Explain a Paper: Research Papers as Short Films

A research paper is written for its field. A short film with captions reaches the funders, policymakers, journalists and public who will never read the PDF. Send us the paper, and say who the film is for. A language model helps draft the script, and one of our team prepares it.

You review it, approve it or ask for changes, and then you get your film. Nothing is rendered until you approve the script. For a paper that will travel widely, a second editor can check it against the paper first. Every frame is drawn in code, with no image or video model.

The narration is a synthetic voice, and every film says so. Captions and a full transcript come with it. Explain a Paper opens for orders soon. Register your interest at explainapaper.com, or reach out to us with the paper you want read more widely, and we will help you understand what its film could be.