遠在高空

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***TO THE STARS!***

A timelapse message from ISS to all Humankind. - 2K version available on my blog: http://wp.me/p2fVm6-bv
Facebook page - Making of coming soon! https://www.facebook.com/furtherupyonder

I wanted to use pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years.

They are working to open a Gateway to Space for all humankind, but people on Earth must understand that they have to get rid of the concept of borders on our planet if they want to follow the astronauts to new worlds in outer space. While the cosmonauts speak a day passes on Earth, from dawn to sunset, until the Gateway opens with a burst of light. The ISS then gains speed and goes faster and faster, the astronauts are leaving our planet which they see spinning faster and faster, merging earth, oceans and people together, ready to follow them, Further Up Yonder.

Making of

As a filmmaking student, this was my first attempt to craft a timelapse video. It has been a time consuming process, but it turned out as one of my most satisfying projects.

I focused my workflow on colours and harmony of movements, syncing every frame with the music and the voices of the astronauts. Every picture has been post processed individually before being imported in the NLE software, as I tried to take the most out of every image in terms of colours, contrast and neatiness.

Pictures were downloaded from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center and edited with Photoshop CS6. Even if they were Hi-res images shot with Nikon D3S cameras, a lot of noise removal and color correction was needed, especially for those shots at ISO 3200, which was the highest ISO speed limit I've allowed myself to use, exception made for the last sequence of the spinning world, which comes from a sequenze of shots taken at ISO 12800. Daytime shots were taken at ISO 200. I've used Topaz Denoise 5 for noise removal, as it is very powerful and accurate when dealing with shadows and blacks.

Editing was made with Adobe Premiere CS6, with a 2K workflow, which allowed me to scale, rotate and pan image sequences whose native resolution is 4K. The video was downscaled to 1280x720 resolution for Vimeo. The original 2K version is available for download on my blog (link on top of this description).
Credits

Images courtesy of Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, downloadable for non-commerical use from http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

Music: Synthetic Truth, by digitalR3public - licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 License: http://soundcloud.com/digitalr3public/synthetic-truth

Audio messages courtesy of NASA: http://www.nasa.gov

作為此刻部署在這個星球最前方的公民,

暨第一批登上阿法空間站的成員

我們開始此次探索與發現之旅

為今後將要旅居於遠離我們家園星球的人們

建立一塊立足之地

我們正為全人類

開啟一扇通往太空的大門.

當我們每90分鐘環繞這個星球一周時

我們看到的是一個沒有被疆界分割的世界. 我們送上祝愿

願所有的國家為和平與協作共同努力.

我們的世界雖然歷經滄海,

但是國際空間站(ISS)有力地證明了, 國家之間能夠團結協作

促進和平及全球合作, 豐富那些超越人類極限的宏偉目標.

今晚, 我們願意和所有人分享

這次空間探險帶給我們寶貴收穫,

我們凝視美麗輝煌的地球時所感受到的的敬畏與興奮,

及我們對於人類的探索, 發現, 實踐精神的強烈感觸.

這種精神沒有極限.

全世界都正處於艱難的時刻,

這也是我們所有人都應開始思考的時刻

考相互之間的陪伴, 思考珍惜我們的星球.

从这里, 我们能看到这美好的一切.