For one of our products this season, we made a stop motion film with a voice over! This video took a very long time to put together, and when spending hours simply taking still photos, it is hard to visualize just how it will look strung together as a video, but I am very proud of our result! This project was very beneficial because I believe through repeatedly filming this and slowly getting to understand the way the cells divide gave me a much more visual understanding of the material, and will definitely help me in the long run!
Meiosis is the process by which sex cells are made. Much like mitosis, it involves the process of parent cells dividing into daughter cells, but where mitosis creates identical cells, meiosis daughter cells are anything but duplicates. Through many different parts in meiosis, such as crossing over and random assortment, we see genetic diversity increase. The process of Meiosis starts with one diploid cell, and in the end, the result in four haploid cells, which contain only half of the chromosomal DNA that is in their parent cells, only 23 unpaired chromosomes. During the process of fertilization, two sex cells (a male sperm, and a female egg) join together to pair the chromosomes and complete a full set, creating a gamete. This gamete eventually grows, through MITOSIS into a child, amazing! So, as we can see, this process is very important to life!
In reviewing our video with our entire class, a few mistakes came to our attention. The most obvious one being that although all our information in our voice over was relevant and useful, it did not always match up with what was displayed on the screen. We could’ve resolved this problem by pausing the stop motion while we spoke about a given step. In spite of this mistake however, I am still very proud of our finished product and I believe I did learn a lot!
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Fiona, Continue working to be very specific in your feedback. You had an opportunity to share how your video could be improved. You shared about the voiceover, but did not explain how/why hearing the voiceover at a different time was not as effective as the video could have been. Also, were there any areas of content that could have been clarified?
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This is a very cool way to show the process of meiosis. I agree that it can be a little confusing since not everything matches up, but there is always ways to improve!
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