Because the topic 'Environment' is so broad, I decided to do more brainstorming than I usually would have in order to refine some ideas that Hayley and I had to begin with. This allowed me to do a lot of research outside of the obvious topics, as well as touch upon areas that are less known to people, but are still equally as serious. It also allowed me to become more open minded. Instead of just instantly wanting to do endangered animals, a topic very well known to others, I was able to look into deforestation, increasing sea levels and effects on the coast, as other topics to explore. This was quite enjoyable to me, because I got to understand why the environment is extremely important a lot more, as well as watch videos and short clips of ways we can help improve our current situations.
Starting with the obvious, I decided to take the two key words for this brief, and brainstorm them. I basically started by annotating all key themes and ideas that first came to my head, and then with the domino effect, produce more ideas upon other research that I had found online. A lot of my ideas also came from the news. Since the environment and climate change is effecting us now more than ever with flooding, some of my ideas were as a result of this, which I think makes this module even more relevant. I thought about perhaps creating an animation that is surrounded by asking everyday people what their view of the environment is, to gain a real insight on what people think about it, and if they think anything needs to be improved. Perhaps asking them if paying for their bags has affected the way they see the environment, or if it has even impacted them at all. This could be interesting because again, it is very relevant to today, and could be interesting to look back on in the future, after more actions like this have taken place.
I also decided to brainstorm the word 'documentary' and what Hayley and I could possible explore within this category. Of course there are going to be limitations with this type of animation because it has to be educational, informative and authentic, therefore less on the fiction side of things and more factual. However, there were a few ways that I thought of to make our animation family friendly, and still entertaining. One way was to personify objects or animals, so that they are still telling a story, but in a more creative manner. Also propaganda was another idea I thought of, because in some ways it is the truth but in a more exaggerated and doctrinating way, which I thought would be a unique yet interesting route to take for this brief as I don't think many other people would think of it.
I then did some more idea generating for climate change because Hayley said that she liked the idea of making an animation on this, so I wanted to explore some more areas we could cover. The great thing about this topic, was that there was SO much information on it. There were hundreds of websites and videos that I started to look at and got a lot of insight from. And areas far removed from the obvious! For example, an increase in natural disasters is a primary effect from climate change, but then a secondary effect from this, could be to look at how people deal with them. Do they take it as it comes, or do they start to look at preventative measures? The same goes for rising sea levels and the secondary effect of this on coastal areas that act as flood planes. I think looking at secondary or tertiary effects of climate change could be more interesting than the obvious ones, especially because this could hit more local people, who are more inclined to take action on something that directly hits them instead of a generalised public.
I also did some quick research in class prior to my other research, on animals effected by climate change. The reason why I have left it until last to talk about is because although I love animals and learning all about them, whilst I was researching for how they are being effected by climate change, I started to deviate from my main aims, and ended up writing down facts that resulted into why these animals were becoming extinct. Some of these facts were caused from environmental factors, but not always. When Hayley and I came together to talk about all of our research, she told me that she had done the same thing, and had started to subconsciously look up why animals were becoming extinct, not how they were effected by climate change. We thought it would be best to choose a different area to look at, so that we can stay focussed on the right fields, as well as be able to educate others with confidence, because we have the right information.
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