The video exercise aimed to capture the humanity of a place and we picked Melbourne Central, because, one, it is close to RMIT University and, second, Melbourne Central is never lifeless. It is full of life, movement and, henceforth, humanity. Ultimately, I believe, after Fox’s reading, that all documentaries capture humanity in one way or another, regardless of objectivity and truth as these can’t exist in the realm of human exception. Therefore, documentaries are always burdened with the representation of truth and deviate towards creating a gap between the film, maker and the subject.

My video attempted capturing the essence of Melbourne Central through the use of sounds and sights that you hear and see when you’re only there (we discovered that Melbourne Central is 70% made of escalators). Although the video succeeded in capturing Melbourne Central, it was challenged cinematically in the sense that it did not reinterpret or reimagine Melbourne Central, but rather just reflected it. Hopefully, we get to balance the expository elements of our nature documentary with the poetic elements. We would like to directly target the issue, but simultaneously, perhaps show it in a new light..? Expectedly, that would be challenging as the purpose of the documentary is environmental activism, which is usually scientific and objective. But, we’ll try to give it our best!!