Students practice cinematography/image gathering by making a series of shots in standard definition video. The student learns the operation of the digital video camera and gain familiarity with the basic shot types used in the construction of cinema sequences.
Each student will create a short silent film inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s iconic “Tramp” character. The film must be no longer than 5 minutes and include all phases of production: pre-production, production, and post-production. Students will write, direct, and edit their own projects while forming a team of 3-4 actors (including one “Tramp” character) and one camera person.
Our job was to create 4 playdoh figures that represented the expansion of the US. I chose to do an alcohol bottle to represent alcoholism, a vote box for voting rights, train tracks for the upbringing of railroads, and lastly, a boat on a canal to represent trade.
In this project, Dani, Tori, and London had to create a DNA and RNA strand using Twizzlers, gummy bears and toothpicks. Before building the DNA and RNA models, group 3 had to identify the complementary strand sequence. The template strand was already given using the base pairs Adenine (red), Thymine(Orange), Cytosine(Green), Guanine(Clear), and Uracil (Yellow). Group 3 used gummy bears to represent the rungs and the twizzles were used as the backbone. London told Tori to lay the two Twizzlers parallel to each other onto the white paper and grab 6 toothpicks , Tori and Dani slid 2 gummy bears on each side of the toothpick to represent the base pairs for the sequence DNA strand was GCTGAA. The complementary strand from DNA was GCUGAA. After completing the ladder Tori and Dani wrote the nitrogen bases next to each gummy bear on both sides of the ladder model, after they finished that London took photos. To almost finish the model, we had to twist the ladder to show DNA by holding one end of your model flat and carefully flipping the other end over 180 degrees.