Wartawan-Eko teams bring their creativity to The Habitat

Wartawan-Eko is a newly launched youth programme coordinated by Roots and Shoots with the aim of engaging creative young tertiary students to apply their skills in new media to the task of raising awareness and advocating for the environment. For this collaboration, teams of students from The One Academy have partnered with Malaysian NGOs to help produce innovative environmental videos.

Three teams are working with The Habitat Foundation for their assignments. They are combining their creative vision and technical abilities to produce short videos that support aspects of the Foundation’s mission and programmatic work. It is our pleasure to be collaborating with these teams over the coming months and we look forward to seeing the final products of their creativity and combined efforts in due course!

Shannon Wong and Natalie Lim

Shannon and Natalie are working on producing a video on shorebirds in Peninsula Malaysia and to highlight the mangrove and mudflat area in Teluk Air Tawar-Kuala Muda. Their proposed idea of using kinetic typography animation, also known as moving text, seeks to create a more vibrant tone to the video and to capture attention of the viewers on important points related to the birding site and the shorebirds.

I hope that with the skill sets and creativity that both my partner and I put in to produce an awareness video about shorebirds will attract and inspire more Malaysian youths to know and care for our environment.

Natalie Lim

Rafif Pangestu and Jeremy Aditya

Rafif and Jeremy are both working on a video to showcase the proposed Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve nominated under the UNESCO Man & the Biosphere Programme. What they seek to do is to highlight the biodiversity of the hill and the myriad landscapes up to Penang National Park. Using their animation skills, they are exploring ways of creating seemless effects that can be used to transition between animation and video footage.

Working with The Habitat Foundation Penang has been a big pleasure for me as it can be taken as a new learning experience. Our objective for this project is to create social awareness in a form of a video to inspire young Malaysians to know and care about our environment.

Jeremy Aditya

Alia Batrisyia and Andrew Fendy

Alia and Andrew are also working on a video featuring wildlife of the Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve and to convey the dynamic relationship between the people who live around the biosphere reserve area and nature. The team would attempt to use Google Earth Studio combining with the skills they have learnt through their programme to present a simple compilation video of wildlife in Penang.

Through this collaboration, we hope that we can learn some new things such as exploring ways of using the Google Earth Studio tool, along with new animation and video editing techniques.

Alia Batrisyia