This week we have been filming and editing. I put my hand up to film the field report because I wanted to go out to visit some of Boronia’s biggest and best landmarks. I thought this would be a good backdrop for the field sketch because of it’s reputation in Melbourne as the land of eshays. I wanted to play a plucky young reporter who doesn’t really know what she’s in for when researching and reporting on sovereign people. I took a lot of time when considering my outfit because I knew that through body language and during the b-roll it would be the best way to show I’m slightly out of touch and easily swayed by the information I consume. I picked the 80s yellow blazer pearl necklace and earrings because I feel the reporter would have studied other hard-hitting journalists from decades past—and perhaps borrowed some of her mum’s things for her new job.

I knew when showing our rough-cut to the class that the audio in my field segment would come up. There were already a few shots I wanted to refilm because they didn’t turn out as I wanted so I wasn’t upset. I did feel a little stuck on how to do this though. I ended up using my phone to record over my original audio and then recording some ambience from Boronia Woolworths to create some realism. I was so proud of the work the rest of my group did that I really wanted to push myself to match them.

I ended up playing Karen in the zoom skit and interview because I borrowed my dad’s hat. I was happy to take this role because I’ve been in a professional touring choir since age 11 and am comfortable recording and performing. I quote Kath and Kim and other quintessential Australian pop culture (mostly to myself and my mum) in my spare time but I was really nervous about getting the broad Australian accent right. I didn’t quite get it right but I think it sufficed for the skit.

We decided on calling our segment ‘Friday night journo fights’ because Steph’s family has an in-joke about their cats chasing animals on Fridays. We really liked this but wanted to add an extra word to make our segment more specific to comedy news so we added ‘journo’ as it sounds very Australian. We chose the tagline ‘Where we king-hit bullshit’ because it also sounded very Australian. I feel we have collaborated extremely well because no one has been picky or controlling and we are able to give constructive criticism on each part of the project.

I’m raring to show everyone our final segment!