When I visited the sound and moving image library (the virtual one) I was trying to look for films for the film festival assignment. I had visited the virtual library prior to this course because I needed to watch a film for another class that I was taking. I had not visited the physical sound and moving image library because of lockdown mandates due to COVID-19. On the virtual library, there are links to the collections of music and visual media that are in the physical library. Also, there are links to rent spaces and equipment from the library. The spaces include study spaces which have tools that could play audio or videos. These spaces are only allowed to be used by undergraduate students. another space that the library has is called the screening room. This space seats up to 40 people and is equipped with a projector that could play VHS tapes and DVDs as well as a PC.
As I was searching for videos to use for the film festival assignment, I looked at the link for Criterion-on-Demand. Dr. Bazely had told us to use Criterion-on-Demand due to its extensive collection of videos, documentaries, movies, and television series. While searching through the website, I found links to a lot of my favourite movies and some TV shows that I watched as a kid. I also saw This is where I found the documentary Parched (my nomination). The documentary was produced by National Geographic, and it is about the water crisis in many developing countries. This documentary highlights how numerous people are either displaced or are forced to pay others for access to clean water. Even though I watched this documentary at the beginning of this course, it still has an impact on me today. Especially since I have heard accounts of indigenous people in Canada who also don’t have access to clean drinking water. I think that if it wasn’t for the sound and moving image library as well as Criterion-on-Demand, I would be more ignorant of the water crisis happening here in Canada as well as in many developing countries.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 