A new school year, a new start. Time for a blog post again. I have always had things to criticize about Canada’s politics but here, I have finally been given a reason to write about it in a PLP assignment. The assignment is for us to satire something in the world. We watched many parodies and satires understand them more and to differentiate between satire and parody. The content is ours to choose and since I have always wanted to poke fun at Canadian politics, I took this chance.
As to what exactly I have been ticked off about in Canadian politics, let me tell you. Everything in our government is discussed by the various political parties to decide if they go through.
• Introduction to Adoption: 153 days
• Adoption to Assent by President: 96 days
• Assent to Commencement: 161 days
• Introduction to Commencement: 410 days
Source: Parliamentary Monitoring Group
To me, this wait seems quite lengthy and usually feels way longer. But the main problem is that, I do not think that the majority of the people even remember whatever was being discussed by the time it has been passed to a law. If you have the time, have a read through the link and see if you know any these laws that were recently passed in Canada.
And so, I animated the video on Toontastic, an app provided by PLP to create this video and pieced it all together with iMovie. The whole idea of the video is to make fun of the time needed to get things through the parties and also how insignificant whatever they discuss seems to be for the general public who just want to live their lives. I was going to make it live action but everyone was working on their projects so I did not bother.
As I went through and created this project, there were several idea changes that happened. I had originally had an idea that was closer to parody than satire. As I realized this, A teacher gave me an idea to concentrate on the conflict between the new leader of the NDP and Justin Trudeau because it has been making rounds in recent news. Since I did not know much about the issue, I decided to keep moving until I came up with the current idea. As I created the parties, I realized I needed more than just the big 4 so I decided to go find some of the smaller parties to add to my video. What came up after a few searches surprised me a lot as I did not know that so many small parties existed. What struck me most was the Pirate Party. It is a party dedicated to empowering people on the internet. I guess its also time to search deeper into the treasure trove that is PLP supplied apps for my future projects.