{"id":2175,"date":"2015-06-08T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/oceannavigator\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2015-06-09T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:50:58","slug":"videoworkshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/oceannavigator\/2015\/06\/08\/videoworkshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Next stop Hollywood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cKlimawandelforschung am GEOMAR\u201d \u2013 why not aim high in your very first project? \u201cDas Leuchten der Korallen\u201d \u2013 let\u2019s start off with something really magic! Dive into the deep ocean with the famous deep-sea crawler \u201cVIATOR\u201d. Or find out what excites marine geologists and what a fun cruise and a scientific cruise have in common (and what not). Five short films resulted from a three-day video workshop held last week by the Integrated School of Ocean Sciences (ISOS)<\/a> and GEOMAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the workshop, we managed to lure the marine biologist and filmmaker Maarten van Rouveroy to Kiel. Maarten currently works as Head of Video Production at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam and has produced a number of films about scientific topics (check for example “Testing the Waters”<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But what exactly is<\/em> a topic? And, even more important, what\u2019s a story? This is what we discussed at the very beginning of our three-day workshop. A topic alone does not make a good film \u2013 a story has to be told about it. And a good story needs a protagonist and some additional characters. \u201cPeople like watching people\u201d, Maarten stressed to my great joy. A basic truth, sometimes difficult to follow in a scientific environment…<\/p>\n

Defining their stories was surprisingly easy for our 15 participants. After a long day of theoretical instructions, they scripted their debut works while Maarten and I ran back and forth to make sure cameras, microphones and tripods fit together and recorded in the correct mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\t