The Disappearing Oasis
Description
EFI’s science-media initiative, the Lookout Station, and Contrast VR (Al Jazeera), collaborated on this virtual reality film about a region in southeast Morocco that has been affected by climate change and threatened by the encroaching Sahara.
What Works Well
This video invites the view onto the fields and into the homes of subsistence farmers in Morocco dealing with the worst effects of climate change and its effect on their lives.
Discipline
- Agriculture & Natural Resources
- Biological (Life) Sciences
- Social Sciences
Keywords
activism, biome, climate change, desertification, ecology, environmental health, farming, migration morocco, oasis, population, sahara, soil, water
Source
European Forest Initiative
Level of Guidance
What does this mean?
The Level of Guidance indicates how much the creator has imbued the video with a sense of at what the viewer should be looking.
For instance, a Level 1 video would mean that the camera has been left in place while life happens around it, allowing you, as the viewer, to simply observe. A Level 2 video might incorporate subtle visual, textual or audible hints or simple transitions. A Level 3 video would rely on a handful of hints and transition. A Level 4 video would employ multiple hints and dialogue. And a Level 5 video would rely on all of the above as well as a narrative arc that pushes the viewer forward.
Another way of looking at this would be how much production went into the video if you are considering making one of your own like it.
Location
Watch in Class
