Muscle Memory
Muscle memory is when a person repeats the same activity over and over to implant this movement into the mind. When the brain and muscle adapts to the training the person will become able to perform the action without thought. Instead being more of a reflex than a thought.
There are two types of skills, fine and gross. Fine motor skills are small skills we perform with our hands such as writing, touch typing etc. Gross motor skils even large limbs and body movements which can be reflected in sports such as football, tennis etc.
I decided to do some research into this area because when i think of memory i also think of the mind and how it works.I remember seeing a film where a trainee solider assembled a m16 whilst blindfolded under timed conditions. This scene made me find out how this was possible and to understand it better.
This research has spawned an idea
Idea 1
Breif
Two labs Two people Two Ideas.
A Short film about two intelligent characters, both are identical. Not a hair out of place, presentable scientists. Both our are researching into two different subjects, one is looking to do good the other to do bad.
Throught the film I would present them both as doing good, the twist would come at the end where the audience discovers that one of the doctors is evil.
In this short film i hope to challenge the audience on there stance on education and the powers it brings.
With this idea i then began to look at scientist that were also inventors, doctors etc throughout history. I made a list of the good and the evil.
The Good the Bad
I also did some research into two of the most evilest doctors that came from educated backgrounds. I chose people that had been educated well, to see how these people have gained there knowledge and what they did with it. I feel that this research will help me get a better understanding of the people thus helping me por
tray my characters in a believable way. The facts will also help me to ask the question i want to ask.
Dr Josef Mengele (Angel of Death)
One Surivor said he had a look that said ‘I am the power’.
Dr Josef Mengle was intelligent and popular in his hometown. Josef studied philosophy and medicine at Munich and Frankfurt University. In his dissertation he looked at racial differences in the structure of the lower of jaw.
He fought in World War 2 only to be wounded and was unfit for duty. He then volunteered to go to a concentration camp. He was assigned Auschwitz and was the chief provider to the gas chambers over seeing who would die and who would work.
Mengele had a fascination with children and twins killing them and carrying out numerous experiments on them. He performed both physical and psychological experiments.
In a case in which a mother did not want to be separated from her thirteen-year-old daughter, and bit and scratched the face of the SS man who tried to force her to her assigned line, Mengele drew his gun and shot both the woman and the child. As a blanket punishment, he then sent to the gas all people from that transport who had previously been selected for work, with the comment: “Away with this shit!” (Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors.)
The survivors tell how as children in Auschwitz they were visited by a smiling “Uncle Mengele” who brought them candy and clothes.Then he had them delivered to his medical laboratory either in trucks painted with the Red Cross emblem or in his own personal car to undergo his experiments.
Dr ShiRO Ishii
Shiro Ishii was a Japanese microbiologist.
Shiro Ishii studied medicine at Kyoto Imperial University. In 1922 he was assigned to the 1st Army Hospital and Army Medical School in Tokyo. Two years later he was able to study a medicine post graduate degree at the same university.
In 1928 he took a two-year tour of the west. He began extensive research on biological and chemical warfare. Shiro Ishii was successful with his research which helped him gain a patronage from the Minister of the Army, Sadao Araki.
He became the lieutenant general of Unit 731 a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Unit 731 was responsible for secret experiments that were carried out on human subjects, which were, referred to as matuta (logs) a reference to the view that there subject where inert (expandable entities).
In 1942 Ishii and Unit 731 began field tests of germ warfare and a range of methods dispersion (e.g. via guns, flamethrowers etc). Both were carried out on Chinese prisoners of wars and operationally on the battlefield on Chinese Civilians.
His unit also conducted vivisections, forced abortions, and simulated strokes , heart attacks, frost bite and hypothermia.
