming and music videos. Previous credits include visual effects for a number of commercials such as Sky, Nissan and Toyota and Sega. UNIT also did the post production for the recent series of the BBC's consumer affairs series, Watchdog.
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