Next Up! Space Travel! Wow!

I find space travel immensely exciting, the thought of exploring such dangerous places so far from safe haven is, really, the stuff of dreams. So when I tripped across this video of NASA’s new martian lander Pheonix, I was really looking forward to it. But what’s with all the hyped up music and the jump cuts and the graphics? I realise these videos are made for a generation for whom space travel means Star Wars and computer games, but space travel is already exciting, and the interviewees are obviously excited — and I think making those extra graphics and cuts to make the video more exciting actually sends the opposite message; that it isn’t exciting, we had to make it seem like it is.

But then I’m the sort of guy who likes watching those old, crusty, experts-speaking-to-a-camera type of docos, so maybe it’s just me being a grumpy old man.

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