The Planets 2010
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:07AM The Planets 2010 was a concert at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in June 2010. The project was led by the wonderful Dave Trouton, with whom I've worked on several shows including Clockwork, One Giant Leap and Arthur.
Dave worked with Edinburgh schoolchildren to re-imagine Holst's "The Planets" and the kids performed their work live onstage at the Usher Hall with each piece - each planet - having a video intro.
For the intros Dave scripted and recorded voiceovers spoken by the pupils, telling the audience some of the history of each planet. I've touched on our approach to this piece further in an article on my personal blog here.
Making the movies was a mixture of raiding the NASA archives, animating still images and finding and animating some stock CG of the planets themselves.
Here are links to each of the intro movies.
Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" in 2006 and so didn't get its own section, which was something of a relief as this is the best picture of it I could find for One Giant Leap.
2010, Astronomy, Compositing, Edinburgh, FCP, Usher Hall in Work