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Creative climate communications
ENVS 3173/THTR 4173

Appendix I

A Composition Description is due when you deliver/present each Composition (6 pts). These page descriptions are intended to deepen your critical engagement with your creative process.

Composition Description for Trash the Runway Video

Fill this out as a group—each person submits your group’s response via Canvas so we can assign you each a grade.

In the description, these seven elements are also required:

  1. list authors (students) names
  2. project title
  3. 50-word description of topics covered in the interview/composition
  4. name(s) and credentials of anyone interviewed (relevant for composition #1)
  5. date it is turned in for posting
  6. list any music credits, and any additional photo or video footage credits
  7. attach all release forms for reproduction of your composition: these are required for anyone who is featured in your compositions, even yourself (we will discuss this in class), label what composition the release applies to and give a brief description when necessary (ex. young woman in yellow shirt in composition entitled “El Verde”)

 

  1. Name of Designer:
  2. How were your interview questions designed to deepen your designer’s considerations of sustainability? Excellence and expression through art & design? Importance and relevance of this event for community engagement?
  3. What is one unexpected thing that surprised you during the process, perhaps something not planned but significant that rose up during the process?
  4. Articulate what was uniquely contributed by your designer’s video that is of worth and towards what does it contribute?
  5. In what interesting ways did you use this assigned medium to express your given content?
  6. How does this composition advance you in developing as a climate communicator?
  7. How did creating this video from start to finish impact your views on issues related to sustainability and climate? Be specific.

Composition Description for Stand Up for Climate

Fill this out as a group (if you are working alone, do your own)—each person submit your group’s response via Canvas so we can assign you each a grade.

In the description, these seven elements are also required:

  1. list authors (students) names
  2. project title
  3. 50-word description of topics covered in the interview/composition
  4. name(s) and credentials of anyone interviewed (relevant for composition #1)
  5. date it is turned in for posting
  6. list any music credits, and any additional photo or video footage credits
  7. attach all release forms for reproduction of your composition: these are required for anyone who is featured in your compositions, even yourself (we will discuss this in class), label what composition the release applies to and give a brief description when necessary (ex. young woman in yellow shirt in composition entitled “El Verde”)

 

  1. What Drawdown climate solution are you communicating through your composition?
  2. What way are you proposing for activating this solution in a local context?
  3. What did you do to prepare/research for this composition?
  4. What aspect(s) of comedy/humor did you employ to get to the funny?
  5. How did you balance the environmental messaging with the funny to get it to float?
  6. Describe one way in which you (or your group) fully committed to this climate communication through performance?
  7. How does this composition advance you in developing as a climate communicator?
  8. How did creating this composition from start to finish impact your views on the use of comedy/humor to communicate climate solutions? Be specific.