Listing multimedia creations and reports in CV?

[helmsdeep]

Hello. Does anyone know how to go about listing multimedia creations (e.g. instructional animations and videos created for a department) and anonymous reports (co-researched and co-wrote a report for an institute, but we were not credited authorship) on the CV? Or should these things be left off of a CV? Thank you for your advice.

[fuzzylogician]

What's your field? For most fields I don't see how multimedia creations are helpful for your CV. You can list the skills you used to create the multimedia under a "Skills" section along with languages, programming skills and whatever else is relevant for your field. It's also problematic to list yourself as the author of a document if you're not credited on the document itself.

 

ETA: In both cases, it may be possible to list the employment that led to the creation of the multimedia and the reports on your CV and mention authoring the relevant work there.

Edited January 9, 2013 by fuzzylogician

[helmsdeep]

What's your field? For most fields I don't see how multimedia creations are helpful for your CV. You can list the skills you used to create the multimedia under a "Skills" section along with languages, programming skills and whatever else is relevant for your field. It's also problematic to list yourself as the author of a document if you're not credited on the document itself.

 

ETA: In both cases, it may be possible to list the employment that led to the creation of the multimedia and the reports on your CV and mention authoring the relevant work there.

 

Thanks for your reply! I'm in sciences. I like your suggestion of adding these to my employment section, which is much more appropriate. Thanks!

[Usmivka]

I agree that the employment and skills sections are good places to put this, but I actually think that multimedia is valuable in the sciences. 50% of NSF's fundign criteria is now "Broader Impacts," including science outreach and communication. I think a potential advisor would love to know you have some experience in science communication, and you have a sharable product to demonstrate! My advisor recently tapped me to help craft the broader impacts portions of a proposal because I really emphasize my outreach work. In fact, we just decided to hire a videographer (with NSF funds specifically requested for such work) to help put together couple minute multimedia presentation on our research to put on public TVs in a local tourist attraction and a nearby transit hub, so clearly there are scientists who value this type of work.

Edited January 10, 2013 by Usmivka