This week Assignment 1 was due, as posted below I took one of the interviews we conducted and placed visual stimuli that correlated with the audio to create a piece that explored the West Gate bridge.   I think the subject of the bridge is something that I will continue to explore as I feel its something, everyone has a knowledge of. This can stem from just crossing it, to knowledge of its collapse or people that were involved in its construction.

Sadly I missed our first visit to the museum this Tuesday, but as we are visiting next Friday I look forward to being able to explore the museum and possibly find some information or archives about the bridge that will help start constructing assignment 2.  On Friday we were given the opportunity to experiment with the RMIT cameras. I have used these camera’s in the past but only briefly as in most university productions, I have often used my personal DSLR. It was a good chance to refresh my knowledge of a stand alone video camera and audio equipment, practicing with the different setting whilst getting comfortable with the tech we have access to. We had some difficulty setting the white balance outside as it was a nice, sunny day and our audio quality wasn’t great as we didn’t position the boom mic close enough to us. It was also a good opportunity to play out different senario’s we will be conducting in productions but also to get to know some of my fellow class mates and start forming connections which will help in future assignments as most are group based.

Something from this weeks reading that really resonated with me is the idea of pushing documentary form and function. I have commented in the past about wishing to widen my knowledge of documentary production,  as I have produced doco’s before, but always in a start to finish manner, always answering a question or exploring a subject. In my future productions I would really like to be able to create something that is able to interest an audience, without having to spoon feed them content, try approaching a subject differently whilst still being able to convey meaning.