This week was a short week because of the grand final weekend, but by no means does that imply little was done on the production. Things are beginning to take shape as we now have two completed rough edits of our interviews with Danny Gardiner and Donna Jackson. I personally took charge of editing Donna’s interview together, one major task that was crucial to create a immersive and interesting production was to gain B-roll for the video. This was needed so that the audience would have some context for the audio, as well as to create more entertaining visuals. I decided to go to the West Gate Bridge memorial, as it was discusses frequently in Donna’s interview, take some long shots of the bridge, time lapses of the bridge and surrounding areas to gain B-roll of the memorial itself that could be used for this interview and other edits within the group.

Another difficulty of the editing was to cut down the interview itself. We spoke to Donna for just over thirty minutes, which gave us an abundance of great content, of which most could be used without actually having to cut out much due to Donna’s confident and assured performance. This meant that focusing the interview on elements we thought were the strongest and cutting the interview down appropriately, whilst also creating a linear production was quite a large job. I decided it was best to focus Donna on her creative approach to the West Gate play and briefly talk on some of the difficulties she had whilst researching the bridge and some social issues around discussing tragedies such as this.

Next week we will be tidying up and completing the video edits, we also have an interview booked with Enza who wrote a fictional book about the collapse of the bridge. In all my time at RMIT I have never worked in a group production that has been so lucky when gaining access to resources and the fact we have been able to interview four individuals that have all been heavily involved in our research topic amazes me. I wasn’t able to find a reading for this week on the modules tab on canvas (sorry Kim)