Going Green

Recently, the idea of “going green” has been everywhere. This seemingly simplistic method of making one’s life more environmentally friendly has become one of the hottest trends in America. Yet, as history and common sense have come to prove, fads fade quickly. It is this short attention span for the effort to be kinder to the earth that I plan to investigate in my film essay. I want to take a closer look at the difference between people’s words and their actual actions. To do this, I plan to do a montage of stills that contrasts humans and the earth. In order to bring the focus closer to Chapel Hill, I will conduct interviews with campus organizations such as the student environmental action coalition. I would also like to obtain some found footage relating to my topic that I could mess around with. To better portray my stance that what people say and what they do don’t match up, I have enlisted the help of my roommate to possibly do some acting. Hopefully, I will create music that includes random sounds, bits of songs and also appropriate periods of silence. To end the piece, I have a few ideas that should make for a memorable closing, but I don’t want to ruin the surprise.