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Climate change
The fight to save the planet is a very real thing but seems to get dismissed so easily, in the last year or so it has become even more prominent and its now at the point where it cannot be ignored. I wanted to create a mash up video and was sure which topic to go for and I naturally fell on climate change while doing my idea development especially because of the Australian wildfires.
I watched a great Thunberg speech.
I found it amazing how someone so young could be fighting in such a way that people are starting to listen and how it was amazing how she has gotten into the EU and so many people around the world know who she is at 16 and all she wants Is to get people to hear and start taking action.
There are many climate change videos but I found a lot to be boring.
The national geographic one talks to you like you’re in a year 8 geography class.
It feels patronising and it is done in such a way that isn’t very engaging. To get people to care you need a factual video that also makes you feel something.
That is what Greta Thunberg is trying to do but there are still so many people who think climate change is not an issue and are undermining her and being out right horrible.  Jeremy Clarkson told her to ‘shut up and go back to school’ he also called her ‘mad and dangerous’. insider (2019).She is trying to educate and bring awareness but is being branded a scaremonger because lots of people don’t like the truth especially if it is going to cost a lot.
Definition
Global warming is the ongoing rise of the earths atmosphere, its generally caused by the greenhouse effect which is the increase of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Macmillan (2016)
Australian fires
Bush fires are often started by natural causes such as lightning strikes, however humans are also sometimes to blame. according to the Sydney morning herald, new south wales police have taken legal action against 183 people and have charged 24 people with deliberately starting bush fires this fire season.
The 2019- 2020 is a very extreme case. the fire season started early with a drought affecting 95 percent of the state.
the fires started around September 2019 and as of November 2019 officials declared it as a state of emergency.
an area the size of south Korea, that's roughly 25.5 million acres has burned. At least 33 people have died. 3,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged.
smoke from the fires were reaching New Zealand over 1,000 miles away.
1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles likely lost their lives in the blazes, according to one estimate from the university of Sydney, around 25,000 koalas were feared dead on kangaroo island. Calma (2020)
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Flooding
Flooding
starting with Italy in 2019 had some of the worst flooding for the country it came from strong winds, heavy rain, rough seas and a storm surge hit southern regions of Italy from 11th of November.
Italy was declared a state of emergency in Venice after the Italian city was engulfed by 6ft of high water level. this flooded the basillca and cut power to homes mare than 80% of the city. Floodlist(2020)
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Now moving to England 2007. The summer was one of the wettest on record. The met office says 414.1mm of rain fell across England and wales in may, June or July- more than at any time since it began compiling rainfall figures 1766. BBC (2008)
Copyright
For this project IÂ looked into copyright and highlighted and picked out the parts that would be most relevant to me and my work. There are lots of rules around how you can use someone else's work. IÂ got my information from the UK copyright service information. ukccs (2020)
Evaluation
I had a big struggle to know what to do with this film. I knew exactly what I wanted to do for my first film and for this one I really did not know where to start. I ended up creating this film because it is very prominent now and people do like to sweep the environmental problems under a massive rug.
At first, I mainly focused on the Australian wildfires because that is a huge thing, they have been going on for so long now and are a big concern. Then I also used the things that have been an ongoing problem for a very long time like the ice caps melting and major flooding. I didn’t know what to put over the top at first I found some royalty free music that I liked but something was still missing I looked up some speeches and settled on Greta Thunberg she is very inspirational considering her age and what she is achieving she is now the voice of the environmental crisis and part of her un speech fit perfectly into my video. I did research on the Australian fires and flooding across the world Italy’s floods were the most shocking and they did not get that much new coverage over here. I felt this was the same as the Australian wild fires if you wanted to know about them you have to do some digging and they had been burning for months before it crossed the UK news with proper concern. I think I could have also put some more natural disasters into the film along with flooding because things like tsunamis and hurricanes are also affected by climate change.
I Also wanted to impact people emotionally and the best way to do that I thought was to show them what is happening to sea life animals, people seem to take to suffering animals more than the environment. I also would of like to have found the photographs or small clips of animals who are suffering from the climate crisis and what we are doing to the environment to have not been zooming in and just having them appear I think it would have had more impact and would not look so jarring. I had a little trouble editing this as getting the music and the speech to work together having the music not to loud as to cover the speech. I find sound the hardest to edit and still do not fully know how to but I am rather happy with how it ended up. Conveniently there was clapping part way through the speech that I could utilise as an ending, and it faded out nicely.
Next time I would probably add some text with some facts to keep it engaging and explain the footage a bit more, I found out quite a few facts in my research that I could have added in now I look back I probably could of maybe chosen one or two topics to focus on and go into more detail instead of having many with little detail but I do like how it turned out in the end. I would of also liked to have been able to find more footage than what I did because some of it does feel like it is repeating. This was due to me getting the footage from online I was limited on what I could use. Lots of footage had reporters in and I did not want that I just wanted the impact and events of what was happening. Also, some of the footage had writing in it and I would of liked to not have that in there. For example, the first clip has a caption in it but the second one of the ice caps does not and I prefer how it looks with out it. The news also has lots of titles and captions onto their footage which I think takes away from when they are showing the event a little because people automatically go to read it.
Referencing list
BBC (2008). Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7446721.stm (Accessed at: February 21st 2020)
Calma (2020) The verge. Available at: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/3/21048891/australia-wildfires-koalas-climate-change-bushfires-deaths-animals-damage (Accessed at: February 19th 2020)
Floodlist (2020). Available at: http://floodlist.com/europe/italy-venice-floods-november-2019#:~:text=Severe%20weather%20including%20strong%20winds,Italy%20from%2011%20November%2C%202019.&text=One%20person%20died%20as%20a,in%20Salento%2C%20caused%20severe%20damaged. ( Accessed at: February 21st 2020)
Insider (2019). Available at : https://www.insider.com/jeremy-clarkson-calls-greta-thunberg-mad-and-dangerous-2019-12 (accessed: January 24th 2020)
Macmillan (2016) NRDC. Available at: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/global-warming-101#warming (accessed: January 24th 2020)
UKCCS (2020). Available at: https://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/ (Accessed at: February 21st 2020)