Cells Project: Zoinks!

The goal of this project was to invent a creative way to teach kids about cells. Our invention would be added to a science kit produced by Zoinks!, a book company. My plan was to create a talk show called "The Late Night Science Show" in which the host, Tania Davies, would ask three guest stars, Eliza Peterson the Eukaryotic Plant, Ernie Armando the Eukaryotic Animal, and Patricia Popper the Prokaryote, multiple questions about cells. This works to teach kids about cells because the "cells" answer many basic questions that the consumers might have themselves. They also have many different personalities to match with their cell. For example, Eliza is British and thinks she knows everything, she is a very complex person, the cell she represents is also complex. Ernie is very laid back; he represents the animal cell, which is not as complicated as the plant cell. Patricia is very bland, she isn't very interesting, she seems to be away in her own world most of the time. She represents the prokaryotic cell, which is very boring as well and doesn't have much going on inside, without a nucleus.
In the beginning, the plan had been to use three different people to star as the guests. They would each have a cardboard saying what they were taped around their necks. I had previously thought of filming with a professional camera, but that did not work out. My final project differed greatly from what I had had originally in my mind. In the end, I ended up playing all four characters, because the people that were going to help me ended up not being able too.  I did not use the cardboard idea because the words could not be visible in the bad quality camera. The final result, though not as pretty as I had planned, turned out to be quite good.
I think that I did well on the project. It was not very good quality, and at times boring, but it contained good information, and I worked on it very hard. The filming was difficult because I had to stay in a certain spot and could not move around. The computer, which I was filming with, could not be touched or else I would have to start all over again. I accidentally moved it once, and had to start over. The editing was easier, but it took a very long time because I had to crop all of the clips. One part of the video turned out strange because I accidentally cropped a different video and didn't notice it until later. Overall, however, I think I did pretty good information wise.