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Video Advert

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Climate Crisis – Board Game Video Advert

Below is our groups finished Video Advert for our Board Game. Our video quite simply shows someone going round to their friends’ house to play this new Board Game; Climate Crisis and learn about what it is that is killing the planet as well as what they can do themselves to help in the fight against Climate Change.

The perspective of the advert was shot in a way so that you don’t see the face of the person on camera (i.e Maider). We chose to do this so that the audience might better put themselves in the shoes of the person on screen on their way to play the game at their friends’ house, thus giving them a better feel for why they are going there in the first place.

Climate Crisis – Board Game Video Advert

Board Game Radio Advert

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Climate Crisis Radio Ad:

Here is the SoundCloud link to our finished radio advert. We wanted the advert to be set in a school and have a comedic feeling to it. With it being aimed at secondary school kids we thought that they would be more likely to take notice of the advert if it had a sense of humour to it. We achieved this by adding silly sound effects in between a more serious and emphatic sounding soundbed in order to try and inject the humour we were aiming for.

Climate Crisis Radio Advert

Audio Package Workshops:

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Radio Advert:

This weeks workshops have been focused on starting and developing our Radio Adverts for advertising our board games. I have had some previous experience with using Adobe Audition so I took the lead at using Audition to add and edit different voice recordings as well as different sound effects. At this point we’ve only had the first workshop of two for our Radio Adverts and yet we’ve already managed to; write a short script, record the audio for the speech as well as adding together all of the sound effects to go along with it. Now, we have a basic advert that advertises our game, meaning that we can only improve our advert going forward.

Some of the key elements I’ve used thus far for our advert have been things such as; adding sound effects, using fade-ins and fade-outs on certain pieces of audio. Not to mention adding a soundbed to the backing of the advert and other added sounds to give the feel of where we have proposed our advert is taking place. Some of these sounds include; a school bell, school kids talking/laughing and a teacher talking to a class. The reason for some of these sound effects are because we have set our advert taking place in a school, as our target audience is secondary school kids to help inform them of the major issues surrounding Climate Change. The reason for targeting secondary school kids is because we feel that they would be more accepting of the facts and feel more passionately about making changes to help deal with Climate Change with this being ours and their future hanging in the balance.

My Contributions:

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Questions for the game:

I was tasked with coming up/designing the questions that would be used in our game. All of the questions are focused on Climate Change and revolve around things such as; greenhouse gases, emissions and the consequences of Climate Change. Below are just a few of the questions that I came up with as well as a brief overview of the rules of the game as well as screenshots of the rest of the questions for the game.

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

  • The name of climate change legislation that passed by congress
  • When you paint your house green to become an environmentalist
  • When the gasses in our atmosphere trap heat and block it from escaping our planet *(Answer)*
  • When you build a greenhouse

Reason:

The Earth receives solar radiation from the sun. Passing through the atmosphere, some radiation is absorbed by the Earth, while some is reflected back to space. When the exchange of incoming and outgoing radiation occurs, some of the radiation becomes trapped by gases in the atmosphere. This creates a “greenhouse” effect and warms the planet.

Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?

  • CO2
  • CH4
  • Water vapour
  • All of the above *(Answer)*

Reason:

Greenhouse gases may be a result of natural occurrence or human activity. These gases include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, Nitrous oxide, and ozone. Fluorinated gases are also considered to be greenhouse gases.

Which of the following are consequences associated with Climate Change?

  • The ice sheets are declining, glaciers are in retreat globally, and our oceans are more acidic than ever
  • Surface temperatures are setting new heat records about each year
  • More extreme weather like droughts, heat waves, and hurricanes
  • Global sea levels are rising at an alarmingly fast rate — 17 centimetres (6.7 inches) in the last century alone and going higher.
  • All of the above *(Answer)*

Reason:

All of these are problems associated with climate change. The majority of scientists agree that many of these effects are caused by human contribution to the greenhouse effect. Extreme weather events, droughts, heat waves, and rising sea levels  will have devastating effects on the world’s poorest countries and communities.

Below are the screenshots of the rest of the questions:

Rules:

The aim of the game is to move around the board and answer as many questions correctly as you can. The person who answers the most correct, wins. The game consists of questions on climate change, chances and pure luck. Land on a chance square to pick up a card. This could be anything from telling you to go forward 2 spaces or even moving you back six spaces. E.g. “You have been caught using a very damaging mode of transport to the environment, move back six spaces”. Other spaces will consist of the questions as mentioned as well as spaces that are blank. Roll a six-sided dice to find out how far along the board you will move each time.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

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You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

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