Hi Bob. Just wanted to check how you envisage the layout for the new vid. Do you see it with white background and smaller inset graphics as here....

picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jwzkLLR50M...Ym7Y?feat=directlink

Or was it a full screen graphic behind the interview? cheers, TC

Hi TC,

Sorry for the delay in responding - I was in transit to SE Asia.

The Macbook Pro Retina launch video is your master reference for style. I would go with full frame imagery except maybe where I am trying to be funny with expressions - otherwise it may be lost.

The key think is to find a few music tracks that work together and allow for the piece to build.

B

Hi Bob, I'm on it.. Would be good to have ideas from others for background images to match specific sections of audio. I did think of some Gilliam/Python style anim for the background in places, would take a while to put together though. Any thoughts anyone?

Hi TC,

Been in transit and tied up with a few other things these past few days - but getting back to it now.

Here is the final charcoal fire render we have produced.

dl.dropbox.com/u/33977056/Fire6_1024x1024.mp4

This MP4 is a placeholder, I will post the link for the MOV later.

If you have any ideas for elements - I might be able to film them or get my CG team to run some artwork up.

If you have a rough cut of anything to look at just post a quarter Res MP4 download link and I will have a look.

Thanks again for you hard work - The New Science vid is around 2000 views!

Bob

This is wonderful Sanjeev. One thought: since we are not sure what is happening to the H atom in LENR, the electron's orbit might appear as an oscillating sphere - translucent to allow viewing the proton at center. Of course simplicity is best and this may be asking too much.

Ideally, in keeping with my view of what may happen to H, the electron orbit starts as a single plane - as you show now. It then morphs into a translucent sphere, which contracts closer to proton, then expands again, oscillating between the two states.

I have been away from graphics a long while so this all may be far more difficult than imagined. Or not. Thanks for taking on this fascinating task!

Hi Bob, just watched your narrative - it is very good. Is there a time length target? i.e. 30, 60, 90 seconds? One thought about sound: as we all associate the sizzle, crackle and pops of wood burning with old fire - there is likely a percussionist who could simulate this into a musical rhythm. Additional layering of notes would deepen the theme. At the point in your narrative when New Fire is discovered... the rhythm ends, replaced with a single note, or chord - essentially quiet as there is no combustion.

Alas, I no longer have access to music production facility. But I am certain this would be an exciting challenge for a contemporary composer working with beats and a knowledge of sampling libraries.

Following this vid development in asynch time - this track is great TC.

Bob,

while I cannot provide footage I pasted a few image suggestions into script copy. Most are stock and probably PD by now - if they are available. B&W, stop motion, frame animation seems good idea (Pythonesque) This is a fun project and it is delightful to see your and TC's many cool ideas flow together...

Script attached in Word format. Ooops cannot make attachments work. Is there an e-mail address I can send to?

@ Greenwin

setup a google account, upload the doc as a google doc to drive and share link here.

@ TC

Here is a link to the uncompressed MOV for the fire clip

dl.dropbox.com/u/33977056/Fire6_1024x1024mov.mov

B

To Invent something that is really revolutionary, you have to, to actually be original and with profound conviction you have to discard, old beliefs.”

Collage – light diffraction thru prism, smithy hammer, smelting, vacuum tube, early TV camera/CRT goes blank (“discard old beliefs.)

“We wanted to look at... what was really important to consumers... and we found, at the core of everything, was energy”
Tesla spark, sun, nova, water fall, human heart

“without energy... there is... no... consumption, no gadgets, nothing”
Lights across smoggy globe wink out

“Fire is, for the most part, how we access stored energy, but it is inefficient, dirty and dangerous”

Diesel smoke, back hoe, old b&w comedy explosion in character’s face

“so we thought, isn’t it about time fire had an upgrade”

“if we upgraded fire, it would open up a whole new world”

“It is not just about a product ecosystem, it is about, well.... THE ecosystem”
Lights across clear sky globe wink on…

“So at the risk of a firing squad, we went back to the beginning... of the universe”
b&w silent stock footage firing squad???


“People know... that what matters, is... matter - it is energy, lots of energy”
Classic Transporter beams (Kirk –or object) aboard??

“The best minds discovered that if you changed the stage, you could make matter dance and the performance was hot, so hot in fact that it is not just 2X or 4X better, it is many 1000s of times better than anything we had seen before”
B&W footage cowboy dance around bullets. Chorus line. Curtain rise, bows.


“Since fire essentially creates heat and so does this, we call it... the New Fire”
Animated logo…

“This changes EVERYTHING”
ECU new born / child turns to camera wide-eyed.

“The New Fire does away with pollution, environmental destruction and excuses for war”
Reverse mushroom cloud. White flag waves. Weapons pile up (armistice)

"The New Fire is the cleanest, quietest energy form we have ever developed and it does all this... in a form factor that is 1000s of times thinner than anything, anyone, has made before.
!!!

The New fire will allow the you to do everything you do now, better… and things you could only have dreamed of, become possible… as a prime energy source, we think you will agree, it is near perfection.
Diverse cross-section human faces look in to camera.

The New Fire, is without doubt, the best thing man has ever invented."

Wooden wagon wheel rolls away… morphs into light shimmer…