Bee Dance Video Textual Description
Bee Dance Video
- Textual description of relevant actions, scenes and sound cues (Description) and
- Text of Audio file (Narrator/Caption).
Description:
- Sound of bees
- A dozen of Bees are moving in every direction over Comb Cells in a Hive
- A white filter covers the majority of the image, except a round spot in the middle inviting the viewer to follow a particular Bee.
Narrator/Caption: Honey Bees have some fascinating abilities among them being able to communicate by performing an unique dance. It informs hive mates where a newly discovered food source is located.
Description:
- The image stops, the sound of bees stops and we see a shape being traced in green by an invisible pen over the fixed image. That shape represents precisely all the movements done so far by the Bee we had been invited to follow visually, and looks roughly like a figure eight.
Narrator/Caption: Every cycle of this waggle dance roughly describes the shape of a figure eight.
Description:
- We now hear the Sound of Bees, the Image is animated again, is rewound in fast motion, then is stopped for a few seconds
Narrator/Caption: Let's rewind and look in more detail. The bee only waggles on a part of its route, the straight run indicated here by the waved line. The secret lies in the direction of the straight run....
Description:
- The image is animated again at its regular speed, the invisible pen is following the Bee, drawing its movements in green as they are being executed, reproducing roughly the figure 8 with a wavy line in the middle.
Narrator/Caption: ... or to be more precise in the angle between the straight run and the perpendicular, which in this case is 90 degrees to the left. This tells the other bees that food is available 90 degrees to the left of the sun..
Description:
- The image stops, the sound of Bees stops, the top and bottom of the figure eight disappears showing only the wavy line in the middle of the figure eight pointing like an arrow to the left. A line pointing to the top is drawn perpendicularly from the right hand side of the wavy line. A 90 degree arc is shown between those two lines, the number 90 and a degree symbol are written over the arc.
- The fixed image of the Bees and the 90 degrees to the left drawing collapses, showing a blue sky with a sun on the right hand side. The 90 degrees drawing shifts to the right, and an icon of a bee inside some flowers appears to the left to demonstrate where the food source is available.
- The animated image of the Bees is now moving up and covering the blue sky with a sun background. We hear Bees sounds. A 60 degrees to the right drawing appears.
Narrator/Caption: If the angle was 60 degrees to the right....
Description:
- The animated image of the Bees and the 60 degrees to the right drawing collapses, showing a blue sky with a sun on the left hand side. The 60 degrees drawing shifts to the left, and an icon of a bee inside some flowers appears to the right to demonstrate where the food source is available.
Narrator/Caption: they'll be flying 60 degrees to the right of the sun.
