This is my cue for a launch of the space shuttle Discovery to meet the ISS, though unfortunately I’m not sure which mission or where the footage originated. I tried to capture the raw intensity of the moment rather than resort to a generically uplifting, brassy approach. I can only imagine how unspeakably stressful this is for everyone involved, and my first attempts didn’t feel authentic enough to that. These launch films always show these great close-up shots of the gigantic main thrusters starting up, and what always strikes me is the scale and the violence of the whole thing - the sheer amount of force required to get something that size moving at such a speed, straight up into the air, and the insanity that a couple people signed up to sit tight with all of that strapped to their backs.
This was done as a part of my application portfolio for the 2023 film scoring intensive program at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
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