Social Justice Art: Global Warming

Capturing a social justice issue through art can be difficult and complex. Making your audience react the way you want them to, is even harder. Our challenge was to bring up an issue in our society, explain it, then tell our audience how they can help. So we created a movie.
The meaning and purpose of our art is to tell the audience about Global Warming and how quickly this has become an international crisis. Using a movie to convey our message was initially Janes idea. Jane said it was the best way to express the emotions and pain that will be caused once Global Warming becomes too extreme to handle. We wanted to indicate how dangerous our actions can be; also, to explain what our audience could do to stop this.
Inspiration for the movie came from the lack of interest people show when Global Warming is brought up in our society. How people turn their backs when the word ‘extinction’ is spoken. Even though we act as if we care, saying stuff along the lines of ‘We try to reduce our economical footprint in countless areas’. However, we do not, for when it’s time to bite the bulle...