High-Level Project Summary
On April 28, 2021, Parker Solar Probe “touched” the Sun—meaning the spacecraft flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere (the corona) and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. Our project is to describe this unbelievable achievement in the form of an inspiring story. We decided to present this story through a Stop Motion video with the help of a ballad and background music. We merged around 330 images to create this video. This beautiful art video shows our dedication to this project as we focused on every little detail in every picture of all frames. For Example, we spun the probe around the Earth three times.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Description:
❖To demonstrate this knowledge in a way that appeals to a younger audience we wrote a poem discussing the technical details of the probe in form of literature.
❖ The poem while with a dramatic touch stays true to the factual information about the Parker Solar Probe.
❖ We created a stop-motion animation using paper pieces, containing 300+ individual shots.
❖ The orbits around each spatial body were reduced for simplicity but the actual trajectory remained accurate.
❖ The scenes start from Delta IV Heavy’s launch followed by probe’s detachment above the Earth’s gravitational pull.
❖ Eventually when the probe reached the corona, the solar wind particles being detected by the Solar Probe Cup (SPC) were shown.
❖ The structure, elements & materials used to construct the Parker Solar Probe were then discussed.
For Video Editing:
Adobe Premiere Pro
VN Video Editor
Capcut
Snapseed
Clipchamp
For Music:
Royalty-free music from www.pixabay.com
Goals:
We aimed to convey the knowledge and journey of Parker Solar Probe to the younger generation in a fun and interactive manner to indulge their interests in further endeavours.
Space Agency Data
We used the space agency data provided in the Space App challenge Resources section and got some help from the Youtube channel of NASA, NASA Goddard.
Hackathon Journey
Our Hackathon Journey was wonderful to say the least. Although we learned about the event pretty late, we all still decided to participate and give it our all. We chose to do a video on the challenge On the Way to the Sun. The challenge was pretty interesting and we ended up learning about Parker Solar Probe's space and Sun exploration quite a lot while making the video. We had the idea to make a stop-motion animation using paper-cutouts. So we worked hard in the two days of the event to produce a stop-motion animation consisting of over 300 individual shots which we carefully taken to animate the movement of the Parker Solar Probe, Delta IV Heavy and the spatial bodies. We then used editing softwares written in the section Detailed Project Description to make the best thing we can in the provided time and the final result came out pretty nice in all of our opinion. We had major setbacks of camera placement, lighting conditions, editing time and recording the voiceover. On top of that we had to micro-manage our time to make it possible. But to our happiness, we made it overcame all those challenges. At the end, we would like to thank the management of SHU - Salim Habib University, who hosted the event and provided us with peaceful and comfortable environment to work in and make our project. It wouldn't have been possible otherwise. That's all!
References
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3105/earths-magnetosphere-protecting-our-planet-from-harmful-space-energy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
https://www.pexels.com/video/cg-animation-of-fire-sun-854422/
https://pixabay.com/music/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sun-corona/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZhPz92Dic&t=490s
Tags
#art #space #stopmotion #animation #sun #parkersolarprobe