Jeff Orlowski | Story Structures for Science
Bio | Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski served as director, producer, and cinematographer of the Sundance Award-Winning films, Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral. He is a two-time Emmy-Award winning filmmaker, and founder of the award-winning production company Exposure Labs. His latest film, The Social Dilemma, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix.
Summary | Jeff Orlowski is a master storyteller. His films — Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma — bring audiences to places and ideas they've never considered. For the Chasing films, he was embedded with scientists and researchers for years at a time. His experience traveling between these different worlds gives him a unique perspective on how to improve science storytelling.
"By documenting the process, you're giving the audience insight and exposure into the trials and tribulations, and when the experiments hit a roadblock, how you solve through that." pic.twitter.com/TUklPSJs7h
— science better (@scibetter) September 20, 2021
How science and experiment map neatly onto an ideal story structure. We should be documenting and communicating the full scientific process. pic.twitter.com/egL91bSjFM
— science better (@scibetter) September 20, 2021
Journalism alone cannot communicate science effectively. We need more, especially in terms of communicating the full process. We need storytellers embedded in scientific institutions. pic.twitter.com/VqZEwWXWzV
— science better (@scibetter) September 20, 2021