Earth in 100 Seconds - crowdfunder open

We've used these films several times, and also welcomed Dan into school as a visitor. 

Daniel Raven Ellison has previously behind the making of a number of films, including:

The UK in 100 Seconds - narrated by the late Benjamin Zephaniah

The UK National Parks in 100 Seconds - narrated by Cerys Matthews

The Netherlands in 100 Seconds

See them here.

He is now planning to release his latest film.

Of the UK film, Dan said:

"I don’t think anyone really has a clue what Britain actually looks like. It's just too big and complicated for us to get a proper sense of proportion. And that’s a problem when people are making decisions about how we feed ourselves or how much more affordable housing we can build. Or, crucially, how much more space for nature we can have. If we don’t have a proper sense of what the country looks like then how can we fix our problems?"

His latest film is going to be his 'largest' yet: The Earth in 100 Seconds'.

Here's a preview:

What are we using planet Earth for? 

Each second of this film reveals 1% of land and how we're using it. Following on from the UK in 100 Seconds, UK National Parks in 100 Seconds and the Netherlands in 100 Seconds - watch this preview of Earth in 100 Seconds! Coming out in 2025, back the crowdfunding campaign so more people see it and get your name on the credits.

From family shoppers and geography teachers to national policy-makers, we want as many people as possible to watch this film so they can make better decisions for life on Earth.

You can help by backing this project.

The no-budget film has been made by a small pro-bono and volunteer team. 

All of your donation will be invested in boosting the number of people who see Earth in 100 Seconds - at festivals, events and online.

Once released, it will be free for anyone to watch or show the film, but we need your help to promote it.

UK in 100 Seconds

We showed this video to Year 11 yesterday, and it provoked a great response.

We started with the trailer and the description of the film.
Dan had been to visit us in school last year, so we were pleased that he was in the film.

The UK in 100 Seconds - Behind the scenes from Friends of the Earth on Vimeo.

We then gave out an updated version of the CEH Land Use cover map. The Hodder textbook that we had was a 2007 version of the map as that was the most up to date at the time.

The 2 maps can be compared.

Students were asked to guess what percentage of the UK would be greater than 1% and then feature on the film (we had a copy of the data at the end to give them once the film was shown)

Finally, we shared the link to the ESRI map which accompanies the film, (seen above) and then showed the main event: the film with Ben Zephaniah narration...

The UK in 100 seconds from Friends of the Earth on Vimeo.