Creative strategies for scientific TV documentaries

Authors

  • Joan Úbeda Executive producer and managing director of Media 3.14

Keywords:

Science on television, documentary films, popularization, science communication, film techniques

Abstract

Documentary producers and filmmakers attempting to communicate science on television must overcome two barriers: first, the structural differences between the standards of scientific communication and those of audiovisual storytelling; and second, the fact that the scientific process is, simply put, quite hard to capture on film. In this article we analyze these barriers and describe successful strategies that practitioners have used over the years to overcome them.

Keywords: Science on television, documentary films, popularization, science communication, film techniques

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Vol. 7 (2014)

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Dossier: Science on Television

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