'Building Capacity for Sustainable and Responsible Development in the Bismarck Sea' is a collaborative program aiming to protect a hugely biodiverse region of Papua New Guinea (PNG), while boosting livelihoods and food security.
The project partners - PNG’s Conservation Environmental Protection Authority, CSIRO and The Nature Conservancy – required a video demonstrating its model of evidence-based, inclusive decision-making, a model that could cope with future uncertainty and rapid change.
The video would be a resource for stakeholders and decision-makers in the target provinces of East and West New Britain, as well as elsewhere in the Coral Triangle, a region including many of PNG’s neighbours.
Generally, my work focuses on people – human stories that speak as much to the heart as to the head. This was rather different. The challenge was to communicate a relatively complex, multi-layered governance process as clearly, concisely – and colourfully – as possible.
I was lucky enough to travel to New Britain three times, shooting project workshops and getting out and about with my drone. A land of jungles, volcanos and coral reefs, it is a truly awesome place.
Seeing the project firsthand brought it to life. After working on a script with CSIRO’s Dr James Butler, I was able to develop graphics that helped distil the concepts. With a voice over and a stack of B-roll, the story came together.
As an off-shoot of the project I produced two Pidgin-language social media clips, explaining the issues of population growth and climate change to a local audience. This meant developing snappy scripts which spoke directly to young New Britons.
I then hired the excellent Enos Gagua to translate and present them in front of the camera. Roto-scoping (whereby I isolated Enos from the background and projected images and footage behind him) is a handy skill I picked up along the way.
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