THE LIFE CYCLE OF MALARIA.

By Josh Audsley-Smith

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About malaria
Target Audience
Idea
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ABOUT MALARIA.
Malaria is a serious tropical disease spread by
mosquitoes. If malaria is not diagnosed and treated
promptly, it can be fatal. A single mosquito bite is all it
takes for someone to become infected.
Symptoms include:
a high temperature (fever)
sweats and chills
headaches
vomiting
muscle pains
Diarrhoea
Symptoms usually appear between seven and 18 days
after becoming infected, but in some cases the
symptoms may not appear for up to a year, or
occasionally even longer.

TARGET AUDIENCE
My chosen audience are students who are doing
further and higher education. This means that my
animation will have a lot of information as it will
need to provide all the information needed for the
students. I feel that being a student of higher
education myself and knowing what type and sort of
information is available as well as useful to my
audience, I could create a successful, informative
and suitable animation for the life cycle of malaria.
Having experienced the type of resources available
to further and higher education personal I would say
that these types of resources need to be more
enticing. It seems that most the videos and books
that are already available are very straight forward
with information, which is good as it tells you
everything you need to know. But with modern day
technology receiving this information can be a lot
more interesting towards the people it is aimed at
which in turn could also interest more people in that
chosen subject.

IDEA
My idea for the life cycle of malaria is to start of with a mosquito sucking blood out of a human, you see the mosquito land on
the human and pulls its head back ready to bit. The camera switches to a shot from within the human blood vessels, you see
the mosquitos proboscis entering the blood vessel. From the tip of the proboscis you see the sporozoites sliding into the
blood stream and being carried away. The camera switches to further down the blood vessel where you see a whole group of
sporozoites picking up speed towards the camera, as they get closer the camera slowly turns away and the sporozoites are
out of sight, then they come rushing past the camera and down the blood vessel.
The camera now shows you from in the liver, from here you see the sporozoites enter the liver and start slamming into liver
cells and entering them. The camera focuses on one of these liver cells. The sporozoite in this cell then starts to grow and
turns in to a schizont, which creates tens of thousands merozoites. The camera switches to outside the infected liver cell
where you see the liver cell start to shake and pull apart, then it stops. The cell then explodes, releasing the merozoites into
the open blood system.
Camera switches again to show you a group of red blood cells just floating around, then the merozoites enter that part of the
blood vessel and swam the red blood cells until one merozoites enter the red blood cell. You see a few red blood cells being
invaded by for the camera zooms in on a blood cell until the camera actually enters the cell. From this point you see the
merozoite that is in the cell multiplying until the whole cell is full, the cell then breaks and dies releasing the merozoites to
infect other cells. The camera would zoom back out at this point to show all the other red blood cells around all bursting.
The camera then follows one of the new merozoites in to a new blood cell where it becomes a gametocytes which could either
be male or female, these cells are then sucked up out of the blood vessel and in to a uninfected mosquito. You then see the
male and female gametocytes joint and make a diploid zygote in the mosquito gut which then becomes an oocysts which
keeps dividing till it became sporozoites again which then heads up into the mosquitos salivary gland, where the progress
starts again.

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