Author: ecchen99

As we concluded the course on Wednesday with a quick reflection of the quarter, I began to consider deeply how I would use the topics we learned to create proactive change to the community in the future. Coming into the class, I thought we would simply be learning how to create effective media content that … Continue reading Where do we go from here?

In Ghosh's The Great Derangement, he suggests that the topic of climate change is often approached through nonfictional works and is rarely taken seriously when focused in a novel (Ghosh 7). While our class discussion centered on how Kim Stanley Robinson is capable of altering these norms with various techniques in his novel, New York … Continue reading Climate Change Beyond Science

            The board games we played this week certainly hit on the topic of climate change and attempted to teach us about its effects. However, this message was definitely not clear and I often found myself overanalyzing the game, Photosynthesis, to force out a message on climate change. On the surface, this game simply seemed … Continue reading The Obscureness of Games

The dark, dingy train environment in Snowpiercer captures every detail of a post-apocalyptic world. Immersed in an equally dark theater environment, surrounded by the fierce violent sounds from the movie, I was quickly sucked into the train world itself, becoming a new character observing the action from a close distance. The art and techniques of … Continue reading Film: A Perspective Changing Experience