These workshops offer customized communication training using story development techniques adapted from the film industry. I discuss how to employ these techniques to create both storyline and visual media in communications for general or specialized audiences.
The major objectives of these workshops are to (1) teach effective communication strategies grounded in film story art methods, improv training, cognition research, and narrative theory; (2) enable scientists and educators to clearly articulate their professional motivations through these strategies; (3) help participants develop a treatment for a science story based on their own work or topic of interest. I use examples from films to illustrate principles of story and visual language development, and connect these with examples from scientific research to demonstrate how these principles can be used to communicate science effectively in any context.
Workshops created by Sara ElShafie, Doctoral Candidate in Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley.Â
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