DNA Movie Project: Mona
The pictures above show our content movie mural. We put all the content that we learned during this project as well as the process of making the movie and a few movie scene peeks from our movie on this wall so if people wanted to get an inside look of what it took to make a movie, as well as what inspired us to make our movie, or just to get some DNA information that they might not have captured while watching the movie.
DNA Project reflection
- Purpose
- The purpose of this project was to learn more about DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid) and how it affects our characteristics and sometimes even our personalities through genetic disorders. I also believe that this project was to help bring our sophomore class together through the work of collaboration, communication, and advocacy.
- I was one of the assistant directors, and I believe that I did my absolute best to communicate with my classmates as well as collaborate with them to try and make a good exhibition ready project, it was very hard for me to do, but I believe that I met the purpose very closely.
- I feel like my whole class did an awesome job at meeting the purpose of this project. We were all communicating with each other and we were working together like a bunch of gears in a machine that just got oiled. Everything was flowing nicely and yes we did have a few hiccups but there was so many people that just worked together to try and get it fixed. Towards the end everybody was getting a little stressed and we were having more problems than we should have had, but we were able to communicate and in the end we had an awesome video.
- The purpose of this project was to learn more about DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid) and how it affects our characteristics and sometimes even our personalities through genetic disorders. I also believe that this project was to help bring our sophomore class together through the work of collaboration, communication, and advocacy.
- Warm Feedback
- I feel like I did a good job when I had to keep people on track when we were filming, and I also tried my best to communicate with video production from our class and from the other class a well so we could get the right camera angles and the best video quality.
- Again I feel like the whole class did a good job of communicating and working together so we could pull this movie together and make it exhibition ready.
- I feel like I did a good job when I had to keep people on track when we were filming, and I also tried my best to communicate with video production from our class and from the other class a well so we could get the right camera angles and the best video quality.
- Areas for Growth
- I know that I experienced a lot of challenges, and just to name a few, I had major stress levels through the whole thing and I would sometimes get bad anxiety and when I did get anxiety I would start to get a little frustrated and I know that when I started to get a little frustrated it would lead me to start getting a little angry. There were plenty of times where Tina had to tell me to calm down.
- In the beginning I feel like the main problem our whole class encountered was communication. We did not really understand the importance of the project until a couple weeks into the project but once we did, that's when we started communicating a whole lot better and when we started getting stuff done.
- I feel like the only way that situation could have been handled better was if we had realized the importance of the project early on, maybe had someone who has already done it, come in and talk to the class about how the project went for them, what was stressful what wasn't, what problems they encountered. Kind of like a Q&A session.
- To me the collaboration in this project was people problem solving together whenever we came across a problem as well as the actors knowing their lines so we could start filming as soon as class started and the editing crew was talking with the filming crew as well as myself about what was needed and what needed to be done.
- I feel like I worked really close with the actors, film producers, and the screen writers. I worked with the actors because I needed to work with them on camera angles and I also worked on camera angles with film production, and since the script writers had wrote the script they kind of had an idea for what they wanted for the movie as far as emotion with the actors and the camera angles that worked best for the scen.
- I know that I experienced a lot of challenges, and just to name a few, I had major stress levels through the whole thing and I would sometimes get bad anxiety and when I did get anxiety I would start to get a little frustrated and I know that when I started to get a little frustrated it would lead me to start getting a little angry. There were plenty of times where Tina had to tell me to calm down.
- Looking Forward……..
- I do not think I would change anything about the collaboration in our class.
- I feel like this project was a very good project for bringing our pod of the sophomore class together, and I believe that it helped us learn how to work together and communicate better with each other. I wouldn't change anything.
- I feel like you should keep it all the same because like I said before, I feel like it was a good project for helping our class learn to work together and to communicate better as well.
- I do not think I would change anything about the collaboration in our class.
Ecosystem Study
- Prior Learning: During this project I learned how to write a good written proposal, I learned how to use venngage, I was able to gain trust in group work again. I think that being able to stay on task while working on a group was very useful when completing this project. I also think that being able to write well, so when it came to getting a critique from tina there were minor edits.
- Present Experience
- The two most important things that I contributed to the project, was one doing my part of the essay to the best of my abilities, and two pushing my group members to do their parts to the best of their abilities, as well as doing my best on my infographic.
- One thing that I struggled a little bit with was trying to stay calm when I found out that my group members weren't doing work. I tried really hard to keep a positive attitude and I just politely asked them to do their work.
- In the beginning, once I had found out who my group members were I thought that it was going to be a little hard to do work with them and I didn't think we would pull it off, but in the end I was corrected, they both did their work even when I thought they weren't, it made me happy that I could trust group work again.
- In the beginning I did not know that certain forests had certain names, I didn't know that people did control fires in forests to help growth and to clean out dead bushes and trees and I didn't know that beetles affected trees so drastically.
- If I could do the project over again, I would probably try to advocate to get a group that is more my speed and has similar skills that I do, and I benefit of off my group members and they benefit off of me. I would also try to take more time on doing my infographic so I can make it better, and it would have a chance at showing at the exhibition.
- The two most important things that I contributed to the project, was one doing my part of the essay to the best of my abilities, and two pushing my group members to do their parts to the best of their abilities, as well as doing my best on my infographic.
- Your future
- If I were to take something with me from this project. I would take my new found vengage skills so I can use them to make beautiful work in later projects as well as beautiful posters. I would also take my added essay skills with me so the next essay that I have to write, I would have all of my skills from learning how to write previous essays and now the skills that I have gained from learning how to write a scientific essay.
- At the beginning of this project I think I would have done better if I had known more about the website venngage. I took quite a bit of time trying to find out how to use venngage, and if I already had an idea on how to use it, I would have taken that time and applied it to creating my infographic. I also wish that I would have had more group trust going into this project, because I spent the first part of this project worrying about whether or not my partners were doing their part in the project.
- I thought the activities we did helped me to better understand what the project was and what Tina wanted from the students. I personally really liked spending a day with trails 2000 because it was very hands on and for visual learners like me it helped me better understand the project.
- While doing this project I was able to rebuild my trust in working with other people, so the next time I am paired with a group I will have more trust in them and I won't worry so much about them doing their work and I can focus more on my work. I can also take my newly discovered skills with venngage and use that to create beautiful work, and my essay writing skills are improving every time I do a project like this, so the next time I have to write an essay I will be a little better, than I was before.
- If I were to take something with me from this project. I would take my new found vengage skills so I can use them to make beautiful work in later projects as well as beautiful posters. I would also take my added essay skills with me so the next essay that I have to write, I would have all of my skills from learning how to write previous essays and now the skills that I have gained from learning how to write a scientific essay.