Of late I have been distracted from planning my short film for Film3 as I have been busy editing a film for Plan B in partnership with Bendigo Bike Inc. Plan B is Latrobe Bendigo’s Planning Student Association. The groups purpose is to formally represent planning students of Latrobe University. My task was to edit a short film that compared four different travel modes in Bendigo; driving, catching the bus, cycling, and jogging. The goal of the short film was to promote active forms of transport and to highlight major issues with Public Transport Victoria’s Bendigo Bus Network.

I had nothing to do with the actual production of this film and when I recieved the footage I discovered that it was quite low quality as the students filming the race didn’t really know what they were doing. There was a mix of footage from GoPros, Phones and a DSLR. It was a challenge to get all the footage to display at the same aspect ratio without decreasing the quality to some of the raw videos. Furthermore, there was no sound recorded other than from inbuilt GoPro and Phones mics which resulted in poor quality audio. Although the thing I found most challenging was the lack of direction I was given for this video. I was sent a video brief but it was.. well quite breif. This resulted in me taking longer than I expected to edit this video as I was always second guessing the direction I was taking it in. It’s the greatest video but I did my best with the footage, intructions and timeframe I was given.

Although the short film is not technically brilliant it was a success as it got the point across. Members from Plan B met up with Jacinta Allen (Minister for Public Transport) and exhibited the video along with a detailed report  containing findings from the Race and recomendations for the Bendigo Bus Service. The overall response to the video was positive from feedback I have recieved from the Plan B Student Association.