A short video about rockets, Newton’s laws and the Scottish weather was the overall winner in this year’s annual Planet SciCast awards.
And the best film in the Biology category of the competition shows a rat being dissected. Don’t panic though – it’s not a real rat but a Plasticine one.
SciCast helps and encourages young people to make and share videos about science experiments. It aims to get school students, teachers, parents and science communicators all making short, entertaining films about practical science.
The annual competition is open to students in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. A group of Transition Year students from St Joseph’s College in Lucan, Co Dublin, reached the 2008 finals in the physics category – read more about their video on the school’s website.
Online resources
The SciCast website also has plenty of great resources to help budding film-makers in their projects.
Its “film school” and handbook will help you on your way, with advice about how to plan your film, what equipment you will need, how to organise your team, and what sorts of things seem to work most reliably.
