Floating and Sinking
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Floating and Sinking
Declan Fleming
Download film (right-click)Adult , Artistic/Creative , Award Nominees , Demonstration , Drama , Explanation , Physics
A scientist battles to save his own life… by cracking the mystery of why some things float, and others don’t.
Director's Notes:
My battle against one of the least helpful words in science … ‘upthrust’.
SciCast Notes:
Nominee: Best Film by an all-Adults Team, 2008
Declan was one of the first people to email us when SciCast first started, more than a year ago, and it looks like he’s been somewhat bitten by the filming bug. This is an ambitious and professional film. It’s trying to cover a delicate bit of explanation and wrap the whole thing in a suitably ridiculous story, all in two and a half minutes.
In places it’s a little rushed, but it’d be churlish of me to rude of me to complain that it’s ‘too ambitious’! Besides, I like the film very much. It’s not just science that involves experiments — film-making does too, and Declan’s thrown himself into this and tried something radical.
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— Jonathan.