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16-03-2018
The LAB
| Submitter: | Joeri van Leeuwen |
| Description: | Last year, the team from Universiteit van Nederland and I worked out a new idea for short, few-minute segments, in which researchers attempt to explain the essence of certain science concepts in such a way "that you can explain it to your friends over dinner or coffee". We were aiming for National Geographic channel, and to convince that TV network we shot a low-budget pilot. Just the editor, cameraperson, presenter and I. It never aired but if you're interested you can see it here. That worked. National Geographic commissioned two dozen episodes for their web channel. In Dutch, these discuss brains, robots, rain, dna, fears, fire, and more. Three episodes cover astronomy and space. After a few weeks of writing the scripts with the editors, we finalized on these 5-minute segments that use props and effects. The three astronomy episodes were recorded on Nov 9, 2017, during one 12-hr long and very cold day in an unheated old army munitions depot in Zaandam. The pilot cameraperson was promoted to director, who now oversaw a crew of about 12 (sound, light, camera, editors, segway handlers and presenters). . The episode on Time Travel has just been made public (and was also featured in Algemeen Dagblad) the other two episodes (one on Space Travel, one about the Expanding Universe) will follow in March. In between takes we shot a pilot in Flemish for Belgian TV, so this may become an international franchise :). |
| Copyright: | JvL |
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