Engaged Researcher - Animate your research Beginners
This is an in-person event.
This training will introduce you to the world of visual communication. We will look at visualising data versus visualising abstract concepts and think about appropriateness! How can you simplify a huge body of research into something that is visually enticing to people outside of your field? In this training you will learn how to create visual metaphors that illustrate your research as well as the basics of frame by frame and stop motion animation so that you may turn these illustrations into short animated gifs.
- PhD students
- Post-docs
- Researchers
- Public Engagement Professionals
Participants should arrive to training with a research topic they want to illustrate/animate.
-Participants need to have Adobe Photoshop installed on their laptops (there is a 10 day free trial available) -They need to have installed-And Stop-motion Studio app onto their smartphones (also free on app store)Other materials: - A5 paper (a4 copy paper cut in half is fine) - pencils/pens - a bulldog clip - masking tape - Small objects to animate with for the stop motion exercise like paperclips/pebbles/chess pieces/ coins- can be anything you have at home!
Number of sessions: 1
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 16 Nov 2022 09:30 - 17:00 | 09:30 - 17:00 | Department of Physics, Maxwell Centre, Orange Boardroom (Floor 2) | map | Gabriella Marsh |
You will think about your audience and ethics. Consider accessibility and language and how to represent diversity within image making. The aim of this training is to enable participants to create an illustration or an animated gif which communicates their research in a visual way - reaching out to wider audiences, without over simplifying! You should aim to end this session having produced a 8 -10 second animated clip, either a stop motion using materials of your choice or hand drawn on photoshop.
Presentations, demonstrations and practicals
If you have any queries, please email engaged.researcher@admin.cam.ac.uk
1 full day course
- Engaged Researcher Online - Photography To Communicate Your Research
- Engaged Researcher Online - Video training: Shooting and Editing
- Engaged Researcher Online - Zine Making For Public Engagement
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