Millennial film crew explains politics with Suzy Cato, Spike
Millennial film crew explains politics with Suzy Cato, Spike the Penguin
Get Amongst!
We are a small collective of young
adults eager to encourage political engagement. Following
the election of Donald Trump in the US we each individually
started to seek some outlet for our political frustration.
It began with us trying to engage more with our own
political scene here in New Zealand. One of the things that
stood out is how few young people were engaged in this
process. Upon investigation we found a lot of young people
knew they should vote and be engaged but didn’t know where
to start.
We decided that short political party policy
videos would be the most helpful in the current climate,
with the hope that we could expand the idea for non-election
times. Today we released a video on tax policy, following on
from previous episodes on the environment, and education.
Each video focuses on a key policy area and is hosted by a
children’s television presenter from the 90s or early
2000s, including Suzy Cato and Spike the Penguin. In casting
these hosts we hope to appeal to the nostalgia of
millennials and spark interest in politics.
We lift quotes verbatim from the party websites, while trying to clarify points and think about what things people our age want to know about. Our goal is to be unbiased; we want people to be engaged, we want them to get amongst.
The Environment
with Spike T Penguin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjSUygxV9k
Education with Suzy Cato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyuirm0fIcU&t=2s
Taxes with Jesse-James Pickery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBuShRj1xKs