The Idea

My first and ultimate passion is the universe, space, the cosmos… Vast, enormous, and infinite. We can only see a hundred billion galaxies that occupy it, each filled with about a hundred billion stars. Light (the fastest phenomenon we know) crosses the diameter of our galaxy in 100,000 years!! In this enormous expanse, what are we? What is our place in this majestic and imposing universe?

The idea of creating this video series came to me six years ago while watching a television series about the solar system called "Tous sur orbite" (All on Orbit). It is a series I have watched over and over again and that I highly recommend to everyone. Even though this series tackles subjects far from daily concerns, it manages to captivate the viewer's attention with its simplicity, the beauty of the scenes, and its charming atmosphere.

A few months later, I had the chance to discover a video produced by Harvard University in the USA on cell function (The Inner Life of the Cell). The scenes are breathtaking; one takes great pleasure in watching the video while learning about biology. It is even more tangible than a text or a diagram because it is visual, it is in 3D, it is animated, and it is beautiful to look at.

That is when I realized that teaching can be made both attractive and fun if lessons are presented in a beautiful, accessible, and well-crafted way. The major problem with education today is that students perceive subjects as a heavy burden, a chore they want to get rid of as quickly as possible. Yet, science should be approached quite differently.

Using 3D audiovisual teaching for neurophysiology and the human brain is more practical and easier. The brain exerts considerable effort to decipher the code of written text, whereas it can grasp different parts of an image in a flash. If this image is animated, well-defined in space, and accompanied by a simple spoken description, we have a perfect synergy of all the ingredients necessary to captivate the student's attention and spark their interest.