Visual Metaphors

These are some possible visual metaphors we could use in the documentary

1. Someone baking cookies who makes them with a nice balance of ingredients, but leaves them in the oven too long or turns the heat up too high so they get burns.  This represents the clean, nice earth which could have been beautiful (or “tasty” cookies) but was contaminated

2. We could have a globe revolving in the background and different causes pop up with intense music, then show each cause hitting the earth and leaving a burn.

3.  To catch the audience’s attention, we could do a spin-off of the skit that says, “This is your brain.  This is your brain on drugs” using a frying egg.  Instead we would describe the earth and show it frying when it is affected by global warming.

4.  Film several parts of the world showing everything that is the color green disappearing.  What would the world be like?

5.  I would like to use a metaphor that shows animal losing their habitats due to global warming, specifically of land animals like polar bears dying because of rising ocean levels.  We could show a polar bear one a huge piece of land which quickly gets eaten away by water as the ice around it melts.  Soon the polar bear is barely hanging on to its tiny piece of ice, struggling to survive, when the scene changes.  This is my favorite idea, because it would be hard to see but it is so real.