music style.rock music

At the end of our project, we may use some rock music to create a exciting, passion, get action environment when the video saying to support our campaign and sign up a petition, so that to weak up the audience and make them get exciting to take action to the issues. There are tones of Rock music we can choose. In this case, I think one of Pink’s rock song name “I am not dead” may fit in our project as the intro is quite exciting and the first two lyric has mention about cracks which what we against.

description text on the black ground

Thinking we could have some screen that shows some points, description or questions with the black background which presents the information and highlights the points or questions contract to the black background, so that to catch the audience’s attention.

Examples of this can be seen through the “mini-documentary: We are the world”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmpNflAXyDw and Literacy Empowers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfQEC029caw

The questions and points shows in the Literacy Empower is powerful to shocks the audience as it use yellow color text contact to the black background which catch the audience’s attention and makes the question, information effective remembrance.

Will Neethling interview questions

These were the questions asked to Mr. Neethling -mining structural engineer and safety surveyor- for our interview

- How long have you been in this profession?

- Could you explain to us briefly what coal seam gas mining and its purpose?

- Do you think this mining process should be conducted near densely populated areas/ large water supply facilities?

- If you were to live near a CSG mining site, would you feel concerned about your safety?

-This method has been trialled in the US with disastrous results, what do you think is the main safety issue with CSG and is there any way to make it safer?

- Are the current Australian regulations are tight enough to ensure complete safety? What is your opinion about them?

- How do other branches of the mining industry differ from the dubious practices that arise from the CSG mining field? Are regulations different?

-Why wasn’t the community involved in the decision of approving these CSG mining projects?

-Who is responsible for allowing the current situation to develop to this stage?

- As an expert, what would be your recommendations for the CSG mining industry? Should it be scrapped altogether or are there ways to make the practice safe?

Interview Questions

These are the updated and reviewed questions that were asked during our interview with the residents

- Are you a local resident?

- What do you know about coal seam gas mining?

- Do you know the effects and causes of coal seam mining?

- Do you find it hard to gain knowledge about the issue?

- What do you know about the projects going on just down the road (pointing in the direction of the mining site)?

- What do you think about CSG mining sites near residential areas?

- The government has already approved several projects to go on in your area , how do you feel about it?

- Did you feel involved in the decision of approving these mining projects?

- Are you satisfied with the coverage provided by the media?

- Do you feel the issue has gone quiet? If so, why?

- A vast number of project will be undertaken near the Warrangamba dam which holds 80% of Sydney’s drinking water supply, how do you feel about that?

- Do you want this project to go on?

- Would you support our petition against CSG mining?

How to include the audio interview in the documentary

Since the interview I conducted with Will Neethling consist only of audio, I thought the best way to use it was to overdub some of his answers and statements over the images that would otherwise be accompanied by a narration. This would successfully incorporate his contribution into our documentary

The audio interview

A few days ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Will Neethling, a mining safety surveyor and structural engineer with more than 20 years experience in the field. Although he does not specialize in coal seam gas mining, his contribution was extremely helpful for our project in the sense that he gave us the depth of knowledge that not only we needed, but also helps in bolstering the authority of our documentary and confirm the findings that our research has come to. The interview lasted 27 minutes and was a very pleasant conversation that ranged across all aspects of mining, compared the different industries and regulations and also came to key points such as when Mr. Neethling stated that he would be "very worried" if he happened to live near one of the areas affected by CSG mining. Further on, when I informed him about the fact that several project were to be undertaken near the Warragamba Dam (which holds 80% of Sydney's drinking water) he almost sounded amused by how absurd the situation was, asking "and what about when the rocks fracture and methane gas and chemicals are released into the reservoir? or if the reservoir actually drains, disappearing underneath the rocks?". It was very important for our project to have such an authority to agree with the findings of our research. Unfortunately time constraints will prevent us from using more than a minute or so of his contribution, but it was nonetheless a very interesting interview to conduct

The editing of the questions

While in the process of editing, I noticed that many questions were asked in a manner that could come across as verbose, a bit too indirect. Sometimes the odd stuttering came up as well, and this did not help in terms of time. In fact, many questions that could have been asked in 2-3 seconds sometimes took closer to 10 to formulate. This happened also because of the informal atmosphere we wanted to maintain with the people we interviewed: it allowed them to relax and be more open in their answers. Nonetheless, there was a need to save time to stay within the 10 minutes limit. Therefore, the following editing decision has been made: in the documentary, the questions would be written on a black frame in white text. This way, the viewer can read the question in its clear and direct format, and still get the answer obtained with the informal approach. The question would stay on screen for around 3 seconds, enough time to be red comfortably, and it will be followed by the answer footage, edited and cut were suitable to respect the time limit. In fact, every interview we got was at least 7 minutes long therefore some cutting was imperative!