For the radio advert my involvement was directly editing the whole advert together. Out of our group I was the only one to have any prior experience using Audition so took charge of putting the advert together. By using the audio the others recorded, as well as sound effects and a soundbed, I was able to put together an advert that we all felt targeted our preferred audience. The target audience we had in mind was that of secondary school kids, around the age of 15. We understood that there’s not a lot of kids that age that listen to the radio, so the best way we thought to target them would be to have a sense of humour in our advert. This was achieved by adding sound effects that could best be described as “childish” in the sense that they were silly and were designed more to make you laugh. Combined with the soundbed of the advert which had a very serious undertone to it and then all of a sudden you get this farting noise in between part of the audio. This was how we implemented our humour into our advert.
Radio Advert:
Video Advert Contributions:
Chief camera man/operator was my main role for this task and I believe I did well in this role. My job was simple for this task, listen to what the director (Iwan) wanted from me and stick to it. Simply put, I had to keep the camera steady and make sure that I kept up the pace when rolling otherwise I wouldn’t get the shot(s) we wanted. Our filming spanned over the course of both the workshops in week seven but we got our footage all captured with plenty of time left. As well as being chief camera man/operator for filming, I also started the process of editing the video. I spent the remainder of the time in our final workshop uploading our footage to the computer and making a start on editing. I also spent some time outside of lesson finishing off the editing before we came to an agreement and felt happy with what we had. At the beginning of the final week though we all took a final look at what we had, and decided to make a few changes regarding colour saturation before coming to an agreement again, felling happy with our finished video.
Below is the company logo I designed for my solo task using Adobe Photoshop. There is also a link to a document to accompany this that explains what I did at certain stages and why I made some of the decisions I made.
At the very beginning of the module, I carried out some research into and around climate change in order to gain a greater understanding of the area as a whole. This research played a pivotal part in our groups understanding of climate change and ultimately helped us progress towards an idea for a climate change board game.
NASA:
In the last 650’000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the Ice Age around 7’000 years ago. This marked the beginning of the modern climate era – and end of human civilisation. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that can change the amount of solar energy the planet receives.
“SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR WARMING OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM IS UNEQUIVOCAL” – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Planets’ surface temperature has risen around 1.62*F since the late 19th Century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human made emissions into the atmosphere. Most of the warming has occurred in the last 35 years with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010.
IPCC was created to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change. It’s implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaption and mitigation options.
Through assessments, the IPCC determines the state of knowledge on climate change. It identifies where the agreement in the scientific community on topics related to climate change, and where further research is needed. The assessment reports are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change.
The IPCC reports about the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, it’s impacts and future risks and options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place.
Greenhouse gases occur naturally and are essential to the survival of humans and millions of other living things, by keeping some of the Sun’s warmth from reflecting back into space and making Earth liveable.
Fifth Assessment Report:
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of sea level rise and its causes over the past few decades. It also estimates cumulative CO2 emissions since pre-industrial times and provides a CO2 budget for future emissions to limit warming to less than 2*C. About half of this maximum amount was already emitted by 2011.
It found:
– From 1880 to 2012, the average global temperature rose by 0.85*C
– From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19cm as oceans expanded due to warming and melting of the ice caps
Global warming is likely to be the greatest cause of species extinctions in this century. The IPCC says a 1.5*C average rise may put 20-30% of species at risk of extinction. If the planet warms by more than 2*C, most ecosystems will struggle.
Many of the worlds threatened species live in areas that will be severely affected by Climate Change. Climate Change is happening too quickly for many species to adapt to.
Example:
Tigers – Numbers in the wild have declined to as few as 3’200 largely due to poaching and habitat loss. Climate Change is likely to result in increasing sea levels and further risk of fire in the already fragmented habitats where Tigers live.
Climate Change threatens the essential ingredients of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health.
Between 2030 and 2050, Climate Change is expected to cause approximately 250’000 additional deaths per year, from nutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress alone. The direct damage costs to health is estimated to be between $2-4bn per year by 2030.
Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases through better transport, food and energy-use choices can result in improved health, particularly through reduced air pollution. The Paris Climate agreement is therefore potentially the strongest health agreement of this century. WHO supports countries in assessing the health gains that would result from the implementation of the existing Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris agreement and the potential for larger gains from more ambitious climate action.
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.
Climate Crisis 