As the fourth week of my Moving Mountains Project comes to a close, I can say it’s been a long week. These past few days have been full of rescheduling, revising, and has required me to think quickly on my feet. While some people would have chosen to view these challenges as setbacks, I chose to view them as an opportunity to make my project even better. One of the things I wanted to accomplish with this project was to make a variety of content for my social media platform, and with the rise of these changes this week, it has led me to create even more variety than what was originally planned.

As I was creating my posts this week, I realized I had to change one of my topics. I was looking over my proposal and I noticed that post six was very similar to what I had created in post 3, and because they are so close together, I felt that this latest post had to be changed. I still a made video as scheduled, but chose to make post six more of public service announcement to our followers about our warming winters. While I had to pivot to make this video, I was excited to use some of my footage that I had taken last year while skiing and figured this was a perfect opportunity to use some photos and video showing winter landscapes and how little snowfall there actually is around new England lately. I found this a great work around and much different than the infographic style I have been using for all the previous posts.

This week also commenced the three skier interviews I had scheduled. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances my first interviewer canceled on me the night before our scheduled time. As disappointed as I was, I felt eager not to get behind in my week’s work. With that being said, I switched up what I had scheduled in the proposal and decided to do a behind the scenes with a “Meet the Founder” video. In other words, I decided to film myself and give a little insight to why I started the Moving Mountains Project and why this topic is so important to me. While I had to quickly change ideas, I think it gives the page more credibility. My aim with this was to appeal more human and to show the followers that there is heart and dedication behind the Instagram handle.

My third post I worked on this week was a chart infographic showing the differences between 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius warming. This was an interesting read, and I encourage you all to read the article because at first a half degree doesn’t seem like much. But come to find out, a lot of ecosystems and humans would be greatly affected by just this half degree. Marine life would disappear, and extreme heat would become a normal occurrence. This is quite frightening, especially since we have already gone above the 1.5 degree Celsius warming limit, according to the Paris Agreement. This agreement was put in place to limit the emissions countries were producing, but because they are still outputting as normal, the climate isn’t improving. There were many articles online claiming the agreement just isn’t working and I went down quite the rabbit hole reading more about it. This one article claims our only saving grace is electric vehicles and solar power becoming more popular. Unfortunately, the only way to really put a stop to our emissions, is to greatly reduce or get rid of fossil fuels. So as of right now, we will continue to see the downfall of our climate.

After designing my three posts this week, the rest of my time was dedicated to organizing my tasks for next week. While I hope most of next week can go smoothly, I know that during the production phase, things are bound to change. I now know that I must leave room for these changes and be prepared. With only a few more weeks of designing, I have to remember why I started this campaign and who I may reach because of it. As I post my content and get feedback, I become more inspired to continue this journey. If any of you haven’t already, please give my project a follow on Instagram and share will your friends and family. As always, I thank you all for following me on this project journey!