National Geographic Channel Ideas -- OUAN406

National geographic channel has a wide range of documentary programming focusing on all elements of the earth. Many of these shows are straight up documentaries about social or cultural subjects, for example current series "God" with Morgan Freeman, which looks at the way various modern and historical cultures and religions think about life, death and other religious isues, or "Sea Monsters: the definitive guide" which talks about various real and legendary sea creatures. Other programs follow a more reality-show kind of format, for example "The Great Human Race" in which two archaeologists trace the steps of neolithic people migrating to North America.

The element of their programming that I want to focus on is the broader look at the Earth, and I want to represent the fact that their shows discuss people, places and events from across the entire planet (and outer space).

My initial concept was to create some sort of slideshow, with images from all corners of the Earth. The idea is to display the wide range of subjects shown on the channel, but I am struggling to think of an interesting way to animate this.

I remembered seeing a music video (https://vimeo.com/88360151) which used multiple GoPros mounted on a drone, and when the footage was stitched together it created a miniature globe effect. I thought it would be really nice to have an overhead view of a rotating planet, and every second or so a new environment or ecosystem would appear over the horizon.

The effect would hopefully turn out like this footage from the International Space Station: