Videography

Elevate your video skills with our advanced course, designed for researchers eager to create compelling visual content. Building on foundational techniques, you'll learn how to storyboard, script, and edit short videos that effectively communicate your research.

Overview

Building upon the basic video skills learned on our introductory course, participants will learn how to storyboard, script, deliver and edit short videos about their research area. Working with award-winning videographer Laurence Hall, participants get one-to-one input as they learn basic video editing skills aiming to produce a short video for social media or a research introduction for conferences.

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Course Content

Framed around an interactive exercise, participants will end the course with a short video ready for social media platforms. With a step-by-step instruction guide, our course covers the essentials:

1. Scriptwriting and Storyboarding

The tricks to a successful dialogue

2. Filming Using Your Mobile Phone

Framing, lighting, recording a-roll and b-roll, recording sound

3. Editing

Using editing software to import footage, add still images, add a background music and adjusting the volume, use audio filters to reduce background noise, add text graphics

Why take this course?

With an increasing number of conferences requiring attendees to submit video abstracts, this course helps you showcase your work effectively and speak to the camera with confidence, making you stand out above other applicants. Creating short, accessible videos to explain your work / research, helps the general public understand the science easier while also building a ‘relationship’ with the researcher; the audience feels like they ‘know’ you and can relate to you easier, helping to promote careers in STEM. Crucially, video abstracts increase the likelihood of media outlets picking up on your work; it has been shown that researchers that post their output on social media increase their citations by a factor of 4. Video skills are now a necessary skill for the modern academic.

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Who we are

Laurence Hall

The course is led by videographer Laurence Hall, previously a lecturer in Video Production and Film Studies at University of Wales, and currently a post-graduate researcher at the Northern Film School. As well as tutoring videography at the British Film Institute (BFI) Academy for young creatives, Laurence has also produced videos for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ape Action Africa, Ocean Soul, and The RAW Foundation.

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Dr Russell Arnott PGCE

Supporting Laurence, is YouTuber and science presenter Dr Russell Arnott, who has produced educational videos and livestreams for the National College, FuseSchool, the Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme, The John Innes Centre and the Incredible Oceans YouTube channels. Russell