WEST BAY CLIFF COLLAPSE (Pre/Post Aerial Cinematic), Jurassic Coast, Dorset, UK By Drone - 4K

Glide along one of the Jurassic Coast's most beautiful beaches before and after a huge 1000 tonne cliff collapse severs the beach in two! The film transitions between two scenes shot in September 2020 and January 2023, shot at similar angles and heights in dramatic Cinematic style.
These 150 foot high cliffs will never be quite the same again, ever evolving in the hands of nature's stone mason!
The Jurassic Coast is so called because the rocks famously harbour the remains of dinosaur and sea creatures from the Jurassic period. Many fantastic specimens have been found all along this part of the coast of England, United Kingdom.
At 10:53 Am on January 18th 2023, another massive cliff collapse occurred. Although, part of the natural coastline erosion process, the number of these cliff falls has sharply increased over the last few years. This has been attributed to higher than average rainfall, no doubt attributable to climate change. Remarkably, and especially for this time of day, nobody was killed or injured, largely because a snow shower had put people off from venturing out.
Despite the clear warning notices, and the very obvious consequences, the British public ignore the closure signs and decide to clamber over the huge debris pile. This, even though further falls are likely. The drone footage shows the precarious nature of these cliffs. Rocks are often dislodged by the humble Seagull, let alone complete collapses.
Surprisingly, our drone's camera has revealed at other locations, how after the Winter storms, much of the debris is washed out to sea, and the beach naturally re-opens itself to the public!!
NB: This film has been optimised for playback on a TV and recorded in Ultra High Definition.
🚫 Sound balance may not play clearly on some mobile devices such as a phone or tablet. Factors such as the dynamic range and Dolby Digital handling ability of the device will affect reproduction.
Music By Scott Buckley.

[@bernardsmith1329]

I have no clue as to why the YT algorithm brought me here but I am pleased it did! I used to walk the cliff path maybe 40 years ago. As you say, it is ever changing which makes it a fascinating area to visit. Thanks for this remarkable video.

[@jpdronography1]

What a lovely comment to leave me! Thanks so much. Made my day!🙂 I hope you'll find more memories on my channel. There's a lot of Jurassic Coast stuff on there! Enjoy!👍

[@alancestors]

Excellent photography, drone flying and music

[@jpdronography1]

Many thanks!

[@annavernick1490]

Beautiful video, love the high def, what glorious colours and sweeping landscape. Thank you!

[@jpdronography1]

Really pleased you exploited the UHD of this video and didn't just watch it on a phone. It looses nearly all of its impact when you do that! Pleased you enjoyed taking in all the details, as much as I did making it!👏🙂

[@usmale49]

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you for uploading and sharing!

[@jpdronography1]

Thank You! 😊

[@usmale49]

@@jpdronography1 You're welcome!! 😀

[@marylynne9104]

Thank you for uploading this beautiful video.

[@jpdronography1]

Pleased you enjoyed it! More on my channel. 😄👍

[@RuththeTruther]

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful artwork. What a great name for what you do - dronography! It's a gorgeous way to set off Nature's miracles.

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks Ruth! Plenty more on my Channel! Enjoy!👍😁

[@jimbeekman4863]

Simply Breathtaking

[@powerdroidgirl]

What a moving and powerful video x

[@jpdronography1]

Scott Buckley's music score really adds to the suspense doesn't it? Thanks for your comment! 👍

[@lizbeskalis6735]

I ran into your channel and I really enjoyed the video and the music is so fitting!!! I don't know where you filmed this but it reminded me of the cliffs of the mother land the UK 💝💯 Beautiful! Ty for your excellent work 👍💙💙💙🙏

[@jpdronography1]

Thank you so much!! Filmed in southern England, Dorset, West Bay, Bridport.

[@chrisforrest9482]

Beautiful, just beautiful, but a bit frightening as well. Also your description was greatly appreciated. Thank you.😉🤠

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks Chris, you can come out from under the bed now! It's safe! 🙂👍

[@MariaC.VIIIXIII]

This drone footage is SICK! And I'm afraid of heights!!! I was riveted. Thank you!

[@jpdronography1]

A good way to confront your fears (or give you nightmares) I suppose!! 👍🙂

[@tracyhall2103]

Quite remarkable. Amazing to see the fall out from every angle. The scale of the fall is mind blowing. I’m glad you said it was a 1000 tonnes as that helps us visualise things. We can’t imagine the noise it must have made and the reverberation. Great film. Thank you

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks so much... my avid support team! 😎 Now just wait and see how well (or not) it does!!

[@airbornevlogs]

Great video, thank you for sharing👍

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks for watching!

[@dronefather2023]

Some great shots here 👏 and relaxing 💤

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks 👍

[@LandOverview]

Wow! that's a great place to visit, could spend quite some time there. Great footage came oot well.

[@sheilacarter7875]

I was there years and years ago and the height of those cliffs scared me.l used to think that there would be nowhere to go if they collapsed.Thanikfully no one was hurt or killed !

[@jpdronography1]

Regular walking along there (e.g. walking the dog), is another roll of the dice! Sooner or later, someone's number will come up! 😯

[@chloeh4493]

thank you for sharing☺️ i really enjoyed it x

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks Chloe. Quite immersive on a large TV in 4K, if that means is available to you. Not so good on a phone, though! Glad you enjoyed it. Marrying up the then and now transitions took the most time, because you just can't fly the exact same trajectory twice!

[@chloeh4493]

you have much more patience than i’d have! and it sounds like i should ask my parents for a new tv…😂. i’ve just watched the cctv footage of it falling and i was surprised how far it slid out into the sea x

[@jpdronography1]

Yep, no 'running away' from that one! Good luck with the new TV request, but having made the switch myself, it'll blow you all away! 😁

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

At 2:24... I sea a head and a closed hand (the two larger chunks)... once seen, can't unsea ! 😁👍

[@jpdronography1]

Well, I've heard of an 'ear worm', I guess this is a 'Viz worm' (Visual)!! 😎

[@ptaylor5014]

Yeah i see it too, now can't unsee it lol

[@sus8e462]

Beautiful images & great drone work. Though the mismatch of the sound effects of crashing to the waves shown was distracting at first.. But then the music took over, which worked well with the amazing cliffs. Thank you!

[@jpdronography1]

We've not found any mis-matched sound problems, even looking at the source video file. What we did discover is when the WiFi signal is marginal, YT drops the quality to 480p and then the sound mis-matches. Perhaps this is your problem? The use of a Bluetooth sound device will also introduce delays, but this isn't in the source file and so is outside of our control. Thanks for your kind comment, and pleased you enjoyed it! 👍🙂

[@hartleygabolinscy3152]

Jp, fabulous professional work. A joy to watch with this well chosen music track. Cheers from nz 🚣🏿‍♀️ ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jpdronography1]

Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!😊 ❤️

[@OVTraveller]

The retreat of these cliffs has been happening since England was connected with the mainland of Europe with only a major river separating them. The geological process will continue, may hasten, may slow down, but nothing man might try will stop it. Good luck if you happen to own a few acres on this coast.

[@jpdronography1]

And what a dramatically fascinating process it is!! 🙂

[@nlo114]

From my childhood I remember walking at the foot of cliffs like this, and hearing the constant 'clicks and ticks' as bits of the cliff fell off and landed near me. They varied from large grains of sand to pieces the size of a pea; I was ushered away from there as quick as my parents knew how!

[@jpdronography1]

And it's still doing that! We weren't comfortable on the filming day in 2020. Didn't physically go near last week!👍

[@wendysalter]

Lovey footage of this unstable promontory. As this part of the cliff crumbles regularly, I wonder how far out it went originally.

[@jpdronography1]

Thank you!🙂 First you'd need to settle on how far back 'original' is because that could be the day it was still joined with France! And then there's everything in between!🤔 Thanks for your comment!🙂

[@user-Kiwi49]

Mary Anning would have been in her element ❤

[@cydkriletich6538]

Reminds me of Pacifica, CA, just south of San Francisco. The difference being that in Pacifica, many homes were built on the cliffs for the best views. Little did they know! Condos, apartment buildings and private homes, either being declared unsafe to inhabit, or already part of the ocean. Check it out!

[@radwulfeboraci7504]

How much time is contained in the layers you can see?

[@sarge420]

Great drone video. Beautify countryside.

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks Sarge!👍

[@DanRoads]

Great shots! How were the seagulls? When I last filmed there they were swooping trying to attack the drone lol.

[@jpdronography1]

I filmed outside of the mating/nesting season. That's when they become aggressive. I find only seagulls try to attack drones. No other birds in this country. Not even birds of prey can be bothered! 🦅

[@secularsunshine9036]

Thanks *Let the Sunshine In...* .

[@Shaun137]

Bet the fossil hunters will take advantage of the fall.

[@grahamb8346]

4 minutes of a drone flying backs and forwards. First 30 seconds and you have seen it all.

[@jpdronography1]

That's why KZbin puts a forward skip button on their player... For the impatient! I use it a lot! 🤣👍 There's also a YT short of this video that's perfect for you... But you've now seen it already in landscape mode.....

[@RonSeymour1]

R.I.P. Charlotte, I believe her name was, who was crushed under a similar rock fall there a few years ago.

[@benjleath9406]

Oh well worse things have happened at sea 🌊

[@jpdronography1]

Oh great! Very funny! 🤣

[@iloneclezar]

Dronado (inventei essa palavra agora) por um profissional é outra coisa. Ótimo!

[@jpdronography1]

Thank you very much for your comment!👍🙂

[@reinettbernardo2779]

Unbelievable people still go walking on the beach! Dangerous

[@gobbletegook]

Perhaps its time to detonate from the middle up? But, in any event...it is some impressive footage

[@jpdronography1]

It's a protected coastline, so detonation is out of the question! Glad you liked the film. Another is in production....👍🙂

[@worldofameiso5491]

A metaphor for this country...

[@jpdronography1]

Thank you for your comment 🙂

[@patrick247two]

How long until the sea takes the rubble away?

[@jpdronography1]

Patrick, hopefully my latest video should go some way to answering your question Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJzYmn-hn9R6otk

[@patrick247two]

@@jpdronography1 Thank you. Awesome answer.

[@x2lls]

So many stupid comments here. The sea and continental movement has had overall control over the land we live on for 1000's of years. Get real.

[@jpdronography1]

Nobody's denying it. We're all full of appreciation for the process. Sometimes we throw in the odd glib comment just for fun! 😁🐈‍⬛🎉😺🤩🛀

[@edwaggoner7403]

Cliff falls / erosion adds to sea level rise.

[@kevinchastain727]

every time I see something like this I wonder, if the earth is as old as they say it is then why is there so much of the land mass that is still so unstable.

[@stetomlinson3146]

Because it's constantly being exposed to weather and climate conditions that cause erosion of the soft rocks and sand. Millions of years ago this was part of a vast desert, roughly on the Equator. It's moved North with the plates of the earths' crust. Part of the UK was joined onto mainland Europe until about 10,000 years ago, until the English Channel was formed as a land mass collapsed and the sea broke through. Millions of years ago it was part of what is now Canada, but as the plates split and pulled the continent apart, into two separate ones.

[@jpdronography1]

Thanks for that. Brought back happy memories of my Scottish Geography teacher teaching us all about tectonic plates and Geology 👍

[@ainhoasamford8046]

El mar es el mar y reclamará los territorios naturales y los artificiales, son de él, nosotros somos sólo observadores de su destrucción y nada de lo que el humano quiera hacerle le detiene, el tiempo está de su parte, el nuestro apenas llega a 100 años o menos por persona, solo podemos observarle y disfrutar de él mientras podamos, aviso a navegantes

[@jpdronography1]

¡Qué razón tienes! ¡Gracias por tu comentario! 😄

[@martinruddell2682]

Excavate the lot. Dig the cliff face back 50 metres. Fill in a few low spots and potholes 🕳️

[@jpdronography1]

Expensive way to do it. Just need a drone carrying a few grenades?🤠 Ho! Ho!

[@jpdronography1]

You're welcome! See you on the Jurassic Coast!

[@John-yt5zr]

Well this video was uneventful.

[@jpdronography1]

Thankfully, yes! 🙂

[@romeowhiskey1146]

Couldn't WATCH the entire video... Is there a CLIFF NOTES available?

[@jpdronography1]

Yes, didn't you read the video description? 🤣 Anyway, very good!🙂

[@user-ln2yi6rt4c]

главное что бы без жертв, а то зная про любовь ко всему необычно интересному можно было ожидать всего что угодно.

[@MyKharli]

Any good fossils and minerals exposed i wonder

[@jaynetanner3757]

its a bit ott dramatic but nice views from the sea

[@sf55514]

I guess the pacific didn't hear the oceans are rising.

[@jpdronography1]

No Pacific ocean here! English Channel!

[@rick-o-shay7450]

Thats the cliffs of insanity. Inconceivable !

[@jpdronography1]

Wonderful aren't they? Incredibly ancient! You can almost imagine a dinosaur going for a stroll along there!! 🦖

[@nigelbostock4270]

This word you are using, I don’t think it means what you think it means. ( inigo montoya )

[@rick-o-shay7450]

@@nigelbostock4270 Are you that little Spanish brat that I taught a lesson to so many years ago ? (The six fingered man)

[@kevinwillingham901]

Revelation 6:16, NLT: And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

[@jpdronography1]

Oh wow! Very clever find! 👏

[@rosemaryallen2128]

The wrath of a lamb might be very piquant to behold. As an oxymoron, it makes the brain cells hurt!

[@jpdronography1]

@@rosemaryallen2128 The wrath of Lambs in Dorset make the farmers quake in their boots!!!😁

[@robertsmart4892]

Don't forget the National Trust have for years been buying up all the coastlines and refusing to do anything about coastal erosion this is what happens

[@x2lls]

Refusing to do anything about coastal erosion this is what happens. Are you for real? Humans are not more powerful than the intricacy of the land.

[@jpdronography1]

Funny how it can be slowed down in millionaire postcode areas, such as Sandbanks though! Lot's and lots of large rocks can be laid to form a barrier. This won't work at West bay though because the falls are caused by higher rainfall amounts, not base of erosion. It would also spoil the look of the place, and it's not going to happen.

[@SR-bh5jd]

Erosion 101.

[@tonyupton8980]

Repetitive must have little knowledge of Dorset

[@jpdronography1]

What knowledge do you need of Dorset to make a film that has no commentary, and is not about Dorset? !🤔

[@donaldbrown7252]

two thumbs down .

[@jpdronography1]

Wow! TWO thumbs down! I've exceeded myself! Excellent!👏👍

[@TheAquaMammal]

Holy cow, thumbs down for the incredibly annoying and unnecessary music!

[@jpdronography1]

Mute it!😁

[@thomasstambaugh5181]

The constant and arbitrary movement of the drone as well as "artistic" zoom and dezoom makes it impossible to appreciate what actually happened. The "after" shots show a pile of rubble -- big deal! I don't need a video to know that a cliff collapse will produce a pile of rubble at the bottom. I gave a thumbs-down. The music was so loud that it completely overwhelmed the natural sounds. The "dramatic Cinematic style" struck me as intrusive and greatly distracted from the ostensible subject. I am reminded of the thankfully brief period in the 1960s when videographers ruined historic concert performances with similar "dramatic Cinematic style" contrivances like feedback, saturation, solarization, and extreme closeups. I'm sorry to be harsh, I'm disappointed because I had hoped to be able actually compare a before-and-after view of a significant event.

[@thebeardedgeordiephotography]

Or, you know, maybe just click off and save yourself typing a tirade 🤔🤦‍♂️

[@jpdronography1]

There's other drone videos on YT of this fall that have no music, in fact no sound at all as drones don't record sound. Perhaps they would suit your tastes better, more like the days of silent movies? Anyway there is no zooming either, as the drone does not have a zoom lens. It's quite a flattering reply because you obviously believe I'm a professional film maker which I am not! 🙂. This means YOU could do something so much better that me!👍 YOU could: 1. Buy a decent drone £1,500 2. Get your licence to fly it 3. Buy a fast computer to edit 4K video £2,500 4. Buy another camera to record your static sounds on £350 5. Drive to the site £45 6. Spend 2 full days editing it together 7. Find copyright free music that actually sounds half decent and not something generated in a child's bedroom. When you've done all of that, we can then hail you with over-critical comments. You'll like it though, because you will have achieved the perfect video that exactly fits to your particular requirements. Alternatively, I'm available for hire, so let me know what your requirement is and we can talk about price. The clue as to what the video contains is in the title, so there should be nothing here to disappoint! Many thanks for your comment 👍🙂

[@wendysalter]

Oh dear...

[@thebeardedgeordiephotography]

@@jpdronography1 bravo 👏 😂

[@jpdronography1]

Sorry for the tirade!