Why our project relates to risk

One might think, at first glance, 'what does a fish have anything to do with risk?' well I'll tell you. The bomb has many reasons for being in the animation. At first it seems as though the fish is swimming along normally, on some grassy planet. However, there is a hidden bomb in the ground which then blows up the fish until it dies (classic fish with belly up example). At first the bomb was designed to show the second world war, and how many mining fields have still been left which could go off at any moment if one person goes to the wrong place at the wrong time. Then we realised, actually the bomb is a metaphor for most risks in life. Sure, some of them we know are there and we go take them anyway. However, most risks we take we didn't even see were there at all and we walk straight into them like a trap, or like the fish walking into the bomb in our animation. It is simply our naivety which gets us hurt by the risks we take without stopping to wonder if they're there. Or sometimes they are such everyday risks such as crossing a road that we don't see it as a huge amount of steel heading at 35mph towards us, we just see a harmless car.