Production Journal: Nov. 5, 1994
One of the things we can do ahead of time is to prepare all the taped
segments, or "roll-ins" which are used to illustrate things the live
camera just can't capture as well. Among these are graphics that are
being made for us. The production of these images is as spread out as
anything else in Jason. Some (especially Volcano cutaways) are being
worked on by a specially-assembled team of visual artists at the Maui
High Performance Computing Center. Gene Feldman at NASA Goddard, who
was on the Belize expedition last year, working with Dave Pape, also
from NASA Goddard, did all the live computer rendering of the cave and
temple during the broadcast, is this year pouring their creative efforts
into a sensational flyover of the Hawaiian Island archipelago. There
are other images the Ruder-Finn Design Department is developing. Also,
we have found some existing sources but we do not yet know if we will
be able to get the rights to all of these; the Smithsonian has said we
can use their diagrams of the hot spot, but there are other sources we
are just starting to talk to for other images.
Other taped materials include scenes of various volcanoes erupting; DNA
testing in the laboratory at the National Zoo; the undersea volcano
Loihi; and volcanoes on other planets. Some of these we have shot
already, others we are getting. One scene we will tape in Hawaii ahead
of time is the Hawaiian storyteller. It is a tribute to the good will
Jason can generate that some of the most respected storytellers in
Hawaii have come forward to help us. We are very pleased to have this
sign of support from the Hawaiian community. More on that later.
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Gene Carl
Feldman
(gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
(301) 286-9428
Todd Carlo Viola,
JASON Foundation for Education
(todd@jason.org)