In 200 words or less please outline your goals, desires – what you want to get out of this semester. You will review this later in the course. Many will rethink this dramatically by the end of the course – this is a good thing.

More than anything else, I really want to make a documentary that appeals to me as a viewer. I would want to make something that I would stop flicking channels for, on a topic which forces others to question their own lifestyles, or which reveals a kind of lifestyle generally unspoken about, or is generally underground. I want to be able to discover things in my documentary, just in the same way that viewers will learn new things while watching it.

On a technical side of things, I would really like to be more involved in the editing process, and the production process. I’d like to be behind the camera, or in front of the camera, as last semester I Firsted and felt very uninvolved and insignificant (tear!).

If I come out of the course thinking I have made a doco that will benefit the knowledge of others, I will be extremely happy.