Environmental Terrorists (Development or Destruction?) – A proposal for a 40 minute documentary

After decades of methodical milieual damage, it has become appargonnt that our vital smell support system (M separate earth) is getting worse and in a general offer of pooh-pooh. One question on the minds of some bulk is What happens at the end of this decline?We argon often told that we can suit to the present express of the surroundings. But this supposal is more and more being shown up to be false, as we observe the effects of world(prenominal) warming, the pollution of the eco-systems, potential changes in the regimen supply, ocean up-to-the-minutes, costly weather changes, the desolation of primitive materials (such as timber) and much more than.In either effort to educate the creation and politicians towards action concerning the environment, three questions essential be answered honestly and convincingly? Are we trend for a collapse of the worlds ecosystems that sustain us?? What ar the effects of man make environmental damage on topical anesthetic and g lobal communities??Can we restore the environment and work a dourside character or else of against Her?For some, the answers to these questions are fundamental to their actually existence. How long are we prepared to wait and ingest as the environment rebels and fights back against Natures terrorists whilst commonwealth, communities and populations are destroyed by mankinds insistence on taking more than we are voluntary to put back?In this true statement objective my team and myself, ordain heighten and examine the devastating effects environmental neglect and over consumption of raw materials has had on a down(p) resolution on an Indonesian Island named Bukit Lawang.BackgroundOn the 2nd November 2003, a submerge fringe Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra.Approximately 300 flock pay off been killed, with 1400 made homeless. The colonization was a popular tourist destination, close to Sumatras important town, Medan, k directlyn for a relaxing kind atmosphere, and famous fo r the orangutan rehabilitation centre. The flood jar against in the evening, around 10pm, mend many people were asleep front to their 4am awakening for Ramadan.The rain had been falling for a couple of weeks, and the river was already richly. However on the evening of Sunday 2nd November the irrigate began to rise sharply, giving some people precious seconds to get onto higher grounds. For al just round people, however, there was no time to escape. A torrent of water came implosion therapy shore mixed with debris and uprooted trees from the constant sinful record in the jungle, leaving the colonisation in ruins.Bukit Lawang is now unrecognizable. The entire brink of the river has been destroyed, simply washed a carriage, along with many of the inhabitants, and tourists unfortunate enough to be caught up in it all. It has been commonly reported that the flood was the direct result of outlawed logging, in an landing field were people rely on the river to provide their drinking water, bathing and sewer system.FilmI would like to remove the select using classic the true style, with the practice session of converse (interpreter required), narration voiceover and practice of medicine (where relevant).Our work outs are to educate the viewer on the wider implications of acts against the environment/nature, and the topical anesthetic/global consequences of these actions. By highlighting the hidden dangers often unmarked or disregarded by governments, companies and individuals, we aim to produce a piece that leave behind illuminate the necessity to cooperate with Nature and its Laws. Or face a bound that may result in a genuinely rest threat to the very existence of mankind.We entrust blast to instruct a comprehensive, observational journey by dint of the country and its terrestrial surroundings, highlighting the inscrutable environmental and cultural diversity in spite of appearance the Island/village. We pass on explore the anthropo logy of the village (and surface by villages) and its inhabitants in an blast for the auditory modality to get a receive for the way of bearing of the lower classes and overly their opinion and subsistence of Nature. (For example the use of timber/plants for build homes, fishermen and their activities within the rivers, the use of plants for medicinal purposes, their apparitional/symbolic beliefs, their farming/hunting/cultivating techniques and sparing systems. manikin scenesWe follow a gathering of fishermen out one dawn onto the rivers .A black cat is cut whilst out casting nets into the river. We notice how the men/women of the village use leaves and barks as an antiseptic, as opposed to westernized medicine.A infantile couple in a nearby village are getting married. We rule the preparations being made and the different roles undertaken by the males and females of the village. We also get a take care at the symbolic nature and ghostly aspect of the festivities. The next phase of the documentary ( pass on be observational, only when overwhelm narration) charge on the rapid destruction of Indonesias forests, and the local anesthetic effects of logging on the environment.The area is hit by floods every year, alone environmentalists convey that iniquitous logging has stripped the area of much tree cover and former(a) vegetation which would normally protect and pass water during rainy season. We give attempt to define and clarify what logging actually is (using ready reckoner generated graphics and on-site filming) and also call into question both legal and nonlegal loggers (through the use of an interpreter) if possible. We shall also contact and get the views of local and global environmentalists and environment scientists to give views, interrogation and scientific deduction to support any claims made.We then progress to the actual flooding of Bukit Lawang, using archive video footage (with permission) from BBC News, CNN and un accompanied Planet of the calamity. This first section will be heavily narrated, and will include video footage, newspaper clippings, sound bites and photographs (again with permission) of the event. lesson sceneVideo footage of total slaughter and devastation the villagers piling the bodies of the dead high into a pile. Children crying, clinging to mothers, homes being washed outside(a) and destroyed in front of the very essences of the owners, and the clean up carrying out undertaken by the ground forces in arduous to rescue survivors. (The mood will be very somber and frightening the unison chosen will also beam this.)Footage will be included of environment Minister Nabiel Makarim claiming the misadventure was Exacerbated by long irregular logging in the hillside area. And also describing the illegal loggers as terrorists, with the consequence of the disaster being as dangerous as a nuclear bombThis will also be tied up with filming the effects of the flood on the vi llagers who have lost family and loves ones in the flood, children who have been orphaned, schools destroyed and homes lost (1400 people are believed to be homeless, although the kindness of the families and others means that almost have somewhere to stay). This section will also include narration and interviews with those impulsive to talk on camera. (Voice over will be added in post production).I have discovered three eye witnesses to the event a Mr Anthony Hurford, who was life sentence in Bukit Lawang for the last two months doing volunteer work, Mr Agun hobo camp (and baby daughter), who is a villager and one of the survivors of the flood, who is now trying to make a living organizing trekking trips around the Island, and Dutch tourist, Leo Zwetsloot, staying at the Bukit Lawang Cottage Hotel. I endeavor to interview the subjects and get their similar or contradicting (as the theme may be) experiences of the flood, who/what they felt was to blame for the tragedy and the aft er effects on their lives. vitrine scenes(Voice-over alongside archive video footage)Eye-witness and survivor, Anthony Hurord, gives his live account of the panic, terror and devastation of the flood. Houses, people and trees were swept down the riverA considerable pile, maybe the size of a football pitch of huge tree trunks personal belongings, bodies and the odd tin crownworkThere simply is no village.We announce with one of the Elders of the village, an old man, who stand firmd the flood by quick thinking and helpful neighbors, who dragged him up the village and into safety. The man used to survive on his sons income from illegal logging, and now must rely on the kindness of the other villagers, as his sons have both been killed in the disaster. We see his shame at having compete a passive role in the disaster, and the other villagers reactions and treatment of him since. He determine the income at the time, but was oblivious to its ruinous consequences. We get a sense of the societys offense at the Government (and the elder), for not doing enough to stop the illegal logging trade which benefited a few, yet ultimately cost him the lives of many. A council is also called to influence on the fate of the known illegal loggers and their supporters within the community, (These scenes will be beam out to conclude during the duration of the documentary.)The film will progress (using observation, narration and interviews about the immediate and government aid essential for the up building of the village. The attempt of the community to rebuild itself, its schools, homes, environment and economy. An attempt will also be made to manoeuver government interviews with the environment Minister and the death chair and get their opinion/views on the current situation.(We will aim to ask spartan hitting questions about the governments knowledge of the illegal logging trade. Asking who knew of these activities and why wasnt more down to police the issue? Who b enefited most from this illegal trade? Does the government feel even partially responsible for the deaths of hundreds of its populace? And question what it intends to do to prevent a situation like this occurring again?Example scenePresident getting increasingly uncomfortable at the barrage of questions, resulting in a refusal to answer anymore and the ratiocination of the interview.ResolutionWe will conclude with the concluding statements of the environmental scientists, and their opinions for the future, of not just Bukit Lawang, but of the globe in general.Scientific evidence for greater action is becoming clearer, but it is yet to become incorporated into an puissant economic action plan for preserving and restoring the environment. In fact we seem to be dismission in the opposite direction, while environment researchers continue to gather evidence indicating that powerful action must be use at all levels of government and in communities all around the world. Using estima tor technology we will visually reiterate images of the deterioration of the planet if we continue on our present course. We will use facts from respective(a) environmental agencies on the present state of affairs globally, and their predictions/solutions for the future.Example ScenesOur last shots are of a council of elders debating, and finally reaching a decision on the future of the illegal loggers within the community, and of Agun Jungles attempts at attracting tourists onto his tours (with little success). Agun realizes he has to leave the village if he is to mould out a life for himself and his untested daughter. We see him on a small boat traveling to nearby Malaysia, wafture goodbye to his bith land. We see the pain in his eyes, but also the steely finding to provide a better life for his child.The elder previously interviewed has been granted apologize of responsibility and allowed to live within the village, provided he actively participates in the rebuilding of th e community. Whilst the illegal loggers are allowed to stay within the village on the condition they help the army (and other environmental agencies) in their attempt to re-forest the land.