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Movie

Wissen+Konzepte

Movie Making

"Wissen+Konzepte", a scientific online magazine, contacted us via facebook. They asked us if we are interested in making a film about our team and our project. Of course we were really enthusiastic about this proposal. Consequently two nice ladies of the editorial staff of "Wissen+Konzepte" visited us on 10th of September. They filmed a lot of scenes.

First they took many pictures of our materials in the lab like for example petri dishes or yeast-medium. They also shot scences in the lab when doing a SDS-Page. Afterwards someone of our team explained previous to the camera our project. Especially the principles of cloning and the use of plasmids were explained by a comparison with a bus. The transfered genes stand for the passengers. The third big scene was shot with another participant of our team. He talked about the public opinion about our project, the activities made by us in the context of "Human Practice" and about the Germany-wide Action Day. Besides he mentioned that we chose a topic that is rather controversial in Germany, but that the response to our work is mainly very positive. The next scene was an interview with Prof. Dr. Skerra who also talked about iGEM and Synthetic Biology. Last but not least the day ended with a scene in a beer garden.

All in all it was a lot of fun to make this movie!! The movie will represent our project in rather easy way to open it to a greater public. That is the concept of Wissen+Konzepte.

We are sorry that we can't show you this film here, but it is still in the postproduction.

Background about Wissen+Konzepte

Wissen+Konzepte is an online magazine which summarizes new scientific approaches and the people behind it. So they do not only explain what is done, but also who does it and why. Normally they are doing Corporate Publishing, for scientists.

One of the filmcrew members studied at the TUM too, that was a big advantage.

Own "Production"

This film was designed to explain within one minute why we chose yeast and what represents bavarian culture. Of course it is a bit exaggerated, but not everything in life hast to be completly serious. And who does not like the "Oktoberfest"? We just wanted to show where we come from.

The movie was made by our photographer and shows the following scences:

The Oktoberfest- Bavarian Beer Culture
Short description of our SynBio Beer and mentioning of your pTUM100 plasmid
Showing of our ingredients
- "These are Limonene (limeflavor), Xanthohumol (anticancerogenic), Thaumatin (sweeter) and Caffeine (stimulant)."
Mentioning of our promoters and explainig why they are neccessary for our project.
Pan shot of our beer bottles

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-The online magazine "Wissen+Konzepte" contacted us via our facebook account and asked us wheter we are intersted in making a film about our project to post on their website. Of course we were, and so the visited us on the 10th of September. First they did two scenes in the lab with an SDS-Page and with lots of pictures from our materials our petri dishes, the yeast-medium and so on.
+"Wissen+Konzepte", a scientific online magazine, contacted us via facebook. They asked us if we are interested in making a film about our team and our project. Of course we were really enthusiastic about this proposal. Consequently two nice ladies of the editorial staff of "Wissen+Konzepte" visited us on 10th of September.
-Then a short "explaining" scene was made where one from our group was explainig our projected and cloning and plasmid backround via an comparison with a bus. And the transferred genes are the passengers.
+They filmed a lot of scenes.
-After that an interview with another one was made about the public opinion about our project, our human practice activities and the Action Day. He mentioned that we chose  topic which is in Germany rather controversial, but that the response to our work was mainly postive, because the people enjoyed being informed. So the fact that we did a lot of work to communicate your aim, made the responde not that negative as we expected.
-After 3 hours of work we all made a lunch break. :-)
+First they took many pictures of our materials in the lab like for example petri dishes or yeast-medium. They also shot scences in the lab when doing a SDS-Page.
-Next was an interview with Prof. Dr. Skerra and last but not least a scene in a "Biergarten".
+Afterwards someone of our team explained previous to the camera our project. Especially the principles of cloning and the use of plasmids were explained by a comparison with a bus. The transfered genes stand for the passengers.
-All in all it was a lot of fun to make this movie!!
+The third big scene was shot with another participant of our team. He talked about the public opinion about our project, the activities made by us in the context of "Human Practice" and about the Germany-wide Action Day. Besides he mentioned that we chose a topic that is rather controversial in Germany, but that the response to our work is mainly very positive.
+The next scene was an interview with Prof. Dr. Skerra who also talked about iGEM and Synthetic Biology. Last but not least the day ended with a scene in a beer garden.
-The movie will represent our project in rather easy way to open it to a greater public. That is the concept of Wissen+Konzepte.
+All in all it was a lot of fun to make this movie!! The movie will represent our project in rather easy way to open it to a greater public. That is the concept of Wissen+Konzepte.
-We are sorry that we cannot show you this film here, but it is still in the postproduction.
+We are sorry that we can't show you this film here, but it is still in the postproduction.
 ===Background about Wissen+Konzepte===