I'd been putting off getting started, but today I decided I could delay my movie-making career no longer. I set out into town with a borrowed camcorder in hand...
I decided to film the fair trade places I know best first, and it was all quite jolly, joking around with store and cafe staff. It's going to be a terribly arty piece - lots of wobbling, dodgy angles and erratic zooming. Seriously though, the professional editors will need to use all their skill to make anything at all worth watching out of it: the true reality of TV, I've discovered, is that it's really difficult to do. This afternoon I was able to film a few of my Middle School friends pretending to study some of the posters they've made for me over the past months (TV is all fake, you knew that didn't you?). It'd be fun for the kids to get on telly, so I hope those scenes at least come out ok.
I've realised I haven't yet reported on our takings at the recent Fair Trade Market. Overall the combined vendors took close to $20,000. Just imagining the difference that money will make to artisans and their communities in some of the poorest countries of the world makes me and my fellow organisers feel incredibly happy.
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