Podcast – Owais’s Solo Task

Script

I am going to be talking about climate change and the effects of it to help educate people on this topic as it’s something that people should know as it is happening a lot today in our world.

Climate change definition:

Climate change is a big shift either global or regional environment patterns. Climate change usually just refers to a rise in global temperature from the mid-20th century to present.

So, what is climate change then?

Well, Climate change is the long change in temperature and weather patterns. Climate can refer to a place or even the planet. So, climate change can cause weather patterns to be quite less predictable. This can make it difficult to manage and grow crops in places that need to farm because weather that should be expected on and rainfall can’t be counted on.

What are the effects of climate change?

The serious and bad effects of climate change are bad events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, downpours, winter storms etc. All of these have very bad effects on the environment.

What happens in the polar regions? Well in the polar regions, the warm global temperatures related with climate change means that glaciers and ice sheets are melting quick throughout different seasons. This will impact sea levels rising in different areas on the earth. Combined with increasing waters because of rising temperatures, the rise in sea level has happened to damaged coastlines because of increased flooding and erosion.

I am going to now be talking about plastic that appears a lot in arctic snow and many other places in the world and just how bad it hurts the climate.

So u know how people throw micro plastics anywhere and are lazy to throw it away in bins?

Well a lot of micro plastics have taken over every part of the planet in our modern world. This includes areas such as the arctic. Even scientists are confused at just how this mass amount of pollution reaches areas to distant locations far from urban centres where it is made.

“A new study finds a surprising route for the tiny particles—they’re ferried aloft to fall in the Arctic as snow.”

For more information check out this link about micro plastic pollution

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/microplastics-pollution-falls-from-air-even-mountains/

There is a large amount of plastic fragments and fibers that land on top of ice floes in a place called the “Fram strait which is an un – populated big ocean which is between Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Greenland.

The study:

“Micro plastics (MPs) are ubiquitous, and considerable quantities prevail even in the Arctic; however, there are large knowledge gaps regarding pathways to the North. To assess whether atmospheric transport plays a role, we analyzed snow samples from ice floes in Fram Strait. For comparison, we investigated snow samples from remote (Swiss Alps) and populated (Bremen, Bavaria) European sites. MPs were identified by Fourier transform infrared imaging in 20 of 21 samples. The MP concentration of Arctic snow was significantly lower (0 to 14.4 × 103 N liter−1) than European snow (0.19 × 103 to 154 × 103 N liter−1) but still substantial. Polymer composition varied strongly, but varnish, rubber, polyethylene, and polyamide dominated overall. Most particles were in the smallest size range indicating large numbers of particles below the detection limit of 11 μm. Our data highlight that atmospheric transport and deposition can be notable pathways for MPs meriting more research.”

Plastic left on beaches and in oceans is very bad and we don’t know yet how harmful it is for humans it can be invisible and airborne (nano plastic) and enter our system but this is a case that we unsure of. However, what we do know is animals such as birds just walking around on a beach can easily get killed if they eat plastic as it is very harmful for there body same if a whale was to eat plastic it would literally kill them.

Postcards – Jay’s Solo Task

For my solo task I decided to create 6 postcards which linked to our group game project. I chose which cards to do from the “tiles” which we created, these being; city, desert, grass, mountain, snow and water.

At first I created concept art on paper to decide on how I would like to present my postcards; there were the two designs which I thought about doing although they are very similar with slight changes.

After deciding which concept art I liked the most out of the two. I then created my 6 postcards using Adobe Photoshop.

The images which I used for the environmental backgrounds on my cards were found using Google Images, I will provide links to each image I used under the images.

Research

Once I created the images I have then researched the different types of Climate Change which happen in the areas shown on the cards. After gathering these facts I then included them on the back of each card to spread awareness of what Climate Change is doing to the world or being caused by in the different environments.

City

Cities are one of the major contributors when it comes to climate change; they consume 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of the greenhouse gas emissions.
In October 2018, the World Health Organisation reported that 93% of children in the world breathe in contaminated and toxic air every single day. The organisation also estimated that in 2016, that over 600,000 children died due to suffering lower respiratory infections caused by the polluted air.

Desert

Due to the Climate Change which is happening around the world, it is effecting the deserts fresh drinking water due to the melting glaciers & snow-packs in snowy areas, because of this it is increasing evaporation and also causing dust storms to push deserts out into communities’s edges.

Due to the long-termed rise of CO2 levels in the desert when there is lack of rainfall, this could give some of the exotic plant species a boost but this means the extra plant matter would be more fuel for fires in the desert. However despite the bad effects which the CO2 levels have, it helps the desert plants saviour the water when it rains.

Forests

In the USA, forests occupy approx. 740 million acres, about 1/3 of the country’s total land area. USA’s forests provide many benefits which include; clean water, air, wildlife and climate regulation. Climate change can increase threats to forests, such as; pest outbreaks, fires and drought.

Mountain

Due to the world heating up because of Climate Change, mountain glaciers are melting at an extraordinary rate, all whilst rare plants & animals are struggling to survive up on the mountains. Apart from Climate Change effecting nature, mountain people are facing even greater hardships.

Snow

Snow fall is an important part of our planet’s climate system. Snow cover helps regulate the temperatures of the Earth’s surface, once the snow melts; the water residue then helps fill rivers & lakes in many regions of the world.
With the Climate Change which is happening it is making snowfall less likely with each passing Winter, causing shorter Winter seasons and earlier Spring melts.

Water

Water is the primary area which we will notice the effects of Climate Change in. The availability of water is becoming less predictable in many places around the world and increased incidences of flooding; which can cause destruction of water points & hygienic facilities and also causing contamination in water sources.

Final Product

These are the 6 final post cards which I have created for my solo project. The images shown was all made using Adobe Photoshop, I have created both the front of the postcard and also the back.

The City postcard
The Desert postcard
The Forest postcard
The Mountain postcard
The Snow postcard
The Water postcard

Work i did for the Board-game.

Video Storyboard.

I did the Story board for the Video advert but we later changed a few of the shots when it came to filming it.

Audio Advert

I did the voice and helped write the script for this part of the project.

Board game

I also helped cut out the tiles that we use in the board game and finished up the spinner.

Video Advert

In the video Advert i helped frame the shots that Conner then filmed, i also was apart of the actual add in the shots that showed us playing the game itself.

Charlie’s Solo Work

For my solo work I created the poster.

I also created the final radio advert. I did this by using the script the group created with the audio clips that Kamil recorded.

I then created the script which will be using for the Board Game advert by downloading the template off black board and filling it in.

I also created the spinner for the board game. To do this I got a template for a spinner and using the same images from the board game cards I put these on the spaces on the spinner.

Research (Secondary)

Target Audience

Target audience for our game will be around 11+. This is because of people at that age in school would have probably heard about climate change. We would have made the target audience 7+ but people around that age usually know little to no information on this topic but a high school person at 11 and over would more likely understand the topic of climate change.

Our board game inspiration

Monopoly is the inspiration for our board game and the board itself will look just like a monopoly board but with a slight twist. Instead of being rectangular it’s going to be a hexagonal board of the china map. This would mean that the game is based in china just because it has a lot of Co2 emissions.

Population of china

Population: 1.43 billion

China is the largest country in the world so this is why we thought that it would be good to have a map of china and have different locations on our game board that people can go to. 

Why we picked china?

The reason why we picked china is because it’s a country that emits the most greenhouse gases. They account for approximately 27% of global GHG (Green house gas) emissions. The people in china and there actions home and away have a massive impact on climate change.

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Climate change today is recognized as one of the most biggest threats to our planet and it’s biological diversity. This can also have big effects on health for animals and humans as well as without trees we can’t breath so we need to keep planting trees so we can breath in oxygen.

The graphs above and other evidence that is out there clearly shows just how the emission of GHG( GreenHouseGases) mainly Co2 going into the atmosphere is a result of our own human actions. This includes things such as fossil fuel burning for energy, transportation and a lot of other ways as well.

Even today we are already seeing the effects of climate change, with common extreme weather conditions such as flooding which recently happened in rotherham, droughts, storms and of course many more weather conditions.

There are some climate models out there that can predict sea levels to go up because of melting ice caps with bad consequences of low – lying areas.

“There has been a 30% increase in ocean acidity since the Industrial Revolution. This has been caused by our oceans absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”

“16 out of 17 of the warmest years ever recorded have occurred since 2001. Overall, the planet’s average surface temperature has risen about 1oC since the late 19th century.”

Our team decided that we aren’t going to have the china map on our board game and instead of that we are going to have a random generated place. This allows for more options for the player to have instead of just sticking to one design.

Our board game will look something like this but of course we will have people making the tile designs on Photoshop and then we will print and cut the individual hexagonal tiles out and position them in our own way.

Photoshop files (Posters and tiles.) – Connor’s Solo Task

For my solo project, I created the poster for our board game, Climageddon. We decided we wanted something simple and a poster which catches the eye of the customer. For the poster design. Obviously to start, I began with the earth and then decided what to add which represents Climate Change so to start, we all know that the polar ice caps are melting so to really show that; I wanted to do something with that.

That’s where the ice berg comes into place, I wanted a powerful message so that people are aware of global warming. An iceberg melting into the earth was something simple and something which sends a powerful meaning.

Research (Primary)

For primary research we will be using survey monkey as a way of getting some feedback on board games to help us come up with a board game idea. We need to get as many responses to our survey as we can to help us have a good idea of the type of board game we want to build and make. We have asked people multiple choice and open – ended questions so at least we will have a variety of different responses

Survey monkey responses

Survey monkey charts/results

Audio Advert

During this week it was the start of the audio advert part of the assignment. I created a script for our team, this included suggestions from the rest of the team too. In the script I chose the different types of SFX we should include and also what narration we should include.

Kamil narrated the script which I had created, whereas Charlie edited our clips & non-copyrighted SFX to create our final advertisement which can be found here during Week 6.

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