Our original plan for our project was to conduct interviews with different artists and compile them into one video. The quarantine hasn't affected much of our original plans besides a slight shift in topic focus and the way we'll conduct interviews. Although video or voice interviews would be ideal, we recognize that not all interviewees will be comfortable with publishing their opinions online, so we decided to give them the option to conduct interviews anonymously or to use written responses. As for our topic, we decided to focus on current day issues and see how covid-19 has impacted the lives of people and how they differ between races, economic standing, gender, and so on. We've decided to keep on with the idea of compiling the responses in a video format so that it may be more accessible able to a larger audience.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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