This week we focused on tidying up the two video edits. This included playing with the audio to make sure it was clear and understandable, colour grading and cutting down anything that wasn’t needed. After showing these edits to Kim, it was suggested that we should incorporate more silences and play with the arrangement of B-roll and see if we could find a format that worked better. We decided to place long takes of the interview, then cut to B-roll with an audioscape, to allow the viewer to ‘digest’ what they had just watched.  At first, I felt this would cause the viewer to become bored due to the amount of time viewing a static interview shot, but after re-watching and cutting out more dialogue, I felt the interview as a whole was much more poignant.

Once we were comfortable with the video edits, it was time to focus on the audio interviews and construct a website that would be used to display our work at the exhibition. Georgia and Antonia had completed a lot of the audio work already, we as a group listened to them and suggested points that could be focused on or tweaked.  The website was something we focused a lot of time on as it would showcase all of our work, and with this in mind we wanted to create a seamless experience that guided the viewer chronologically through the timeline we originally set out to achieve.  After playing with a few different formats and having some difficulty creating a symmetrical aesthetic it was just time to fill the page with our content.

After reading one of this weeks reading; From Media to Movement: Distribution, Outreach, and Engagement, Fox, B 2017. Something that really resonated with me was the chapter on community. This whole studio was discussing the community of the West. One quote that really spoke to me within this reading was “The success of independent documentary hinges on accessing communities as collaborators and audiences and mobilizing communities to engage with projects and their central issues in generative ways” . This quote couldn’t be more accurate when considering our production.  We put a lot of hard work into production, filming and editing but without the support of the museum and the members of the community surrounding the West Gate bridge, this production wouldn’t be what it is today.  We were very lucky to have such willing participants to be involved in our production and because of the diligent communication between my group and responsive nature of our interviewee’s, I feel we have created something that will be enjoyed by an audience as well as useful resource to the Living Museum of the West.