7 June 2010 Students from Sussex Downs College are launching a series of online videos to tackle the issues affecting climate change with the best being awarded at a Graduation Show this week.
Eastbourne Borough Council have been working with media students at Sussex Downs College to raise awareness of climate change across the wider community.
A series of short 30-second videos have been produced by the students, studying the Digital Media Design Foundation Degree, to be posted online and shared across social networking sites to create a viral campaign that will encourage young people to think about the main issues affecting climate change.
Eastbourne Borough Council Cabinet Member for the Environment Councillor Steve Wallis said “We are very excited to have had the opportunity to team up with Sussex Downs College and their students to try and raise awareness of climate change. The videos that the students have produced are very clever and really make you think about how we can all do our bit to help protect our environment. We will be sharing the videos across the Council’s website and social networking pages and hope that they will catch people’s attention online and provide a unique way for us to engage with the wider community.”
The students were asked to produce the short videos as part of their coursework, with the option of creating a generic video about climate change or focusing on a specific issue such as waste, food or transport and the effect this has on the environment.
With Sussex Downs College being a member of the town’s Environment Partnership, course leader Kate Williams was keen to be involved in the project: “Students learned a lot in this assignment, about climate change, about working to the needs of a client who is commissioning the work, about creating short films with a punchy message. This will benefit them as they become Digital Media Design professionals, and has allowed them to lend their ideas and creativity to a good cause.”
The climate change awareness films are being posted online this week with the best to be awarded at the students’ end of year Graduation Show on Thursday evening.
More information and to view the videos will be online later this week.
