RAPID: The Himalaya Connection Video, Expanded

RAPID：喜马拉雅连接视频（扩展）

• 批准号: 1547038
• 负责人: Doug Prose
• 金额: $ 7.3万
• 依托单位: EARTH IMAGES FOUNDATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547038&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Himalaya; Connection; Video; Expanded

On April 25, 2015, a devastating M=7.8 earthquake occurred approximately 80 km to the northwest of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. At the location of this earthquake the India plate is converging with Eurasia driving the uplift of the Himalayan mountain range. This RAPID award will enable the expansion and updating of a planned television documentary (The Himalaya Connection) about earth science research in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Mongolia from a half-hour to a one-hour show, in order to incorporate the Nepal earthquake and the lessons learned for making the region safer from natural hazards.The earthquake?s occurrence provides a rare educational opportunity to increase the impact of new scientific information about earth processes while the disaster remains fresh in the global public consciousness. Using footage of scientists doing field research and related landscape, cultural scenes, and interviews filmed over the past several years under several NSF-funded projects, the producers will build on the opening created by the earthquake and its aftermath to incorporate lessons learned from this event into a deeper understanding of the forces at work and their wider impact on the region, and the scientific research behind this knowledge. Because The Himalaya Connection was already in post production, the film can be revised and completed fairly quickly and distributed soon enough to take advantage of the recent information about Nepal that has been so widespread in the global media. The documentary?s primary audience is television viewers watching PBS in North America; the film will also be distributed for international broadcast. The filmmakers are Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia of Earth Images Foundation, award-winning producers of earth science television documentaries. Activities under this RAPID project will involve post-production, mastering, and distribution of the documentary.

2015年4月25日，尼泊尔首都加德满都西北约80公里处发生了7.8级毁灭性地震。 在这次地震发生的地方，印度板块正在与欧亚大陆交汇，推动喜马拉雅山脉的隆起。 该 RAPID 奖项将使计划中的有关尼泊尔、孟加拉国、印度和蒙古地球科学研究的电视纪录片（喜马拉雅连接）的扩展和更新从半小时延长到一小时，以便将尼泊尔纳入其中地震以及使该地区免受自然灾害影响的经验教训。地震的发生提供了一次难得的教育机会，可以增加有关地球过程的新科学信息的影响力，而这场灾难在全球公众的意识中仍然记忆犹新。制片人将利用科学家进行实地研究以及相关景观、文化场景和过去几年在几个 NSF 资助项目下拍摄的采访的镜头，以地震及其后果造成的空洞为基础，吸收从这次事件中吸取的经验教训更深入地了解起作用的力量及其对该地区的更广泛影响，以及这些知识背后的科学研究。由于《喜马拉雅连接》已经进入后期制作，因此这部电影可以相当快地修改和完成，并很快发行，以充分利用全球媒体上广泛传播的有关尼泊尔的最新信息。这部纪录片的主要观众是北美地区观看 PBS 的电视观众。该影片还将在国际范围内播出。电影制片人是地球图像基金会的道格·普罗斯和黛安·拉马基亚，他们是地球科学电视纪录片的获奖制片人。该 RAPID 项目下的活动将涉及纪录片的后期制作、母带制作和发行。