The big news this week is that Jasmine and the crew at Jalaris have decided to wait another month before planting. This week we had most days above 40 celsius, and attendance by the kids has been very low. On Thursday only 4 kids turned up. If this happens again Travis and I will take the cameras down to the local swimming pool to see where they’re all hiding!
This was always a risk coming up to Derby in March/April as we did. We are now faced with the prospect of having to leave Derby in a week, before the 2010 Kids Garden has even started for 2010.
My first response is to try and tell the story with last year’s garden footage and the interviews and other footage we’ve gained in the past few weeks. Alternatively, I could try to push strongly this week to develop a narrative with Travis and Jasmine and leave Travis to document the process over the next 4-6 weeks, and try to incorporate this footage. I am sure we have learnt enough in the past few weeks that Travis would have no problem with the task, but it pushes out all the post production tasks to well into May.
I hope to speak with my supervisor George about this when we get to Perth next week. In the meantime, I will review footage, try and organize a final shooting list with Travis on Monday (yes we are working over the Easter weekend!) and get his and Jasmine’s perspective on the options. I will also check in with Jasmine on her revised planting schedule.
