An Inconvenient View

3D video project of various landscapes affected by climate change around the world.

View is inspired by An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and Chasing Ice (2012), two documentaries focused on the effects of climate change on our planet. Functionality wise, it’d be a set of 3D cameras that take photos over time that can be compiled into a video time-lapse. Chasing Ice took six years to make, with over 8,000 photos taken a year at various glaciers all over the world. This project, unlike Chasing Ice would benefit the world because it would focus on global impact, not just glaciers.

It’s an important project because we, as a species, are destroying our habitat. Climate change is a compounding problem that becomes harder and harder to correct the longer we ignore it, Truth came out in 2006 and definitely shook things up (and has a sequel coming out soon), but Ice was focused on the glacial issue. I want to explore the world and find the places that are being effected outside of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles to show people that it’s truly a global issue– not just for polar bears.

My budget is based on the budget for Chasing Ice since I’ve never created a feature length film. Ice had a budget of $1.3 million, so I’m assuming that’d be around half of what I’d need. They only used Nikon DSLRs and I’d probably be using a 3D unit at each location to create the time-lapse with narration and text (interviews are weird to produce in 3D video) projected inside a sphere that the audience would view the film in.

Total, I’d assume around $3 million to make the film over the course of a few years. Again, I can’t really give hard numbers since I don’t have any idea of what a feature of this kind would really cost.