Astronomy Campus Video

Bic Parker

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This is another in a series of videos I am putting together for the Three Rivers Foundation (of which I am a volunteer, also):

http://gallery.mac.com/bicparker#100349

This was of a recent workshop weekend for one of the graduate school classes from Texas Tech University - techniques for teaching sciences.

As always, we had a blast out there.

FYI, as I did in the other video for 3RF, I had some nighttime IR shots. For that I used a handheld JVC Everio (flash drive) using a SIMA IR lamp array (36 IR LED's). The displays on the camera were covered in 1/8" thick red acrylic so as to not mess up everyone's dark adaption in their eyes.

Except for the interviews and the one bit of shooting overhead from a ladder (for the kinesthetic life cycle of a star) all shooting was handheld on the Glidecam. I am still getting used to this mount, but I have to say it is pretty great in the all in all. One thing I have to remember is to edit out and not use the initial camera footage for each clip, since the camera is still stabilizing (no, I don't have a remote on the Glidecam, yet).
 
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