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Social Studies
Trash Talk!
Why are the end of year projects the best ones? This was my favourite project of the whole year, and me and my team made it into a social experiment! The funnest and most creative project I've done yet!
So this year for the end of year project, we were supposed to do something to convince the viewer, reader, etc to help, in their own way, about the billions of food that is thrown away every year! (About 113 billion pounds of food to give an example) And for this you were allowed to choose what kind of thing you wanted to do to make an impact on others (tri-fold, campaign, video, app, etc.) And most of students chose to do a app, me and my team mates chose to create a video or documentary including a social experiment about the food waste problem.
So in our video, we actually got me to act in it, because they chose to try help my social anxiety like this, and I would go up to random people, people we never saw before, and we would actually ask them which of the fruits (image above is the actual food they tried) they would most likely buy, and they of course chose the good looking one, I'd agree with them then let them try them both, without telling them which is which, then once they say it tastes the same, I'd agree and thank them for participating.
With this we did about 5 to 6 people, and only added 4 because some did not sound or go well so we put the top 4 best ones filmed.
In this I learned about the publics view of the food waste without them knowing their choice affects the pounds of food being wasted, with this we tried to explain how it's looks don't matter, and even if it looks bad it would still taste good either way.
Many people agreed with me after I told them about it, and would say "I'll keep that in mind next time."
But after we finished, we got Alex to edit it together and it turned out really good and we were able to present a motivating and nicely editted video everyone enjoyed, I probably worked the hardest on this film than any other project, and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.