Alex,
Thanks for posting the info about your blog entries on the Science:It's your thing winner.
I found it extremely fascinating that I read your posts and watched all three winning films (all excellent in their different ways) and then immediately into my Twitter stream popped up the quite different and quite awesome Nasa Gangnam style parody. If you've not seen it, watch it now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sar5WT76kE
What was most striking to me in the Nasa film is that it succeeded extremely well in presenting Nasa science as a wholly inclusive activity. There is a great balance of women and men in lab and technical roles. Most importantly, the women in the film come across as naturally comfortable in their working environments with no pretences, no stretching of the point.
There is a huge amount to be learnt from these 4 films on the successful visual and spoken imagery, the representation and juxtaposition of women and men working in science. They have no need to go down the route of justifying a career in science against fashion, law, PR etc. They have no need to present being a woman in science as some kind of ernest, 'worthy' pursuit.
The filmmakers and their characters in the films are just extremely comfortable and content that science is worth pursuing for its own intellectual satisfaction and usefulness.
For some on this list, these thoughts might seem obvious and not particularly new, but this is the first time I've come across a body of material in such a short space of time, where I've not had some nagging discomfort in the back of my mind that something is missing.
best regards
Martyn
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