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In Saturn's Rings
In Saturn's Rings is a large format movie about Saturn made exclusively from real photographs taken by spacecraft. Director Stephen V. Stone used more than 7.5 million photographs and numerous film techniques to create the effect of flying through space around Saturn and among its rings. CGI and 3-D modeling were not used in any capacity to create the realistic feel Stone wanted for the viewer's experience. Most of the photos were taken by various major space missions.
The film was originally expected to be released on December 31, 2014. It was scheduled for release on May 4, 2018, to coincide with Star Wars Day. The 45-minute film was released in four formats:
Sparked by Cassini's arrival at Saturn in 2004 and the media's lack of coverage, Stone produced two art films about space exploration. Photos from space missions — including images of Saturn taken by Cassini — were included. But Stone was not satisfied with the results so did not release them.
While listening to the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber one day in 2006, Stone conceived the idea of creating moving images of Saturn based on a pan-and-scan 2.5-D effect they had seen in the 2002 documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture. The technique involves creating a 3-D perspective using still photographs. (The Adagio for Strings would later become part of the soundtrack for In Saturn's Rings.)
After having success with a black-and-white HD animation of Saturn images from the Cassini mission based on The Kid Stays in the Picture effect, Stone wrote a script for a 12-minute film about why space should be explored. They envisioned the film, which they called Outside In, showing at planetariums, museums, and film festivals.
James Hyder, editor of the large film format journal LF Examiner, learned about Stone's project and told them it belonged on the giant screen. Inspired by Hyder's encouragement as well as a viewing of the IMAX film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, Stone committed themselves to making their film in large format.
Stone spent the next three years doing numerous rewrites and reworks of the film. They was unable to create a script using narration in classic documentary format that was able to express what they felt the images were conveying. An avid fan of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Stone finally found their moment of clarity during their annual viewing of that movie in 2009. "There are only 11 minutes of dialog in 2001's 140 minutes," Stone told LF Examiner in 2012. "I realized what Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke understood: space is universal, primal, infinite. Words simply fail to convey the experience of exploring space."
As a result, Stone eliminated the narration entirely and instead, allows the images and music to give each viewer a personalized experience of Saturn.
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In Saturn's Rings
In Saturn's Rings is a large format movie about Saturn made exclusively from real photographs taken by spacecraft. Director Stephen V. Stone used more than 7.5 million photographs and numerous film techniques to create the effect of flying through space around Saturn and among its rings. CGI and 3-D modeling were not used in any capacity to create the realistic feel Stone wanted for the viewer's experience. Most of the photos were taken by various major space missions.
The film was originally expected to be released on December 31, 2014. It was scheduled for release on May 4, 2018, to coincide with Star Wars Day. The 45-minute film was released in four formats:
Sparked by Cassini's arrival at Saturn in 2004 and the media's lack of coverage, Stone produced two art films about space exploration. Photos from space missions — including images of Saturn taken by Cassini — were included. But Stone was not satisfied with the results so did not release them.
While listening to the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber one day in 2006, Stone conceived the idea of creating moving images of Saturn based on a pan-and-scan 2.5-D effect they had seen in the 2002 documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture. The technique involves creating a 3-D perspective using still photographs. (The Adagio for Strings would later become part of the soundtrack for In Saturn's Rings.)
After having success with a black-and-white HD animation of Saturn images from the Cassini mission based on The Kid Stays in the Picture effect, Stone wrote a script for a 12-minute film about why space should be explored. They envisioned the film, which they called Outside In, showing at planetariums, museums, and film festivals.
James Hyder, editor of the large film format journal LF Examiner, learned about Stone's project and told them it belonged on the giant screen. Inspired by Hyder's encouragement as well as a viewing of the IMAX film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, Stone committed themselves to making their film in large format.
Stone spent the next three years doing numerous rewrites and reworks of the film. They was unable to create a script using narration in classic documentary format that was able to express what they felt the images were conveying. An avid fan of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Stone finally found their moment of clarity during their annual viewing of that movie in 2009. "There are only 11 minutes of dialog in 2001's 140 minutes," Stone told LF Examiner in 2012. "I realized what Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke understood: space is universal, primal, infinite. Words simply fail to convey the experience of exploring space."
As a result, Stone eliminated the narration entirely and instead, allows the images and music to give each viewer a personalized experience of Saturn.