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Animal Testing

Written by Ilia Alarcon

Pamela Diaz
Jacqueline Niave
Wendy Romero
English 1312
Instruction
University of Texas at El Paso
11/13/2014
DRAFT #
TITLE: Animal Testing: Is it Worth It?

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Scene

Video

FX

Audio

No video: just black background

With an edit of a picture with the title

Title: Animal Testing

Music

ADD A WARNING BEFORE

SCENE TELLING THE
AUDIENCE THAT THERE
WLL BE
GRAPHIC/DISTURBING
IMAGES

Images of testing on and off campus

(citation will appear as a caption)

Music fades out

Narrator: Animal testing on campus for educational
purposes is morally offensive because it teaches students
that animals are at their disposal.

Transition to a picture of a class

doing a dissection.

music continues

Pie chart appears representing the

percentage of different fields animals
are used in

Title: Animals used annually in

UTEP labs
VO- Voice Over

VO: The amount of animals used per year is unclear but it is

estimated at 60-100 million 60% of the animals used
being rodents. (Baier, 1993)
PERCENTS OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIELDS
ANIMALS ARE USED IN
40% used in behavioral research
20% used in drug development
20% used in product toxicity testing
20% used in public schools, universities, and medical
veterinary programs

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reporter talking about the issue of

animal testing

Animal testing controversial include pro/con views and

what is being done to regulate the current animal testing
projects on UTEP campus and US
VO:
Animal testing is controversial because it argues the rights
of animals. Testing has made its way from corporate labs
into our local universities
Animal testing advocates argue that experimentation of
animals has lead to many successful vaccines and medical
discoveries, however; animal rights parties argue that it is
inhumane and unnecessary

Front shot view of the reporter

Location: the UTEP Campus

discuss how testing on campus

[Talk about the ongoing lab dissections and what is done to
enforce regulations]
Not many people are aware that there is a committee that
visits universities and regulates and evaluates lab
experiments (Dates of scheduled visits can be found online)
WE WILL PROVIDE THE MOST RECENT DATES AS
WELL AS THE LINK SO YOU CAN CHECK FOR
FUTURE SCHEDULED VISITS
The Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC)
what they do and the role they play here on the UTEP
Campus as well as on other campuses
Responsibilities:
evaluating the universities animal care
program every six months
check up on the facilities every six months
write reports on the evaluation to the

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-4Institutional Official (IO)

assess all concerns submitted that are
associated with the care and use of animals
on campus
recommend ways to better the animal care
program to the IO

shut down any projects that use live

vertebrate animals, and take corrective action
and report to the IO and funding agencies
(SECONDARY SOURCE USED IN LITERATURE
REVIEW)
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UTEP faculty/student that are for or

against animal testing (have them
sign a release for allowing us to
record them just in case)
RECORD OUTSIDE THE
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Title Interviews

Reporter asks questions:

Ask name, major, classification
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Are you for or against animal testing? Why?
2.
What if anything do you believe we gain from
animal experimentation?
3.
Are all experiments ethical?

cut shot of a student being

interviewed on the UTEP campus

For animal testing

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Shot of another interview of student 2

Against animal testing

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Interview with Professor 1

For animal testing

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shots of an interview with professor 2

Against animal testing

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front shot of reporter

UTEP Survey
ISSUED TO UTEP

introduce the survey and discuss questions asked

Reporter speaks:

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STUDENTS

1.
2.
3.
4.

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Text Ways to help or Ways you

can contribute

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Link for the online petition

MAKE DONATIONS
www.peta.org/issues/animals-usedfor-experimetationfactsheets/dissection-lessons-cruelty/
(Donations)

-5Do you have any pets?

What animal rights organizations are you familiar
with? or heard of?
Do you find animal experimentation morally just or
morally offensive?
With animal testing still occurring in the labs of
companies and universities, do you support the use
of animals for testing on campus

music begins

Title: Call to Action

Music

SIGN PETITION
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5154/p/di
a/action/public/?action_KEY=5078
(Animal Bill of Rights)
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Credits ascend from the bottom up

Credits of the information,

pictures, music, and the people
who was involved

(Music fades)
Citations- sources from the literature review
Credit- camera, interviews, location, Voice Over, Reporter,

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Black background with white text

Copyright Statement

Can be located in the student handbook

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