What is ‘dopamine fasting’ and is it good for you?
In this explainer about a Silicon Valley trend of tech executives doing dopamine fasting to reset their minds from the unhealthy stimuli of the modern world, we chose a fast-paced, colourful editing to try and mimic those stimuli. The interviews were so good that we did not have to use narration or on-screen text – which allowed us to keep the dynamic from start to finish.
Why nice guys have more sex, according to science?
The starting point of this video was a new book suggesting the most important survival feature of Homo Sapiens was not strength but the ability to make friends. We decided to center the narrative on Darwin – which is a well-known character – and we chose to use a puzzle style template to translate into visuals the core topic of the research which was: we are still trying to put the pieces together to tell the story of our own species evolution.
Is a Vegan Diet healthier than eating meat and dairy?
This is an interesting example of how we can turn a scientific research into an engaging video. For this edit, we took advantage of the vast archive material the Turner twins had and used social media editing style (vertical, fast cuts) to use these assets in the video. For the interventions by the researcher, Dr Spector, we were inspired by the aesthetic of daytime/ morning shows – we placed him in a kitchen environment as the viewers were watching him while preparing a meal (as we were addressing a nutrition topic).
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