Today Bridgette and I met up to plan and shoot footage for our cycling project. We first sat down and came up with a list of questions that we’d like to ask our subject, Dusty. (We decided to focus on my friend Dusty and her use of biking as a highly useful form of transport. In line with this we planned to ask the positive and negatives of cycling in Melbourne, as she is from NZ). We then planned some specific cycling shots that we wanted to capture around the city.

We decided to shoot people riding bikes, parked bikes, trams (and other forms of transport including cars and walking) as well as traffic lights/ signs to do with cycling. We chose these shots as we believe it will illustrate the reality of cycling in Melbourne as a mode of transport, and will help to form a more complex portrait of dusty as a cyclist rather than just simply showing shots of her.

The biggest difficulty we ran into was finding any cyclists at all!!!!! It was the middle of the day when we hired the Sony MC50 from RMIT, and it would have probably been better for us to do most of our filming earlier in the morning, or at night as we both realised so many more people are actually using bikes as a form of transport at that time!