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Link-Sammlung: Storyboards / Interfaces (EPS)

Storyboards related to film / video / TV productions (by European Popular Science Information Project)

The following storyboard-examples (1997-1999) can be retrieved from various TV-websites and serve as examples for organising science content for (or after) TV production, in ongoing design and teaching projects:

'Mars Pathfinder mission' (SPTV / SP-Online-Forum): This link collection was organised as a research and treatment platform for a 1997 SPTV-program (Vox) on the mission. In addition, the EPS-project provided experts for a lengthy SP-Online-forum (which was one of the most successful in this early phase of SP-Online).
'Der konservierte Mensch - Mummies' (SPTV / SP-Online):This one and the next three demonstrate the development of a storyboard in various stages - from a pre-production tool to SP- / WDR-Online to EPS-website presentations.
'Ape Language' (SPTV / SP-Online): see above.
'Die Erben des Sherlock Holmes - Forensics' (SPTV / SP-Online): see above.
'Tod und Sterben' (WDR-Online): see above.
'Geklontes Leben' (WDR-Online): This was a link collection organised as a storyboard for another 'Quarks&Co.' program.
'Tod und Sterben' (TV Münster / EPS / publikom): This storyboard and the next three, as they appear now, were designed to accompany and deepen the information and content of the TV-Münster programs. Behind them is a long line of 'working' storyboards and electronic 'treatments'. At the time of the airing of the programs these online-presentations were accessible via the public information homepage of the City of Münster (publikom).
'Brainstorming' (TV Münster / EPS / publikom): see above.
'Phantastische Wissenschaft' (TV Münster / EPS / publikom): see above.
'Zur Hölle mit der Natur - Nanotechnology' (TV Münster, EPS / publikom): see above.


Interfaces for television (by European Popular Science Information Project)

The following interface-examples are current and valid in the sense that they represent some of the central results of the EPS-project, namely various models and procedures ('shells') for 'packaging' science content for TV productions:

Studio-interface (company b / WDR / IFS): The function of this interface ('Wie wir sterben') was studio navigation of cyberspace in a realistic manner. Extensive research on the 'topology' of cyberspace and its representation was conducted. Some of the topologies ('Plumbdesign-Thesaurus', 'Smithonian') were used as sources of inspiration. But with the funds available it was not possible to merge the considerable 3-D-animation capabilities of company b and the exciting research and design being done on 'cyberspace topologies' elsewhere to the fullest extent. We think that projects addressing this field - studio navigation of cyberspace that is not just flashy and 'hype' but gives a true impression of the 'non-Euclidean' geometry of cyberspace - should be high on the agenda of information society promotion. Such projects would touch the core of the digital information process and they could have eminently practical application when the Internet and TV really merge.

Interface for campus TV (SNT MediaPartners / IFS / TV Münster): This interface or 'shell' was produced to provide a re-usable professional frame / packaging for semi-professional or amateur videos coming out of scientific institutions reflecting visually on their work etc. It was used in our TV-Münster programs. This effort therefore constitutes a model for starting campus TV efforts that require - in addition to acquiring this interface or 'shell' - little more than a local outlet (like an 'open channel') and local initiatives based on (digital) amateur equipment. In this sense, we are at present trying to interest the U of Münster in supporting further productions with TV Münster, using this 'shell'. The shell can also be adapted, at little cost, by other institutions and might, we suggest, even be promoted for use through ISPO.

Interface for general TV (DFN / IFS): This interface or shell was developed through the DFN ('Sequences of the future') with the specific intention of presenting science information through a 'window' equally well suited for Internet and TV presentation. With growing bandwidth much of what scientists are producing in the 'test beds' of the DFN can not only be presented impressively on the Internet, but should also find its way directly into TV presentations. The DFN, in this sense, will use this EPS-product to promote this idea within its own, technically oriented, clientele and with TV companies.

 

Storyboards / interfaces for the Internet (by European Popular Science Information Project)

The following storyboard / interface-examples are current and valid in the sense of presenting various models of organising science / information content for the Internet:

Peace in Westphalia: An online presentation for the City of Münster website on occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Westphalian Peace Treaty, exploring was of presenting peace research information on the Internet for a wider audience.
Fantastic science: An ongoing project to illustrate a special contention of the EPS-project, namely that science presentation in the mass media has to be linked to the science fiction tradition. This interface is still under development as a TV interface, an Internet version and also as background for a CD-ROM and book publication.
Windows - history of a metaphor: This elaborate storyboard (which for copyright reasons can only be shown with its introductory page) is in preparation of a CD-ROM and book publication (beyond the EPS-project) which will deal with the history of the interface ('window') in world culture, partly as a future resource for interface design.
Star Trek: This fan website by one of our students was developed into an interface for organising a mass seminar on science fiction and popular culture (1998/99). All proceedings, student papers etc. were integrated into the website, which has accompanied the EPS-project since, gaining a certain stature in Star Trek fandom.
Die grösste Show des Jahrtausends - Die Zeit-Online: This was an attempt, by Nils Zurawski, to tell a story consisting of a lengthy text and elements of 'hypertext storyboarding' for a younger audience. The online-presentation is accompanied by a reportage on the EPS-project.

 

Interfaces for teleteaching / teaching (by European Popular Science Information Project)

The following interfaces are current and valid for follow-up projects in telelearning and university teaching projects:

'Telewissen' (U of Münster): A survey of telelearning and teleteaching projects in Germany was undertaken and a basic platform developed for what can be called process-oriented, interactive telelearning and / or science-oriented tele-discourse. This platform incorporates simple software solutions for interaction and visual exchanges. It will be, with assistance of the U of Münster, tested in the coming semesters within the Faculty of Education and the Social Sciences. In addition, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, has expressed interest to use the system for its political telelearning program.
Various seminar-websites: R. Rilling and H.J.Krysmanski have used various forms of seminar-websites as experimental platforms for what may be termed 'interfaces into special science content' developing in cyberspace.