- Scientific Dissemination in Television: the Documentary Genre.
- 3 credits
- From 3 to 10 November 2004, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Coordinator:
- Soledat Rubio. Director of the Strategic Plan Bureau of the Universitat de València.
Lecturers:
- Bienvenido León (University of Navarra). Journalist and Doctorate in Public Communication, he is a professor in the Faculty of Communication of the University of Navarra, where he gives lessons of Television Production and Audiovisual Scientific Dissemination. Previously, he has been news manager of Editmedia TV agency, coordinator of news reports of Tele5 and director of the production company Euroview. Since many years, he also works as a director, producer and scriptwriter of reports and documentaries for TV. His works have been awarded with many awards, such as the best documentary of the international festival of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and Cuzco (Peru). He is the author of the book El documental de divulgación científica (Barcelona, Paidós, 1999), as well as numerous scientific and informative articles about communication published in Spanish and international magazines.
- Miquel Francés (Universitat de València). Professor of Audiovisual Communication, director of the Production and AudioVisual Content Editing Master’s Degree, and responsible of the Audiovisual Workshop of the Universitat de València. As a responsible of the Audiovisual Workshop and the former Centre of Audiovisual Productions, he has made and produced many documentaries of scientific dissemination and educative videos, such as Mediterrànea Viva, Calciners, Memòries d'una Escuela, Els Moriscs Valencians, 500 Anys d'Història de la Universitat de València, Els Cetacis del Mediterrani, Del Roig al Blau, Sota la pell del conflicte, Els gens que mengem... Among his publications, La Comunicació Audiovisual, Els documentals de naturalesa, El vocabulari de tècnic de producció audiovisual, La producción de documentales en la era digital stand out.
Objectives:
The course presents an overview of the scientific dissemination through the television documentary, one of the most productive genres in that particular field. In an introductory part, the course offers a historic perspective of the documentary genre as a way of scientific dissemination. The core of the course is dedicated to the study of the process of production of science documentaries, from the initial idea to the final assembly of the programme. The explanations will be illustrated with examples of scientific documentaries made by remarkable international production companies.
Programme:
- Wednesday, 3 November
- Miquel Francés
- The production and the planning of a film shoot.
- Technological equipment
- Professional profiles.
- Thursday, 4 November.
- Miquel Francés
- The distribution: festivals and competitions.
- Business volume of the documentary film market.
- Sources.
- Friday, 5 November.
- Miquel Francés.
- The post-production and the post-scripting.
- Technological resources.
- Professional profiles.
- Monday, 8 November.
- Bienvenido León
- Scientific Dissemination on TV.
- The documentary as a way of scientific dissemination.
- Tuesday, 9 November.
- Bienvenido León
- The initial idea.
- Documentation and the development of the project.
- The script.
- Wednesday, 10 November.
- Bienvenido León
- Narrative and dramatic techniques.
The course will be particularly valuable to students of third cycle and basic science disciplines, health sciences, Journalism, and Audiovisual Communication. However, the course is open to any student, professional or any people interested on communication and science dissemination.
Places: 40
Location: The Audiovisual Workshop if the Universitat de València (Gascó Oliag, s/n)
