I worked my little butt off to accomplish the assignment in the allotted time and came up with this: Dirty Steve (the topic was 'germs'). Enjoy. Comments appreciated.
How did I make this video?

I shot all the video with my Sony TRV-11 DV camcorder. I shot a high-res still shot for each freeze-frame zoom with my Sony DSC-P71 digital still camera. The germ animation (such as it is) was made by creating a texture in Photoshop 7 and then making variations of it. It is only seven frames put into a loop. I created the microscopic overlay (the green part) in another Photoshop document. Everything was composited and edited using Final Cut Pro on a Power Mac dual 1 Ghz G4 tower.
There are only two tracks of video (hardly necessary) and up to eight tracks of audio (2 stereo DV, 2 for sound effects, 2 for narration and 2 for bed music).
The audio on the narration is a bit echo-y as I used the built-in microphone on the camcorder. Should've used an external mic. Locations were my house and my place of employment. "Dirty Steve" is one of my co-workers. The camera sound-effect came off of a royalty-free sound effect library, which I then tweaked to make it shorter and higher pitched. QuickTime Pro 6 was also handy. Oh, and I did some basic sound editing with SparkME and QuickTime 6 as well.
Thank you, WeeklyDV.com!