Most of the time when someone thinks about science, they don’t think about sitting at a desk and writing stuff. They think about doing cool experiments with chemicals and explosions, but we can’t do that without learning about how to safely work in the lab. So naturally, our first unit in science is “safety in the lab”, and as I’ve already mentioned in my Calgary LPP, our theme for PLP this year is finding and telling stories, in video form. So naturally, we were given an assignment to make a video about safety in the lab.

We were in groups of three. I was in a group with, Tamara and someone else who doesn’t want to be named, so since they played Sam the safety wolf, I will call them “Sam”. When we were making the video, we had to make it with at least 3 things that we had learned so far this year. In my group, we decided that we would have a mascot named Sam the Safety Wolf, and that Sam would be narrating the video, explaining the rules of lab safety. My friend Tamara and I were acting out the narration on screen (along with Sam the Safety Wolf).

During class we wrote the basic script, so when we were filming it went quicker. We filmed our video at “sam’s” house after school. We set up “sam’s” iPad on a desk, so spew could all be in some of the scenes. This wasn’t the smartest idea though, because it made the video more boring to watch.

Work
“Sam” did most of the work, in terms of organizing everything, and planning what we were going to do. Tamara and I mostly just helped with making the video, and planning out where we would stand and what we would use as props. We filmed the video in one day, after school at “Sam’s” house. Once we were done recording all the scenes that Tamara and I were in, we had to leave, because Tamara is allergic to cats, and “Sam” has two cats.

Things I would do differently next time
Camera angle
As I’ve already mentioned, the video didn’t have very interesting visuals, because it was just one camera angle. If I did this project again, I would make sure that we had different camera angles, so you can enjoy the video while you watch it.
Work distribution
Looking back on the project, the work distribution wasn’t very equal. “Sam” did more of the work then me or Tamara. Next time I will try to contribute more of my ideas ideas into the video, so others don’t have to do as much work.