Any ideas for film stars?
hello,
We've accidentally lost one of our characters for Crude. Well, he was a bit too similar to one of the others, so we've decided to replace him. We're having trouble coming up with a good alternative, so thought we'd run it by you kind people. Any suggestions much appreciated.
See you on the climate change march tomorrow? (One of our characters is going along, so we're filming him and his family)
Thanks v much.
Hope all's well,
Franny
The story: climate change in the Alps.
The issues:
- Melting glaciers (80% already gone!), skiing disruption, permafrost disappearing, local businesses in trouble. The character we are replacing is the Mayor of a ski resort in trouble (but not going bankrupt yet). One of the problems with him is that he was a second-hand observer of climate change
- very good at talking about the problems, but not really personally affected.
Ideas so far:
- A mountain guide (exciting. goes to lots of places, so we could see all the different problems. good comedy value with American/Japanese tourists)
- A ski village closing due to lack of snow (hard to find/predict)
- A paramedic/mountain rescue (exciting. but no obvious excuse for them to be talking about climate change, unlike mountain guide)
- A snow-making machine company whose business is booming
- Scientist studying the problems (boring/seen it before)
- Engineer mending cable cars (all falling over because of permafrost melting)
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Hello Franny
I like the snow machine company idea.
Another idea might be connected in some way with a Winter Olympics bid?
Best regards,
Wendy Morris
Hi Tom and Anne
Sorry not to get back to you before.
Your idea is really excellent - like you said, if only someone had been there with a camera at the time, then we would have got the whole Crude story done there and then.
Do you know what is happening with the family now?
Or do you have an email contact for them?
We are in Chamonix at the moment - looking up an 81 year old mountain guide, who sounds like a very promising character. This is him, in case you're interested:
Thanks again for writing
Franny
How about featuring the way a family running a small family hotel disintegrate, when suddenly they have NO business because of climate change induced landsides that cut the road below them. Lots of scope for featuring a group of interesting characters. You could also feature a meterologist watching the approaching storm, trying desperately to convince people of what was about to hit them (being ignored of course)appearing on tv, and then suffering his own personal crisis as his home is hit by a landslide or something. Swiss TV has some very dramatic footage of it all from this
summer.
This happened to us for real on holiday in central switzerland this summer. It really brought home the devastating economic impact that climate chaos has on real peoples livelihoods. See attachment for some notes on the characters we met... We thought at the time they deserved to be in a film!
The swiss tourist industry only works economically because it has a summer AND a winter season, so the bad summer weather they've been getting recently just compounds the problems of shortening winter seasons.
Tom and Anne
hello
the fisherman story is good, but probably not complex enough to be a whole character. We're doing well on the ski guides now - specially after we sent an email to 1500 (!) french guides through their union.
We're in France now about to meet up with an 81 year old and a 70 year old guide. obviously with climate change, the older the better, as they will have seen more changes and be able to remember further back.
thanks for all your help - and for the train tip too.
best,
franny
Hi there,
Thanks for ignoring my vote in your train survey! Sniff sniff
Anyway, here's a link to a website where you can book cheap (29 Euros) cross Germany train tickets (if you book well in advance, that is):
The booking page is in Englisch!!
I have forwarded your message to two people who might know people and got one reply, which is attached. It doesn't seem to be someone's livelyhood being affected...
The only other story I could think of (I think I mentioned it to you) was this fisherman in
Switzerland. His fish can't survive because the usually clear mountain water has become opaque from
the sediments being washed in from the melting glaciers.
I'll keep my nose and ears out when I go home (by plane, if you must ask...)
Best of luck in your search
Wolfgang
Thanks for this Robert, but we're inundated with mountain guides after I wrote to 1500 (!) of them through the French mountain guide association.
In fact, I'm writing this from Chamonix, France, just about to go and meet an 81 year old guide. Would be great if we could get someone older.
Thanks for Kevin's contact too. Lizzie is on the case.
Cheers,
Franny
Hello Franny
In case you choose mountain guides, one of our consortium is in that world - see his email below
Robert
Hi team
I know a fair few mountain guides, and can very easily get in touch with many others. Ironically, those that I've talked to recently seem to be aware that things are changing, but not particularly connected to action.
Let me know if you need contact details.
Cheers
Andy M
How about some really old, old villager, who's lived through a world war and all that, and has seen so many changes that s/he would have so much to say? It might give the project a sense of scale in terms of time (if only a human's and not the earth's), plus we the audience would have someone hopefully bright and charming to relate to over and above the important debate at hand.
Just an idea,
Hope all's going well,
Daniel
I like the Mountain Guide idea best, but is it Doomy enough? Also I am not sure whether the Alps have much in the way of permafrost.
Not Quite the Alps these but Glacier / Ice related.
Someone in northern Canada/Siberia worried about polar bears migrating south and eating people, because they can no longer hunt on the polar ice shelf (they may look cuddly but are vicious hunters). (Not sure you want footage of an actual person being eaten though, it's in bad taste, and nearly impossible to get on film, and you are never going to get volunteers)
Buildings/Railroads in Russia, built on permafrost, which are collapsing.
Water supply problems somewhere - summer glacier melt irrigates land and with glaciers gone, fertile land becomes desert. Not sure where but there must be somewhere that relies almost exclusively on seasonal glacier melt water. Reminds me of the Aral Sea (?) thing, when fishing villages were destroyed when the Soviets diverted the Volga (?).
Chris G
1 ... how about what's moving into the area as the snow is moving out ... folk making an opportunity out of the melting snow (quad biking centres, mud slope activity centres etc) ... if there are any - I've read that that's what's happening in Scotland ... preferably with other members of family who are losing work/ job/ career ...
-OR-
2 Chalet worker ... cleaning up all the mess of wealthy skiers etc
.brian.x
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