Storyline: How to Guide Your Audience with a Science Pitch

With your vision, or the vision of your project, you set a future perspective. You talk about your motivation and specific intention, explaining what drives you in your project. The mission—your guiding principle—describes the path to implementing your vision. You then articulate the existing problem and a concrete solution approach, along with the key milestones of your research project. You should also gain clarity about your value system and the values you or your project represent. Develop an arc of suspense with surprising twists. Quickly implementable story structures like the “Narrative Spectrum” and the “Pixar Pitch” provide valuable inspiration through practical examples. Ensure a crystal-clear message that you convey to your audience. To achieve this, translate your project’s numbers, facts, and figures of your project into compelling stories with close practical relevance so your audience can always follow along. Like publications, Science Pitches are also truthful information. However, they are always compact, concise, and often abbreviated because they get to the point.