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How Does Climate Change Affect You?

High-Level Project Summary

Making a short movie describing how climate change impacts us was our task. By portraying the issue as an entertaining documentary film, the video offers an appealing approach to explain the issue. The video's effects and soundtrack immersed the spectator in its ambiance, allowing them to watch and engage with it as if they were actually there. It contains accurate information that was gathered from dependable sources, such as IPCC reports. With all that in mind, the issue is truly depicted, and the most of the description required, as a commercial and instructive movie, is covered.

Link to Final Project

https://youtu.be/UYsWSRHqUeQ

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/_AsYWgOmwxk

Detailed Project Description

We are working on this challenge to demonstrate the impacts of climate changes and how they affect us through a three-minute video while also outlining some potential solutions. Climate change has damaged, and caused many problems. Having a significant impact on us every day, becoming a big problem due to the on going rise in temperatures. It has currently emerged as one of the main issues posing a threat to both the local and global economies, as well as to green spaces, which will diminish and our need for food will rise.

Using both of Vegas and Adobe After Effects, the video was made, starting by introducing the issue, then going into discussing its affects on the globe as a whole, then its impacts on our continent, Africa, and finally its implications on our country, Egypt, then it describes how these effects can negatively affect us, on a personal level, suggesting some solutions mentioning how could NASA help with such matters. Also, some of the benefits of our video is that it presents the problem in an attractive way making it as a non-boring documentary film. The effects and music put the viewer in the atmosphere of the video, making the experience for him watching it as if they are part of the event, interacting with it. All the information mentioned, is correct and was in fact obtained from reliable sources, such as IPCC reports, and with all that being said, we believe that it actually presents the problem we have in our hands, covering the majority of the description, making it look like an educational video, raising the awareness of such global challenge.

Space Agency Data

With the help of data provided on NASA Space Agency, we got our solution. Using NASA satellite data, we believe that we will be able to predict the potential hazards of the climate before it happens. Therefore, helping decision makers to make better and quicker actions so that we avoid the potential damage, while also saving billions of dollars and more importantly, save lives . We got inspired by the data shown in the global temperature graph, which compares the change in global surface temperature between 1951 and 1980 to the long-term average, With the exception of 1998, 19 of the hottest years have happened since 2000. The hottest year since records began keeping in 1880 was tied by the years 2020 and 2016 (source: NASA/GISS). which prepared by the Climatic Research Unit and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Hackathon Journey

The hackathon was well-organized and actually gorgeous. We learnt a lot there, one of the many things that we’ve learnt was how to manage our time, dividing our team's workload. Each one was responsible for his/her own role and we all cooperated to finish the task required. We divided the challenge into tasks for each of us, to finish the task quickly. We also worked in parallel so that we take advantage of the largest possible time to complete the task.