Time is the main factor - with heading off to Meredith for the Golden Plains festival on Friday, the project would need to be submitted on Thursday night at the latest, leaving effectively two and a half days to script, shoot and edit the thing.
The theme of the competition this year is Canberra's Best Kept Secrets.
The ten locations are:
The sound of the whistle on Canberra’s Powerhouse in Kingston
The Braille on the exterior walls of the National Museum of Australia
Redpath Shoe Store in Garema Place, Civic
Bert Flugelman’s Tetrahedron sculpture in Commonwealth Park
The Berlin Wall at the Harmonie German Club in Narrabundah
Any second hand bookshop
A tunnel (any tunnel in Canberra)
All Saints Church in Ainslie
The Lobby Restaurant near Old Parliament House
The ABC News Building Northbourne Ave, Dickson
While I have three workable ideas, the simple practicalities just seem a little too insurmountable.
Just for the record, the ideas are as follows.
1. Abstract impressionist montage of the 10 locations - approx 40 secs each location - with each clip showcasing a fragment of music by a local artist (probably electronic)
2. Welcome to Canberra guide revealing TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) - The Secret Language of Canberra. The mockumentary will show how TLAs are everywhere in Canberra, from the Public Service (ABC News building) to weddings - (Do you C.R.S take R.S.M to be your L.W.W? I.D.O). From menus (the Lobby) written entirely as TLAs to art critics talking about sculptures, from people in shoe shops (CFM boots) to braille.
3. An attempt to call a cab using an apparently automated booking service which repeats back the callers desired pickup location completely randomly. It ends up that it's not a computer at all, just a guy with an attitude.
Any of these three would have worked but as I say, time is just too much of a factor now and if I am going to take my distance study for my Masters in Education seriously, I need to spend the time doing the work, not sidetracking on other plans.
Alas.
