My idea is that a rhyming poem should be made about DNA, have someone record it being read fast and then find images about DNA to match the poem. I know it would be difficult because there are lots of long complicated words but I think that people would remember them easier if they had a kind of tune that they could remember.

Hopefully that makes sense because i'm not completely sure.

 

An example of this could be.. I can't think of one right now but when I do, you'll be the first to know.

i love that idea dan...who remembers nursery rhymes?

exactly... =P

umm...in the great big person, there was a teeny tiny cell.

in the teeny tiny cell, there were twenty three pairs of teeny tiny chromosomes.

in the twenty three pairs of teeny tiny chromosomes, there was a teeny tiny gene. 

in the teeny tiny gene, there were reeally long strands of dna!

...very simplistic, but that's as far as my knowledge streches at the minute.

...and i've got a biology gcse tomorrow....

ohdear.

Fantastic! That is exactly the kind of thing that I was thinking of but I have no knowledge of DNA so mine was rubbish.

And to keep that rhyme simple, the visual images could be of people:

in the great big person - You can have a person standing there

there was a teeny tiny cell - You zoom into the person and there's another person (smaller obviously)

in the teeny tiny cell, there were twenty three pairs of teeny tiny chromosomes - Zoom into the cell person and there are twenty three pairs of more people! 

in the twenty three pairs of teeny tiny chromosomes, there was a teeny tiny gene - Zoom in to a very small person

in the teeny tiny gene, there were reeally long strands of dna! - You can have very tall person lying down (possibly being stretched!)

I think it could work, but you'd need ALOT of different people.

You might not as if done carefully you could use three or four, just shrink the picture or stretch it also don't always show the face this way you can get away with using the same person over and over saving time and if they're being payed money lol.

True, but I think that if you want to get the point across of the numbers, you need to use loads of different people. This also means that you can make the scene much larger than it actually is. This gives it more power. Well, that's my media mumbo jumbo explanation of it. 

I see what you mean, It does add power as well as the fact that even though we are all amde up of the same building blocks ("Water, 35 liters. Carbon, 20 kilograms. Ammonia, 4 liters. Lime, 1.5 kilograms. Phosphorous, 800 grams. Salt, 250 grams. Saltpeter, 100 grams. Sulfur, 80 grams. Fluorine, 7.5, iron, 5, silicon, 3 grams, and trace amounts of 15 other elements." as quoted from fullmetal alchemist :D) we are all in fact different. In that case if your going for a lot of people try and get them from different ethnic backgrounds as well, this way it shows the tru diversity of the human race.  

ps sorry for it being in bold but I accidently clicked it on but It won't turn off :(

 Fixed it... PeteR

Yeah, I wasn't thinking of people from different ethnic backgrounds, just people. It wouldn't matter what backgrounds they were from because we are all genetically different anyway. But I can see the point you are making.

that'd be great i think dan, especially for...well. i can see it working for any age group, you can just simplify the voiceover accordingly.

in reference to richard's point, too, i think it would be better if lots of different people were used.

but how hard are they to find? =P

Quite easy now that I remember we have a school full of students. Does anybody have any idea about where it could be filmed with so many people? I was thinking possibly the field but then that would look weird as it would be a DNA film  OR am I just crazy?

Well the theatre could work as it's a nice black background which is easier to get rid of also a green screen or green sheet could be used to get the background wanted. It also stabalises when you can film as filming outside you have the weather to contend with.

You could film on a greenscreen or sheet laid on the floor and for people substitute cuddly toys... My kids have at least 50 diverse ones... I am betting that most teenagers bedrooms have another 30 or so...

 ...or try it with lego....

...or clay...

How about using all of them. You could use a person for the human body at the beginning, the toys could be the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, lego could be the genes and the clay could be the long strands of dna.But that could be slightly confusing, but then again each part of the process can be associated with a toy or lego or clay.  

 So relating it back to the song do you mean

in the great big person - The person

there was a teeny tiny cell - A few people

in the teeny tiny cell, there were twenty three pairs of teeny tiny chromosomes - Cuddly animals

in the twenty three pairs of teeny tiny chromosomes, there was a teeny tiny gene - Lego

in the teeny tiny gene, there were reeally long strands of dna! - finishing with clay.

If this is what you mean then It could work as getting lots of people to appear in the film would be hard this way you only need 10 tops for the teeny tiny cell.

That's exactly what I mean Rich. This way, each part is represented by something. 

In that case is it possible to replace the one using lots of people with something else? Otherwise we're using people twice.