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| 00:02:30:00 | Black FADE up to | IN: Music | ||||||
| 00:02:30:10 | 37.72 | Archival footage: PAN from Shane’s face across burning landscape, inflamed vehicle to Volkswagon, then moving towards fire ravaged remnants of house, past iron sheeting to water tanks shielding Bron with children under blanket; PAN from ground shot to Shane’s face; PAN back across tank towards Bron | SHANE sync: I can’t believe what’s ... off camera: ... happened. But believe it or not the god damned Volkswagen made it. BRON off camera: What? SHANE off camera: The volkswagon’s made it. The EDU van’s gone, there’s our front door. Here’s our building supply shed. And for goodness sake, here’s the only thing that matters – BRON sync: Hi. SHANE off camera: They’re god damn here. BRON sync: We survived. SHANE off camera: Dom is hiding in the back. And Lola’s there. BRON sync: Hi. SHANE off camera: And Bron’s there. And I’m here ... sync: ... and we love each other very much and we’re god damn lucky. sfx: footsteps sfx: children calling out | 7 February 2009 | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:03:08:03 | 2.96 | Archival footage: Bron sheltered under blanket with children between water tanks | BRON sync: We’re all okay and we’re going to be okay. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:03:11:02 | 2.4 | Archival footage: Children under blanket | off camera: Who was brave? IN sfx: running water | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:03:13:12 | 13.52 | Archival footage: Children huddled under blanket with Bron | LOLA sync: Me. DOM sync: Me. BRON sync: Yes. LOLA sync: We cried a little bit ... BRON sync: Yeah. LOLA sync: ... when the fire was here. BRON sync: Oh it was very, very frightening. It’s very noisy and frightening. NARRATOR: Thankfully that’s not my family under the blanket. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:03:27:00 | 7.88 | Archival footage: Beyond ECU Shane’s anguished face; Bron with children huddled under blanket | Unlike my friend Bron I’m not so sure that we are all going to be okay. BRON: … cover up. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:03:34:22 | 4.68 | WS | Archival footage: Burning house wreckage, trees beyond | SHANE off camera: Stay sharp everyone. Yeah there’s a black wood burning up the top there. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:03:39:14 | 3.24 | MCU | Archival footage: Beyond profile Shane’s anguished face to Bron with children under blanket | OUT sfx: running water sfx: child talking | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:03:42:20 | 9.12 | EWS | Clouds moving across sky beyond darkened silhouette of burnt trees on hill horizon | NARRATOR (CELESTE): In an afternoon our small community was blown apart and we’ve been thrown together in ways we could never have imagined. | ||||
| 00:03:51:23 | 6.52 | EWS | Moving clouds beyond silhouette of burnt trees on hilly horizon | How will we come back from the devastation of Black Saturday? | ||||
| 00:03:58:11 | 6.88 | EWS | Clouds across sky beyond darkened silhouette of burnt trees on horizon FADE to | Because you don’t beat a bush fire like this one just because the flames die down. | SCREEN AUSTRALIA AND REBEL FILMS PRESENT | |||
| 00:04:05:08 | 0.28 | Black FADE up to | in association with Film Victoria present | |||||
| 00:04:05:15 | 6.84 | EWS | Beyond MS burnt tree branches across shot towards fire ravaged hilly countryside TITLE: | THEN THE WIND CHANGED | ||||
| 00:04:12:11 | 0.36 | Black | OUT: Music | |||||
| 00:04:12:20 | 19.32 | POV within moving vehicle along country highway through lush countryside | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Dom and I thought we had it all worked out. We’d leave the city to find our Australian bush paradise in Strathewen, only an hour’s drive from Melbourne. IN: Music | |||||
| 00:04:32:03 | 3.48 | MCU | Home movie: Celeste with Dom holding baby at gate on country property | DOM sync: Here’s the happy family. CELESTE sync: Happy family. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:35:15 | 4.96 | WS | Home movie: Dom carrying baby and Celeste walking through gates onto country property | off camera: We’re in! v/o: Dom and I bought some land and ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:40:14 | 3.36 | MCU | Home movie: Baby chewing on gum leaves alongside Dom reclining within country setting | ... watched our first bush baby grow. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:43:23 | 2 | MCU | Home movie: Celeste holding Luella as she points up among trees | sfx: baby talking | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:45:23 | 2.24 | MWS | Home movie: Ground shot looking up beyond tree canopy towards sky | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:04:48:04 | 5.08 | WS | Still: Erected house frame within bush setting | We built our home nestling it deep within the forest. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:53:06 | 2.52 | WS | Still: Family posing in front of partially built house | Our family was growing. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:55:19 | 2.68 | MS | Home movie: On doorstep outside house, Dom holding baby, his daughter Luella alongside | LUELLA sync: Hey… NARRATOR (CELESTE): And before long ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:04:58:11 | 2.56 | MWS | Home movie: PAN Luella in school uniform, running across living room into Dom’s arms | ... our daughter was ready for school. OUT: Music sfx: Luella calling out | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:05:01:00 | 4.88 | WS | Still: Children, parents, teachers gathered in grounds outside school building | Our plan was to ease our way into the close-knit local community ... IN sfx: children’s voices | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:05:05:22 | 3.84 | Still: Luella posing with other school friends under Strathewen Primary School collage | ... by sending our daughter to Strathewen Primary. OUT sfx: children’s voices | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:05:09:18 | 4.44 | MS | Footage: Luella working at classroom desk, another student seated alongside; teacher’s hand reaching into shot, handing book to Luella | TEACHER off camera: That’s a very good effort. NARRATOR (CELESTE): Luella started school during the heatwave of late summer ... IN: Music | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:05:14:04 | 2.52 | MCU | Footage: Luella working at classroom desk, another student seated alongside | ... 2009. TEACHER off camera: Who’s hot? | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:05:16:17 | 1.88 | MWS | Footage: Luella and friends raising their hands, sitting on classroom floor | SCHOOL CHILDREN sync: Me… TEACHER off camera: Oh ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:05:18:14 | 3.88 | WS | Barren tree silhouetted against blue sky within dry country landscape | v/o: ... me too. NARRATOR (CELESTE): And Saturday the 7th February was tipped ... | ||||
| 00:05:22:11 | 2 | EWS | Still: Dam within country property | ... to break all records. | ||||
| 00:05:24:11 | 1.76 | MCU | Still: Arial shot parched cracked earth | IN sfx: wind in trees | ||||
| 00:05:26:05 | 8.68 | MCU | Wind blowing trees at night | It was the trees thrashing in the hot northerly that woke me up at 3am. It felt like we were in a tinderbox. | ||||
| 00:05:34:22 | 8.4 | MCU | Wind blowing trees at night | I was afraid. When you live in the bush you need a fire plan. | ||||
| 00:05:43:07 | 7.84 | MS | Dom wearing fire clothing, squatting, fixing hose to water pump; walking out of RS | Ours was for Dom to stay and be on call for the CFA, a volunteer fire fighting organization he had recently joined. OUT sfx: wind blowing in trees | ||||
| 00:05:51:03 | 1 | MCU | Suitcase being plonked into rear of car | sfx: suitcase plonked in car boot | ||||
| 00:05:52:03 | 1.2 | CU | Car boot being closed over suitcase | sfx: car boot being closed | ||||
| 00:05:53:08 | 2.72 | MCU | Interior vehicle POV: Luella in passenger set in mobile vehicle | And the kids and I would drive to Melbourne. | ||||
| 00:05:56:01 | 2.32 | ECU | Interior vehicle POV:Young child’s face in mobile vehicle | OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:05:58:09 | 4.2 | MCU | Interior vehicle POV: Reflection of Celeste’s face in interior mirror | Taking the only road out I didn’t know what I was driving away from ... | ||||
| 00:06:02:14 | 4.04 | Ground shot from mobile vehicle across canopy of overhanging trees against blue sky FADE to | ... or what everyone in Strathewen was about to lose. IN sfx: bushfire IN: Music | |||||
| 00:06:06:15 | 0.04 | White FADE up to | ||||||
| 00:06:06:16 | 3.12 | EWS | Archival Aerial footage: Ravaging bushfire, flames and smoke reaching across sky | ABC | ABC, Inside The Firestorm Archive | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:06:09:19 | 2.92 | WS | PAN across burning property to house engulfed in flames | Geoff Raftery | Geoff Raftery | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:06:12:17 | 2.88 | EWS | Archival Footage: PAN firestorm spreading across darkened countryside | Jim Baruta | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |||
| 00:06:15:14 | 2.68 | WS | Archival Footage: Ground shot huge fire blazing at top of mountains | Geoff Raffteray of Jim Baruta | Geoff Raftery | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:06:18:06 | 6.36 | WS | Archival Footage: Fire blazing beyond hills; smoke covering sky across countryside | My children and I didn’t experience the terror of the fire storm but others did. OUT sfx: bushfire | Geoff Raffteray of Jim Baruta | Geoff Raftery | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:06:24:15 | 9.68 | CU | Archival footage: Bron looking up from crouched position between tanks, huddled with children; smoky haze in background | Bron and Shane’s place was on the ridge line overlooking Strathewen. They were one of the few families to survive in their street. SHANE off camera: Come to me … | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:06:34:07 | 2.92 | Archival footage: PAN from Shane standing within smoky property, across water tank to Lola | ... one of you. BRON off camera: Go over to Daddy. SHANE off camera: Come on, going to hop in the van. BRON off camera: You’re okay. … hop in the van. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:06:37:05 | 6 | MCU | Archival footage: Lola racing towards her father’s outstretched arms | sync: Quick, quick. BRON off camera: Yeah there you go. She’s a bit shaky on her feet. Go with daddy. BOY off camera: I’ve got fire – … | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:06:43:05 | 5 | MCU | Archival footage: Young child standing alongside water tank | sync: ... I’s nearly catching on fire. BRON off camera: You’re okay. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:06:48:05 | 4.16 | WS | Archival footage: Shane scooping up child and running with him towards Volkswagon vehicle within smoky countryside | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:06:52:09 | 2.6 | MCU | Archival footage: Shane facing camera at back of vehicle | SHANE sync: We’ll be fine sit down, sit, sit. OUT: Music | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:06:54:24 | 2.88 | Archival footage: PAN within mobile vehicle through windscreen approaching burning powerpole | off camera: Oh watch this power pole everyone. IN sfx: mobile vehicle on dirt road | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:06:57:21 | 5.96 | Archival footage: From POV mobile vehicle, PAN across darkened forest at night; fires burning | We are just doing fine guys. OUT sfx: mobile vehicle on dirt road | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:07:03:20 | 2.28 | EWS | Archival Footage: Emergency vehicles at night with flashing lights | IN sfx: chainsaw | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:06:02 | 4.04 | MCU | Archival Footage: Firefighters working on trees across road at night | NARRATOR (CELESTE): My partner Dom worked with the CFA ... | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:10:03 | 1.28 | Archival Footage: Firefighter superimposed over night lights, turning ECU across camera at night; ZOOM to sawn off treet trunk next to vehicle | ... that night ... OUT sfx: chainsaw | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:07:11:10 | 3.4 | Archival Footage: Firefighters walking along road, away from camera, through fire ravaged forest; vehicle parked at roadside | ... and into the next day, clearing the roads, ... | Geoff Raftery | Geoff Raftery | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:07:14:20 | 6.2 | WS | Archival Footage: PAN across fire ravaged forest to corrugated iron wreckage from destroyed homes | ... looking for survivors and uncovering the bodies of friends and neighbours. | Fairfax Tim Young | Tim Young / Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:21:00 | 6.76 | CU | Still: Dom standing within fire ravaged forest | Late on Sunday Dom finally got through to see what had become of our place. | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:27:19 | 7.64 | MCU | Footage: Aerial shot Dom’s foot stepping through ash covered ground | DOM off camera: It’s just powders of ash. IN: Music | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:35:10 | 2.96 | EWS | Footage: Fire ravaged forest | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:07:38:09 | 4.56 | EWS | Footage: House standing within fire ravaged forest | v/o: It’s just absurd that our house is still standing there, I can’t believe it. | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:42:23 | 4.24 | WS | Footage: Exterior Celeste & Dom’s house | The fire just seemed to jump over it. | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:47:04 | 3.84 | WS | Footage: Building wreckage of fire devastated forest | And everything else has just been burnt. | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:51:00 | 2.52 | MWS | Footage: Smouldering tree trunks within fire ravaged forest | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:07:53:13 | 3.08 | MWS | Footage: Flag flying within forest clearing | Except the flag. | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:07:56:15 | 3.4 | MWS | Footage: Fire devastated shed | Oh man. sfx: rattling shed door | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:08:00:00 | 15.04 | Footage: CU Dom into camera; trees beyond | sync: Those images are in my head – of er our friend Gary and – Peter on the oval and – oh. | Dom Bourke | Dom Bourke | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:08:15:01 | 9.84 | EWS | Archival Still: PULL BACK to aerial shot fire ravaged landscape of houses within forest | NARRATOR (CELESTE): On Black Saturday 173 people died in Australia’s worst natural disaster. | Fairfax | Craig Abraham / Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:08:24:22 | 5.12 | EWS | Archival Still: aerial shot fire ravaged landscape of houses and property within forest | Our small community suffered the highest concentration of loss of life. | Fairfax | Craig Abraham / Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:08:30:00 | 3.32 | EWS | Archival Still: Aerial shot fire ravaged landscape of houses within forest | 102 people died in Strathewen ... | Fairfax | Craig Abraham / Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:08:33:08 | 2.88 | EWS | Archival Still: Aerial shot fire ravaged landscape of houses within forest | ... and the towns that surround us. | Fairfax | Craig Abraham / Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:08:36:05 | 4.96 | EWS | City at night against orangy bushfire glow of sky | Still in the city 40 kilometres away I read ... | ||||
| 00:08:41:04 | 1.56 | CU | Archival newspaper: Headline ‘The Perfect Storm’ with story and bushfire images | ... the headlines before I ... | n/a | |||
| 00:08:42:18 | 1.24 | Archival newspaper: Headline ‘February’s Fury’ with statistics and map of bushfire locations | ... see the destruction for ... | n/a | ||||
| 00:08:43:24 | 1.64 | Archival newspaper: Headline ‘Let Us Pray’ with story and bushfire images | ... myself. | n/a | ||||
| 00:08:45:15 | 1.44 | Archival newspaper - The Sydney Morning Herald: Headline ‘The Nation’s Heartbreak’ with images of those who lost their lives | n/a | |||||
| 00:08:47:01 | 3.48 | Archival still: Herald Sun - Headline ‘The Valley of Death’ across bushfire image of devastated forest | That valley of death is my home. | Herald Sun | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |||
| 00:08:50:13 | 3.08 | Archival news footage (Channel Nine): MS News reporter to camera; background tents erected on oval | NEWS REPORTER sync: Well one of the worst affect communities has been Strathewen ... | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:08:53:15 | 2.68 | EWS | Archival news footage: Fire devastated countryside; smoke flowing through forest | ... where it’s feared up to 30 people may have died. | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:08:56:07 | 4.4 | Archival news footage: Map of Victoria with animated indication of location of Strathewen and symbolic fire burning, superimposed over still of fire devastated buildings | The town near Kinglake now exists in name only. | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:09:00:17 | 3.36 | WS | Archival Footage: Aerial shot smoke rising from fire ravaged properties within forest region | NARRATOR (CELESTE): I wish I could switch off from this nightmare, ... | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:04:01 | 10.24 | MCU | Archival footage: Celeste | ... but I’ll still be a part of this story long after the media have moved on. I have no idea what will unfold but I know I need to record what follows. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:14:07 | 5.76 | MWS | Archival Footage: Helicopter descending into bush location | The Coroner declares ... | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:20:01 | 2.12 | WS | Archival Footage: Police tape across country road within bushfire devastated area | ... all of Strathewen a crime scene ... OUT: Music | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:22:04 | 3.4 | MWS | Archival Footage: Police on road with vehicle | ... and police block access. It Dom leaves ... sfx: vehicle motor | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:25:14 | 2.44 | MS | Archival Footage: Police on road with vehicle | ... he’ll not be allowed back in, ... | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:28:00 | 5.84 | MS | Archival Still: Celeste and children with Dom in firefighting jacket | ... so the kids and I meet him at the checkpoint three days after the fire. I want to show them that ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:33:21 | 4.96 | MCU | Archival Still: Dom holding his daughter, Luella | ... Dom is alive before we try to explain who is not. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:38:20 | 8.72 | MS | Archival Still: Celeste and Dom with children | Our family is reunited, our house has been spared, but any joy we feel dissolves when we hear how others have fared, ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:09:47:13 | 4.72 | MWS | Denis walking up country road towards camera | ... like our neighbour Denis. IN sfx: Bushfire IN: Music | ||||
| 00:09:52:06 | 6.32 | EWS | Archival footage: PAN across bushfire burning out of control across forest; dense smoke rising across sky | Denis’s family tried to drive away from the fire but was separated when a tree ... OUT sfx: Bushfire | Jim Baruta | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:09:58:14 | 3.92 | WS | Archival footage: PAN Dense smoke filling sky above burning forest | ... fell across the road blocking their escape. | Jim Baruta | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:10:02:12 | 4.44 | MCU | Archival still: Marilyn | The following morning Denis returned home to look for his wife Marilyn ... | Denis Spooner | Denis Spooner | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:10:06:23 | 3.96 | MCU | Archival Still: Damien | ... and his son Damien. DENIS v/o: I was buoyed ... | Jodie Spooner | Jodie Spooner | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:10:10:22 | 5.04 | CU | Denis to camera | sync: ... by the fact that the first thing I saw was the new house was still standing and I felt good the house has survived. | ||||
| 00:10:15:23 | 4.6 | MWS | Archival Still: Denis’s large house set within countryside | v/o: But then I realised that the old house wasn’t there. | Denis Spooner | Denis Spooner | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:10:20:13 | 2.88 | WS | Archival still: Rubble in front of Denis’s new house | Warwick ... | Denis Spooner | Denis Spooner | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:10:23:10 | 9.2 | MCU | Denis to camera | sync: ... my son, my surviving son was able to get a message to me on the phone that Marilyn and Damien, they sheltered in the bath in the bathroom. | ||||
| 00:10:32:15 | 9.84 | WS | Archival Still: Rubble in front of new house within bush setting | v/o: So when I got to the house I knew where to look. And what I was greeted with was only a very, very small amount of rubble that was in the bath, and I thought oh good they’re not in here. | Denis Spooner | Denis Spooner | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:10:42:11 | 3.64 | MCU | Denis to camera | sync: But when I kept asking around had anybody seen them nobody had. | ||||
| 00:10:46:02 | 4.48 | EWS | Archival Still: Rubble and burnt trees surrounding Denis’s house within bush setting | v/o: But it was later confirmed that they had perished in the bath. | Denis Spooner | Denis Spooner | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:10:50:14 | 5.08 | CU | Denis to camera | sync: If it hadn’t have been for that tree all three of us would’ve got out on that road. | ||||
| 00:10:55:16 | 7.2 | Footage: At night through windscreen, from within mobile vehicle along highway POV, bush fire blazing in roadside trees; thick smoke rising | NARRATOR (CELESTE): The same tree that blocked Denis’s family’s escape also ... | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:11:02:21 | 3.92 | MCU | Profile Dini peering out window from her house | ... stopped Dini’s husband and son from returning home. | ||||
| 00:11:06:19 | 12.56 | MS | Archival still: PAN wedding photo from Dini across her son Danny and his wife to Dini’s husband Joe | Dini’s son Danny died in the car while his father Joe a CFA volunteer was found unconscious on the roadside. DINI v/o: We followed the ambulance … | Dini Shepherd | Dini Shepherd | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:11:19:08 | 13.24 | MCU | Dini to camera | sync: ... into the Alfred and yeah sort of Joe tried to – to live for another fortnight but yeah it was just, he’d just been too badly burnt. | ||||
| 00:11:32:14 | 2.96 | CU | Archival footage: Joe’s helmet and firefighting clothing placed on Australian flag draped coffin | v/o: He was the first to be ... | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:11:35:13 | 1.36 | LS | Archival footage: Lines of mourners within countryside | ... buried because ... | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:11:36:22 | 2.88 | MCU | Archival footage: Dini and Danny’s wife standing with mourners | ... you know the others all had to be formally identified ... | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:11:39:19 | 4.52 | Archival footage: Firetruck carrying Joe’s coffin being followed by mourners | ... and that took a long, long time. | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:11:44:07 | 4.36 | MS | Archival footage: Dini blowing kiss, walking at head of line up of mourners, then hugging woman alongside | OUT: Music | Nine Network | ITN Source / Nine Network | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:11:48:16 | 9.56 | MS | ZOOM Dini walking in her garden | DINI v/o: To lose your family, it’s just such an incomprehensible thing. sfx: pouring water | ||||
| 00:11:58:05 | 4.64 | CU | Dini to camera | sync: I have to block from my mind because otherwise I won’t cope. | ||||
| 00:12:02:21 | 2.64 | MS | Smoke covered forest; ‘Children walking’ sign | IN sfx: Wind | ||||
| 00:12:05:12 | 2.72 | WS | Smoke filled forest surrounding Stratewen PS sign | NARRATOR (CELESTE): The school was the heart of our community ... | ||||
| 00:12:08:05 | 3.88 | WS | Archival footage: Fire ravaged property within forest setting | ... and now it’s a ruin. | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:12:12:02 | 4.36 | WS | Archival footage: Fire ravaged property within forest setting | Half our school families are homeless after narrowly escaping death ... | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:12:16:11 | 3.76 | Archival footage: Remnants of property within fire ravaged forest area | ... and nearly a quarter have lost family members. | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:12:20:05 | 3.52 | MS | Archival footage: Burnt out shell of vehicle | One student has died. | Fairfax | Tim Young/ Fairfax Syndication | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:12:23:18 | 6.16 | MWS | Tank alongside bricked chimney stack surrounded by galvanised iron sheeting rubble | Our principal Jane Hayward has survived and starts work the following day. JANE HAYWARD v/o: I got a few ... OUT sfx: wind | ||||
| 00:12:29:22 | 6.32 | CU | Jane Hayward to camera | sync: ... calls from families from school saying what do we do tomorrow, we haven’t got a school where do we go on Monday morning. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:12:36:05 | 6.48 | MWS | Archival Still: PAN down crane extended high in the air to attached portable classroom on ground | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Twenty kilometres away from the fire zone Wattleglen Primary ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:12:42:17 | 3.96 | MWS | Archival Still: Portable classroom held by steel cables within cleared site | ... offers us the use of their spare classrooms. JANE HAYWARD v/o: It ... | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:12:46:16 | 7.12 | MCU | Jane Hayward to camera | sync: ... was a chance for us to be together and that was all – I was very focussed on that, that we just needed to be, I didn’t care if we were teaching with nothing. | ||||
| 00:12:53:19 | 2.72 | ECU | Still: Coloured pencils | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Donated supplies ... | ||||
| 00:12:56:12 | 2.52 | CU | Still: Pile of games, books and world globe | ... turn up almost instantly. | ||||
| 00:12:59:00 | 5.36 | ECU | PAN across stack of children’s books | School staff and volunteers work around the clock to ensure Strathewen Primary … | ||||
| 00:13:04:09 | 4 | MWS | Archival footage: Young children and parents walking together | ... will reopen in its temporary home just four days after ... IN sfx: children’s voices | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:13:08:09 | 3.16 | MS | Archival footage: PAN through crowd of children gathered together | ... the fire. OUT sfx: children’s voices | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:13:11:13 | 4.16 | MS | Jane Hayward to camera | JANE HAYWARD sync: The kids wanted the – the academic programs, they wanted the spelling ... OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:13:15:17 | 1.52 | ECU | Child’s hand writing on lined paper | v/o: ... homework, they wanted ... IN sfx: classroom conversation | ||||
| 00:13:17:05 | 1.28 | ECU | Child opening booklet | ... all of what they had. | ||||
| 00:13:18:12 | 2.4 | MS | Teacher with school children, fanning themselves with cards | They wanted school to be normal. | ||||
| 00:13:20:22 | 2.04 | MS | Children in classroom seated at desk | We needed to stop when the bell rang and ... | ||||
| 00:13:22:23 | 2.12 | MS | Children seated in classroom playing game on their desk | ... have some sort of order ... | ||||
| 00:13:25:01 | 2.28 | CU | Young girl in classroom | ... and routine. OUT sfx: classroom conversation | ||||
| 00:13:27:08 | 4.4 | EWS | Tree covered countryside beyond dam | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Outside of school ... IN: Music | ||||
| 00:13:31:18 | 2.88 | MCU | Flag on flagpole in front of burnt trees | ... our lives are in chaos. | ||||
| 00:13:34:15 | 3.04 | MWS | Burnt car wreck; Celeste & Dom’s house in background | Back in Strathewen ... | ||||
| 00:13:37:16 | 4.84 | MWS | Celeste walking on country property towards camera; house in background | ... I try to make sense of the fire’s strange internal logic. sfx: footsteps | ||||
| 00:13:42:12 | 2.4 | MCU | Still by Celeste Geer of burned page of a book | |||||
| 00:13:44:22 | 3.24 | MS | Wombat moving around in burnt bush surroundings | Some things miraculously survived ... | ||||
| 00:13:48:03 | 9.04 | MWS | Following Celeste examining burnt remains of building | ... while others didn’t. There is no water, no power ... sfx: footsteps | ||||
| 00:13:57:04 | 18.64 | EWS | PULL BACK Celeste walking through burnt out forest of ‘black sticks’ | ... and an awful silence. The surrounding forest has been reduced to black sticks. | ||||
| 00:14:15:20 | 4.44 | WS | Archival footage: Celeste and Dom’s home within burnt and barren foreground | Our house is a lolly in an ashtray. | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:14:20:06 | 5.08 | WS | Arhival footage: Celeste and Dom’s home within bush environment | It doesn’t feel like home. OUT: Music IN sfx: rumbling road transport | Celeste Geer | Celeste Geer | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:14:25:08 | 6.04 | WS | Trucks driving through smoky forest terrain | The clean up is loud. OUT sfx: rumbling road transport | ||||
| 00:14:31:09 | 3.6 | WS | Emergency workers clearing roads within burnt forest | sfx: mulcher | ||||
| 00:14:34:24 | 1.2 | CU | Sign on tree trunk ‘Danger Asbestos’; emergency worker standing amongst trees | sfx: power tools IN sfx: trucks | ||||
| 00:14:36:04 | 2.16 | WS | Masked emergency workers cleaning up roads within burnt forest | People and machines ... OUT sfx: trucks | ||||
| 00:14:38:08 | 1.6 | MWS | Machinery removing mangled iron sheeting | ... sort the debris and ... sfx: crashing iron sheeting | ||||
| 00:14:39:23 | 4.24 | PAN truck driving through fire devastated forest | ... cart away Strathewen’s broken history by the truckload. IN sfx: rumbling trucks on road | |||||
| 00:14:44:04 | 7.32 | Archival footage: Man repairing fence; PULL BACK Man entering shot assisting with fencing tool | Post disaster adrenalin keeps us going. Activity is frenetic as we scramble to do something, ... OUT sfx: rumbling trucks on road IN: men discussing fence repairs | ABC | ABC Online's Black Sat website | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:14:51:12 | 2.96 | MCU | Archival footage: Man rotating fencing wire coil | ... anything to take back control of our lives. OUT: men discussing fence repairs | ABC | ABC Online's Black Sat website | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:14:54:11 | 2.56 | WS | Archival footage: Fence repair within forest; man rotating fencing wire coil | ABC | ABC Online's Black Sat website | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:14:57:00 | 7.2 | EWS | Olee planting seedlings in garden; burnt trees and mountains in background | Our first instincts are to do what we know. My neighbour Olee is an organic vegetable gardener ... | ||||
| 00:15:04:05 | 4.24 | CU | Olee planting seedlings | ... so he’s planting. OLEE off camera: Oops. Yeah I don’t know why I’m doing this. | ||||
| 00:15:08:11 | 3.28 | MS | Olee sitting in garden, smoking | sync: It’s just that I happened to get the seedlings yesterday, ... | ||||
| 00:15:11:18 | 4.08 | LS | Seedlings planted in garden | off camera: ... so what do I do? I can’t watch them die in the boxes. And ... | ||||
| 00:15:15:20 | 3.92 | Olee sitting in garden | sync: ... it does feel good you know in this – it’s like a – a clean canvas. | |||||
| 00:15:19:18 | 8.4 | MWS | PAN across fire devastation of Olee’s garden | off camera: The fire came at just the very peak of the season where everything was ready at once – ... IN: Music | ||||
| 00:15:28:03 | 4.08 | MCU | Olee in his garden | sync: ... the capsicums and the beans and the cherry tomatoes and the snow peas. | ||||
| 00:15:32:05 | 2.2 | MCU | Olee handling cigarette | off camera: And after all that struggle ... | ||||
| 00:15:34:10 | 3.4 | MCU | Olee | sync: ... and waiting it just came and frazzle it all. | ||||
| 00:15:37:20 | 4.6 | WS | Beyond spindly bush growth across burnt countryside | off camera: The wind down there was just something. | ||||
| 00:15:42:10 | 2.68 | MS | Olee | sync: Really devastating. | ||||
| 00:15:45:02 | 5.64 | WS | PAN around fire ravaged countryside; burnout vehicles | v/o: And the truck exploded – 400 litres of diesel and the tractor blew up. | ||||
| 00:15:50:18 | 4.84 | MCU | Olee within burnt out countryside | sync: The house and the dogs were gone, and that was – I was really upset about that. But ... | ||||
| 00:15:55:14 | 4.84 | MWS | Olee standing in his garden within country clearing | ... you just thinking you know, where’s it burning, which way is the winds going, where do I go now. | ||||
| 00:16:00:10 | 5.28 | WS | Following Olee walking through fire devastated countryside | off camera: Yeah but down here it was really devastating. Er ... | ||||
| 00:16:05:17 | 5.36 | WS | PAN past Olee walking through fire devastated countryside | ... ‘cause this is just beautiful in here and it’s – this carnage. | ||||
| 00:16:11:01 | 3.88 | WS | Fire devastated countryside | |||||
| 00:16:14:23 | 3.64 | WS | PAN POV mobile vehicle through fire devastated countryside, past small empty building | CELESTE off camera: It kind of ... IN sfx: vehicle travelling on road | ||||
| 00:16:18:14 | 3.68 | MCU | Interior mobile vehicle; Celeste to camera; fire devastated countryside through window | sync: ... depends what mood you’re in. If you’re feeling ... | ||||
| 00:16:22:06 | 7.44 | MWS | PAN from interior mobile vehicle, fire devastated forest through windscreen to side window; past fallen water tank | off camera: ... tired or pressured or something it can just be kind of the bleakest thing on earth. OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:16:29:17 | 12.6 | MCU | Interior mobile vehicle; Celeste to camera; fire devastated countryside through window | sync: But if you think of the people who died and of how life just races on and you think well it could very, very easily have been me that died. And the world could’ve continued. OUT sfx: vehicle travelling on road | ||||
| 00:16:42:07 | 11.52 | MCU | PAN up tree fern to fern fronds growing from burnt vegetation within fire devastated countryside | NARRATOR (CELESTE): This is all so new for us, but Australia’s eucalyptus forests have been burning and recovering for thousands of years. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:16:53:20 | 4.28 | MCU | Red leafy growth from burnt tree trunk | The bush is coming back rapidly ... | ||||
| 00:16:58:02 | 3.68 | WS | Green mossy growth on forest floor of burnt forest trees | ... but not as we knew it. Iridescent colour ... | ||||
| 00:17:01:19 | 3.52 | MS | Green grass within orangy ground cover | ... erupts from the charcoal and the ash. | ||||
| 00:17:05:07 | 4.48 | MWS | Native grasses flourishing within burnt forest | Nature’s renewal can be an inspiration or it can feel like a ... | ||||
| 00:17:09:19 | 4.8 | EWS | Green covered hills; trees newly covered in growth | ... slap in the face. OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:17:14:14 | 4.4 | MWS | Denis’s caravan next to shed | Denis is now living alone in a caravan ... | ||||
| 00:17:18:24 | 6.56 | WS | Denis’s house | ... next to his unfinished house. DENIS v/o: The house as you see it now was designed for two families, … | ||||
| 00:17:25:13 | 2.92 | MWS | Denis sitting in doorway of unfinished house | ... it was designed for my wife and myself ... | ||||
| 00:17:28:11 | 4.84 | MCU | Denis’s face profiled to camera | ... and for Damien and Jodie, Damien being my son and their two children. | ||||
| 00:17:33:07 | 8 | WS | Denis sitting in doorway of unfinished house | Yeah so this house was for six people. Unfortunately we lost two of them in the fire. That’s why it’s so big. IN sfx: earthmoving machinery | ||||
| 00:17:41:07 | 4.16 | WS | Denis driving bulldozer in cleared area beside his house | |||||
| 00:17:45:11 | 3.96 | MS | Denis driving bulldozer | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Denis has bought a new dozer to clear trees on his property. | ||||
| 00:17:49:10 | 5.12 | MWS | Bulldozer scooping up tree debris | DENIS v/o: The tree that caused us to turn back on that particular day, that was a 60 foot manor gum. | ||||
| 00:17:54:13 | 3.8 | MS | Denis driving bulldozer | Now that tree cost four lives. OUT sfx: earthmoving machinery | ||||
| 00:17:58:08 | 8.76 | MCU | Denis to camera | sync: Until these people get that message, you know trees on the side of the road, they kill people in cars, and they don’t have to be there. They can be moved back. | ||||
| 00:18:07:02 | 4.84 | EWS | Unsealed road through fire devastated forest; tree trunk stumps lining roadside | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Just across the road ... | ||||
| 00:18:11:23 | 10.8 | MWS | Olee climbing out of caravan with his dog | ... Olee and his new dog Cuz have also set up in a van. Even though he lost everything in the fire Olee still loves the forest that surrounds him. OLEE v/o: I’m ... sfx: Olee talking to his dog | ||||
| 00:18:22:18 | 23.36 | MCU | Olee’s face profiled to camera; PAN Olee walking away from camera | sync: ... amazed that nobody seems to have picked up on the pattern of in Strathewen, that virtually all the houses that survived except perhaps for Tully’s, erm were – are surrounded by bush and – and I felt so upset after the fire when – … | ||||
| 00:18:46:02 | 4.84 | MS | PAN Olee walking away from camera within countryside | ... geez I’m still upset about – erm ... | ||||
| 00:18:50:23 | 9 | WS | Olee standing within bush | ... yeah instead of erm being grateful for the bush for saving lives, the people … | ||||
| 00:18:59:23 | 9.36 | MCU | PULL BACK Olee to camera, Olee pointing | ... are saying the bush did it, the bush did it. But during the fire the first things that were burning here was the paddocks. They were the first things to burn. | ||||
| 00:19:09:07 | 2.2 | WS | Heavy storm clouds over trees | IN sfx: thunder | ||||
| 00:19:11:12 | 2.68 | MWS | Rain falling through forest; some green vegetation | IN sfx: Rain | ||||
| 00:19:14:04 | 3.96 | MCU | Rain pouring over Celeste wearing raincoat standing within forest | NARRATOR (CELESTE): I want the first rains ... | ||||
| 00:19:18:03 | 3.72 | MWS | Rain falling on fire devastated forest | ... to wash this all away. Instead ... | ||||
| 00:19:21:21 | 4.24 | EWS | Rain falling on fire devastated forest across hills | ... they gouge furrows down unprotected hillsides, leaving us ... | ||||
| 00:19:26:02 | 3.84 | ECU | Children stomping in their boots through mud; PULL BACK to boots stomping in mud | ... in a thick mud. OUT sfx: thunder OUT sfx: Rain | ||||
| 00:19:29:23 | 6.84 | EWS | PAN Bron & Shane’s daughter, Lola running around track towards caravan | Bron and Shane have decided to move back to their block and live in a van, ... sfx: running footsteps IN sfx: Bron and children in conversation | ||||
| 00:19:36:19 | 4.76 | ZOOM to MWS Bron at rear of vehicle with young son | ... while they plan the rebuilding of their home. BRON v/o: Okay dinner, what am I ... OUT sfx: Bron and children in conversation | |||||
| 00:19:41:13 | 3.68 | MCU | Bron and Shane in caravan | sync: ... going to make for dinner? SHANE sync: Fast food. BRON sync: No. | ||||
| 00:19:45:05 | 2.24 | MS | Bron working in kitchen beyond bunk beds in caravan | Fish curry. sfx: rattling paper | ||||
| 00:19:47:11 | 2.72 | MWS | Children dancing to music; Shane standing at bookshelf in caravan | IN sfx: Music | ||||
| 00:19:50:04 | 10.36 | MCU | Bron in caravan, to camera; PAN to sink FADE to | One of the challenges that I have is we have no hot water in the caravan, so erm I have to boil the kettle in order to get hot water to wash the dishes. So we’re nearly there. OUT sfx: music sfx: Shane and children talking | ||||
| 00:20:00:13 | 3.8 | WS | Archival footage: PAN across burning property wreckage | BRON off camera: Are you okay Dom? IN sfx: running water IN sfx: laughter | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:20:04:08 | 2.24 | CU | Archival footage: Lola and under blanket with brother and Bron | IN: Lola chatting sfx: Lola squealing | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:20:06:14 | 15.28 | Archival footage: Huddled between water tanks, Shane laughing; Bron with children in background sheltering under blanket | SHANE sync: Jesus you’re funny Lola. There was a moment there I didn’t know, I thought fuck I’m not going to see again. OUT sfx: laughter | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:20:21:21 | 6.96 | MCU | Archival footage: Children sheltered under blanket | BRON v/o: The children experienced something that no child should ever have to experience. OUT sfx: running water OUT: Lola chatting | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:20:28:20 | 5.88 | MS | Bron and Shane to camera | sync: They effectively ended up in a – a house that was burning while they were still inside it. | ||||
| 00:20:34:17 | 3.16 | MWS | Shane asking Lola to move around table towards Simon as family get seated for meal | SHANE sync: Okay you’re going to move round to Simon a bit so we’ve got some space, everyone’s got ... | ||||
| 00:20:37:21 | 7.32 | MCU | Lola getting teary at dinner table | off camera: ... some space. LOLA sync: I haven’t even eaten any because you put... BRON v/o: The first few months Lola really … | ||||
| 00:20:45:04 | 9.68 | MCU | Bron & Shane to camera | sync: ... struggled and we really struggled with her. She was really, really angry er and really sort of lashed out at us. | ||||
| 00:20:54:21 | 3.32 | MS | Lola yelling at Bron at dining table | LOLA sync: You’re not doing anything right. SHANE v/o: Lola’s questioned … | ||||
| 00:20:58:04 | 3.28 | MS | Lola and Bron seated together at dining table | ... er why didn’t we leave and er that’s a complex ... | ||||
| 00:21:01:11 | 3.4 | CU | Shane to camera | sync: ... set of circumstances that we find are hard to explain to an adult. | ||||
| 00:21:04:21 | 3.64 | MWS | Shane and Bron with family seated around dinner table | LOLA sync: I said I wanted to do it myself. BRON v/o: I’m not through it yet. | ||||
| 00:21:08:12 | 3.52 | CU | Bron to camera | sync: There are times where you think that it could still beat you. | ||||
| 00:21:12:00 | 3.4 | WS | Exterior house at night | IN sfx: thunderstorm | ||||
| 00:21:15:10 | 4.24 | MWS | Track through regenerated forest after fire devastation | NARRATOR (CELESTE): My family is not through this either. OUT sfx: thunderstorm sfx: rain | ||||
| 00:21:19:16 | 6.36 | MS | Dom sitting at the base of a burnt tree trunk | Dom teaches at an outer Melbourne school. His daily commute is a struggle. | ||||
| 00:21:26:00 | 13.16 | MCU | Dom to camera | DOM sync: I drive home from work, and once I hit this road I see the burnt trees and there’s – it’s not a joyful return to home, it’s a – it’s a return home to Black Saturday. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:21:39:04 | 12.64 | WS | Slow PULL BACK and PAN up Dom walking away from camera up track between forest trees | v/o: I used to run along this road. How can I run if it feels like I’m running through a cemetery. | ||||
| 00:21:51:20 | 13.72 | WS | PAN across old school site with dumped fencing wire to Jane Hayward walking along pathway beyond forest trees | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Our old school site is now a dumping ground for burnt fencing wire. It’s another reminder for Jane of what we’ve lost. JANE HAYWARD v/o: When I actually came and had a walk through, there was just nothing left. | ||||
| 00:22:05:13 | 18.2 | CU | Jay Hayward to camera; Jane walking out of shot; trees | sync: I pulled up here with my husband and took me a long time to get in from my teacher’s car parking area. That was – that was a big step. Sorry. OUT: Music sfx: crying | ||||
| 00:22:23:18 | 8.68 | EWS | Jane walking, away from camera, within bush area where school once stood | v/o: You know even while we’re working through the building process and stuff, you still expect that returning will be returning to what we had, … | ||||
| 00:22:32:10 | 6.28 | MS | PULL BACK to MS Jane Hayward looking around empty school grounds | sync: ... not logical. But yeah. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:22:38:17 | 4.56 | MWS | Burnt tree branches silhouetted against cloudy sky and hilly horizon | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Six months have passed. | ||||
| 00:22:43:06 | 4.04 | MWS | Barren trees against blue cloudy sky | While we battle personal demons we ... | ||||
| 00:22:47:07 | 4.64 | WS | Community of people gathered near buildings in countryside | ... also need to function as a community. Our recovery is carefully ... IN sfx: crowd conversation | ||||
| 00:22:51:23 | 2.72 | MS | Men within bush setting | ... steered by an elected group of locals. | ||||
| 00:22:54:16 | 2.44 | CU | Mary Avola facing camera | Strathewen ... | ||||
| 00:22:57:02 | 7.04 | MS | PAN across community group gathered; people embracing, others looking on | ... received no official warning on Black Saturday and we are determined not to be ignored in the aftermath. | ||||
| 00:23:04:03 | 4.12 | MS | ABC sound person behind Jon Faine sitting; Christine Nixon reading notes alongside | When ABC Radio come to see how we are travelling ... | ||||
| 00:23:08:06 | 2.28 | MCU | Dini speaking with Denis | ... it’s clear that our many problems are complex ... | ||||
| 00:23:10:13 | 2.08 | MWS | Community group gathered | ... and unresolved. OUT sfx: crowd conversation | ||||
| 00:23:12:15 | 7.52 | MCU | CFA Volunteer - Strathewen CFA Captain Dave McGahey speaking at microphone | CAPTAIN DAVE McGAHEY sync: I don’t understand why Strathewen is still as I term it, in the black hole. | ||||
| 00:23:20:03 | 2.68 | MS | People in crowd standing, listening | off camera: I think possibly because the community up here is ... | ||||
| 00:23:22:20 | 2.44 | CU | Man listening | ... so strong and that we as a community ... | ||||
| 00:23:25:06 | 2.6 | MCU | People sitting in crowd, listening | ... have done so much to help ourselves, ... | ||||
| 00:23:27:21 | 6.96 | CFA Strathewen Volunteer, Captain Dave McGahey speaking into microphone; then shrugging his shoulders and turning profile to camera | sync: ... I don’t think that the needs of the community up here have been addressed, but that’s just my personal opinion. IN sfx: applause/cheering | |||||
| 00:23:34:20 | 1.84 | MWS | People in crowd applauding, including Dini in central shot | BILL PUTT v/o: It’s no good ... OUT sfx: applause/cheering | ||||
| 00:23:36:16 | 3.96 | Profile Bill Putt being interviewed by another man | sync: ... having a house with trees growing around it and all that sort of stuff – er that’s ridiculous, ... | |||||
| 00:23:40:15 | 2.64 | CU | Profile man’s face, wearing baseball cap | off camera: ... you’ve got to get rid of all that stuff otherwise you’re dead. GEOFF RAFTERAY off camera: Just ... | ||||
| 00:23:43:06 | 4.64 | MCU | CFA Volunteer Geoff Rafteray wearing sunglasses and CFA cap being interviewed by Jon Faine | sync: ... clearing everything in sight does not guarantee you anything. You cannot eliminate all risk. | ||||
| 00:23:47:22 | 2.36 | WS | Strathewen community gathered within bush setting | JOHN FAINE off camera: Hello Dini. DINI off camera: I’m probably ... IN sfx: crowd conversation | ||||
| 00:23:50:06 | 6.76 | MS | ZOOM to MS John Faine interviewing Dini, her back to camera | sync: ... more concerned about the way that the coroner’s handled particularly the bodies that were identifiable. My … | Dini Shepherd | |||
| 00:23:57:00 | 3.32 | MCU | Woman resting her head in her hand, in thoughtful pose | off camera: ... son Danny was in his father’s car, so ... | ||||
| 00:24:00:08 | 23.76 | MCU | John Faine interiewing Dini Shepherd, her back to camera; Mary Avola comforting her | sync: ... they – they just left – left him to deteriorate, basically to rot and that’s - finding very, very hard to cope with. JOHN FAINE sync: So… DINI SHEPHERD sync: He’d only been married three months and his wife and his family had to cope with the fact that they didn’t care enough about our loved ones to keep them in a state that is preserved. And I’d like to know why that’s so. JOHN FAINE sync: You still want answers to those questions. DINI SHEPHERD sync:I need an answer to that, yes. OUT sfx: crowd conversation | ||||
| 00:24:24:02 | 3.16 | MWS | Strathewen community gathered in bush setting | |||||
| 00:24:27:06 | 8.8 | WS | Silhouette of bare tree branches over time -lapse photography of bright sun sinking through smoky haze and beyond shadowy hill | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Time alone won’t manage our grief. We need new rituals to bring us together. OUT: Music IN: Music | ||||
| 00:24:36:01 | 3.12 | Archival footage: Young woman with child following, entering room through darkened doorway; people gathered in room framed by opened door | IN sfx: crowd conversation | ABC | ABC Innovation | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:24:39:04 | 2.32 | MCU | Profile man ladelling soup | Soup night is a weekly respite ... | ||||
| 00:24:41:12 | 2.4 | MWS | People gathered in community room for soup night | ... from the strains of temporary living, ... | ||||
| 00:24:43:22 | 2.72 | MS | Denis eating soup | ... where for a couple of hours our upturned lives ... | ||||
| 00:24:46:15 | 3.2 | MCU | PAN up man sitting with thoughtful look on his face | ... seem almost normal. | ||||
| 00:24:49:20 | 1.56 | MS | Woman feeding soup to baby | |||||
| 00:24:51:09 | 2.28 | MS | Woman eating soup, speaking with couple | An unplanned intimacy is developing ... | ||||
| 00:24:53:16 | 1.92 | MS | Man eating soup, speaking with other man | ... between us. | ||||
| 00:24:55:14 | 4.76 | MWS | PAN across people gathered in community room for soup night | Soup night’s popularity soon leads ... OUT sfx: crowd conversation | ||||
| 00:25:00:08 | 4.92 | ECU | ZOOM to ECU hands knitting | ... to other projects. DINI v/o: We wanted to have ... OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:25:05:06 | 8.48 | MS | Dini sitting holding knitted chook | sync: ... all the children at school to get a chook, so they actually coloured in a picture of a chook and we tried to recreate it. | ||||
| 00:25:13:18 | 4.52 | CU | Hands knitting | v/o: The symbolism was that you could join all the broken ... | ||||
| 00:25:18:06 | 2.48 | ECU | Hands sewing together knitted wool | ... threads of your life together and still ... | ||||
| 00:25:20:18 | 10.16 | MCU | Dini to camera, head of chook almost visible | sync: ... make something beautiful. And that’s basically what I’m trying to do with my life, ‘cause it’s yeah – it – there’s a lot of broken threads to join together. | ||||
| 00:25:30:22 | 7.8 | MWS | Women gathered in illuminated area outside house at night | v/o: I’m obviously – I’m needing people a lot now so I’ve been joining in what I feel that I can cope ... sfx: laughter/women in conversation | ||||
| 00:25:38:17 | 3.08 | MS | Women gathered, sitting outside house knitting | ... with, like having the – the chook night here. IN sfx: women in conversation | ||||
| 00:25:41:19 | 2.52 | MWS | At night in illuminated living room, women gathered around table, knitting | And it’s - just shows you that a tragedy … | ||||
| 00:25:44:07 | 2.48 | CU | Woman’s smiling face | ... can bring everyone together. BARBARA JOYCE v/o: I think it was ... OUT sfx: women in conversation | ||||
| 00:25:46:19 | 2.68 | CU | Barbara Joyce to camera | sync: ... a perfect thing for people running on adrenalin ... | ||||
| 00:25:49:11 | 1.88 | CU | Dini Shepherd | off camera: ... because it made you sit still but ... | ||||
| 00:25:51:08 | 3.96 | CU | Barbara Joyce to camera | sync: ... my hands are very fast, and yeah a lot of that was adrenalin. | ||||
| 00:25:55:07 | 2.6 | CU | Hands knitting | off camera: Knitting’s great. DINI off camera: Oh ... | ||||
| 00:25:57:22 | 1.8 | MCU | Dini holding up her knitting | sync: ... bugger I’ve done it again. IN: laughter | ||||
| 00:25:59:17 | 1.64 | MS | Women seated around table knitting & laughing | |||||
| 00:26:01:08 | 7.84 | MWS | Steve Pascoe standing inside shed, silhouetted against mountains and countryside beyond | STEVE PASCOE v/o: Straight after the fire the women were getting together, ... OUT: Laughter | ||||
| 00:26:09:04 | 14.84 | MS | Steve Pascoe to camera | sync: ... talking, nurturing, caring, doing stuff together. Men without – without exception all got busy doing stuff on their – on their block. | Steve Pascoe Strathewen resident | |||
| 00:26:24:00 | 8.2 | MCU | Man leaning downwards, lowering tree trunk | v/o: Quite often by themselves, quite often isolated. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:26:32:05 | 1.4 | MS | Man using nail gun on wooden house frame | sfx: nail gun | ||||
| 00:26:33:15 | 6.84 | MWS | PAN Man carrying wooden frame and inserting within house structure | There’s a suggestion that we should be more open and – ... | ||||
| 00:26:40:11 | 3.8 | MCU | Steve Pascoe to camera | sync: ... and talk more about our – our issues and that sort of stuff. | ||||
| 00:26:44:06 | 9.92 | WS | Steve Pascoe working within shed | v/o: I know there’s a bunch of stuff that I haven’t touched yet that’s just parked in the background and I’ll get to it one day, but time manages that. | ||||
| 00:26:54:04 | 4.44 | MWS | Steve Pascoe using electric saw in shed, silhouetted against picturesque countryside beyond | IN sfx: electric saw | ||||
| 00:26:58:15 | 20.6 | WS | PAN Olee walking across his bush property | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Olee is unsure of how to go about rebuilding his house. He’ll never be allowed to recreate the kind of home he’d like and he can’t stomach the post fire regulations. OLEE v/o: It’s just paralysing. I’m not allowed to do anything until I get the official planning permit and then spend all me insurance money on a little kit home. OUT: Music OUT sfx: electric saw | ||||
| 00:27:19:05 | 5.64 | MWS | Olee sitting down on a box within his bush property | And I just got to look at it like a bad joke. | ||||
| 00:27:24:21 | 4 | ECU | Pouring milk from plastic milk container into cup of tea, hand moving tea cup | |||||
| 00:27:28:21 | 2.52 | WS | Olee sitting with companion outside caravan under shed roof | But I need a break, I need to ... | ||||
| 00:27:31:09 | 11.8 | CU | Slow ZOOM to CU Olee’s face | sync: ... look at things instead of living in this little whirlpool of you know think of all the things you’ve got to do. And you can’t prioritise and you can’t – you’re just in this constant panic. | ||||
| 00:27:43:04 | 7.2 | MS | Olee sitting in armchair outside of caravan; pointing to various areas around himself | You know like this – the rain blows in there, the rain drips in the door, everything gets wet and that’s … | ||||
| 00:27:50:09 | 2.08 | MWS | Ground shot of unfinished underside of shed roof | off camera: ... dry – but er .. | ||||
| 00:27:52:11 | 2.28 | MS | Olee sitting in armchair outside of caravan | sync: ... no it’s – it’s awful. sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:27:54:18 | 4.36 | MWS | Olee walking, leaning on ladder and looking out across bush property | v/o: Because there’s always so much to do you feel ... | ||||
| 00:27:59:02 | 6.36 | WS | Olee leaning on ladder against shed covering his caravan, possessions strewn across ground; dog in foreground | ... like you can’t go away and that’s pretty much how it is. | ||||
| 00:28:05:11 | 8.08 | MWS | Shane walking out from behind caravan; PULL BACK to MWS Shane walking towards van | NARRATOR (CELESTE): We’d all like to go somewhere where the fire hasn’t been. IN sfx: vehicle motor | ||||
| 00:28:13:13 | 3.72 | WS | Bron holding child waving goodbye to Shane as he drives away in van | sfx: saying goodbye | ||||
| 00:28:17:06 | 3.2 | MCU | Interior van, Shane driving, his face profiled to camera | Shane’s escape is his work ... OUT sfx: vehicle motor | ||||
| 00:28:20:11 | 4.36 | MWS | Shane standing with outstretched arms fully clothed in diving gear | ... as a freefall cinematographer. SHANE sync: I can literally fall out of a plane now, that’s fine. | ||||
| 00:28:24:20 | 2.48 | MS | Man peering through camera fixed to Shane’s helmet as Shane holds it in place | MAN sync: How’s the stills looking? | ||||
| 00:28:27:07 | 2.32 | MWS | Shane smiling and waving at entrance of aircraft | IN sfx: aircraft motor | ||||
| 00:28:29:15 | 1.36 | MCU | Roller door of aircraft closing | |||||
| 00:28:30:24 | 2.84 | WS | PAN aircraft zooming along runway | |||||
| 00:28:33:20 | 4.52 | ECU | Archival footage: Shane to camera within airborne aircraft | SHANE sync: We're at about 5 and a half thousand feet which is a little bit more than a mile high, ... | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:28:38:08 | 1.84 | MS | Archival footage: Interior aircraft; divers at open door of aircraft; others moving towards opening | off camera: ... we’re all going to throw ourselves ... | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:28:40:04 | 4.96 | EWS | Archival footage: PAN from view of clouds from aircraft; to divers falling towards outline of paddocks below | ... out of this er lovely XL750. OUT sfx: aircraft motor IN sfx: skydiver falling | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:28:45:03 | 2.44 | WS | Archival footage: PULL BACK tandem divers falling from aircraft and into mid air; aircraft flying out of shot | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:28:47:14 | 4.48 | Archival footage: Aerial PAN EWS across ground below; PAN upwards to parachute twirling around above attached cables | sfx: yelling | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:28:52:01 | 5.2 | EWS | From ground shot parachute falling from cloudy sky | v/o: Never get sick of that, it’s so much fun. | ||||
| 00:28:57:06 | 18.8 | CU | Archival footage: Shane suspended from parachute, in mid air, to camera | sync: I actually er – put taking risks like that down to helping us out on a day of what happened to us. It’s true. When you put yourself under a lot of stress in a controlled situation, it might help you out. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:29:16:01 | 4.44 | Archival footage: Aerial PAN across ground below; including CU Shane’s dangling legs; PAN EWS to ground and across to waterways and countryside beyond | off camera: Skydiving’s helped me a lot to have gotten through ... | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | ||
| 00:29:20:12 | 5.56 | CU | Archival footage: Shane to camera; suspended from parachute cables | sync: ... and of course my lovely family. By the way thanks for letting us go, Bron and Dom and Lola. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:29:26:01 | 2.2 | EWS | Archival footage: ZOOM to ground below | off camera: I’ll see you on the ground. | Shane Sparkes | Shane Sparkes | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:29:28:06 | 4.04 | ZOOM to Shane descending on parachute; out of shot | OUT sfx: skydiver falling | |||||
| 00:29:32:07 | 4.72 | WS | Child standing at Strathewen P.S. wall sign | NARRATOR (CELESTE): After months of consultation, ... IN sfx: children talking | ||||
| 00:29:37:00 | 2.8 | WS | Strathewen school community group gathered on school site | ... plans for rebuilding the school are presented ... | ||||
| 00:29:39:20 | 3.32 | MS | PAN Jane Hayward indicating with outstretched arm standing alongside Architect | ... to Jane and the school community. ARCHITECT off camera: So pretty much where … | ||||
| 00:29:43:03 | 3.88 | MWS | Strathewen school community group standing on school site | ... that bit of metal on the ground is the - the line of that wall. | ||||
| 00:29:47:00 | 5.16 | MS | Jane Hayward between Strathewen school community members, their backs to camera | JANE HAYWARD sync: So basically the most of the – the school is – is where we’ve never been before, that’s – isn’t it ... OUT sfx: children talking | ||||
| 00:29:52:04 | 1.64 | MCU | Strathewen school community members huddled closely together | off camera: ... really? WOMAN off camera: Yes. JANE HAYWARD off camera: Quick teacher ... | ||||
| 00:29:53:20 | 6.12 | MS | Jane Hayward pointing to plans, within Strathewen school community members | sync: ... question? ARCHITECT sync: Yes. JANE HAYWARD sync: Does this hallway lend itself to beautiful display area? ARCHITECT sync: Absolutely. JANE HAYWARD sync: Oof! | ||||
| 00:29:59:23 | 4.04 | EWS | Through smoky haze city of Melbourne on horizon | IN: Music | ||||
| 00:30:03:24 | 9.08 | EWS | PAN across EWS countryside to house construction site with huge concrete slab; people working around perimeter | BRON off camera: Today we are pouring our slab so we’ve had three days of ... | ||||
| 00:30:13:01 | 2.28 | MWS | Bron to camera alongside concrete slab of building site | sync: ... pretty intense work to get to this point. | ||||
| 00:30:15:08 | 4.68 | WS | Bron and children sprinkling quartz onto wet concrete slab of house construction site; workers at far end of slab | We’re just decorating the bathroom floor. | ||||
| 00:30:20:00 | 2.04 | MS | Dom sprinkling quartz across wet concrete | off camera: A bit of quartz ... | ||||
| 00:30:22:01 | 4.24 | CU | PAN to Lola grabbing quartz contained in her pullover and throwing | ... so that we’ve got a pretty floor. | ||||
| 00:30:26:07 | 2.12 | MWS | Shane throwing quartz across concrete and Bron moving behind him | sync: We’ve got to do our coins. | ||||
| 00:30:28:10 | 8.84 | MWS | Bron checking coins in her hand; Shane sprinkling quartz | They reckon that it’s good luck to put erm – CEMENT WORKER off camera: The Turkish do, they put like thousands of dollars in there. BRON sync: Yeah well I reckon $3.50’s enough. sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:30:37:06 | 4.2 | MWS | Dom throwing quartz across house foundations; Shane alongside shaking his hand | SHANE sync: Good luck Dom. | ||||
| 00:30:41:11 | 2.48 | MCU | Unfocussed image of profile of two men; beyond clear image of Lola holding camera | OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:30:43:23 | 5.68 | MS | Shane holding up camera piece; Bron standing alongside with Dom in front | That was my main camera. It’s a Hasselblad, it had a 40mm lens on it. | ||||
| 00:30:49:15 | 5.16 | CU | Concrete covered boots stepping across concrete foundation slab; shovelling concrete | off camera: That’s going in the slab. The slab technically is a ... sfx: shovelling concrete | ||||
| 00:30:54:19 | 14.08 | MS | Shane holding up camera piece; Bron standing alongside with Dom in front | sync: ... very, very important thing because it’s the foundations of everything and – and it’ll be here for er – yeah what we’ve designed is going to last 100 years. BRON sync: More than 100 years. SHANE sync: Well yeah. It’ll last a long time – it’ll be a safe and happy place. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:31:08:21 | 4.44 | MWS | PAN Shane stepping across and bending down to place camera piece within concrete foundation slab | v/o: So this is the beginning of that. | ||||
| 00:31:13:07 | 12.16 | MCU | PAN Dom walking around house construction site | BRON off camera: It’s Dom’s birthday tomorrow, he turns 4 so er in his short life he’s seen a – a lot of changes and I think that this’ll be a good birthday present for his fourth birthday. He knows where his bedroom’s going to be. IN sfx: shovelling concrete | ||||
| 00:31:25:11 | 6.16 | MCU | Shane and Bron | SHANE sync: Throw in a few er little mementos of – of luck and thought. BRON sync: He threw the coins in, then he wanted them back. IN: laughter | ||||
| 00:31:31:15 | 3.76 | MS | Dom standing at edge of concrete house foundation, holding arms to his chest | off camera: Said he liked them. OUT: Music OUT: laughter OUT sfx: shovelling concrete | ||||
| 00:31:35:09 | 3.96 | MWS | PAN across tractor scooping soil at side of house | IN sfx: earthmoving machinery | ||||
| 00:31:39:08 | 3.2 | MWS | Man operating tractor in front of brick house, his back to camera | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Denis’s house is nearing completion. | ||||
| 00:31:42:13 | 17.12 | WS | PAN Denis and Susie walking out from caravan across ground nearby | Just as life in the van is getting crowded. Susie, one of Strathewen’s Disaster Relief workers has moved in. DENIS v/o: You see all these silly TV movies where people fall in love on first sight, well yeah what a lot of crap. OUT sfx: earthmoving machinery | ||||
| 00:31:59:16 | 18.92 | MCU | Denis to camera; PAN across to CU Susie, to camera | sync: Well unfortunately it happened to us. SUSIE off camera: Maybe not quite. DENIS sync: Not so much ... off camera: ... the love bit but – SUSIE sync: No. DENIS off camera: Not – not initially. No. SUSIE sync: But we definitely connected that first day. I mean we just – you know we sat down and we talked for ages didn’t we? And er we’re just totally at ease with each other from being yeah complete strangers. sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:32:18:14 | 3.84 | MS | Denis sitting at the table inside caravan | off camera: But I was worried and it’s so easy for a – ... | ||||
| 00:32:22:10 | 6.76 | MCU | Susie to camera | sync: ... a worker of any kind and – and somebody that they’re involved with to think that they’ve fallen in love. But it’s er ... | ||||
| 00:32:29:04 | 4.84 | MCU | Denis, his hand resting against side of head | off camera: ... possibly just each person grasping at something to give them comfort. | ||||
| 00:32:34:00 | 11.32 | CU | PAN from CU Susie to MCU Denis | sync: But I think time has proven that that’s not the case. If it was I think that would’ve well and truly – DENIS off camera: It would’ve died in this place. SUSIE sync: Worn off by - ... off camera: ... by now especially. sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:32:45:08 | 3.16 | MS | Denis and Susie in caravan to camera, Susie with laptop | sync: So ... DENIS sync: I get horribly … SUSIE sync: ... he’s definitely what keeps me here. | ||||
| 00:32:48:12 | 5.04 | WS | Susie and Denis embracing in cleared grounds in front of their new house | |||||
| 00:32:53:13 | 3.48 | MWS | Car parked at side of Dini’s house in bush setting | |||||
| 00:32:57:00 | 12.36 | MS | Dini walking MCU to camera; PAN Dini walking across living room with baby’s bottle; leaning into box and lifting out baby wombat | DINI sync: Here little boy, time for your bottle, yeah? How are you? That’s a good boy. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:33:09:09 | 5.2 | CU | Dini stroking and nuzzling baby wombat | off camera: Come on, do you want your bottle, hey? | ||||
| 00:33:14:14 | 7.2 | MS | Dini carrying baby wombat and sitting on couch ready to feed with bottle | sync: He’s a good boy. Hey. | ||||
| 00:33:21:19 | 5.8 | CU | Baby wombat drinking milk from bottle | off camera: Takes a lot of work to get a little wombat back into the wild again when you’ve got ... | ||||
| 00:33:27:14 | 4.6 | CU | Baby wombat pulling away from milk teat | ... one that’s been orphaned. When he was handed to me ... | ||||
| 00:33:32:04 | 10.68 | MS | Dini seated holding wombat, to camera | sync: ... she – the people said what you need now is something to love and something to laugh at. And she said you need a wombat. And that was the best … | ||||
| 00:33:42:21 | 3.8 | MCU | Baby wombat held in Dini’s arms | off camera: ... thing to have, this little creature to look after. You laughed at it ‘cause once they ... | ||||
| 00:33:46:16 | 4.64 | MS | Dini seated holding wombat, to camera | sync: ... get mobile they are just so funny. You see him now starting to attack his little toy … | ||||
| 00:33:51:07 | 9.72 | MCU | Slow ZOOM to MCU baby wombat nuzzling toy penguin | off camera: ... and it’s all so wobbly and daggy and funny and it’s, yeah, it’s just gorgeous. OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:34:01:00 | 3.44 | WS | PAN across student group following Dom | NARRATOR (CELESTE): My partner Dom has devised an ... | ||||
| 00:34:04:11 | 3.8 | MWS | Group of students walking across camera | ... excursion to Strathewen to give his school students an insight ... | ||||
| 00:34:08:06 | 3.44 | WS | Assembled group of students | ... into our world. DOM off camera: There’s a whole new lesson today ... | ||||
| 00:34:11:17 | 1.72 | MS | Dom giving talk | sync: ... and that’s about empathy. | ||||
| 00:34:13:10 | 4.96 | MS | Young male students, one wearing sunglasses | off camera: Empathy is where you really try to put yourself in the shoes ... | ||||
| 00:34:18:09 | 2.68 | MWS | From POV behind students, Dom speaking to them | sync: ... of another person and ... | ||||
| 00:34:21:01 | 6.56 | MS | PAN across students listening to Dom’s address | off camera: ... think about what life is like for them. What I hope to do is show you that human beings can experience dark times, ... | ||||
| 00:34:27:15 | 3.56 | ECU | Dom’s face | sync: ... but we’ve got this amazing ability to pull ourselves out of the dark ... | ||||
| 00:34:31:04 | 3.04 | MS | Young student in red t-shirt | off camera: ... and try to just look for those little cracks ... | ||||
| 00:34:34:05 | 7.08 | ECU | Dom talking, gesticulating | sync: ... of light and go towards them and – and search for happiness. And that’s what Strathewen are doing now and it’s really, it’s a struggle, it’s really hard. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:34:41:07 | 1.32 | MWS | Dom standing at top of stairs speaking with assembled students | So let’s walk. | ||||
| 00:34:42:15 | 4.72 | EWS | Students walking along road through bush past Strathewen PS sign | v/o: But remembering that you – we’re going to cross people’s places that are ... IN sfx: Students in conversation | ||||
| 00:34:47:08 | 2.52 | WS | Group of students walking along road through bush, away from country | ... deceased and are friends of mine so ... | ||||
| 00:34:49:21 | 3.24 | WS | Group of students walking up dirt road through burnt forest area, towards and past camera | ... you know just keep it cool today, okay? OUT sfx: Students in conversation | ||||
| 00:34:53:02 | 2.2 | MCU | Burnt tractor wreck beyond fence | OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:34:55:07 | 9.8 | MCU | Dom standing alongside Denis; ZOOM to MCU Denis | sync: Oh and this is my - my students from year 8 at St Helena. DENIS sync: Yeah it’s good. As you might know, I lost my house on Saturday the 7th. | ||||
| 00:35:05:02 | 13.48 | MWS | Dom seated on grass with students; PAN to MCU Denis speaking; burnt forest in background | off camera: It was a miscommunication of how my wife and ... sync: ... my son got separated from – from myself. I managed to get up to middle Kinglake and survive up at there but they went back to the old house and that’s where they – they perished unfortunately. | ||||
| 00:35:18:14 | 3.28 | MCU | Young female student looking downcast | off camera: But life is ... | ||||
| 00:35:21:21 | 10.44 | MS | Denis speaking; burnt forest in background | sync: ... sort of slowly getting back to normal er if you can call life er normal, without your partner for so long. Erm yeah. IN: Music | ||||
| 00:35:32:07 | 4.08 | PAN from Dom to CU Denis | DOM sync: Yeah maybe we’ll keep moseying along. DENIS sync: Yeah. DOM sync: Thank you Denis. | |||||
| 00:35:36:09 | 2.8 | EWS | Students walking uphill on dirt road through fire devastated countryside | sfx: Students in conversation | ||||
| 00:35:39:04 | 2.24 | WS | Exterior Strathewen school surrounded by trees | OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:35:41:10 | 1.84 | MCU | Young boy moving MCU towards camera | NARRATOR (CELESTE): The Strathewen kids are still ... IN sfx: Students in conversation | ||||
| 00:35:43:06 | 2.28 | PAN school child walking towards entrance of school; another young child climbing up entrance steps | ... in their temporary school. | |||||
| 00:35:45:13 | 2.52 | Woman walking with toddler and child in front of her towards camera | Many families remain displaced. OUT sfx: Students in conversation | |||||
| 00:35:48:01 | 2.24 | MS | PAN young girl walking disappearing beyond bushes | So with Christmas approaching ... | ||||
| 00:35:50:07 | 2.24 | Dini walking towards camera carry chooks; PAN Dini walking past students standing outside school | ... the knitters are keen to present each child ... IN sfx: noisy classroom | |||||
| 00:35:52:13 | 2.64 | MS | Women carrying chooks walking through classroom entrance | ... with their own special chook. | ||||
| 00:35:55:04 | 3 | WS | PAN across busy classroom with women with chooks and children sitting on floor | |||||
| 00:35:58:04 | 3.32 | MCU | Women in classroom | JANE HAYWARD off camera: So everybody all designed your chickens. OUT sfx: noisy classroom IN: Music | ||||
| 00:36:01:12 | 1.72 | MS | Jane Hayward holding up picture of chook with woman alongside her | sync: That was the pattern. | ||||
| 00:36:03:05 | 1.8 | MS | ZOOM to MS Dini and other women standing in classroom smiling | off camera: I do a little bit of knitting and to me ... | ||||
| 00:36:05:00 | 1.76 | MS | Jane Hayward holding picture of chook, other woman standing alongside | sync: ... that’s not the easiest thing in the world. sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:36:06:19 | 2.4 | CU | PAN from Jane to chook being held forward | off camera: So Lachie, ... | ||||
| 00:36:09:04 | 3.16 | PAN woman throwing chook across classroom to Lachie; Lachie spinning chook around in his hands | ... like my chicken? IN sfx: laughter/applause | |||||
| 00:36:12:08 | 4.88 | MS | PAN from woman holding chook next to picture, then passing chook to child | WOMAN KNITTER sync: Does it look like it? | ||||
| 00:36:17:05 | 2.16 | PAN woman throwing chook across classroom to MCU young boy | ||||||
| 00:36:19:09 | 3.6 | Young child reaching across woman seated, grabbing her chook; PAN child sitting down with her chook | ||||||
| 00:36:22:24 | 0.76 | CU | Young girl with her chook, smiling, profiled to camera | |||||
| 00:36:23:18 | 1.64 | MCU | Young boys making their chooks ‘fight’ each other | |||||
| 00:36:25:09 | 2.44 | Chook being thrown into shot and caught by young girl in classroom; PAN to child leaning sideways with her chook and turning to say thank you | STUDENT sync: Thank you. | |||||
| 00:36:27:20 | 2.56 | MWS | ZOOM to woman holding chook in extended arms, child walking into shot and accepting chook | |||||
| 00:36:30:09 | 1.76 | PAN from Dini throwing chook across classroom to young boy within students sitting on floor | ||||||
| 00:36:32:03 | 0.96 | CU | Young girl | |||||
| 00:36:33:02 | 9.88 | PAN across classroom to woman handing chook to Jane; women embracing; Jane bending over with laughter | JANE HAYWARD sync: Oh this looks gorgeous. WOMAN KNITTER off camera: We want to see your drawing Jane. OUT: Music OUT sfx: laughter/applause | |||||
| 00:36:42:24 | 7.4 | WS | PAN across firemen gathered between fire trucks on green grassy area | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Summer’s here, bringing a new fire season, ... IN: Music IN sfx: Firemen in conversation | ||||
| 00:36:50:09 | 1.64 | MCU | PAN CFA volunteer climbing up side of fire truck | ... triggering fears ... | ||||
| 00:36:52:00 | 2 | MCU | Men; one turning his head away from camera; other’s face profiled to camera | ... and anxiety. OUT sfx: Firemen in conversation | ||||
| 00:36:54:00 | 10.48 | MWS | PULL BACK Celeste walking through green bush towards camera | But some things are thriving in the wake of the fire. This massive green was ash less than 12 months ago. | ||||
| 00:37:04:12 | 5.2 | Torn flag framed between MCU tree trunks; green rolling hills beyond | It’s expected that people too should’ve moved forward by now ... | |||||
| 00:37:09:17 | 2.4 | WS | Temporary housing alongside caravan uphill from and surrounded by burnt trees | ... but rebuilding is slow ... | ||||
| 00:37:12:02 | 4.12 | WS | Wooden frame of house built within bush and hills beyond | ... and decisions are harder to make when you’re traumatised and grieving. | ||||
| 00:37:16:05 | 2.36 | WS | Shed frame within sparsely vegetated trees | |||||
| 00:37:18:14 | 6.04 | WS | Celeste sitting within burnt forest at sunset; soft colours across the sky | I think of leaving this place and all its hardships but I can’t. | ||||
| 00:37:24:15 | 3.28 | EWS | City of Melbourne beyond charred trees silhouetted against smoky orangy sky | |||||
| 00:37:27:22 | 4.92 | MWS | Celeste sitting within bush vegetation; darkened trees in background | My own recovery is now linked to the people that I care about. | ||||
| 00:37:32:20 | 2.32 | MS | Lola playing with her dolls house; her back to camera | |||||
| 00:37:35:03 | 3.4 | CU | Lola turning and holding up miniature doll | LOLA sync: This is myself. OUT: Music IN sfx: Lola playing with dolls house | ||||
| 00:37:38:13 | 2.2 | CU | PAN Lola leaning towards dolls house | BRON v/o: Lola’s done really well. | ||||
| 00:37:40:18 | 1.16 | Lola’s hands lifting out piece of dolls furniture; out of shot | ||||||
| 00:37:41:22 | 4.48 | MCU | Lola examining dolls house furniture, pulling out drawer of vanity unit | I think the biggest change is that she can play by herself. | ||||
| 00:37:46:09 | 4.36 | CU | Lola reaching into dolls house and playing with miniature dolls | Last Christmas she asked Santa for ... OUT sfx: Lola playing with dolls house | ||||
| 00:37:50:18 | 7.12 | MCU | Bron to camera | sync: ... dolls and – and furniture for her dolls house which we’d got at a relief centre soon after the fires. And she would never play with it. | ||||
| 00:37:57:21 | 4.2 | CU | Cross section interior dolls house with furnishings in each room | v/o: No one was allowed to touch it and if anything was knocked over it’d be ... | ||||
| 00:38:02:01 | 2.56 | CU | Interior room of dolls house with doll lying on couch | ... the end of the world, and she had to control that ... | ||||
| 00:38:04:15 | 1.48 | CU | Aerial shot interior dolls house, kitchen table with fruit bowl and flower arrangement | ... space. And ... | ||||
| 00:38:06:02 | 9.12 | MCU | Bron to camera | sync: ... I think she’d had so much taken away from her including feeling safe and she lost all control. | ||||
| 00:38:15:05 | 14.6 | CU | Lola playing with dolls house; leaning back and looking towards camera | v/o: She saw a psychologist who in a matter of a couple of short sessions managed to kind of unlock her. Lola was able to talk about things that she hadn’t been able to talk about with anyone. IN sfx: Lola playing with dolls house | ||||
| 00:38:29:20 | 9.92 | CU | Lola grabbing one of the miniature dolls; PAN up cross section of dolls house to doll being placed in one of the rooms | LOLA off camera: Not just the only one with brown hair. BRON v/o: Now she’ll sit down and she’ll play and she’ll make up stories for the family and the little children and the parents and ... OUT sfx: Lola playing with dolls house | ||||
| 00:38:39:18 | 4.56 | MCU | Bron to camera | sync: ... play out some of those scary things that she had within her. | ||||
| 00:38:44:07 | 11.44 | MCU | PAN from Lola reaching to attic of dolls house, down side of house to ponies on floor | LOLA sync: That’s the attic where I put lots and lots of things. BRON v/o: She didn’t know how to deal with it before hand and now I think she’s got some tools. | ||||
| 00:38:55:18 | 4.68 | MCU | Lola sitting with arms around her knees; smiling and talking | LOLA sync: And that’s the end of the story. | ||||
| 00:39:00:10 | 13.84 | MWS | PAN Dini approaching kindergarten beyond fence, opening child-proof gates and approaching open door of classroom | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Work is an important part of Dini’s recovery. She’s been teaching at the same kinder outside of Strathewen for 37 years. DINI v/o: If I … | ||||
| 00:39:14:06 | 10.4 | WS | Dini working with children in kindergarten room | sync: ... give you a margarine container, would you be able to scrape all those… (trails out) DINI v/o: I was actually told after the fires don’t go back to work too quickly because it could be too stressful. IN sfx: children playing | ||||
| 00:39:24:16 | 6.6 | MS | Dini seated in kindergarten room, speaking to young girl | But the kindergarten eased me back into it so beautifully. sync: I had Ander instead of Amber. v/o: If I came into ... OUT sfx: children playing | ||||
| 00:39:31:06 | 7.72 | MCU | Dini to camera; lyrebird feathers behind her | sync: ... the room full of parents their concern for you was – was erm almost that you could feel it. | ||||
| 00:39:38:24 | 9.52 | WS | PULL BACK WS Dini moving around kindergarten room | How are you going Yvonne? Good. v/o: I just got panic attacks so they were told you can hug but don’t talk. ‘Cause there are times where ... sfx: children playing | ||||
| 00:39:48:12 | 6.04 | MS | Dini to camera; lyrebird feathers arrangement behind her | sync: ... yeah it does overwhelm you and you do feel that loss but on the other hand if I didn’t come here and do this ... | ||||
| 00:39:54:13 | 6.2 | MS | Slow ZOOM to Dini with kindergarten children; extending hands to one little girl | v/o: ... I would be a total wreck. It’s my little sanity thing ‘cause the kids ... IN sfx: children playing | ||||
| 00:40:00:18 | 1.92 | MCU | Young boy in front of wall with hand prints and stick figure drawings | ... are just gorgeous. I love working ... | ||||
| 00:40:02:16 | 5.68 | MWS | Dini walking in kindergarten playground, watching child coming down slide | ... with this age group. sync: Okay show me. Whoa! Rohan, how good was that? OUT sfx: children playing | ||||
| 00:40:08:08 | 5.72 | EWS | Bron & Shane’s house partially constructed; Bron on scissor lift painting under eaves | BRON v/o: I really want to get into this house ... IN sfx: painting wooden eaves | ||||
| 00:40:14:01 | 3.44 | WS | From inside unfinished house, through window frames, Bron painting eaves | ... ‘cause it feels like life’s kind of been on hold for ... | ||||
| 00:40:17:12 | 3.32 | MWS | From inside unfinished house, through window frames, Bron painting eaves | ... such a long time now. OUT sfx: painting wooden eaves | ||||
| 00:40:20:20 | 2.52 | WS | Bron standing in scissor lift painting under eaves of house | And I’m looking forward to ... | ||||
| 00:40:23:08 | 20.24 | MCU | Looking up at Bron painting eaves; to camera | sync: ... taking my daughter to ballet, doing normal things that normal – normal mums and dads do with their kids. Yeah we take our children to psychologists. | ||||
| 00:40:43:14 | 5.2 | MWS | From inside unfinished house, through window frames, Bron painting eaves | v/o: A lot of people say are things getting ... | ||||
| 00:40:48:19 | 3.24 | MS | Bron standing within scissor lift painting house eaves; to camera | sync: ... back to normal and it’s like they’re so far from normal, ... | ||||
| 00:40:52:00 | 11.56 | MWS | Bron standing within scissor lift painting house eaves; to camera | ... I don’t know if you can ever really move on from this. Like it’s – if you’re moving on from it you’re kind of turning your back on what’s happened and denying it in a way. | ||||
| 00:41:03:14 | 8 | WS | From ground, Bron standing within scissor lift painting house eaves; mist across trees beyond | v/o: People can say you know you’re moving on. Yeah I’m moving on, I’m going to … | ||||
| 00:41:11:14 | 11.84 | MWS | Bron standing within scissor lift indicating various areas with pointed finger; then roller painting eaves | sync: ... paint these and then I’m going to move onto the next cement sheet. That’s how I’m moving on – physically! sfx: roller painting | ||||
| 00:41:23:10 | 3.76 | EWS | Celeste walking across cleared yard towards Denis & Susie’s house entrance | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Denis and Susie are the first in Strathewen ... | ||||
| 00:41:27:04 | 2.76 | MS | Slow ZOOM to Celeste being greeted at opened screen door; her back to camera | ... to move into a new house. DENIS v/o: Well ... | ||||
| 00:41:29:23 | 6.4 | MWS | Celeste walking with Denis and Susie into main room; Celeste walking out of LS; PAN Denis and Susie walking within room | sync: ... this is the formal loungeroom er which is starting to come together. SUSIE sync: Mm. DENIS sync: Yeah. | ||||
| 00:41:36:08 | 3.44 | MS | PAN Denis and Susie walking within living room; Susie walking out of RS; Denis looking across room | CELESTE off camera: How’s it been for you Susie? Like, is it ... | ||||
| 00:41:39:19 | 5.6 | MS | PULL BACK MS Susie within living room | ... awkward. You know you’re coming in and people have had long standing relationships with Marilyn. | ||||
| 00:41:45:09 | 2.6 | ECU | Denis | Is there an other woman sort of thing or you - | ||||
| 00:41:47:24 | 11.24 | MS | Susie within living room; to camera | DENIS off camera: (whispers) Sometimes. CELESTE off camera: How do you manage that? SUSIE sync: Oh look there are a couple of people and I would say literally only a couple of people who have probably made me feel that ... sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:41:59:05 | 10.04 | CU | Denis to camera | off camera: ... way. Some people find change difficult, it’s hard for them to – to move on. DENIS sync: Well Susie wasn’t – Susie wasn’t the only one to feel that effect, it er – some of the attitudes towards me changed a little bit. | ||||
| 00:42:09:06 | 3.8 | MWS | Denis and Susie walking into new kitchen | |||||
| 00:42:13:01 | 3.48 | MS | Denis and Susie at bench making coffee | |||||
| 00:42:16:13 | 2.92 | MS | Susie drinking coffee in kitchen | off camera: Since er we’ve ... | ||||
| 00:42:19:11 | 7.84 | MCU | Denis to camera | sync: ... moved into the house only ourselves come up here and that’s been a little bit puzzling because I’m still the same person. | ||||
| 00:42:27:07 | 3.4 | EWS | View through window of picturesque hilly countryside | IN: Music | ||||
| 00:42:30:17 | 13.6 | EWS | Archival footage: Time lapse series of shots of Strathewen school rebuild project | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Rebuilding Strathewen Primary is a massive project and an important symbol for our community’s future. | Dept of Education | Department of Education videovision.com.au | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:42:44:07 | 3.76 | EWS | Archival still: Workers alongside Strathewen school building site | It’s been almost two years since the fire ... | Dept of Education | Department of Education videovision.com.au | Use of footage approved by copyright holder | |
| 00:42:48:01 | 4.64 | MWS | Jane Hayward and women helpers cleaning up room in school | ... and Jane and her team have been working tirelessly to reopen our school. IN sfx: people in conversation | ||||
| 00:42:52:17 | 5.24 | MS | Jane in discussion with another woman, both wearing bright red safety vests | JANE HAYWARD sync: If we go that way then the pavers’ll be facing the same way but you won’t get any lines. OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:42:57:23 | 1.76 | MWS | Woman lowering trolley laden with boxes from removalist truck | |||||
| 00:42:59:17 | 2.8 | MWS | Tradesman drilling in doorway of school room | NARRATOR (CELESTE): The move back is a mix of ... sfx: electric drill OUT sfx: people in conversation | ||||
| 00:43:02:12 | 2.88 | MS | Jane Hayward standing profiled to camera within school grounds | ... anticipation and sadness ... IN sfx: stacking pavers | ||||
| 00:43:05:09 | 2.36 | CU | Pavers inscribed with names | ... for the people we have lost. MAN off camera: You got a ... | ||||
| 00:43:07:18 | 4.84 | MWS | Man stacking pavers | sync: ... paver here Celeste. CELESTE off camera: I have. MAN sync: For your family, that’s good. OUT sfx: stacking pavers | ||||
| 00:43:12:14 | 2.32 | ECU | Man’s head leaning forwards ECU to camera | There’s some beauties here. They’re ... | ||||
| 00:43:14:22 | 9.48 | Man lifting up pavers, holding one towards camera, and stacking in vehicle tray | ... just going to basically get sprinkled through the path. That – that’s all we got left. IN sfx: stacking pavers sfx: half crying | |||||
| 00:43:24:09 | 3.68 | ECU | Inscribed pavers | off camera: Oh it shits me off. OUT sfx: stacking pavers | ||||
| 00:43:28:01 | 4.88 | MCU | PAN aross handmade flags with letters spelling Strathewen | IN sfx: children talking | ||||
| 00:43:32:23 | 2.64 | WS | Cars in car park | |||||
| 00:43:35:14 | 2.96 | MWS | PULL BACK children walking up pathway towards camera | IN: Music | ||||
| 00:43:38:13 | 2.52 | CU | Inscribed paver ‘Kasey Wood 2010’ | |||||
| 00:43:41:01 | 2.56 | CU | Inscribed pavers ‘May the waves be with you’ and ‘Gail & Karen ...’ | |||||
| 00:43:43:15 | 3.56 | Inscribed pavers ‘McIver Family Nunquam Obliviscar’ and ‘I will never forget 7-2-2009’ | OUT sfx: children talking | |||||
| 00:43:47:04 | 5.08 | MS | Celeste with children in doorway; squatting down pulling off daughter’s shoe | LUELLA sync: Looks quite awesome. CELESTE sync: Looks quite awesome. JANE HAYWARD v/o: Yep your bag goes ... sfx: velcro shoe strap | ||||
| 00:43:52:06 | 4.88 | MCU | PAN from Jane Hayward in classroom to student; back to Jane pushing container under bench | sync: ... in and then your locker’s on top. And everybody’s ... off camera: ... carry bag’s in there to take home. | ||||
| 00:43:57:03 | 2 | MS | PAN Jane Hayward walking in classroom, turning back | sync: Did you see we’ve got our own whiteboard? | ||||
| 00:43:59:03 | 3.16 | MWS | ZOOM children walking towards Jane Hayward indicating use of whiteboard | There’s a special tool so it’s no writing on it. | ||||
| 00:44:02:07 | 5.04 | Adults and children looking around in new classroom | IN sfx: classroom students & visitors | |||||
| 00:44:07:08 | 2.24 | MWS | Adults and children in new classroom | |||||
| 00:44:09:14 | 1.8 | CU | Young children checking decorated classroom wall | |||||
| 00:44:11:09 | 3.64 | PAN policeman walking towards school entrance | v/o: So these’ll ... | |||||
| 00:44:15:00 | 5.52 | MS | PAN Jane Hayward walking through classrooms indicating features; PAN back to policeman following | sync: ... all be shuttered down. They’ll all be sealed, that’ll all be sealed, everything. | ||||
| 00:44:20:13 | 2.4 | MS | Jane Hayward and policeman in conversation | POLICEMAN sync: What about the alarms… JANE HAYWARD sync: Yeah we’re all alarmed. | ||||
| 00:44:22:23 | 2.48 | MS | Jane Hayward between man and woman; Jane pointing | Big Variety Club playground’ll go down here. | ||||
| 00:44:25:10 | 3.96 | MS | PAN from children in library section of classroom to two children lying on carpeted floor, laughing | sfx: students laughing | ||||
| 00:44:29:09 | 2.76 | MS | Two young children lying on brightly coloured couches reading | OUT sfx: classroom students & visitors | ||||
| 00:44:32:03 | 3.56 | EWS | Exterior new Strathewen school within country setting | v/o: We’re going to do a little bit of a ... OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:44:35:17 | 3.44 | MCU | Jane Hayward | sync: ... writing workshop this morning and a little bit of a revisit. | ||||
| 00:44:39:03 | 2.88 | MCU | Young boy listening in class | off camera: This is one of those chances where you can just ... | ||||
| 00:44:42:00 | 2.56 | MCU | Young boy and girl in classroom | ... put down what you’re thinking and if you ... | ||||
| 00:44:44:14 | 2.2 | MCU | Jane Hayward | sync: ... don’t want to share that, that’s fine. | ||||
| 00:44:46:19 | 2.52 | MS | Students sitting on floor in front of desks | off camera: What’s changed for you? IN: Music | ||||
| 00:44:49:07 | 1.6 | MWS | Jane Hayward seated on chair addressing students sitting on floor of classroom; Jayne indicating umbrella shape with her raised arms | sync: That’s kind of the whole umbrella. | ||||
| 00:44:50:22 | 3.28 | Whiteboard with questions e.g. What’s changed for you? Have you changed? Has the way you think about things changed? Has your life changed at all? | off camera: Has your life changed at all? | |||||
| 00:44:54:04 | 1.6 | WS | Jane Hayward sitting with children in class | sync: Off you go everybody. | ||||
| 00:44:55:19 | 3.24 | CU | PAN from child’s hands ruling margin in exercise book, to child seated at classroom table | |||||
| 00:44:59:00 | 4.72 | CU | PAN from young girl to young boy leaning over desk | |||||
| 00:45:03:18 | 2.16 | MWS | Jane Hayward leaning over student seated at classroom table | |||||
| 00:45:05:22 | 2.64 | MCU | Jane Hayward sitting with young boy in classroom | Are the same people living next door to you? | ||||
| 00:45:08:13 | 2.92 | MWS | Jane Hayward leaning towards young girl seated at classroom table; others working in background | Yeah so they’re two big things aren’t they? | ||||
| 00:45:11:11 | 4.08 | ECU | Beyond ECU face profile, child’s writing in exercise book | YOUNG GIRL off camera: I think about my friends differently ... OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:45:15:13 | 4.68 | MS | Students sitting in discussion on classroom floor | sync: ... and feel lucky to have them. JANE HAYWARD off camera: Absolutely. | ||||
| 00:45:20:05 | 1.04 | ECU | Jane Hayward’s face profile, facing towards whiteboard | sync: Sunday. | ||||
| 00:45:21:06 | 11.84 | CU | Young girl speaking | SUNDAY sync: Well if I just like go outside I say bye – like hug my mum and dad ‘cause anything could happen. JANE HAYWARD off camera: Gracie. GRACIE off camera: When … | ||||
| 00:45:33:02 | 44.32 | CU | PAN from one student to another telling a story; child becoming emotional, being hugged by nearby student | ... the fire was at our house there was like ... sync: ... a car out the front on the road with a video camera and taking like videoing the fire and we were trying to get its attention, ‘cause we needed help like the house is on fire and everything. And then once we got out from – on the fire truck we went – we got to the pub because that’s where all the cars were lined up where the policemens – all the police had stopped them, and me and dad went in the pub and we had to tell all these people their houses were gone and everything. And erm everyone was like crying and – JANE HAYWARD off camera: It was a pretty awful day wasn’t it? What about with sleeping now. How do you all sleep? | ||||
| 00:46:17:10 | 16.24 | MWS | Student speaking within group sitting on classroom floor | STUDENT sync: Probably I reckon a month ago I actually started being able to sleep really well, ‘cause before that I always had worries. JANE HAYWARD off camera: Are you sleeping a bit better now? So is that about the time we came back here? STUDENT sync: Probably. | ||||
| 00:46:33:16 | 3.96 | MCU | Young girl smiling, hugging her knees | JANE HAYWARD off camera: Interesting. | ||||
| 00:46:37:15 | 3.56 | CU | CU reflection of Dini’s face in rear vision mirror within mobile vehicle; unfocussed image of trees beyond windscreen | IN sfx: mobile vehicle | ||||
| 00:46:41:04 | 14 | CU | From interior mobile vehicle POV, Dini in driver’s seat; shadows from trees across her face | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Our memories of Black Saturday are never far from the surface. At the upcoming second commemoration the names of the people who died in Strathewen will be read publicly for the first time. OUT sfx: mobile vehicle | ||||
| 00:46:55:04 | 2.8 | MWS | Dini inside house, closing front door, her silhouette walking towards camera | Dini and her friend ... | ||||
| 00:46:57:24 | 3.08 | MWS | Mary laying out papers on dining table | ... Mary who lost her husband Peter in the fire ... | ||||
| 00:47:01:01 | 12.08 | MCU | Mary and Dini close together looking downwards | ... are planning their speech. MARY sync: So there’s 26. DINI sync: Yeah I’ve got 26. MARY sync: Yeah. DINI sync: Yeah. Yeah when you said tune into 29 I think oh dear. MARY sync: No there’s 26 that we can read out. | ||||
| 00:47:13:03 | 11.84 | MCU | Mary | DINI off camera: It’s just a little introductory. MARY sync: Yeah. DINI off camera: Rather than just breaking straight into the names. MARY sync: And we don’t want to make it too sad either. DINI off camera: No, exactly, exactly. | ||||
| 00:47:24:24 | 10.36 | MS | Dini and Mary writing tributes at dining table | MARY sync: So wonderful to think about, but so hard to be without. DINI sync: Okay will I put in they are or just – MARY sync: No you don’t have to say so - DINI sync: So wonderful. | ||||
| 00:47:35:08 | 5.64 | CU | Typed page being placed over written sheet on table; PAN across typed page of tributes | off camera: I would like to say Joe and Danny last. I know it sort of sounds silly but – | ||||
| 00:47:40:24 | 17.76 | MS | Dini and Mary in discussion at dining table | MARY sync: Why do you want to make your two last? DINI sync: I just do. MARY sync: Yeah because you – DINI sync: Yeah. MARY sync: You think it might be hard to say their names and then go on? DINI sync: Yeah I think so. I think so. MARY sync: Alright. | ||||
| 00:47:58:18 | 2.88 | EWS | Tennis courts with cars in car park; forest beyond | IN sfx: crowd gathering | ||||
| 00:48:01:15 | 2.72 | MWS | People filing along pathway | |||||
| 00:48:04:08 | 2.2 | MS | Crowd gathering | |||||
| 00:48:06:13 | 1.4 | WS | Crowd seated in rows | OUT sfx: crowd gathering | ||||
| 00:48:07:23 | 2.04 | MS | Dini and Mary sitting in front seats; others behind them | STEVE PASCOE off camera: Welcome everyone. | ||||
| 00:48:09:24 | 4.64 | MS | Steve Pascoe speaking at lecturn into microphone | sync: I’d like to invite Mary Avola and Dini Shepard to speak – ... | ||||
| 00:48:14:15 | 8 | MS | PAN Mary and Dini rising from their seats and walking to table at front | off camera: ... two members of our community who despite their own tragedies continue to inspire us with their courage and their conduct. IN sfx: wind through microphone | ||||
| 00:48:22:15 | 2.6 | MS | Raphael standing beside his father, Dominic, partly obscured from shot | MARY AVOLA off camera: Today ... | ||||
| 00:48:25:05 | 30.72 | MS | PULL BACK to MS Mary reading names at lecturn; Dini standing behind her; Slow ZOOM to MCU Mary at lecturn | sync: ... we feel the importance of grief should be recognised for to acknowledge grief is to acknowledge love. Peter Avola, Marilyn Spooner, Damien Spooner, Sue Evans, Bob O’Sullivan, John Legasik, Hayden McMahon, Kia Memadof, … | ||||
| 00:48:55:23 | 8.16 | MCU | PAN across crowd | off camera: ... Philip Perry, Libby Perry, Catherine McGyver, Judy McGyver, ... | ||||
| 00:49:04:02 | 2.84 | MS | Bron, Shane and children within crowd | ... Greg McGyver. | ||||
| 00:49:06:23 | 30.52 | MCU Mary moving away from microphone; Slow PULL BACK Dini moving forward and speaking into microphone; Slow ZOOM to Dini speaking; then moving backwards with Mary alongside | DINI sync: Gary Bartlett, Jacinta Bartlett, Erin Bartlett, Don Hadden, Leonie Hadden, Terry Polka, Donna Polka, Max Semens, Georgia Jackson, Erma Winton, Michael Winton, Danny Shepperd, Joe Shepperd. OUT sfx: wind through microphone | |||||
| 00:49:37:11 | 2.2 | CU | Rose petals being sprinkled into huge container | IN sfx: crowd in conversation | ||||
| 00:49:39:16 | 4.84 | MWS | People sprinkling rose petals into huge container | IN: Music | ||||
| 00:49:44:12 | 1.84 | MCU | Small child between adults throwing rose petals into huge container | |||||
| 00:49:46:08 | 13.04 | MWS | PAN Dini walking from crowd, stooping down to basket of petals and then standing and sprinkling them into huge container, nodding at people nearby, turning and having hug with woman; ZOOM to Dini and woman hugging | OUT sfx: crowd in conversation | ||||
| 00:49:59:09 | 11.04 | MCU | PULL BACK feet running on ground towards camera; PAN up to Dom running | |||||
| 00:50:10:10 | 10.92 | MCU | PAN and ZOOM MCU to Dom running in bush, profiled to camera | DOM v/o: Two years has passed and I think I’ve worked really hard. I went to a psychologist and she’s been able to help me talk about it and just to ... | ||||
| 00:50:21:08 | 5.92 | MS | Dom running on on bush track surrounded by trees towards camera | ... relieve the anxieties that were associated with the trauma of Black Saturday and ... | ||||
| 00:50:27:06 | 11 | LS | Dom running along dirt track between towering green trees, towards camera | ... I passed by those places that were like so full of bad memories. But now they don’t grip me and choke me, they’re just a place of reverence that I pass. | ||||
| 00:50:38:06 | 9.08 | MWS | Dom sitting on decking, to camera | sync: So I feel like me and the landscape are friends. You know we’re – we’re in it together. And this is where I – I feel like I belong now. OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:50:47:08 | 2.32 | ECU | Bee crawling on flower | |||||
| 00:50:49:16 | 1.28 | ECU | Sunflower with bees crawling in centre | |||||
| 00:50:50:23 | 2.32 | MWS | Field of sunflowers | IN: Music | ||||
| 00:50:53:06 | 3.56 | MWS | Olee picking sunflowers in field of sunflowers | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Ever since the fire Olee keeps telling me ... | ||||
| 00:50:56:20 | 2.16 | MWS | PAN Olee walking through countryside carrying huge bunch of sunflowers | ... that he can’t achieve anything. | ||||
| 00:50:58:24 | 1.72 | MCU | Strawberries in bucket alongside strawberry plants; hand dropping strawberries into bucket | But his abundant harvest ... | ||||
| 00:51:00:17 | 1.76 | CU | Hand picking leaf of spinach plant | ... says otherwise. | ||||
| 00:51:02:11 | 2.48 | MWS | Olee picking garlic within field | OLEE sync: Oh wow there’s so much ... | ||||
| 00:51:04:23 | 2.56 | MS | Row of picked garlic plants on ground | off camera: ... more garlic than I thought there’d be. | ||||
| 00:51:07:12 | 7.24 | PAN Olee’s father passing him bunch of garlic; Olee passing bunch to his mother | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Olee’s parents have come to help him prepare the garlic for sale. OUT: Music | |||||
| 00:51:14:18 | 1.76 | ECU | Olee’s father’s hands holding garlic and trimming with knife | |||||
| 00:51:16:12 | 3.2 | MCU | Olee placing cigarette in holder in his mouth | OLEE’S MOTHER off camera: He could have chosen a better profession. | ||||
| 00:51:19:17 | 6.44 | CU | Olee’s mother to camera | sync: I always think so because he was talented boy, you know. | ||||
| 00:51:26:03 | 17.64 | MWS | Olee’s mother sitting in chair turning to Olee reclining in armchair, outside caravan | I wouldn’t advise anybody to his profession. No. OLEE sync: Oh. OLEE’s MOTHER sync: Yes. OLEE sync: Yeah, yeah I know, I know. OLEE’s MOTHER sync: Look at you. OLEE sync: Yeah, yeah, yeah. OLEE’s MOTHER sync:You see – you should have – look smart. | ||||
| 00:51:43:19 | 15.84 | MCU | Olee lighting cigarette, sitting back smoking | OLEE’s MOTHER off camera: Old friends you know they are nicely dressed and everything and come here and he’s always not washed because … OLEE sync: No I had a shower this morning, I was very clean. OLEE’s MOTHER off camera:No you – yeah but your shower didn’t help you very much. | ||||
| 00:51:59:15 | 4.4 | ECU | Garlic being neatly trimmed; PULL BACK to Olee’s mother’s extended arm holding garlic | I could take a brush and comb your hair… OLEE off camera: No, no don’t – | ||||
| 00:52:04:00 | 2.92 | PAN from Olee’s mother to her hanging garlic strand over Olee’s shoulder; Olee turning towards her and smiling | ... no don’t get me annoyed. IN sfx: laughter | |||||
| 00:52:06:23 | 2.2 | ECU | Olee’s father raising his head | OLEE’s MOTHER off camera: Okay? … | ||||
| 00:52:09:03 | 2.28 | MCU | PAN Olee handing plaited garlic to his mother’s gloved hands | OLEE off camera: You’re a very cute mother. | ||||
| 00:52:11:10 | 1.48 | CU | Olee’s mother wearing a hat, smiling | OUT sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:52:12:22 | 1.76 | MS | Strathewen Primary School sign outside of school building | IN sfx: children squealing/calling out | ||||
| 00:52:14:16 | 3.16 | MS | School children racing down colourful slide; Strathewen Primary School sign on school building in background | |||||
| 00:52:17:20 | 2.88 | MWS | Jane Hayward supervising children in playground; Strathewen Primary School sign on building in background | JANE HAYWARD sync: What about you Ev? Can you climb to the top? | ||||
| 00:52:20:17 | 7.4 | WS | School children playing in playground; climbing on bars and doing cartwheels | v/o: Our kids shared an experience that is beyond what we would’ve ever thought our kids would live through. OUT sfx: children squealing/calling out | ||||
| 00:52:28:02 | 3.96 | MCU | Jane Hayward to camera | sync: And they say we’re different aren’t we – aren’t we different now? | ||||
| 00:52:32:01 | 1.88 | MCU | Young girl in school uniform climbing on playground equipment | IN sfx: children squealing/calling out | ||||
| 00:52:33:23 | 4.2 | MWS | School children climbing on playground equipment | v/o: It’ll be very interesting to watch them grow up. I really that they’ve ... | ||||
| 00:52:38:03 | 4.16 | WS | PAN school children playing ball game on sports court | ... got this heightened sense of maturity and an ability ... | ||||
| 00:52:42:07 | 3.48 | MWS | Young children wearing red school uniform playing in garden area of school grounds | ... to share their story, knowing that it’s safe to do so, ... | ||||
| 00:52:45:19 | 5.08 | MWS | PAN children walking together in school garden area | ... and their connection with their community is stronger than ever. OUT sfx: children squealing/calling out | ||||
| 00:52:50:21 | 2.8 | WS | Up hill, vans alongside community building within bush setting | IN: Music | ||||
| 00:52:53:16 | 4.12 | MWS | People gathered | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Soup night is our most enduring new ... | ||||
| 00:52:57:19 | 2.4 | Bron and Shane | ... tradition. BRON sync: Does it smell good? SHANE sync: It smells good, I can smell it up from ... | |||||
| 00:53:00:04 | 2.6 | MCU | Bron placing seafood into huge paella cooking pan | off camera: ... the car. NARRATOR (CELESTE): The menu may have changed, but this ... | ||||
| 00:53:02:19 | 2.08 | MWS | Men standing around have a beer; Dini and another woman standing chatting in background | ... weekly gathering continues to ... sfx: crowd in conversation | ||||
| 00:53:04:21 | 2 | PULL BACK young girl skateboarding down ramp towards camera | ... sustain us. sfx: skateboarding | |||||
| 00:53:06:21 | 1.64 | MWS | Through playground fence, Dom playing guitar, seated on bench | |||||
| 00:53:08:12 | 1.08 | MCU | Bron announcing that dinner is ready; Shane in background | BRON sync: Dinner’s ready. | ||||
| 00:53:09:14 | 2.16 | CU | Paella being served onto disposable plate | IN sfx: crowd in conversation | ||||
| 00:53:11:18 | 1.72 | MS | People serving themselves paella | |||||
| 00:53:13:11 | 2.16 | ECU | Denis eating bread | |||||
| 00:53:15:15 | 1.8 | MCU | PAN from child serving himself paella to Celeste standing alongside both boys | CELESTE sync: Do you want me to help you get some rice? | ||||
| 00:53:17:10 | 2.04 | MWS | Bron walking across shot; Dini standing talking to Dom; others standing alongside | |||||
| 00:53:19:11 | 3.72 | MWS | PULL BACK group of people around table for community meal | OUT: Music OUT sfx: crowd in conversation | ||||
| 00:53:23:04 | 9.92 | Car driving through forest, raising dust; PAN and PULL BACK car winding around dirt road | DENIS v/o: I had my wife and son one minute and they were gone the next. So I decided to live life for the moment. IN sfx: car speeding | |||||
| 00:53:33:02 | 3.36 | WS | Dust across road as Denis drives his car along road, away from camera; through forest area | SUSIE v/o: Denis has come a long way. OUT sfx: car speeding | ||||
| 00:53:36:11 | 9.24 | MS | Denis and Susie in kitchen of their new house | sync: In the earlier days I let you have free reign I suppose to – to grieve and to be angry and – and all those things ... | ||||
| 00:53:45:17 | 5.48 | MCU | Denis in kitchen | off camera: ... but I think I’ve changed over the last year or so to give you a bit more tough love. | ||||
| 00:53:51:04 | 13.68 | MWS | Susie and Denis in conversation across kitchen bench; laptop on bench | sync: I’ve seen you let go of some stuff, but you need to let go of more still. DENIS sync: Oh just be grateful. SUSIE sync: Don’t know for what you have let go of. It’s the - it’s ... sfx: laughter | ||||
| 00:54:04:21 | 4.72 | MCU | Susie | ... not about doing it for me honey, it’s about doing it for you, for yourself. | ||||
| 00:54:09:14 | 2.4 | MWS | Susie and Denis in conversation across kitchen bench; laptop on bench | DENIS sync: Yeah I s’pose you’re right. | ||||
| 00:54:11:24 | 18.88 | Susie and Denis walking into main room; PAN Susie & Denis continuing to walk LS down passageway, away from camera | v/o: There is some time during nearly every day since the fire where I need the support of Susie. We talk about those dark places where I go sometimes and nine times out of ten it’s Susie that picks me up. It’s just a wonderful feeling to have someone again that’s there backing you up. sfx: Susie & Denis in conversation | |||||
| 00:54:30:21 | 4.8 | MWS | Olee walking uphill on property towards camera; truck parked in background | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Another winter is here, but for Olee ... | ||||
| 00:54:35:16 | 4.24 | WS | Olee walking away from camera, towards construction site of his new home | ... this will be the last one in his van. | ||||
| 00:54:39:22 | 6.28 | WS | Builders preparing construction site of Olee’s house; hills in background | OLEE v/o: Well it’s all happening so quickly, I’m just so glad it’s not me doing this. | ||||
| 00:54:46:04 | 8.6 | MCU | Olee | sync: I mean there’s so little procrastination here because I’m not part of it and er it’s – I s’pose it’s a kit home so it’s sort of fairly straight forward. | ||||
| 00:54:54:19 | 5.52 | WS | Olee walking into shot; builders working on house construction site within bush setting | v/o: It’s really uplifting – be really exciting to have a bit more space and ... | ||||
| 00:55:00:07 | 3.52 | MWS | PAN dog walking across track within Olee’s bush property | ... a bit less mud. Somewhere you can ... | ||||
| 00:55:03:20 | 6.88 | MS | Olee to camera within bush property | sync: ... put a bit of furniture if the IKEA voucher is still valid which it probably isn’t. But ... | ||||
| 00:55:10:17 | 5.16 | MWS | Builder banging nail into wooden beam of Olee’s house site | v/o: ... and maybe a piano and books that aren’t in boxes. IN sfx: hammering | ||||
| 00:55:15:21 | 3.92 | MCU | Olee lighting cigarette, facing away from camera | I’ll have less excuses not to function well. | ||||
| 00:55:19:19 | 2.64 | MS | PAN Builder walking through house construction site | |||||
| 00:55:22:10 | 8.48 | MCU | Olee | sync: It’s the way everybody says – they’re so certain everything’s going to be so much better but – but I’m not sure. I’m not sure, I just – ... OUT sfx: hammering | ||||
| 00:55:30:22 | 4.44 | WS | Builder carrying plank of wood across house construction site | v/o: ... but it’s dramatic progress to the way ... | ||||
| 00:55:35:08 | 4.76 | EWS | Within bush setting, builder carrying plank of wood across house construction site; smoke rising beyond | ... things have been going lately. This is really the best thing. | ||||
| 00:55:40:02 | 2.64 | MCU | Olee wearing beanie | sfx: hammering | ||||
| 00:55:42:18 | 7.6 | EWS | House in far distant tree covered valley | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Almost two and a half years after the fire Bron and Shane are ready to move into their new house. | ||||
| 00:55:50:08 | 3.16 | MS | Bron and Shane opening door of their new house, facing camera | BRON sync: Hi. SHANE sync: Welcome. | ||||
| 00:55:53:12 | 3.04 | MWS | Bron walking across room towards Shane, her arms extended | BRON sync: This here is the main living space. | ||||
| 00:55:56:13 | 1.92 | WS | Bron indicating dining room area with outstretched arms; Shane alongside | So this is the dining room. | ||||
| 00:55:58:11 | 5.08 | WS | Bron indicating kitchen area with Shane alongside at bench | But this is where all the action will happen in terms of nourishing oneself. | ||||
| 00:56:03:13 | 4.92 | Lola walking through house and out of RS, holding book up to her face | v/o: Moving into the house is just another step in ... | |||||
| 00:56:08:11 | 2.96 | MS | Bron and Shane’s son operating tap over bathroom sink | ... moving forward. It certainly doesn’t ... | ||||
| 00:56:11:10 | 9.96 | Bron and Shane walking down passageway of house towards camera holding hands; raising joined hands for Lola to walk under, son entering shot and walking under their raised hands | ... mean that our recovery is complete when we have all these walls around us and a roof above us, but it’s a significant step. sfx: Bron greeting Lola; Dom laughing | |||||
| 00:56:21:09 | 4.8 | MCU | Bron to camera | sync: You can have a very public face that appears ... | ||||
| 00:56:26:04 | 3.08 | MS | Bron in phone in living room; Lola holding up drawing behind her and son Dom working at table | v/o: ... normal and functional ... | ||||
| 00:56:29:06 | 4.56 | PAN Shane loading rear of vehicle; Bron and Lola alongside | ... but that’s really hard work. | |||||
| 00:56:33:20 | 4.68 | MS | PAN Bron handing container to older woman in kitchen | sync: Do you want to chop these up nice and rough? v/o: I spent a lot of time running from the trauma ... | ||||
| 00:56:38:12 | 2.96 | MS | Bron working at outside cooking area | ... in terms of being insanely ... | ||||
| 00:56:41:11 | 2 | MWS | Through doorway Bron sorting laundry | ... busy. | ||||
| 00:56:43:11 | 6.28 | ECU | Logs burning on fire | To go through that experience in the house that was burning was ... IN sfx: logs burning | ||||
| 00:56:49:18 | 4.36 | MCU | Shane sitting outside beyond smoke and flames rising across shot | ... just so violent and I think after ... | ||||
| 00:56:54:02 | 4 | MWS | Shane and Bron’s son Dom standing beside fire; smoke and flames rising across shot | ... we got into the van we’ve been running ever since. | ||||
| 00:56:58:02 | 19.28 | WS | Beyond outside fire Shane lifting son onto his shoulders; Bron standing alongside; Lola running into shot and past them with trailing kite | To slow down feels very dangerous because you’re no longer burning off that energy and that fear that’s just always within you. SHANE sync: Here she goes. BRON sync: Go Lola. Run Lola, run. Woohoo! OUT sfx: logs burning | ||||
| 00:57:17:09 | 5.08 | MS | Dom walking into shot and digging in garden with children | IN: Music IN sfx: digging | ||||
| 00:57:22:11 | 3.8 | MCU | Dom digging in garden | OUT sfx: digging | ||||
| 00:57:26:06 | 5.16 | MWS | Dom lowering post pedestal into ground next to fence; Raphael perched on top of fence | RAPHAEL sync: Dad there’s bird poo on our fence. | ||||
| 00:57:31:10 | 6.4 | MS | PAN Shane and Celeste lifting new letterbox on top of pedestal | NARRATOR (CELESTE): We moved out here so our kids would learn about their place in nature and the importance of community. | ||||
| 00:57:37:20 | 1.52 | ECU | Luella’s eyes watching drill underneath letterbox | DOM off camera: That’s it, ... sfx: powerdrill | ||||
| 00:57:39:08 | 1.64 | CU | Luella removing electric drill from underneath letterbox | ... good work. | ||||
| 00:57:40:24 | 1.84 | WS | Within bush setting Dom working with his children installing letterbox | NARRATOR (CELESTE): Black Saturday has given our family ... | ||||
| 00:57:42:20 | 6.08 | MCU | PAN from Celeste lifting letterbox flap, across mosaic covered letterbox to Celeste walking past Dom | ... a fast tracked education in what it means to belong. CELESTE sync: Looks great. LUELLA off camera: All hail ... | ||||
| 00:57:48:22 | 4.56 | WS | Luella waving branch alongside Celeste and Dom in bush setting | sync: ... the new letterbox, all hail the new letterbox. | ||||
| 00:57:53:11 | 5.92 | WS | Dom and Celeste with children next to new letterbox; Luella leaning across top of letterbox | OUT: Music | ||||
| 00:57:59:09 | 5.6 | EWS | Children running ahead of adults down dirt track surrounded by forest; towards camera | IN: Music IN sfx: children calling out | ||||
| 00:58:04:24 | 3.84 | MCU | Children walking towards camera | |||||
| 00:58:08:20 | 4 | MCU | Mary Avola walking towards camera | NARRATOR (CELESTE): None of us would’ve chosen Black Saturday, ... OUT sfx: children calling out | ||||
| 00:58:12:20 | 2.72 | MCU | Denis and Susie walking towards camera | ... we would all erase it if we could. | ||||
| 00:58:15:13 | 4.24 | MCU | Dom and Celeste walking towards camera | But I’d never surrender what I’ve learned from the people ... | ||||
| 00:58:19:19 | 3.28 | MCU | Dini and friend walking towards camera | ... I’ve shared this experience with. | ||||
| 00:58:23:01 | 2.76 | MCU | Jane Hayward walking towards camera | |||||
| 00:58:25:20 | 3.4 | MCU | Olee walking towards camera; others walking unfocussed | Recovery isn’t a destination. | ||||
| 00:58:29:05 | 4 | MCU | Shane carrying his son, Dom; Celeste alongside, within group walking towards camera | There won’t be a sign post to tell us we have arrived. | ||||
| 00:58:33:05 | 3.2 | MCU | Bron walking within crowd towards camera | But I can see how far we’ve already come ... | ||||
| 00:58:36:10 | 3.28 | MCU | Dini and woman beside her becoming unfocussed, Shane becoming focussed, all walking towards camera | ... and now a future for us all ... | ||||
| 00:58:39:17 | 3.16 | MCU | Celeste & Dom’s son Raphael moving towards camera | ... seems possible. | ||||
| 00:58:42:21 | 3.76 | EWS | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Begin closing credits | |||||
| 00:58:46:15 | 3.48 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | Dedicated to the people of Strathewen past, present and future | |||||
| 00:58:50:02 | 2.4 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Single card: | WRITER AND DIRECTOR Celeste Geer | |||||
| 00:58:52:12 | 1.6 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Single card: | PRODUCER JENI McMahon | |||||
| 00:58:54:02 | 1.72 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Single card: | CO-PRODUCER AND NARRATOR Celeste Geer | |||||
| 00:58:55:20 | 1.64 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Single card: | EDITOR Tony Stevens A.S.E | |||||
| 00:58:57:11 | 1.64 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Single card: | COMPOSER Greg J. Walker | |||||
| 00:58:59:02 | 1.96 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside Begin credits roll | CAMERA Brian McKenzie, Max Davis, Celeste Geer, David Batty, Katie Milwright ADDITIONAL CAMERA Paul Williams, Stefan Duscio, Emma Crimmings, Glendyn Ivin, Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham, Shane Sparkes | |||||
| 00:59:01:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | SOUND POST PRODUCTION Livia Ruzic, Keith Thomas POST PRODUCTION FACILITY Rebel Films POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Bergen O'Brien | |||||
| 00:59:03:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | ONLINE EDITOR & COLOURIST Ismail Shallis ASSISTANT EDITOR Celeste Geer PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANTS Rosalie Kidney, Tony Nagle | |||||
| 00:59:05:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | LEGAL AFFAIRS Karen Standal INSURANCE Brian Holland POST PRODUCTION SCRIPT Anne Marie Allen | |||||
| 00:59:07:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | VOICE CONSULTANT Anna McCrossin-Owen STILLS PHOTOGRAPHER James Geer PERSONAL BLACK SATURDAY FOOTAGE Shane & Bron Sparkes, Dominic Bourke Jim Baruta, Geoff Raftery | |||||
| 00:59:09:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | ARCHIVE Tim Young - Fairfax Syndication Craig Abraham - Fairfax Syndication Drew Ambrose ABC's Black Saturday Website www.abc.net.au/blacksaturday Timelapse Photography by Barry Thomas | |||||
| 00:59:11:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | Courtesy of Department of Education Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales ITN Source - Nine Network SPECIAL THANKS TO Bron & Shane Sparkes, Lola & Dom Dominic Bourke, Luella & Raphael | |||||
| 00:59:13:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | Dini Shephard, Jane Hayward Oli Shevchenko, Denis Spooner & Suzi Kerr Staff, students and parents of Strathewen Primary School Mary & Susie Avola, Alison & Steve Pascoe Malcolm Hackett, Diana Robertson, Bronwyn South | |||||
| 00:59:15:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | David McGahy, Diane Philips, Karina Chapman, Warren Rees Matt Gravette, Roger Wood, Barbara Joyce, Geoff Raftery Val Tepper, Marion Oakley, Christine Nixon Georgina Robertson & Wes Stecher, Rosemary McKimmie | |||||
| 00:59:17:01 | 2 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | Agnes & Dave Perry, Belinda Adams, Kate Hamment Nancy & Geoff Mortimer, Vera & Wsevoloe Shevchenko ABC 774 & Jon Faine, Nillumbik Council Officers Arthurs Creek - Strathewen CFA | |||||
| 00:59:19:01 | 1 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside | Brian McKenzie, Dr Rob Gordon, John Hughes Steve Thomas, Angelique Van Schie, Gina Lambpropoulos, Susan MacKinnon, Catherine Graue, Sue Monigatti Mary-Lynn Griffith, Claudia Rowe, Emma Crimmings | |||||
| 00:59:20:01 | 0.48 | Hills beyond road through regenerating fire-ravaged countryside FADE to | Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham, Stuart McDonald Anita Norris, Rosemary & David Geer The producers acknowledge the free supply of camera equipment by Panasonic EXECUTIVE PRODUCER COMPASS Rose Hesp | |||||
| 00:59:20:13 | 2.68 | Black | ||||||
| 00:59:23:05 | 1.4 | Static Card: | FINANCED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF Strathewen Community Renewal Association FRRR Foundation For Rural And Regional Renewal Nillumbik Shire Council | |||||
| 00:59:24:15 | 1.32 | Static Card: | DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF FILM VICTORIA LOGO | |||||
| 00:59:25:23 | 1.36 | Static Card: | PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ABC LOGO) Commissioning Editor CHRIS THORBURN | |||||
| 00:59:27:07 | 1.36 | Static Card: | FINANCED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF Screen Australia LOGO | |||||
| 00:59:28:16 | 1.36 | Produced by REBEL FILMS LOGO ©2011Rebel Films, Film Victoria, Celeste Geer and Screen Australia |