After Hayley and I talked with Mike, he gave us some new ideas to look into. These ideas were to perhaps to think of concentrating on our animal and environmental impacts, to somewhere local, or to a more focussed area within the spectrum of climate change. We decided to look at farming, and how perhaps farm animals are effected and how this then effects us. Though I really love wild animals and learning about them, I feel like perhaps farming and agriculture is less widely spread. WWF is already a large organisation that is spreading the message about animals becoming extinct, and there isn't really a large scale company doing that for more local farmers and land owners. Therefore there is a gap on the market for Hayley and I to research this and make a documentary on it. We can still aim to inform a family audience, because our method of animation is stop motion, so we can take a really serious topic and make it more appealing. We can grab the attention of the viewer, and then make them realise that actually, what we are saying is important and affects you, as this is where you get a lot of your food sources from!
The impact of climate change on farmers effects the every day person because as climate change changes the global temperature, this means that crops will not grow as they would regularly. They may need more water, and where there may be an increase in natural disasters such as droughts, crops will suffer and fruit and vegetables cannot grow. This also means that farm animals cannot graze. Cows, pigs, chickens, etc, cannot get their nutrients therefore cannot produce milk or eggs that the farmers cannot then sell to locals. Climate change is also known to have an increase in storms which results into flooding. Whilst farmers plough their fields, they can be known to be a cause of increasing the risks and damage of floods, not only effecting their work, but the homes of others and the lives of their farm animals. Climate change is also known to increase the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, as they have been steadily increasing (1.9 parts per million by volume) year after year as the temperature of the earth also goes up. Carbon dioxide is an essential element to photosynthesis, therefore whilst this makes crops grow more rapidly, there then needs to be an equal amount of water and additional fertilisers, that may not be available if other disasters are taking place.
After Hayley and I discussed all of our findings, we decided that we would like to concentrate perhaps on making a documentary to share this information. We can form opinions out of the facts, and give them to certain animals to personify them, give them a voice. For example, farms that are flooded, we could illustrate a herd of sheep stood in high levels of water whilst they narrate how it has affected them (no where to sit, sleep, eat, etc). I think this could be a great experience as well as making it child friendly, as this generation is the last generation with the chance to make a difference on climate change. And there is no better way to make an impact, than to stat locally.
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