LES ECLAIREURS
Nantes: Heroes of a web-series
http://leseclaireurs.coselmar.fr/
20 MINUTES Clément Carpentier
Published on 27/04/17 at 16:55 - Updated on 27/04/17 at 18:36
Unusual: To popularize their work, they decided to adapt it to the screen...
VIDEO. Nantes: Heroes of a web-series
Océane and Marc, the two main players. - Screen Capture / Cyanéa
• They want to popularize their studies about the sea.
• They decided to shoot a humorous four-episode web-series.
For once, they are not behind their microscope but behind a camera. A dozen scientists from Nantes have come together to create their own humorous web-series in the hope of making their work easier to understand.
A showcase for their research
Like their ironic teaser, “Les Éclaireurs” is not taken at all seriously, as explained by Sophie Pardo, scientific coordinator for the University of Nantes: “In 2013, we created a multidisciplinary project (COSELMAR) with the participation of 169 researchers and we wanted to disseminate our studies quickly and above all to popularize them. Research about the sea is carried out in collaboration with Ifremer and 17 laboratories in Nantes and Anjou.”
The goal was to find “an innovative medium that caters to the greatest number. We immediately thought about the Internet and, after a few exercises, the idea of ??a web-series emerged,” says Justine Dumay, who is part of the team that worked on the project with the help of the Nantes company, Cyanéa, specialists in audiovisual production.
The theme of the web-series is the sea. - Screen Capture / Cyanéa
Four interactive episodes of a few minutes
Two years of work with hours of interaction between the director, the actors and the researchers. “It was quite complex to build the dialogues but they gave us a free hand,” according to Jérôme Fihey of Cyanéa. In order to make their research better understood, the scientists chose to tackle mainstream subjects.
The actors at a scene of the web-series. - Screen Capture / Cyanéa
Sophie Pardo recalls that “Important issues are highlighted in the different episodes. On the other hand, they are always connected to problems of everyday life. For example, the web-series addresses the subject of oysters and their relationship with microalgae through the issue of consumption.”
Meetings with the public
The web-series is also interactive, that is “you can make choices during an episode to change its ending,” according to Justine Dumay. Beyond the four episodes that will be available on the Internet, scientists have organized what they call “The Scouters Tour”. After Nantes this Thursday evening, they will be at Les Sables d'Olonne, Croisic, Notre-Dame-de-Monts and finally again in Nantes at the beginning of June to meet the public.
The web-series features four episodes. - Screen Capture / Cyanéa
In any case, they have found it “very enriching" and are already making another.