https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-IoHfimQ
"Most Shocking Second A Day" is a PSA created by a British creative agency Don't Panic for Save the Children organization. This video features a little girl taking a video of herself one second per day for a year. This British girl is portraying a little girl living in Syria throughout the ongoing Syrian conflict. The video begins with happiness and normal everyday activities for a little girl such as doing homework, getting her hair done by her mom, and celebrating her birthday. Then, in the background of the little girl we begin to hear/see things on the television of the Syrian conflict. Then it hits us, literally. The bomb. Following this is confusion and chaos amongst the people and fear within the little girl. The video finishes off with a blank screen that says "Just because it isn't happening here doesn't mean it's not happening". This really hits home and makes the Syrian conflict much more personal. Don't Panic says, "Our solution was to tell a story that would bring the realities of Syria home, and to do it we combined the one-second-a-day and photo time-lapse formats to create a new way of showing an ordinary girl’s world falling apart in just a year" . And that is what they did. I found this video very moving and influential and I think it should be seen by many.
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