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Metaphors

Posted by: Rachel | April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments |



1. Starts off with the camera angling up towards the sun which is just blinding. The we see someone wearing a winter-coat, hats, mittens, and a scarf. Then a zoom in on the neck/face and see sweat beading up. I think this would be a good part to start off our interviews from people on the street because it could show some misconceptions about what the average person believes about global warming.
2. We could film animals (polar bears at the zoo, or everyday animals like birds etc.) and then have that fade out effect happen. So it would look like animals were disappearing which is a possible consequence of climate change. This would probably be best for the consequences section of our documentary.
3. Someone dressed in a suit booting you out of your house for no reason. This would symbolize animals loosing their habitats.
4. Scoop of blue ice cream w/ green sprinkles on top of a cone melting and then it falls off at just splats on the ground.
5. It should be a sunny day once again and we zoom up to a little patch of grass with a nice flower in it. We hear some nice frolicky classical music in the background and then the music changes to some more intense impending doom kind of classical music. Now we see a magnifying glass come into the shot and the sun light is reflecting off it into the grass burning it a little. We could have some overlaying text saying “This is what’s happening now. We are stuck in a green-house situation.”

I think whichever metaphor we choose should be put towards the beginning of our chapter of the film because it’s like a hook. It would just flow together best if it was towards the beginning. Out of the metaphors I’ve came up with I think the first or the last one would be best because they are the most developed and have a lot of variety.

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These are GREAT ideas. I LOVE the smoking thing, and I love the getting booted out of your house metaphor. Both of those are very appropriate and both seem fairly simply to film (although I don’t condone the smoking). Where in your segment would you place one or both of these?

Don’t forget to finish this! Also, please avoid using slang on this blog.

How would you show that it is hot outside when people are all dressed in warm clothing? I think it’s do-able, but you would need to think about how you would film it.

I don’t want any of you to have to smoke in order to get that cool image in #2 :-(

Can you write about camera angles as well? We will actually have to shoot this, don’t forget. Also, can you think of what part of your group’s segment this metaphor would work best?

Great revisions–brava! :-) :-) :-)

Great connection–the metaphor would be like a hook in writing. You make me so proud!

I love your metaphors. I think the best would be the last one. Its ingenious.

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