Global Health Conference

The brief was simple enough:
Engage the audience, highlight the issues, and generate interest in the 2011 AMSA Global Health Conference in Sydney.
Oh, and please don’t make a boring slideshow.

After throwing around a whole range of ideas, the final plan was to combine animated visuals with real footage shot in Sydney to draw the audience in, then tear away the world as they know it. Shoot through a series of issues based statistics, aiming for a state of information overload. Finally, tie it all back to the Sydney Conference, whilst emphasising the global nature of the problems. All in a minute and a half.

*Edit: This is the updated version of the video that added information about the conference.

Wedding – Cam and Jane

Sometimes it’s inevitable that something interesting will happen, this was’t a unique day in that regard. Cam Hollows and Jane Mckenzie were married on Shark Island, in the middle of Sydney Harbour. Every couple is unique, every wedding special, yet I think this wedding will linger in the minds of those who attended for a long time. It was a location not to be forgotten, even in the stifling heat and direct sun.

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But it’s not going to be the location the guests will remember this wedding for, but the exact moment, as bride and groom approached the cake cutting, the wind picked up everything on the island, blowing it down, around and upside down. Storm clouds rolled in, the horizon growing darker, and the city disappeared from view as dust was blown across the island, coating the guests. One would have expected this bridal nightmare to indelibly scar the party, yet there wasn’t a frown to be seen. Wide eyed with broad grins the bride and groom were elbow deep in the cleanup, guests rallying around them. As the packing up drew near completion the final ferry arrived, and with it the rain…