ideas

Our brief is to create a documentary on a subject that in some way relates to Wellington High School. It must have interviews relating to this topic and be filmed and edited entirely by us. Near the end of the year the finished product will (if it is good enough) be showcased in the schools White Pipe Film Festival. The audience is likely to be made up of mostly teenagers. It must be 5-8 minutes long, and is due on 24 June. We can work alone or in teams of two.

The first step in this process was deciding who to work. I prefer working in pairs as I find it helpful having someone to bounce ideas of. Paloma was an obvious choice because we are really good friends and work well together, and I know that she is interested in the same things I am. In the holidays we decided on dumpster diving as our topic. I'm really excited about this and I've heaps of ideas. It relates to WHS in that some of the students at High do it (and some teachers too), and we hope to interview some of these students. I think it will definitely appeal to the audience at White Pipe as it is an relevant and thought-provoking topic, that will interest teenagers (if only because it is an illegal activity).

We have friends that dumpster dive, and I think that this will be our starting point. We will talk to them, sort out some interviews and form a more structured plan. A problem we can already foresee is that it is illegal. We may have some trouble getting footage and finding willing interviewees. We have been thinking of some ways around this – such as having just voice overs, or filming from the head down. We are also considering staging a fake dumpster dive, though that may not be entirely convincing.