Producing Videos

We offer three different types of video seminars. We will be happy to advise you personally on which seminar best suits your needs.

 

I. Producing Video – Shoot it yourself!

As a researcher or staff member of a research institution, do you want to create videos about your work or your institute? Then this seminar offers you a good start. In this video seminar, the participants acquire the central knowledge for the correct production method – whether with a smartphone or a professional camera. They deal with the necessary steps from planning and design to concrete implementation.

Creativity is needed when it comes to finding suitable images and metaphors to convey scientific topics well. Participants get an insight into the basic principles of visual storytelling. In addition, criteria for good science films are taught.

In practical exercises, the participants learn how to shoot presentable video sequences with a smartphone or a handheld camera. They learn how to edit video material and set their self-made film sequences to music. Participants are guided by a catalogue of criteria to evaluate their success.

 

Thematic focus areas of the seminar are:

  • Basics of communication
  • Basic rules of image design and visual storytelling
  • What is needed: Overview and selection of technical equipment
  • Practical exercises: Shooting with the smartphone or with a camera
  • Do-it-yourself: film editing and dubbing
  • Sharpening perception for key quality criteria

 

Organisational matters:

The NaWik seminar will be held over two days, each lasting 8 hours with a lunch break and two coffee breaks. Generally, the seminar will take place from 9:00 to 17:00.

The seminar can be held in German or English language. The number of participants is limited to 8. Participants will receive a certificate for successful participation.

We are happy to travel to your institution and hold our seminar on your premises. Alternatively, our seminar room on the campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology can be booked.

 

II. Producing Video – From commissioning to final approval

You don’t necessarily have to shoot videos yourself. But it is also a formidable challenge to commission and accompany the production of science videos properly so that both sides are satisfied with the end product. The participants learn that a film production does not necessarily have to be expensive. Rather, good planning, the identification of central contents and how these messages can be put into the right frame are deciding factors. In addition, individual parts of the video production process can be prepared and accompanied even without camera know-how. This includes initial ideas and potentially even the first drafts of a script for the film.

Last but not least, it is important where the video is to be shown in the end. In the end, this determines the target groups, viewer numbers and cost.

In the seminar, we go through the entire production process: From the first ideas, to agreeing on the content of the script, to accompanying the shooting, to post-production and final approval. The preparation and checking of budgets are also included.

 

Thematic focus areas of the seminar are:

  • Inspiring instead of boring – science communication with video.
  • From the idea to the film – writing, planning, shooting, editing, dubbing and further post-production steps
  • High quality despite low budget – optimised production methods for success
  • Basics of budgeting video productions
  • No story without a story – dramaturgy and core message
  • Telling stories with pictures – rules of cinematic visualisation

 

Organisational matters:

The NaWik seminar will be held over two days, each lasting 8 hours with a lunch break and two coffee breaks. Generally, the seminar will take place from 9:00 to 17:00.

The seminar can be held in German or English language. The number of participants is limited to 10. Participants will receive a certificate for successful participation.

We are happy to travel to your institution and hold our seminar on your premises. Alternatively, our seminar room on the campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology can be booked.

 

III. Producing Video – Quality criteria for science films

Whether on YouTube, Vimeo, the institution’s own website or on display on a screen in the foyer of your institution: video clips can influence how an institution is perceived by the public and also by its own staff.

But what characterises successful science videos? Findings from media reception research provide very good insights into this.

The seminar participants will learn what such criteria are and how they themselves can better assess the quality of science films. In addition, the participants train to perceive science films from the perspective of the respective target groups of the films. They learn in which aspects of filmmaking special attention should be paid to quality. The seminar content is taught using practical examples.

 

Thematic focal points of the seminar are:

  • Title, image, text, music – all elements count
  • Eye tracking, concept maps – scientific evaluation of films
  • Change of perspective – videos from the recipient’s point of view
  • Key criteria of film production

 

Organisational information

The NaWik seminar is held on one day, 8 hours  with a lunch break and two coffee breaks. Generally, the seminar will take place from 9:00 to 17:00.

The seminar can be held in German or English language. The number of participants is limited to 10. Participants will receive a certificate for successful participation.

We are happy to travel to your institution and hold our seminar on your premises. Alternatively, our seminar room on the campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology can be booked.

 

Further information

For institutional clients, we happily prepare a suitable offer and find suitable dates: nawik@nawik.de

 

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