Chemistry Special Effects Video
Plot
My group created a script from scratch called Rad Brad. The story goes that a classmate spilled a harsh chemical substance onto Brad's arm which had some strange effects. Quickly, Brian has two visions that show present traumatic events occurring to animals around the world. Brad now knows that he must save the animals and writes a letter to his mother who reads it aloud. The end shows Brad literally piloting a plane in a test run with one of our recorders in the back and the rest of us filming it from the ground.
Our Chemical Effects
In our video we had to illustrate three chemical special effects in some part of the video. We used a clay in a liquid state for the goo spilled onto Brad's arm, elephant toothpaste for a volcano, and flammable bubbles for fire.
Our Roles
Bryan - Brad
Nick - Brad's Classmate
Rosalie - Filmer/Brad's Classmate
Rachel - Main Filmer/Brad's Mom
The Chemistry Concepts
1. The liquid modeling clay - was a colloidal mixture of cooking oil, flour, corn starch, and food coloring. This mixture when heated makes a goo which is easily manipulated and when cooled, it feels and acts like play dough. We use the mixture in its liquid form to be used as the chemical spill onto Brad's arm in the video.
2. The flammable bubbles - was made with dish soap and natural gas. What happens is that the natural gas was put under the submerged dish soap by a long tube connected to our spout. Since the natural gas is flammable and bubbles formed with the dish soap, they are therefore created. When put next to an ignition, the bubbles combust and create a large flame apparatus.
3. The elephant toothpaste - We took a 100 ml graduated cylinder and filled it with water, dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, and raw yeast. This chemical reaction caused the rapid production of oxygen bubbles to rise out of the graduated cylinder creating a large amount of soapy texture. We used this effect when the volcano irrupted and came down the mountain killing the animals.
Reflection
Overall the project went smoothly, except for the planning part, where we started from scratch a few times. We knew one thing we were going to do; the plane. Eventually we created the story around the plane after a long time of debating what our character would do. Two things I learned was how to make flaming bubbles, and what happens to dry ice under our atmosphere. Two things I did well was facilitate and lead the group when we went off track, and keep us in line by the due date. Two things I could've done better was explain the concepts better, or replace the flaming bubbles with isopropyl alcohol. For instance the chicken and the flaming bubbles vision looked very poorly done, as the bubbles appeared out of no where and then just burnt into flames. I enjoyed this project but would've liked to learn more about the chemistry concepts rather filming for the majority.
My group created a script from scratch called Rad Brad. The story goes that a classmate spilled a harsh chemical substance onto Brad's arm which had some strange effects. Quickly, Brian has two visions that show present traumatic events occurring to animals around the world. Brad now knows that he must save the animals and writes a letter to his mother who reads it aloud. The end shows Brad literally piloting a plane in a test run with one of our recorders in the back and the rest of us filming it from the ground.
Our Chemical Effects
In our video we had to illustrate three chemical special effects in some part of the video. We used a clay in a liquid state for the goo spilled onto Brad's arm, elephant toothpaste for a volcano, and flammable bubbles for fire.
Our Roles
Bryan - Brad
Nick - Brad's Classmate
Rosalie - Filmer/Brad's Classmate
Rachel - Main Filmer/Brad's Mom
The Chemistry Concepts
1. The liquid modeling clay - was a colloidal mixture of cooking oil, flour, corn starch, and food coloring. This mixture when heated makes a goo which is easily manipulated and when cooled, it feels and acts like play dough. We use the mixture in its liquid form to be used as the chemical spill onto Brad's arm in the video.
2. The flammable bubbles - was made with dish soap and natural gas. What happens is that the natural gas was put under the submerged dish soap by a long tube connected to our spout. Since the natural gas is flammable and bubbles formed with the dish soap, they are therefore created. When put next to an ignition, the bubbles combust and create a large flame apparatus.
3. The elephant toothpaste - We took a 100 ml graduated cylinder and filled it with water, dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, and raw yeast. This chemical reaction caused the rapid production of oxygen bubbles to rise out of the graduated cylinder creating a large amount of soapy texture. We used this effect when the volcano irrupted and came down the mountain killing the animals.
Reflection
Overall the project went smoothly, except for the planning part, where we started from scratch a few times. We knew one thing we were going to do; the plane. Eventually we created the story around the plane after a long time of debating what our character would do. Two things I learned was how to make flaming bubbles, and what happens to dry ice under our atmosphere. Two things I did well was facilitate and lead the group when we went off track, and keep us in line by the due date. Two things I could've done better was explain the concepts better, or replace the flaming bubbles with isopropyl alcohol. For instance the chicken and the flaming bubbles vision looked very poorly done, as the bubbles appeared out of no where and then just burnt into flames. I enjoyed this project but would've liked to learn more about the chemistry concepts rather filming for the majority.