Where did the Green Go?

So our last project in DigCit was called the World of 7 Billion Video Contest. Our task was to create a video on one of the following topics: Deforestation, water scarcity, or public health to raise awareness to the issue. I chose deforestation as my topic. I have taken AP Environmental Science, Into to Sustainability, and Green Building and Design concepts classes. In addition, I will be attending NC State in the fall for Environmental Sciences. So I have a large understanding of environmental issues. I thought this video project would be awesome because it worked so close with my own Genius Time Project. But then I found out the maximum time limit was 60 seconds and we only had two days in class to work on it. That was frustrating because our last video project we did, we had almost a month to work on. So I had some serious work to do. I had planned to do lots of drawings and stopmotions of drawings and creating animations. However, with such a small time frame to create a video, it wasn't possible. When I was storyboarding my video, I had such an awesome vision. But unfortunately, I wasn't able to see my video in its awesomeness because I didn't have time. Instead, I had to find copyright free images online and piece them together to create a video. In my opinion, whenever I see a video with pictures, I think it is very unprofessional and kiddish. I was going to avoid this method, but I could not do anything else. It is sad because I know I could have made an awesome video. But I was not able to because of the time limit. There is definitely a lot of room for improvement for this video. I liked working by myself because I have all the responsibility. If something is not right, I cannot blame anyone, because it is on me. I like having that responsibility.