Today’s Group Work

Today Greg, Marty and I worked together to get a lot prepared for our segment.  We created new ideas for visual metaphors and started putting them into action.  First, we went to Marty’s car and videotaped the exhaust coming out from the back to show how it was polluting the atmosphere with unnecessary gases.  Although we were not allowed to drive the car during school hours, we decided that another idea would be to have the camera show an over-the-shoulder view of a driver and be talking about the causes of global warming as the car is driving around to remind viewers that cars are a huge contributor towards global warming.  We also have two other ideas for visual metaphors that we began to put into action.  We found out that one of the history teachers, Mrs. Patton has a giant map of the world that is old and not used in class anymore.  We are going to take matches and hopefully write different causes of global warming on them.  Then we are going to show close-ups of the matches, light them, and drop them onto the map.  This will be done outside in a parking lot during class with adult supervision.  Greg and I went to our principal today and got permission to do this.  Our other idea for a visual metaphor is to set up a large display of dominoes, then tap one and videotape the chain reaction of them all falling down.  This will represent how the causes of global warming have a domino effect, as I have mentioned before.  If possible (and if we can get enough dominoes) we thought it would be cool to set up 4 tables in a square and have one of us standing in the middle.  This way, we could talk about the causes of global warming while the dominoes collapse around us.  If this does not work well, we will just show the dominoes collapsing and we will do a voiceover to get a similar effect.