{"id":4762,"date":"2013-10-02T02:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T02:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2013-10-02T02:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T02:46:57","slug":"gravity-mission-patches-and-other-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"“Gravity”: Mission patches and other details"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie Gravity<\/a> starring Sandra Bullock<\/a> and George Clooney<\/a> opens this Friday. Though the vivid trailers give the basic story, I’ve tried not to read too many stories about the film so as to avoid spoilers. Generally, it looks like the reviews from film festival and preview showings indicate that it is quite an entertaining and well made film.<\/p>\n

The filmamaker was careful about details and even had mission patches created by famed Star Trek artist Mike Okuda: ‘Gravity’ movie mission patches shaped by real space history – collectSPACE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m amazed that the whole film was first created in animation to get the lighting and composition optimized for each scene before filming it with the actors : Why Gravity Director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n Will Never Make a Space Movie Again – Underwire\/Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While there appear to be a number of Hollywood tropes\u00a0 involved\u00a0 (e.g.\u00a0 the Shuttles have stopped flying, there are no sounds in space, etc), it looks like they kept the science and technology fairly realistic. Will be interesting to see if this space story in the solar sci-fi<\/a> style will get a strong audience response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney opens this Friday. Though the vivid trailers give the basic story, I’ve tried not to read too many stories about the film so as to avoid spoilers. Generally, it looks like the reviews from film festival and preview showings indicate that it is quite an entertaining … Continue reading “Gravity”: Mission patches and other details<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1eO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9021,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9021","url_meta":{"origin":4762,"position":0},"title":"Lunar reports: The origin of Ocean of Storms + Young volcanism","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of recent studies\u00a0show the Moon still has many scientific surprises: --- *\u00a0NASA Mission Points to Origin of 'Ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u00a0- On the West Coast of the Ocean of Storms (Artist's Concept) Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Space Science"","block_context":{"text":"Space Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"PIA18821_ip[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PIA18821_ip1-1024x599.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3773,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3773","url_meta":{"origin":4762,"position":1},"title":"“Europa Report” opens in theaters","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've mentioned the new film\u00a0Europa Report a few times here over the past several months. 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