failure and success in arthropod evolution
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- Location: EOS museum. Door opens letting in light.
- Presenter walks in, picture of Merella fossil on bench.
- Close on presenter and fossil, speaks intro. camera moves to fossil.
- Scorpion moves left to right across screen
- B roll clips
- Dust cloud follows and clears to title 'Failure and success in arthropod evolution'
- Failure and success in arthropod evolution
- Expert 1, Location: EOS classroom, speaking off camera Brief arthropod definition then talk about cambrian arthros finishing on the success of trilobites, crustaceans and chelicerates.
- Clips of extant arthropods, close up on arthropod pointing out appendages, segmentation and cuticle.
- Close up on expert 1. Talking about arthropods that went on to diversifying in the late Cambrian and Ordovician.
- Presenter at riverbank with primitive plants in the background (liverworth/ moss) "land was ripe for the taking".
- Location: Lab. Expert 2 hand draws arthropod onto clear plastic screen.
- B roll clips
- Expert 2 talking about the physical attributes of arthropods that allowed them to conquer land.
- Explains trace fossil record from late Cambrian on lab bench.
- Supporting B roll. Clips of walking arthropods leaving traces.
- Location: hallway. Presenter walking towards door introducing next topic, flight. Mosquito noise, presenter tries to catch the mosquito. Cut to expert 3.
- Expert 2 talking about diversification- arachnids, insects.
- Location: lecture theatre. Sketches of insects on whiteboard. Talking about insects conquering air.
- Pointing out mandibles.
- Sketches showing segmentation and evolution of wings. plus b roll of dragonfly fossils etc.
- Location: Lecture theatre. Expert 3 talking about diversification.
- Presenter, location: beach with dark sky. Talks about the looming PT extinction
- Volcanic eruption
- Continued eruption.
- Waves crashing, lightening etc. sea level rising... presenter voice over throughout. fade out.
- fade in, calm waters, presenter introduces next phase of diversification.
- B roll clips
- Flowers with insects landing on them
- Expert 3 again explaining the coevolution between flowering plants and insects.
- Outro sequence: Grouping of scenes showing diversity of environment
- Grouping of images showing diversity of arthropods in chronological order from bottom left to top right.
- line connecting groups forming a tree, fade to credits.
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