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Who Am I?
Hi Everyone, my Jason Lord and I work in the film & TV
industry out here in Los Angeles as a lighting professional. This year
I’m stepping into the world of producing an independent documentary
with my first project called SOFIA: Mixing Art and Science.
What's this about?
Earlier this year my sister Stacy Lord was selected to participate in
the 2015 NASA SOFIA mission as an Airborn Astronomy Ambassador which
is part of an education outreach program to bring astronomy science to
schools throughout the country. SOFIA stands for
Stratospheric Observatory
For Infrared
Astronomy and is housed aboard a converted 747
aircraft carrying a 2.5 meter diameter telescope that is dedicated to
astronomical research at altitudes of 45,000 feet. This gets the
infrared instruments up high enough above enough atmospheric
distortion in order to survey the earth and sky in the infared
spectrum.
Who is Stacy?
Stacy is a visual arts teacher at Worcester East Middle School in
Massachusetts and works with kids that are from lower income areas of
the city. Over the years she has received awards and recognition for
her work with the community, creating summer art programs and also
creating one of largest art fairs in Massachusetts (Start On The
Street) which attracts around 20,000 people to the streets of
Worcester each fall.
Why are you doing this?
First reason: She's my sister! What better way to honor the work she does, right? I also get to apply my skills to document the whole experience.
What's your plan?
My plan is to shadow Stacy on her misson flights and create a 30
minute educational video that tells the story of how a creative arts
teacher stepped into the world of astronomy science for the first time
and will now bring that back to the classroom and implement that into
a visual arts curriculum for young students.
When?
NASA accepted my proposal to film Stacy during the SOFIA flights
which happen at the end of August 2015. She will be flying along with
other education ambassadors from around country to meet, observe and
learn from many different science teams who will be conducting their
research during (2) separate night flights over the northern American
continent. These teams travel in from around the world and have to go
through a rigorous application process to have time allotted on the
SOFIA aircraft for their research projects.
Money...
Taking on a documentary project like this incurs a lot of costs. I
have buy some equipment like harddrives, a field mic along with all
the incidentals that go along with any video project.
As it stands right now I’m looking at $5000 to bring the project
to editing with a finish date of April 2016. That’s not a lot of time
to do a project like this but I think I can get a 30 minute cut
finished by then.
So I hope you can contribute to my project and you’ll be paying
it forward to the students at the Worcester East Middle School.
Thanks for supporting my project!
- Jason Lord
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