Seeing in the Dark -- A Planning Grant

在黑暗中看到——规划补助金

• 批准号: 0004527
• 负责人: Timothy Ferris
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Ferris, Timothy
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-02-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0004527&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Seeing; Dark; Planning; Grant

This is a planning grant to Timothy Ferris to develop a PBS documentary film about amateur astronomy and stargazing. The film will bring viewers into direct contact with the night sky, introducing them to the constellations and showing how even a small telescope can open a window onto the cosmos.Ferris has previously produced two highly regarded science documentaries, "The Creation of the Universe" and "Life Beyond Earth." The director for the "Seeing In the Dark" program will be Thomas Levenson who most recently served as producer/director/writer for the "Dome" program in Building Big. Andrew Fraknoi, Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College and Educational consultant for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific will be the Science and Outreach Consultant for the project. Activities during the planning stage include:Developing preliminary storyboarding, determining locations and people to appear in the film and working out special effects sequencesAcquiring and digitizing images for use in the filmPlanning educational and public outreach effortsIdentifying and consulting with potential creative contributors to the filmShooting and editing a test night scene at a "star party" to establish which techniques can produce the best results in these conditions.

这是一个计划拨款蒂莫西费里斯开发一个公共广播公司的纪录片关于业余天文学和观星。 这部电影将带观众与夜空直接接触，向他们介绍星座，并展示即使是一个小望远镜也可以打开宇宙的窗户。费里斯此前曾制作过两部备受好评的科学纪录片，《宇宙的创造》和《地球以外的生命》。“在黑暗中看”节目的导演将是托马斯莱文森谁最近担任制片人/导演/作家的“圆顶”计划在建设大。 山麓学院天文系主任、太平洋天文学会教育顾问安德鲁·弗拉克诺伊将担任该项目的科学和外联顾问。在计划阶段的活动包括：制作初步的故事板，确定电影中出现的地点和人物，并制定特效序列获取和数字化电影中使用的图像计划教育和公众宣传工作识别和咨询电影的潜在创意贡献者拍摄和编辑一个“星星派对”的测试夜景，以确定哪些技术可以在这些条件下产生最佳效果。