Friday 23 March 2018

Pitching our Documentary

My group pitched the documentary and it sounds like it went well.

The most important piece of feedback we got was to work out how to condense the story to fit into a minute or so, possibly by focusing on a couple of very defining moments in Moonlite's story.

It was also recommended that we tweak the chronology of the story, and that it might be interesting to start with the climactic final gunfight and then go back and retrace the steps that led to it.

We've identified a really useful research source, a book called "In Search of Captain Moonlite" by Paul Terry. I'm hoping to contact him personally but thus far I've not found a way to message him without paying for a premium LinkedIn membership.

Research continues. I've started considering the best way to stage a gunfight and structure the story.
I've found images of Wantabadgery Station where the shootout took place to use as inspiration and reference.


 A print of the shootout that resulted in Moonlite's capture and Nesbitt's death, from 1879.


 Depictions of the standoff


The team of officers, photographed after Moonlite's capture

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