Climate change

Situation

Recently, the summer has started to come earlier than the previous year and the temperature has risen, because of the global waning. The ozone layers protect our earth from many kinds of harmful factors, but the ozone layers have gradually become thinner, as the modern society developed rapidly and we began destroying our environment indiscriminately. We are increasingly using substances that are harmful to the earth, including many throwaway supplies and many factories belch up injurious smoke. These kinds of activities are continuing to pollute our environment and its natural habitat. One of the main examples of this affect is the North Pole. The North Pole is facing serious problems, one of which is that its ice is melting rapidly, which meant that many animals are suffering, especially polar bears. Nowadays their number is decreasing more and more also the government had to designate the polar bears as protected specie, because they can no longer survive naturally. It is not only the polar bears that are facing problems. This could lead to a situation where we humans may share the same fate one day. Therefore, we humans must now realise that the climate change is a big and real problem and we need to protect our environment.

practice image. 21/10/09

Our point & Practice

We have discussed among ourselves on how we can illustrate the climate change. We have already decided to focus on the situation in the North Pole, and we aimed to show how its ice is melting as well as the fact that the environment as a whole has become polluted. Also we decided to use shadow puppets to create the dynamic element to the illustration. In order to create this scene, first we created a fishbowl which is transparent and in a square box shape. We then placed this bowl on a beam projector and then we poured some clear water into the bowl. This has created the ice melting effect and to add the element of pollution, we added some colour ink and black ink into the bowl, which made the water unclear to demonstrate the pollution. Secondly, we needed a few shadow puppets, which we have made – small fish, animals and humans and so forth. These kinds of images indicate that humans and other elements of the nature are living on the earth together. Thirdly we wanted to show our earth itself, so we are now in the process of designing a simple earth model. We will use this image in the background. This will enhance the effect of the image we are aiming to create.