In 2006, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) launched “The Establishment Plan of Science Communication Project” and launched the first “Taiwan Science Communication Development Project–Media Production and Promotion Pilot Program.” That initiative, which aimed to create Taiwan’s personal Discovery Channel-style platform, deeply impressed producer Yuan Yuan (袁瑗).
Determined to concentrate on science filmmaking, Yuan left her former tv station and established Dong Tai Communication. For almost twenty years, with NTSC assist, her workforce has produced almost twenty science movies. Notable titles embody the France co-production “Hello Brain!,” the National Institute of Applied Research collaboration “Trailblazers – Stories from the Laboratory, ” “Next, AI,” “The Intern’s Notebook”, and “Open The Science File” (created with seven students from the Taiwan Science, Technology, and Society Association). These 5 works received the Golden Bell Award for Best Natural Science Documentary Program and grew to become business highlights.
Behind these award-winning works is the workforce’s constant professionalism and arduous work. From the earliest utility for the science communication manufacturing program, Yuan’s workforce submitted an in depth plan that coated movie content material, market evaluation, audience, distribution channels, and measures of affect. Scientific content material was then vetted by means of rigorous peer evaluate by educational consultants—this collaboration let Dong Tai Communication produce science movies with each credibility and a humanistic contact.
Take “Next, AI” for example. With synthetic intelligence quickly advancing and public curiosity surging, the workforce set to make AI comprehensible and relatable. Framing the movie round a love story, they blended dramatic narrative and documentary strategies to introduce eighteen technical info associated to AI growth, permitting viewers to interact with an emotionally compelling story whereas absorbing substantial scientific information.
Over the previous two years, Dong Tai has embraced new manufacturing applied sciences. Because science movies rely closely on animation, animators begun integrating AI-assisted instruments alongside conventional software program comparable to 3D MAX, Blender, and After Effects. While classical instruments can create stunning and clean visuals, they’re additionally comparatively time-consuming. In their 2026 manufacturing “Sun Tzu Jungling,” which introduces protection know-how and weaponry, the workforce used prompt-driven AI instruments to iterate proportions, compositions, and floor particulars, then refined the outputs by means of choice and post-processing, to create a extra detailed, reasonable fight scene sequences in far much less time.
Accuracy stays the manufacturing’s prime precedence, which might appear at odds with tv’s ratings-drive mannequin or on-line media’s visitors incentives. Yuan, nonetheless, believes accuracy and attraction as complementary, asserting that clear, rational clarification can even transfer audiences emotionally, and that stability is what offers science movies their distinctive attraction.
Looking forward, Yuan’s workforce intends to maintain producing participating movies at the crossroad of science and artwork, widening the viewers for science’s magnificence and perception.
“Science Discovery” is funded by the National Science and Technology Council and co-produced by Shih Hsin University and FTV (Formosa Television), providing science programming year-round.
Broadcast:
FTV News Channel: Sundays at 3 PM; FTV Taiwan Channel: Sundays at 8 AM
LiTV Online Movie Channel (CH365, Free): https://www.litv.tv/channel/watch/litv-vchannel365
“Science Discovery” Facebook:https://reurl.cc/aX8g7G
“New Perspectives on Science” YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@%E7%A7%91%E6%99%AE%E6%96%B0%E8%A6%96%E7%95%8C