https://drive.google.com/a/rmit.edu.au/file/d/0B4xPXyVvunuSZmE0OGZMcUQwenM/view?usp=sharing

On the 29th of August I captured the events of the anti-mosque protest in Bendigo. The decision to do so was spontaneous and resultingly the quality of the video captured is not great. However I was able to practice documentary style and make an edit of a short video that displays the subject of my video. This is just something I put together with the small amount of footage I had. The final work will contain interviews and better quality video and audio.

The documentary attached is done in quite a normal clean cut style. I am yet to find a unique way of approaching this documentary. I don’t feel like this is a topic where recreations or drama would be appropriate. The same goes with the idea of just following one character throughout. I could make the documentary without a narration at all and just use interviews, footage and text but I feel like narration will be useful for this particular issue. I could narrate from a personal point of view, telling the story from my personal perspective. However although this is something I have an opinion on, I feel that my personal perspective may not be that notable especially seeing I am no longer a resident of Bendigo nor is the story overly personal to me. Furthermore my opinion is that of the majority so who would I be trying to persaude?

In saying this, the method of how I came to choose this idea was unique. I chose to film the protest on the 29th because I wanted to practice using my camera, experience what its like to shoot such an event and simply because it interested me. It was only after that I decided to create a documentary on the protests for my Film3 short film.