BBC Science Style Explainer Showreel
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. Powerful interviews allowed us to maintain the narrative structure, complimented by dynamic visual assets that help to augment the core message and conclusion.
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 centred the narrative on Darwin and used a puzzle style template to translate the core topic of the research: putting the pieces together of our own species evolution.
Is a Vegan Diet healthier than eating meat and dairy?
For this video we took advantage of the vast archive material the Turner twins had and used a social media editing style (vertical, fast cuts) to transform research into an engaging and informative video. For the interventions by Dr Spector, we were inspired by the aesthetic of daytime/ morning nutrition shows – placing him in a kitchen environment preparing a meal to evoke credibility and leverage existing schemas of the audience.
