MyFlik Environmental Green Story Ideas For Films

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3. Wind Energy

Theme: Industry goal of 20% Wind Energy by 2030

Main Points To Communicate:

1. DOE wind map
2. Growth of wind energy over last 10 years
3. Challenge of wind variability

Detractor: Areas in which the wind resource is plentiful often is a far distance from developed areas, or established transmission lines. Investment is needed to bring the wind energy to the sources of load, and some windy areas are still to costly to access with new transmission lines.

Links and Source images:

Turbines unloading from port.
www.smud.org/community-environment/

After the chart below of random story ideas, there are some ways to combine them into fast film scripts and example films to watch for more ideas. These environmental story ideas for student short films are evolving and will be added to over the course of the next year.

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Any questions or story feedback requests from this group of schools can be sent via email. Please put DASP Story, SMUD Story or TOY Story in the subject line, so that I know your email is not junk mail, and let me know which school you attend. It would also be helpful to know who the main character is, their plot goal, antagonist, theme and conflict for your story idea if possible to help with the feedback process. Please thank MyFlik in your film credits if you end up using any story ideas we help inspire.

Characters	Set Ideas	Antagonists/Conflicts	Plot Goals	Visual Story Ideas
windmill (DV/Photo)	wind farm	no wind at times	To explain wind energy goals of 20% by 2030	Animated 2D, DV, 3D School House Rock type film (see example YouTube videos below)
windmills in 2030 how does the future look?	wind tunnel	ignorance about wind power	To educate people on wind energy challenges	Interview the wind about how it likes to work
wind traveling across land talking about where it likes to blow (ariel POV shots)	windy places	anti-wind power people	To explain how wind energy works in best and worst situations	Place a DV face on a windmill (DV clip or a photo) and have the windmill talk about all it's fears of not being able to produce enough power
animated wind map	farm with windmills	windmill haters	To show the best places for windmills	Do a singing wind story where a group of wind currents explain how they work like a musical
Wind Superhero looking to overcome wind energy challenges	windmills in your area you can shoot	people who do not understand machines	To explain wind energy to kids in simple way	Play with the sound of windmills and wind in story
windmill builders	windy hill			Merge narrator voice with the sounds of wind gusts
windmill maintance workers	windmills in a storm			Shoot a bunch of slick and beautiful windmill shots with a voice over explaining how they work
windmill engineer	wind power plant			Do a funny or fake exagerated ad for wind power
kid asking parent about how windmills work	SMUD windmill locations available for shoots			Show how a funny or interesting character's life changes by learning how wind energy works
wind teacher	famous windmills			Have an ridiculous expert give a funny tour of a wind farm that does not work because of lack of wind then show one that does
the Wind as a character (how would this look?)	traveling inside a wind energy system using 3D
funny wind expert
wind fanatic - crazy about loving wind
two windmills talking on a hill about how they work
wind energy superhero - think up a great name!
birds flying explaining to other birds how wind power works

School House Rock Film Examples: The following cartoon short films "How A Bill Becomes A Law" and "Conjunction Junction" are great ways to convey a process with of lots of information at once. How can you update the look and feel of the films below using DV, 2D and 3D combinations or styles? How could you come up with a catchy song that rhymes to explain how windmills work?

Fast Wind Energy Film Ideas:

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MyFlik Movies On Visual Storytelling:

Watch some movies below from the online Story Engine on Storytelling Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short films are samples from the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:

Follow along and create a great film or story idea fast! Download the Workbook PDF file or DOC file to edit. You can also use a notebook or paper and the Online Workbook or watch it in 20 Steps.

Sample Movies

Below are some sample movies from the 94 minute version above on Storytelling Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short films are part of the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop: