I am proud of the work we all accomplished for our feature: “Who Cares?” We decided to change the name of the feature, as we feel that “who cares?” is a better representation about the lack of awareness and action of sexual assault in music festivals.
Although Pat did offer to cover the interviews for the Ballarat Police and Centre Against Sexual Abuse (C.A.S.A) I wanted to make sure that I was involved in at least one interview, so I was responsible for contacting the Listen Collective once we were able to source a direct contact. I arranged the interview via email. We had some troubles with contacting with the Listen Collective, as they did not respond back for some time. We also debated whether to cancel the interview or not once we found out that they sourced an interviewee who lives in Sydney. However, I am happy with our decision to keep the interview. The content was important and very necessary for our piece; I also feel that the phone interview provides an interesting texture audio wise for the piece.
We decided to conduct the interview in the Triple R studios on Thursday the 26th of May. I wrote the questions and was responsible for the interview itself with Pat observing to make sure that we had got the information that we needed. The original interview lasted around 12 minutes, but was extremely helpful for our piece.
I also contributed to the scripting for the narration and had originally intended to be responsible for the narration itself. Unfortunately, after listening back to the work I had done, I suggested that Laura should do a recording of the script. I am still happy with this decision, as I feel that Laura’s lower toned voice was much more appropriate for the narration of the piece.
From the beginning of our discussion into a feature about sexual assault in music festivals, we wanted to make sure that we created an unbiased and factual piece. I believe that we have done just that. The ambience and background noise of the piece are emotive and create further detail into the story-telling.
The interviews are central to the piece, and I think it was necessary to make sure that we did not include ourselves asking the questions, as it takes away the message and the attempted unbiased nature of the piece. However, I do think that the narration is also important to the piece, as it informs the audience of the range of different interviews, as well as providing context for the subject matter.
I am happy that our group was able to perform this live on air, as I believe that it is an important subject that needs to be addressed. I hope that audiences were able to have a better understanding of the issue or even start to become aware of a little spoken about problem.
Although I am happy overall, I think that some of our weaknesses as a team to keep in mind for next time is the equal distribution of jobs; but that being said, we did offer to come to interviews and all did contribute in some way to the final edit. The majority of team members were able to meet at numerous occasions at Week 12 to ensure that the final piece was coming together, as well as working on our final show in Week 13. All in all, I am proud of the work that myself and my team accomplished for the final piece.