The Girl Effect – Beautiful Use of Animated Typography
The Girl Effect - "the idea that adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world" - is portrayed in this beautiful video using animated typography. I think the music plays a pretty big role in making this work too.
Somehow it seems fitting for this Independence Day. Happy 4th of July.
[via swissmiss]
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One very jarring note at the beginning revealed the mind-set of the maker.
According to this, having a husband is a problem, is bad, is nothing but a drag on the GIRL.
What, did Betty Friedan produce this?
Moses, are you being facetious? I sure hope so, if not then I hope you misunderstood this is about *adolescent* girls, not grown women.
An *adolescent* girl with a husband in the poorer countries this is directed at is very unlikely to finish school or go on to do anything illustrated in the video.
What is the music???
Moses…go to the site and you’ll get the picture:
http://www.thegirleffect.org