After graduating from Cambridge, Mr. Gibson directed scientific documentaries for the BBC in the 1960's and then moved on to feature films.
Perhaps what alarms prospective employers about the media studies graduate is that in most practical parts of the media, simply knowing about the media is of little use: editors or producers really do want astrophysics graduates if they are making scientific documentaries, or politics and history graduates if they are looking for trainee lobby correspondents.
Grierson chair and former Channel 5 boss Dawn Airey kicked off with these starters for ten: "We have scientific documentaries such as BBC4's Nothing, which examined the deepest mysteries of the universe and not – as one mischievous juror suggested – that it was about the response to the question 'what's on Channel 5 tonight?'".
Poppy Adams, novelist Poppy Adams, 34, started off as a scientific-documentary maker.
Soaring summits, vast spaces, sprawling glaciers, breathtaking crevasses, awesome ice falls and the people who surmounted them were all grist for Sella's picture-making, which produced important scientific and documentary information as well as images of great aesthetic quality.
That distinction allows them to meet the bar of sites like YouTube, where the policy states that people can "upload health-related, educational, scientific and documentary footage — even when it involves graphic content".
Every part of the message isn't that bleak in Nat Geo Wild's Mind of a Giant, an intriguingly scientific elephant documentary that airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET. But Caitlin O'Connell, one of the experts interviewed on the show, warns that it could be.
"It is as if an entire style -- two styles, if you count the mock-scientific, mock documentary aspect of Conceptualism -- was born in the course of a seemingly desultory stroll that afternoon," the critic Luc Sante has written of Smithson's work.
Nudity is officially allowed for some educational, documentary, scientific and artistic content.
French artist, producer, and CGI animator Antoine Delach just released a trailer for his upcoming stereoscopic 3D, self-described "scientific and dreamlike documentary," Ghost Cell.
