Thing that I learned from making this documentary is that making a film is harder then it looks. You have to learn how to cut your interviews down to just the important parts that would be good for your film. To do this my group listened to what the person said many times it started to get boring and we could almost recite it perfectly. I also learned that we had to put more in then just people talking because that gets boring. When you add color and pictures it helps out a lot. The research was not that hard it was like any other paper that you write just kind of boring. Blogging was different because you had to keep checking your blog everyday. The major thing that I learned is that making a film is a lot like writing a research paper you still have to do all the same things just in a different way.
What is happening to the planet?
How can you help our environment?
How are habitats changing?
Come join us for an informative documentary on Global Warming created by the students in
Ms. Pomerantz’s 8th Block English class.
When: Thursday, May 22, 2008
At 10:05
Where: Ms. Pomerantz’s Classroom
Rm. 2003 (in the Library Loft)
R.S.V.P.: If you are able to attend please e-mail Ms. Pomerantz at
mpomerantz@pkwy.k12.mo.us
Hope to see you there!
Today our group stayed after school to work on our segment of the documentary. We were able to get a good portion done but we still have a lot to put together and edit. We are hoping to get a lot more done in lab tomorrow and do our finishing touches during class. I think this is a good goal to set and with some luck our plan will follow threw. we realized that putting writing on the slide is much harder then you would think hopefully we get the hang of it and it will be easier.
is it worth the time
- Roger A. Pielke Jr’s research has led him to believe that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it.
- United Nations estimate that global warming would increase the number of people at risk of hunger from 777 million in 2020 to 885 million by 2080, a 14% rise, if current development patterns continue.
- Downplaying the importance of emissions reductions has raised hackles among scientists around the world, who say that the planet-wide effects of global warming will eventually go beyond humans’ ability to deal with it.
- ”You can’t adapt to melting the Greenland ice sheet,” said Stephen H. Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford University. “You can’t adapt to species that have gone extinct.”
- They detailed a likely future of worsening famine in Africa, expanding floods as sea levels rise as much as 23 inches, and accelerated species extinction. To avoid the worst, the reports warned that emissions must be reduced 50% to 80% by mid-century, keeping temperature rise below 2 degrees.
If it is cheaper to adapt to global warming then to fight it why are we still trying to do something about it? Global warming has been happening for a long time and we are just now trying to help prevent it. Because we have not done anything in the past Global Warming will affect my generation and the generations to come more then ever. This is good to know for our segment because we are the ones who it is affecting. If we stop spending money on ways to stop global warming we would have a lot more money to spend on other important things that will help out our generation.
Monday night Corrine and I took a trip down to Washington University to do an interview with student Kelley Greenman. Our interview started out a little shakey because Corrine and I were having some trouble with the equipment, but in the end every thing worked out very well. Kelly was informational and answered all the questions we needed and more. One thing I learned from her is that eating meat is helping to cause global warming.
Yesterday our class took a trip to a strip center to find people to interview for our documentary on Global Warming. I thought it was going to be a lot easier then it was to find people to interview. Even though I ran the camera I still approached people to interview. We got a lot of people who said they don’t have time or that just ignored me. I was surprised that some people did not know a lot about global warming and one person didn’t really believe in Global Warming.
In total we endend up interviewing 4 people. I probably approached 8 different people that would not respond. The average person talked to us for just a few minutes. They answered all of our questions, and some where knowledgeable about the topic and others were not.
What worked well for us to get the interviews was getting the people who were walking into a restaurant to eat. When they were leaving they did not want to talk as much because they were “in a hurry” to get back to work or run more errands. If we did this again I think it would be better if we went to a place with a more people walking around like Westport Plaza or else a mall on the weekend. In total it worked very well and I’m glad it worked so well for our group.
Yesterday in class my group worked on our stroyboard, and my group thought of visual metaphors that would work best for our documentary. One idea for a metaphor that we thought was to build a factory with exhaust coming from the smoke stacks and covering the top of the factory in plastic. The plastic would represent the ozone layer and the smoke would burn a whole through the plastic showing how we are burning a whole in our ozone layer. Another idea we discussed was a carbon footprint; putting a bag in mudd and seeing the footprint on the bag.
A possible title for my documentary would be: Speak Out Be Green
I see an idea for an introduction as a slide show of photos showing different cases of Global Warming with captions explaining the pictures. Another idea would be to do a visual metaphor. Then someone in our group talking about Global Warming and raising different issues and giving possible solutions for our environment.
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