'The beauty and the pain of Opportunity's story is that the beginning, the middle and the end had already happened.'
: I think with Spirit and Opportunity that there are two things that really play into it. One is that [principal investigator] Steve Squyres and [the lead scientist for the rovers' color imaging system] Jim Bell decided from the very outset that every picture they ever took was going to be online, so that anyone could follow along and be a part of this adventure. And that built this community of people taking every step alongside those rovers the whole way.
So like everything in filmmaking, there's a lot of trust you have to place in your creative collaborators, across all fields, whether it was my composer or my editors or sound designer. In this case, it was the visual effects and it wasn't until the very end of making this film that we actually got to see the fully rendered shots and see this beautiful Mars come to life. They totally knocked it out of the park.
When you're a documentary filmmaker, at least my type of documentaries, I do what I do, I love my job, because I am normally following something unfolding. It's a very unpredictable way of living. You never know when your story will be over. You are at the mercy of the story. So if I could go to Mars and be documenting theright now, I would be there. That would be the normal type of filmmaking I do. But I can't do that.
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