We have just finished shooting Fermilab's new promotional film, as yet untitled. After shooting for 15 days in tunnels, detectors, control rooms, underground collision halls, 300 foot elevators, and on nearly every floor of the Fermilab highrise, we're excited to dive into the footage and begin piecing together the film that explains nearly everything the lab is doing (except the Tevatron, which was the star of The Atom Smashers). How do you turn 40 hours of footage into 30 minutes? We'll let you know when we're done...
Stephen Poon, our Assistant Editor, has finished logging, transcribing, and subclipping all the footage that Stefani Foster, our cinematographer, shot. Luke Haddock, our animator, is about to start work on a type of animation we've never tried before: putting animation over live-action footage. And soon we'll begin sending sections to Kate Simko, our composer, to begin scoring the film.
We'll be telling the story of Fermilab and the people who work there as they struggle to answer the universe's most basic questions in a strategy involving three fronts: The Energy Frontier, The Cosmic Frontier, and the Intensity Frontier.
The success of The Atom Smashers and our great relationship with the lab caused them to reach out to us to put together the film that will represent Fermilab to the world for the next several years, and we're excited and honored to be tapped for the job.
Check back here for stills and video clips as we start churning them out. And, by the way, in the time you've taken to read this, approximately 1 trillion neutrinos have streamed harmlessly through your body. Some of them might have even changed flavors. (See why we like this stuff?)
