Geodes
An investigation into rock cavities. With a hammer.
Braunton School
Duration: 2:52
Views: 411
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GeodesThere's a lot crammed into this film - plenty of script, some real investigative experimentation, close-ups, mistakes, wet chemistry, ...
Quite how the group got it done in a day, we're not sure. They must have worked like stink!
I gave this group a box of little geodes, a hammer, and this Wikipedia page. They briefly looked panicked... then rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in. OK, so they had some help from their teacher, but the script and filming is all theirs. It's a heck of an achievement - constructing an item like this isn't easy, but they battled their way through, and at the end of the day they had a nearly-finished film - all I've done since is clean up the hammer smashing sequence a little, and shorten a couple of bits to keep it all short.
Lessons, then:
- Take it a step at a time. Sometimes you can spend so long planning that you run out of time to actually do anything. This group went at it the other way - they shot it piece by piece, putting it together as they went along, until they ran out of time. Hollywood films spend ages working out what to do - SciCast isn't Hollywood!
- Check your facts very carefully. Any geologists here care to leave comments on whether their findings are correct?
- Don't wipe your nose when you're on camera.
-- Jonathan
OK,my rating is biased. To Sharlotta Andrew has now cut his hair and looks even more stupid. sorry andrew.
charlie, 22 Jan 2008
Fantastic love your hair!
Sharlotta, 01 Nov 2007
brillant learnt loads really really gd
a man, 30 Oct 2007
the crystal size is the wrong way around! Very professional delivery though.
Sci Teacher, 05 Oct 2007