{"id":90806,"date":"2020-08-12T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=90806"},"modified":"2020-08-12T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:21:27","slug":"alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Skyrockets in Career as NASA Videographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Morris \u201910 grew up recording epic space battles on stop-action film. He\u2019d pose and re-pose Star Wars figures, capturing them with a Sony Super 8 camera that kept conking out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90810\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"90810\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/img_6906\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_6906\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Paul Morris, who received a bachelor&amp;#8217;s degree in theatre from UMW in 2010, is now a video producer for NASA. A documentary he created for the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope has garnered more than 400,000 views on social media. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-90810 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Morris, who received a bachelor's degree in theatre from UMW in 2010, is now a video producer for NASA. A documentary he created for the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope has garnered more than 400,000 views on social media. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-225x300.jpg 225w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-855x1140.jpg 855w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-450x600.jpg 450w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6906-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Morris, who received a bachelor&#8217;s degree in theatre from UMW in 2010, is now a video producer for NASA. A documentary he created for the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope has garnered more than 400,000 views on social media. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now a video producer for NASA, Morris\u2019s outer-space odysseys are a bit more high-tech. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lo43Gq_Xe1M&amp;list=PL_8hVmWnP_O3nCIgtnR2DppIqWblyY4mt&amp;index=\">documentary<\/a> he created \u2013 from conception to final cut \u2013 for this spring\u2019s 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, went into orbit on social media. With a theatre degree he didn\u2019t know existed when he got to college \u2013 and the teamwork and storytelling skills that came with it \u2013 Morris turned his innate fascination with all things galactic into a soaring career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an absolute dream,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve always been obsessed with space and with NASA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UMW, too, was ingrained in Morris, whose grandparents <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/fallwinter2013\/cover-story\/meant-to-be\/\">Marceline Weatherly Morris \u201950 and Elmer \u201cJuney\u201d Morris Jr. \u201950<\/a>, married seven decades this month, began their courtship at Mary Washington. Paul Morris took a cue from the couple, meeting fellow theatre major Cassie Lewis \u201911 on campus and marrying her beneath a magnolia tree in his Nana\u2019s backyard.<\/p>\n<p>As his love for Cassie grew throughout college, so did his passion for theatre, and he earned parts in productions like <em>Shakespeare\u2019s R&amp;J <\/em>and <em>Our Town<\/em>. Behind the scenes, especially with UMW\u2019s Studio 115 black box theatre group, he\u2019d spill out his wildest ideas and cajole cast and crew to bring them to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always thought of him as a storyteller,\u201d said Department of Theatre Chair Gregg Stull. \u201cEven as a student he understood that many people have great ideas but what matters is doing the work to bring those ideas to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Effort wasn\u2019t an issue for Morris. When Cassie graduated a year after him, they moved to New York, landing jobs at the social publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlethings.com\/live-channel\/refresh\/newest\">Little Things<\/a> and producing <a href=\"http:\/\/media.licdn.com\/embeds\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vimeo.com%2Fvideo%2F259620034&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F259620034&amp;amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;amp;schema=vimeo\"><em>Refresh<\/em><\/a>, a Facebook Live show featuring guests like Melissa Joan Hart and Fiona Silver.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:7,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/news\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/12\\\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:230672515}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 205px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"205\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 366px; height: 205px;\" data-original-width=\"366\" data-original-height=\"205\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/screen-shot-2020-08-12-at-11-20-49-am\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"362\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"201\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90814\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM.png\" data-orig-size=\"2448,1358\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 11.20.49 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-300x166.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-1024x568.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM.png?w=362&#038;h=201&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM.png 2448w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-300x166.png 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-1024x568.png 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-768x426.png 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-1536x852.png 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-2048x1136.png 2048w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-1140x632.png 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-11.20.49-AM-600x333.png 600w\" width=\"362\" height=\"201\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"362\" data-original-height=\"201\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 11.20.49 AM\" alt=\"Both theatre majors, Paul and Cassie performed together at UMW. The couple worked together in production until last year, when Paul Morris took his &#039;dream&#039; job with NASA.\" style=\"width: 362px; height: 201px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Both theatre majors, Paul and Cassie Morris performed together at UMW. The couple moved to New York after graduation and worked together in production until last year, when Paul Morris took his &#8216;dream&#8217; job with NASA. They now live in La Plata, Maryland. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 383px; height: 205px;\" data-original-width=\"383\" data-original-height=\"205\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/screen-shot-2020-08-12-at-12-24-21-pm\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"379\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"201\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90816\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"2482,1314\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 12.24.21 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-300x159.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-1024x542.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM.png?w=379&#038;h=201&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM.png 2482w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-300x159.png 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-1024x542.png 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-768x407.png 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-1536x813.png 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-2048x1084.png 2048w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-1140x604.png 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.21-PM-600x318.png 600w\" width=\"379\" height=\"201\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"379\" data-original-height=\"201\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 12.24.21 PM\" alt=\"Paul Morris &#039;10 and Cassie Lewis Morris &#039;11 co-produced and hosted the popular Facebook Live show &quot;Refresh,&quot; driven by uplifting social media posts.\" style=\"width: 379px; height: 201px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Paul Morris &#8217;10 and Cassie Lewis Morris &#8217;11 co-produced and hosted the popular Facebook Live show &#8220;Refresh,&#8221; driven by uplifting social media content. Last year, Paul transferred his talents to NASA, taking a job with the Goddard Space Flight Center, where his work helps tell the story of the Hubble Space Telescope. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 351px; height: 205px;\" data-original-width=\"351\" data-original-height=\"205\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/screen-shot-2020-08-12-at-12-24-35-pm\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"347\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"201\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90815\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"2390,1384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 12.24.35 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-300x174.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-1024x593.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM.png?w=347&#038;h=201&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM.png 2390w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-300x174.png 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-1024x593.png 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-768x445.png 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-1536x889.png 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-2048x1186.png 2048w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-1140x660.png 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-12-at-12.24.35-PM-600x347.png 600w\" width=\"347\" height=\"201\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"347\" data-original-height=\"201\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 12.24.35 PM\" alt=\"After meeting as UMW undergrads, fellow theatre majors Paul Morris and Cassie Lewis married beneath a magnolia tree in King George County. They said their vows in the backyard of Paul&#039;s grandparents, Mary Washington alums Marceline Weatherly Morris \u201950 and Elmer \u201cJuney\u201d Morris Jr. \u201950, married 70 years this week.\" style=\"width: 347px; height: 201px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> After meeting as UMW undergrads, fellow theatre majors Paul Morris and Cassie Lewis married beneath a magnolia tree in King George County. They said their vows in the backyard of Paul&#8217;s grandparents, Mary Washington alums Marceline Weatherly Morris \u201950 and Elmer \u201cJuney\u201d Morris Jr. \u201950, married 70 years this month. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>They\u2019d climbed into senior production at parenting platform Wild Sky Media when Morris set his sights on a job at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, sharing the story of the Hubble Space Telescope. \u201cThe sheer idea of putting a telescope in space \u2013 and the fact that it works \u2013 is just wild to me,\u201d said Morris, who was 2 when it launched.<\/p>\n<p>He landed the job last spring, making videos about servicing missions and scientific discoveries, and archiving thousands of hours of footage captured by Hubble. Digitizing dusty Betamax tapes and embedding MP4s with metadata was tedious, he said, but exciting. \u201cI\u2019ll have in my hands a videotape filmed in space, and I\u2019m the first person on Earth to watch it, sometimes \u2026 ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-square tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:7,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/news\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/12\\\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:230672515}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 550px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"550\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 550px;\" data-original-width=\"550\" data-original-height=\"550\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/img_9229\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"546\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"546\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90813\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9229\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229.jpg?w=546&#038;h=546&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_9229-75x75.jpg 75w\" width=\"546\" height=\"546\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"546\" data-original-height=\"546\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_9229\" alt=\"Paul Morris poses at an outreach event for NASA. A video producer for the Goddard Space Center, his work helps tell the story of the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.\" style=\"width: 546px; height: 546px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Paul Morris poses at an outreach event for NASA. A video producer for the Goddard Space Flight Center, his work helps tell the story of the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 550px;\" data-original-width=\"550\" data-original-height=\"550\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/img_7199\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"546\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"546\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90812\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7199\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-scaled.jpg?w=546&#038;h=546&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_7199-75x75.jpg 75w\" width=\"546\" height=\"546\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"546\" data-original-height=\"546\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_7199\" alt=\"Morris is seen here with Hubble engineer Russ Werneth at an outreach event. Morris sorted through many hours of NASA footage, and did his own original interviews with scientists and astronauts, to create a 50-minute documentary in recognition of the Hubble Space Telescope&#039;s 30th anniversary. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.\" style=\"width: 546px; height: 546px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Morris is seen here with Hubble engineer Russ Werneth at an outreach event. Morris sorted through many hours of NASA footage, and did his own original interviews with scientists and astronauts, to create a 50-minute documentary in recognition of the Hubble Space Telescope&#8217;s 30th anniversary. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 366px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"366\" > <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 366px; height: 366px;\" data-original-width=\"366\" data-original-height=\"366\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/img_6964\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"362\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"362\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90811\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_6964\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964.jpg?w=362&#038;h=362&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_6964-75x75.jpg 75w\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"362\" data-original-height=\"362\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_6964\" alt=\"Morris poses between Hubble astronauts John Grunsfeld (left) and Michael Good (right) at NASA&#039;s 10th anniversary celebration of servicing mission 4. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.\" style=\"width: 362px; height: 362px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Morris poses between Hubble astronauts John Grunsfeld (left) and Michael Good (right) at NASA&#8217;s 10th anniversary celebration of servicing mission 4. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 366px; height: 366px;\" data-original-width=\"366\" data-original-height=\"366\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/img_4997\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"362\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"362\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90809\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4997\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-scaled.jpg?w=362&#038;h=362&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_4997-75x75.jpg 75w\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"362\" data-original-height=\"362\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_4997\" alt=\"Video producer Paul Morris landed his &#039;dream&#039; job at NASA last year. His work, including the documentary, &quot;NASA\u2019s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope,&quot; helps share the story of Hubble, which has been in low Earth orbit since 1990. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.\" style=\"width: 362px; height: 362px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Video producer Paul Morris landed his &#8216;dream&#8217; job at NASA last year. His work, including the documentary &#8220;NASA\u2019s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope,&#8221; helps share the story of Hubble, which has been in low Earth orbit since 1990. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"gallery-group\" style=\"width: 366px; height: 366px;\" data-original-width=\"366\" data-original-height=\"366\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item \" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/img_2119\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"362\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"362\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90808\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2119\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-scaled.jpg?w=362&#038;h=362&#038;crop=1&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/08\/IMG_2119-75x75.jpg 75w\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"362\" data-original-height=\"362\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_2119\" alt=\"Morris at work for NASA. In the background is astronaut Michael Collins, who was in the capsule during Apollo 11, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the moon. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris.\" style=\"width: 362px; height: 362px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Morris at work for NASA. In the background is astronaut Michael Collins, who was in the capsule during Apollo 11, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the moon. Photo courtesy of Paul Morris. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p>With Hubble\u2019s 30th anniversary hovering, an idea emerged. Morris began stitching decades of B-Roll, photos and clips together with his own original interviews with astronauts and astronomers who\u2019ve supported Hubble\u2019s mission and kept it in flight. The result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lo43Gq_Xe1M&amp;list=PL_8hVmWnP_O3nCIgtnR2DppIqWblyY4mt&amp;index=\">NASA\u2019s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, is a 50-plus-minute account of the trials and tribulations in the life of this amazing machine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were moments when I was editing when I was near tears,\u201d said Morris, whose time at Mary Washington reinforced the value he places on hard work.<\/p>\n<p>He spent many on-the-clock \u2013 and personal \u2013 hours compiling the documentary, determined to forego text and voice-over options in favor of bona-fide footage and dialogue. With more than 400,000 views on social media so far, the film casts its producer\u2019s awe for space exploration into the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHubble shows us how small we are \u2026 \u201d said Morris, who, on some star-speckled nights, peers into the sky with his own telescope. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky to know how small we are because it shows how much bigger we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Morris \u201910 grew up recording epic space battles on stop-action film. He\u2019d pose and re-pose Star Wars figures, capturing them with a Sony Super 8 camera that kept conking out. Now a video producer for NASA, Morris\u2019s outer-space odysseys are a bit more high-tech. A documentary he created \u2013 from conception to final cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":90807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[704],"tags":[12530,783],"topics":[5145],"class_list":{"0":"post-90806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-department-of-theatre-and-dance","9":"tag-gstull","10":"topic-technology-humanity","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alum Skyrockets in Career as NASA Videographer - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/alum-skyrockets-in-career-as-nasa-videographer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alum Skyrockets in Career as NASA Videographer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Morris \u201910 grew up recording epic space battles on stop-action film. 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