The Art of Telling Science and History Stories - A Workshop for Scientists and Historians
Thursday, Dec. 2 07:00 pm - 11:30 pm
session room: Elbterassße
A workshop for scientists and historians interested in getting their material onto film and TV. Do you get blank stares at cocktail parties when explaining your research? Do you have problems convincing your friends and family that your work is relevant and exciting? Relax. This session will enable you to formulate your own compelling television program idea that could - in principle - be aired on national and international broadcast channels. Hosted by a top international program commissioning team, this half day workshop will offer insight into the minds of the international media gatekeepers. You’ll get an inside glimpse of broadcasters’ appetites, desires and aversions. The workshop will prompt you to ask the unthinkable – “does my research really matter?” You’ll learn how to convey the significance of your work in an understandable manner. It will shed light on how engaging and entertaining television is really created, and will show you how to step back from that petri dish and the lingo known only in your field and tell a gripping story. Can’t be done? Come to the workshop and find out how it can. Gain confidence in relating your work to a general audience.
Session Producer:
Andrea Cross, Independent Producer/Writer/Director (Germany)
Chris Haws, International Media Consultant (USA)
Moderators:
Chris Haws, International Media Consultant (USA)
Jens Monath, Editor, History and Society, ZDF (Germany)
Sara Ramsden, Freelance Executive Producer (UK)
Participants:
Michael R. Alvers, CEO & Co-Founder, Transinsight GmbH (Germany)
Nicole Dubilier, Head of the Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
Thomas Fritz, Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (Germany)
Paul Heggarty, Senior Scientist in Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)
Achim Kramer, Laboratory of Chronobiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institut für Medizinische Immunologie (Germany)
Ulrich Pietsch, Direktor der Porzellansammlung , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany)
Josef Settele, Research Scientist, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (Germany)
Martin Wikelski, Director, Migration and Immuno-ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (Germany)
Sponsored by ZDF and ZDF Enterprises