The website Virtual Urchin from Standford University has a series of interactive tutorials about different aspects of sea urchin biology. Including subjects are anatomy, predation and development. Last month they published an activity about the ocean acidification and its consequences for marine organisms with calcareous skeleton that included the vídeo A Sea Biscuit’s Life to exemplify the life cycle of echinoderms.
On the beginning of 2009 I began the editing. I used the same editor I ventured with “A Sea Biscuit’s Life”, Open Movie Editor, for linux. Since I never needed complex effects or transitions this program worked well (i.e., import, edit, insert graphics, basic transitions, and finally export without major constraints). However, to create a visual experience I decided to try additional effects (frei0r). I chose the track “Dream Sequence”, because I liked its ambience, and started to experiment.
Little by little the video began to appear, I disposed many scenes and selected final takes, until I finally decided to conclude. Since it is a visual experience there is no order, sometimes it gets a bit psychodelic, and so on… After some major technical problems with the effects (and the editor) the result was published on March 16 of 2009, and you can watch it below.
It is my pleasure to announce that the video A Sea Biscuit’s Life is online! The video is about the life cycle of the sea biscuit Clypeaster subdepressus and includes footage of embryos, larvae and juveniles. It is part of my master’s thesis.
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