In keeping with the theme of our Indigenous Affairs policy platform (Putting Our First Peoples First) this was the first major policy launch of the campaign for the Democrats – launched on Thursday morning on Mt Coot-tha.
There is a short clip of the launch at the bottom of the page – I’m visible in the background behind Andrew Bartlett, and the campaign page can be found here.
I’ve been writing several of our YouTube ads for this election and the first few of them are being uploaded now. I’ll embed a few more as they come online, but I really had to put this one up now – both because it’s actually on Indigenous Affairs, and also because of its backstory.
From the start I’ve said that we should only use a narrator if they’re really good and well practised. If they’re just passable, or even poor, it will drag down the whole thing, so we should just put the text up onscreen.
At first the text onscreen was tried, but it was decided that this was too dull, so just to really rub it in I was pressganged into doing the narration myself.
You can judge for yourselves, but I think it’s safe to say “passable” would be a step up. I can hear every piece of punctuation in the script I wrote. I’m pretty sure that’s not the way to do it.
Enjoy -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJ0sSxamTk
And here’s the launch clip (I’m over Senator Bartlett’s left shoulder at the start, in the black shirt)
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