Web-based home learning 24th January

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Why did you choose the different pictures/ background(s)?
I chose the different backgrounds corresponding to the narrative text displayed at the corner of the boxes so as to emphasise contrast between two scenes and also amplify the reader's understanding of the storyline.

How do they contribute to the elements (plot, setting, characterization) of your narrative?
The first scene is regarding negative impacts humans have on the environment: pollution, deforestation, etc. For that I chose a background of a road with different vehicles travelling on it: cars, buses, so as to show the pollution caused by the exhaust, resulting in greenhouse gases that trap heat, thus leading to global warming. For the second slide, about how the animals and habitats of today may become extinct, I used a landscape of ice and snow to represent the North Pole and how fast it is melting todaydue to global warming. Lastly, I used the background of a desert wasteland to show how the earth might become in the future. The scenes are arranged in chronological order: present, present, future.

How did you make use of different elements to contribute to the theme you have chosen?
For the first scene, I chose not to have a narrator, instead placing the narrative text in the top corner of the box. For the second scene, which explains how animals and habitats are going to become extinct, I chose a polar bear as the narrator, on a landscape of snow and ice, so as to raise an example of animal extinction. For the third scene, I chose a vulture to be the narrator, on a background of a desert wasteland, to show the drastic developments the earth may undergo in the future. This also show great contrast between it and the previous scene, the North pole, which may help readers understand what negative changes may happen to the earth if actions are not taken.