Content Research

For the content itself in this project, i wanted to use the text we were given since it had a tone of voice that would fit my idea of a continuous story throughout. But I also wanted to include information about the ship Saturn V as well, so a mixture of storytelling and information so that the viewer can also learn and read about certain parts of the ship, what they were used for, and at what stage they were used and disposed of, which I consider is important to know.

For a start I used chatGPT to generate a text as a placeholder, and double checked if the content written by it was correct and true to the events that took place. When I had double checked the information given by the AI, I decided to actually use the content but re-write it with inspiration from other story telling videos about the Apollo 11 mission so that there would be more story telling elements to it, since the AI gave me straight up technical information.

I also decided to fact check twice and also read up on information to add that the AI left our which I believed to be interesting to have in the text.

For the visual content, i saw a video made by VOX which is mentioned in the blog post Retro Futurism. A video that used NASAs official imagery to tell a story which I felt was very unique and a lovely touch to the project itself. Not only because of the art style reflecting the 60’s, but also had every piece of image necessary for me to tell the story the way I imagined I would do.

I also looked up similar art on the crew which I found.

Every piece of imagery was heavily edited and taken apart using Photoshop so that i could later animate it using webflow to create parallax scrolling effects and hover animations for the detachments of the different rocket parts.

Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html