Making movies…for SCIENCE! (ScienceOnline ‘09)
January 20th, 2009
In the second session I attended at Science Online ‘09, Moshe Pritsker and Apryl Bailey discussed the use of video, images, and sound in the production of peer-reviewed (and non-peer-reviewed) literature in the sciences. The essential concept is the age-old exhortation to writers everywhere: show, don’t tell*. In other words, instead of a beautifully assembled collection of jargon (or shall we say, “terms of the art”) and complex written instructions, why not make a movie? Two services — JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) and Scivee.tv — approach the idea from different angles.