Welcome back to another post. This week I’d like to tell you a story. This is the story of a political party and the making of a video. A new kind of video. A video that will change the political landscape and how we view the next generation of politicians. 

First, what is the reason we created this video? How did we get here? The purpose of this video is to answer the question, how do we govern ourselves? If you are an avid reader of my blog you may remember that we already discussed this in another blog post. If you want to know how, in written word, I think we should govern ourselves, check out this blog post. 

My original answer was we need to govern ourselves differently than how we do now. Canada needs a change. The senate is outdated, along with our election system and our focus on money over our people. This is the core of the R&R party. We don’t want to work within the status quo, we want to demolish it. 

Why do we want to do this? We believe the status quo has let down Canadian citizens for centuries. It’s led to a lot of people not finding our who they truly are. It’s also led to stagnation in our ideas. We are becoming increasingly polarized and the status quo is only furthering this. 

How did this revolutionary party decide all this? The key members of the the R&R party are Ben D, Rihann H, Izzy L, Natalie C, and me. We worked tirelessly looking into other parties in Canada and researching what has worked and what has not. At the end of it all, we developed a press release that encompasses all of our ideas.  

These ideas inspired us. We communicated with other groups and found that our party was different than all the others. Because we are so unique, we decided we needed to create a campaign video that embodied this. All other groups went traditional. We took a risk. We wanted to talk directly to youth citizens and forget about what the older generation thinks. Have a look for yourself. 

This video obviously wasn’t perfect. We could have spent months making this project a masterpiece. Some of the jokes didn’t land perfectly and certain things were repetitive but bar all this, I like how it turned out!  If I could change one thing, I would put more focus on answering the driving question. We almost got there but were missing some of the depth the other groups had. 

As an extra part of this project, I created a keynote app. It encompasses most of the work we created. If the R&R party was to truly come into existence, we would create a much more detailed app. It would have all first hand information from the party. It would be unbiased and truthful. In my last blog post, I talked about how it was hard to find a simple and reliable source on what the parties believed. This would eliminate that challenge.

https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0NcBYlx2elGmP_FNuqz-AP4Bw#R&R

Overall, I thought that my group and I all learned what it meant to be part of a government. Our video was somewhat successful and our risk led to our ideas being shown in a different light. 

Thank you for reading this post. I’m trying to work on adding more depth into my writing so if you have any comments, they would be greatly appreciated.