3 – A PLACE WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE

I have done a terrible job of documenting this class for the past two weeks. I only have now just realised that I haven’t even explained what our outcome for the semester is. In groups we are to create a short documentary on a character based from the Queen Victoria Market. It could have been a regular customer, a roaming tourist, or one of the vendors. It could have been anyone that just frequented the space and that we were able to followup again and find them again. I had pitched the Pack Up Robots as my most interesting encounter at the Market. These were the men and sometimes women who would disassemble the multiple tents and stalls that take up in the open space market area in QVM. I would have created a piece that followed a few of these people, probably shooting a time lapse of their hard work at the market and interviewing them later on about what their day job was. I wanted to explore what else they were aside from these monotonous machines who would come in almost everyday to pack the market up.

I ended up joining a group that found a woman who works the at the Lolly Lovers’ Confectionery. She was simply pitched as a female Willy Wonka and I just loved the idea of having that magical aura and image explored. There’s another group focusing on the iconic Doughnut Truck that most people would recognise from a visit to QVM, and another working to film a flamenco performance duo that appear during the Summer Night Market. I never realised how diverse the Queen Vic Market could be in people and experiences, and how it is such a place of Melbourne culture. There are Asian green grocers, and hundreds of visitors, local and tourists, who come in and out throughout the entire day. Even when I visited the market during closing hours there were still people making an effort to make a final purchase on a good bargain. Queen Victoria Market just had a life to it that I am just genuinely excited to explore and is the place where I hope to uncover some amazing stories this summer.