Climate Refugee

Awareness News Broadcast

Rebecca Russo

Group Members
Rebecca
Nathan
Gauthaman

Scene 1 Impacting
Moment

Video footage:
https://vimeo.com/mikeolbinski/monsoon2

Duration: 10-15 seconds

Audio: From video footage
Camera angles: N/A
Characters, props: Video footage, voice over equipment
Location: N/A
Tweens/motion: Fade in, cross dissolve out
Anything else: First, a video will be shown of a serene ocean landscape, and next a video
footage clip of a monsoon. The purpose of this is to show our target audience the consequences
climate refugees have to face around the world, and also the drastic change our world can
become if we do not act now on important environmental issues like rising water levels.

Scene 2 Introduction
1

Transition from 1 scene to

another with a fade out in
the 1st third of the left side of
the screen. The other 2/3rds
of the screen will shrink into
its positioning.

2a
Video footage

Small caption
Duration: 30 seconds
Audio: CP24 news music when starting a new story
Camera angles: Medium shot, pan left to right, ken burns effect
Characters, props: News broadcaster, green screen, online images, photo/video editing program
(Affinity Designer)
Location: News broadcasting studio (news broadcaster sitting behind table)
Video motion: Picture in picture, fade out
Anything else: First, the scene is going to start out with a news broadcaster talking about
climate refugees. Then the screen will split into two pieces. The 1 st third of the screen on the left
side will be video footage of ocean level rises with a small subtitle underneath. The other 2/3 rds

Scene 3 Title
Duration: 5 seconds
Audio: Music starts
Camera angles: Ken burns effect
Characters, props: N/A
Location: N/A
Tweens/motion: Fade in, fade out
Anything else: This scene will be generally short that just
displays a title with a background picture. The font will be
big and impactful.

Analysts room

Scene 4

Duration: 1-1.5 minutes

Picture in picture

Audio: Gentle music in the background continues from last scene

Camera angles: Establishing shot, medium shot, panning, over the shoulder

shot
Characters, props: Climate refugee expert, green screen, still image of a

professional setting like an analysts room, etc., photo editing technology

Location: Analysts room
Video motion: There will be some picture in picture happening on the screen as

the climate refugee expert is talking. Fade in, cross dissolve out.
Anything else: A climate refugee expert will be analyzing trends and explaining

in depth the implications of this topic. Key terms will be appearing on the
screen as the expert speaks.

Scene 5

Map soon to be animated. As

the sea level rise in metres
Audio: Music continued from last scene
increases, the map will change
different shades of blue. There
Camera angles/motions: panning and zooming
will be a legend that shows
lightest blue is x-x m and
Characters, props: Voice over equipment
darkest blue is x-x m. In
Location: N/A
addition, below the map will
say Number of Climate
Tweens/motion: Animated maps. Cross dissolve in, slide off screen out.
Refugees Worldwide. This
Anything else: Maps, charts, and graphs will be shownnumber
to showwill
theincrease
rising ofas the
colour blue darkens.
water levels. The voice over will be speaking about how in turn this directly
Duration: 1 minute

affects climate refugees and just makes it worse for them. Some of these
data sets will be animated. One will be an ocean that is continuously rising.
This effect will be made using a series of PowerPoint slides. Also, another
animation will be a map with icons appearing in all the locations where
rising water levels are creating climate refugees around the world.

Scene 6
Duration: 1-1.5 minutes
Audio: Music playing quietly continued from last scene
Camera angles: Establishing shot, full shot, medium shot, down shot, POV
shot, dolly shot
Characters, props: Reporter, green screen
Location: Reporter live with climate refugees
Tweens/motion: Expand in, dissolve out.
Anything else: Reporter will be live at a place with climate refugees. Both
stock footage, and still images will be used along with a green screen to

Scene 7
Duration: 5-20 seconds
Audio: Music continues from last scene but gets much louder. At this point in

the video, the music will be its loudest at the climax of the song.
Camera angles: N/A
Characters, props: N/A
Location: N/A
Tweens/motion: Spin in, fade out
Anything else: A selection of about 10-20 still images will be used played for

about 0.5-1 second each, all after each other in a sequence. The purpose of
this montage is for our target audience to see all the damage happening
around the world because of rising sea levels and how this is directly affecting
climate refugees.

Scene 8
Panning
Duration: 45 seconds-1 minute

Solar energy

Audio: Music continued from last scene, but brought back down to a quiet volume
Camera angles: N/A
Characters, props: Voice over equipment
Location: N/A
Tweens/motion: Ken burns effect, zooming, panning. Fade in, fade out.
Anything else: This will be the concluding scene talking about how our target

audience can make a difference in their everyday lives in relation to this

problem. I think it would be good to identify three strategies, following the rule of
threes. One of them could be as simple as to donating to a cause like
Greenpeace which could use your donation to act on this issue. , while others
could be more advanced like converting your energy source into a clean energy
source like solar powered, to reduce green house gases, and therefore rising
water levels.