Desbravar novos mundos: experimentando a potencialidade da websérie animada na divulgação de conceitos da Neurociência

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of the research "Breaking new worlds: experiencing the potential of animated webseries in the dissemination of concepts of Neuroscience". The research was an experiment in audiovisual language, in animated 3D webseries format. At the end of its production it will be composed of three episodes in three-dimensional animation format and made available on an open and free platform. His conception and production was mainly based on the hypermedia concepts of Gosciola (2003), animation of Chong (2011) and Nesteriuk (2011), audiovisual language of Coutinho (2006), process of learning and creation of products aimed at education of Filatro (2008, 2015), and Pallottini's narrative construction (1989, 1998, 2005). From the conceptual orientation, the proposal was to explore to the maximum the multimedia resources as potential mechanisms for understanding concepts of Neuroscience - such as reasoning, memory and learning. Thus, in addition to bibliographical research, we used: documentary, videographic and visual research; brainstorming techniques; interviews; panel of experts and curators. This dissertation presents the reader with the process of constructing a hypermedia narrative, as well as the multimedia scripts, the concepts and model sheets of the characters, the storyboards and the animatic of the episode "Traveling is necessary - how do I know that I am going in the right direction? ", available on the Thinglink platform.