Comments on: Space is spreading http://noisyastronomer.com/2008/10/19/space-is-spreading/ Thu, 17 May 2012 22:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum http://noisyastronomer.com/2008/10/19/space-is-spreading/#comment-116 Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:11:00 +0000 http://astronoise.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/space-is-spreading/#comment-116 That's called ViewSpace, and it's the brainchild of John Stoke, now working at NRAO as the ALMA EPO Program Officer. Pop in on him next time you're at HQ and tell him how much you like his baby!<br/><br/>http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/exhibits/self-update/viewspace/<br/><br/>The content is updated weekly through the internet hookup of the computer that's driving the big flat panel display.<br/><br/>By not having a voice-over or narration audio track the system is freed up from having to support numerous languages. The pleasant music track is also less annoying in the typical science museum setting than having several competing narration tracks playing on nearby screens. Less of a cacophony, you know.<br/><br/>As a video editor I'm accustomed to having a professional narrator reading a carefully prepared script and then cutting pictures to that track. Eschewing the VO (voice over) seems almost, well, heretical, but it works in this instance. <br/><br/>Personally, I'd be sorely tempted to try to incorporate a VO track from time to time. I think Dr. Pamela Gay would be just superb at this sort of thing, she's a seriously great voice talent. That’s called ViewSpace, and it’s the brainchild of John Stoke, now working at NRAO as the ALMA EPO Program Officer. Pop in on him next time you’re at HQ and tell him how much you like his baby!

http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/exhibits/self-update/viewspace/

The content is updated weekly through the internet hookup of the computer that’s driving the big flat panel display.

By not having a voice-over or narration audio track the system is freed up from having to support numerous languages. The pleasant music track is also less annoying in the typical science museum setting than having several competing narration tracks playing on nearby screens. Less of a cacophony, you know.

As a video editor I’m accustomed to having a professional narrator reading a carefully prepared script and then cutting pictures to that track. Eschewing the VO (voice over) seems almost, well, heretical, but it works in this instance.

Personally, I’d be sorely tempted to try to incorporate a VO track from time to time. I think Dr. Pamela Gay would be just superb at this sort of thing, she’s a seriously great voice talent.

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