3 months at sea.
I was approached to be part of the film team onboard the OceanXplorer marine science exploration vessel for several missions ranging from the Malaysian Peninsular, navigating the west coast of the African continent and unexplored waters in the Indian Ocean.
Working in the world of science has brought some unique challenges that add complexity to film production. Science is often conducted in UTC +00 millisecond time regardless of our location. Part my work has been developing an application that takes scientific dive notes from the ships server and translates them into a marker rich .XML for NLE's so that keyword search can be used to help the scientists and media team find footage of a sub or ROV dive, some of which can last 8+ hours. I called it Seamarker.
Another aspect is understanding how rich metadata from the film side can benefit scientists. I have been taking more care to make sure our captured content onboard contains rich metadata (Using Adobe Bridge and Iconik) that can be used in LLM's and cloud databases to assist with the search and categorisation of many terabytes of video and imagery we capture across missions.
The highlight reel from the OX Malaysia Mission.
Roles: Digital Imaging Technician, Pipeline Consultant.