Reflection

If we're just leaving it up to chance, there is no guarantee that things will be okay. Even if people make plans, action is required–the future of our world and our water can't just be left to chance. Because more likely than not–chance won't be in our favor. Throughout the short film, the coin travels from place to place, hand to hand, just like water's own journey. In the end it returns to us. I drew the harm that humans inflict on the environment and water cycle: deforestation, damming bodies of water, and fossil fuels. The consequences are portrayed in my animation as the coin slowly begins to fall on tails, a representation of bad luck. At the end of the animation we see the same girl from the beginning on the brink of a big decision–one that is not made. I left it unfinished to allow viewers to make a choice of their own–to flip the coin again and leave it up to chance, or keep the coin and take action to make change and break the cycle of bad habits that ruins our water and the environment.