This week we have really dug out feet into assignment 4 and have made good progress with leads and interviews that will be used to form our production.

On Tuesday we organised a video interview with Donna Jackson who will be discussing her involvement with the West Gate bridge next Friday. This will be a great chance to look at some contemporary history of the bridge, whilst looking at Donna as a resource where she can talk about the work she has produced surrounding the bridge and discuss the production that is coming November this year. We also had a meeting/interview with Danny Gardiner who is a founding member of the of the West Gate Bridge Memorial Committee, which organises the memorial each year. He also worked on the bridge after the collapse and has been heavily involved in the unions surrounding the bridge. Danny has also had a lasting impact on health and safety measures in Victoria and Australia and a  is a proud member of the CFMEU.  Danny was able to put us in touch with Tom Watson who was a worker on the bridge when it collapsed and has also been heavily involved in the Memorial Committee, as I write this I am waiting on a call back from Tom to schedule a time where we can conduct an interview.

This weeks reading, which is chapter 6: Capturing Reality: Production Strategies, Fox. B, Documentary Media : History, Theory, Practice, Routledge, 2017 talks a lot about scope and techniques that can be used to capture and audience whilst briefly touching on ethics of film making. These ideas have been quite relevant when considering our production as one of our interviewee’s was quite concerned about the use of their materials within our production.  There have been other comments regarding the ability to cover such a large topic, in such a small time frame, that  of the assignment and the length of videos we wish to produce. With this in mind we have rethought our approach of the production, instead of focusing predominantly on  the timeline of the bridge we will focusing on personal accounts from individuals that have a relationship with the bridge at different points in its history. This way we can create much more original content without the scares of plagiarism or becoming insensitive.