THE FIRST THOUGHT
I came up with the idea last night, so my research has just started. I have found some movies to begin with and a few people that might be interested in participating, but everything is on the first stage. This week I am planning to find the whole history of environmental cinema, not only from the web, but from bibliographic references too. I will focus on the motives of this specific category in cinema, in a few words why did it started, how many people have been influenced, how many creators have been inspired and of course its possible future and evolution.
THE MAIN IDEA
When I first wrote about the main idea of this project, I wasn’t really sure how this is going to be, but since days are passing by and I do more research, everything seems to be much more clear in my mind. Because now I know exactly what I want to do.
10 people, five women aged 20 – 50 and five men aged 20 – 50, coming from different parts of the world, having different background and education will participate in this survey, which main goal is to arouse people’s interest about ecological problems through artistic media, and specifically cinema. 22 environmental movies are on the list, movies that talk about different subjects each, and have totally divergent content and way of presenting their topic. For example some of them are drama and some others comedy, some are like a fairy tale and some like thriller movies. Each and every one of them is unique and fascinating and I am sure that people from the group, just because they are so different, they will find which movies suits their interests best.
To this team, there will be given a period of one week to watch on their own the movies they will have select. Because many of them asked me, I will give them the movies in flashdisks or through links by e – mail, they don’t have to do it on their own. After that I will gather all of them in one place, so that the interviews can start. Everyone must be present and of course the date will be discussed earlier, so that anyone can come. The interviews are going to be in video, and the main questions will depend on every movie’s theme. The basic questions will contain how they were influenced, how much, if not why, was it worth it, if they will start to be more active concerning the environment and many more about each movie, but also various questions that will come up through the conversation.
Then these interview will be edited and uploaded on the website, so that the audience can comment on them and say their opinion. Either about the movies that my group watched and how THEY were influenced or about the interviews. The whole project will be promoted by social media and especially facebook and twitter (even though in twitter there will be only one link at a time) and my personal blogs, so that as many people as possible will be able to watch it and have the opportunity to participate in their own way.
