Science Retreats and InBIO-CIBIO at the University of Évora are jointly organising a course on Low Budget Scientific Film Making.

This 5-day film-making course will take you through all the stages of making a short documentary about your research. It includes:

- Documentary theory: what makes a good film? How to think about using film and video to promote your research. The language of film: Shot sizes, camera movement, and how to use them.

- Pre-production: Planning your film, researching content, organising shoots. Understanding equipment, copyright and permissions, story-boarding.

- Production: Shooting interviews, shooting additional material, getting good quality sound, lighting your interviews

- Post-production: Editing your film, boosting the colour and audio of your film, best use of music, adding simple graphics, titles and web links.