WATER IS AS THICK AS BLOOD

When Lyn and Glen Hansen first decided to adopt they didn’t realise the long journey and many questions that were ahead of them. After years of interviews, qualification testing and paperwork they were able to be waitlisted as a potential home for any children that were in need. While going through the process, they began to become increasingly aware of just how little education there was available around adoptions with this only growing after they adopted their two children. WATER IS AS THICK AS BLOOD is a 5 minute audio documentary that sees Lyn and Glen reflect on their experience of adopting their son and their experiences in the adoption system.

Production Credits 

Featuring Lyn and Glen Hansen

A film by Madeleine Hansen

Title card image from Lyn Hansen’s personal collection

 

Sound effects and music:

‘Male Astonished Gasp’

Composed by Mixkit

https://mixkit.co/free-sound-effects/

 

‘Baby_boy_toddler_kid_smile_smiling_joy_fun_happy_kids_infant.wav’

Composed by Ondondvo

https://freesound.org/people/ondondvo/sounds/460079/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

‘female laugh with inhale.wav’

Composed by Tim Kahn

https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/470059/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

 

‘110-Murmur Of Joy Woman.wav’

Composed by Leoctiurs

https://freesound.org/people/Leoctiurs/sounds/428235/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

‘Hug 1.MP3’

Composed by FunWithSound

https://freesound.org/people/FunWithSound/sounds/367755/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

 

‘Keyboard.m4a’

Created by Rosachoque

https://freesound.org/people/Rosachoque/sounds/463927/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

 

‘HymneCanterbury.wav’

Created by Herbert Boland

https://freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/28240/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

‘Small group laughing’

Created by richwise

https://freesound.org/people/richwise/sounds/497420/

 

‘Footsteps_Hallway.wav’

Created by georgisound

https://freesound.org/people/georgisound/sounds/368834/

 

‘Rustling Paper.wav’

Created by keweldog

https://freesound.org/people/keweldog/sounds/181774/

 

‘Hospital sounds 3.wav’

Created by ERH

https://freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/54486/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

 

‘Wheely chair.wav’

Created by Jeanet Henning

https://freesound.org/people/Jeanet_Henning/sounds/328904/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

 

‘Vintage telephone ringtone’

Created by Mixkit

https://mixkit.co/free-sound-effects/phone-ring/

 

‘Plastic modern landline telephone dial number, button presses 1’

Created by Zapsplat

https://www.zapsplat.com/?s=landline&post_type=music&sound-effect-category-id

 

‘AOKI Takamasa:2’

Created by Creative Commons

https://soundcloud.com/wearecc/ear_aoki_2-wav

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

 

‘Train Passing Grade Crossing’

Created by GaryEdstrom

https://freesound.org/people/GaryEdstrom/sounds/264117/

Licensed under – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

‘Door Open Close’

Created by amholma

https://freesound.org/people/amholma/sounds/344360/

 

With thanks to:

Paul Ritchard, Adam Farrington-Williams and the Real to Reel studio class members for all their feedback.

 

Supervising Producer

Rohan Spong

 

Created as part of 

Real to Reel studio

School of Media and Communication

RMIT

2020

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