Chris and I'll be here just to answer a few questions that may have arisen particularly in light of certain allegations of the broadcast with last night. What I'll ask you to do is just in terms of the investigation that Detective Inspector Chris Jory, spelled J-O-R-Y, he'll be able to answer those questions for you and within limits of course. J-O-R-Y, Detective Inspector. I'll start off, I'll give you an overview of what's happening today, what's been happening over the past couple of days, but then obviously there's, as I said, there's the allegations that came to light by a certain network that Chris will be able to sort of, Chris will address and he'll address some of the investigative aspects of it as well too, so when you're ready we'll get going if you want. So, you're ready? Sorry? All right, well just the latest. In a nutshell, what's happening today is there's two bodies still at the scene. They will be retrieved this morning, we anticipate before midday. Once that happens then we'll be able to conduct a full and thorough forensic examination. I have said previously and it has been the case where the forensic examination, the preliminary steps have been able to be undertaken, however with once the bodies have been removed from the scene, it gives us the opportunity to conduct a full and thorough investigation. Forensic examination as well as with our partners with the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service. As I said, the priority initially was to remove the bodies from the scene, to be able to pass them back to the family with a level of dignity. What the second most pressing point at the moment is to find out what happened, why it happened, where it happened and then the circumstances are leading up to and post to that event. So that's where the situation stands today. We intend to still be at the scene for a number of days yet until our investigations are completely exhausted together with those of the Fire and Rescue counterparts and then we'll be in a position to take steps from there. There will be a number of autopsies conducted over the weekend of the deceased, primarily to determine a cause of death, but in some instances and having regard to the verocity of the fire, some instances it will be for the sake of positive identification. As you heard from the families there, we're able to pass their loved ones back to them, knowing full well what happened to them and that they are in actual fact their loved ones. So that's the steps that we're taking today. Obviously it's not going to be something, the results of how the fire started may not be known for some particular time, but as I said, the coroner is aware of what's going on. We have commenced preparing a report that would be presented to the coroner, but the evidence and the facts in there obviously need to be 100% accurate and that's what it's all about. Sorry to say that again. I might be able to canvas that in a statement that I'll make and what I might do is I'll start from the start. Obviously the early hours of Wednesday morning, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service were called to the address at Slack's Creek. On arrival the house was fully involved. Fire and Rescue teams managed to enter parts of the dwelling and they identified a number of deceased inside. Shortly thereafter Queensland Police Service attended the scene, declared a crime scene and cordoned off the area. In the early hours of the morning senior investigators attended the scene from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service and also the Queensland Police Service. I briefed the southern coroner, Mr John Hutton, at the scene that morning. He had an opportunity to view the scene and obviously this matter is a coronial investigation and our investigations will lead towards a determination whether Mr Hutton will hold an inquest in relation to the deaths. The investigation is being undertaken in partnership with Queensland Fire and Rescue Service investigators, detectives from the Logan District CIB and Child Protection Investigation units, State Crime Operations Command Homicide Investigation Group and the Arson Squad. And we also are getting assistance from our neighbouring police districts who are helping us to locate family members and obtain statements. Shortly after the investigation commenced, a major incident room was started at Logan Central Station. We've conducted doorknocks of the neighbours and taken statements and obtained versions from them. We've also had the opportunity to speak to the survivors from the family who managed to extricate themselves from the dwelling. You can understand and you could see from the earlier media conference the emotions of the family are still very raw. We are working our way through in a most sensitive way possible to glean the information that's needed to help us advance the investigation. The early indications from the scene examination and it is very, very preliminary is that we believe the source of the fire was on the lower level of the dwelling, possibly in an office area. Now this is from information obtained from individuals that we've had the opportunity to interview. We understand that that an individual who is in the downstairs area of the dwelling had returned to that area a short time after doing some work in that area and on returning to that area after earlier smelling smoke coming up through the floorboards had seen that area fully engulfed in flame. He's attempted to fight that fire and raise other family members in an effort to get them out of the house. You can understand that from the images that you may have had the opportunity to see at the scene the damage to the dwelling is significant and the fire scene examination is an intricate one. Prior to the forensic examiners and also the fire scene examiners getting into the dwelling to do their examination, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Urban Search and Rescue teams were used to shore up the premises. Once those bodies are removed, the last two bodies of the loved ones are removed this morning. Our forensic examiners will be able to move in with the fire scene examiners and conduct a more thorough examination. That could take several days. We've had gas examiners at the scene. There you may have seen in some images there were gas bottles along the front left-hand side of the dwelling as you look at it. There is no indication to suggest that those gas bottles levied but there is indication that they vented. Now that is normal in a fire of such intensity where the gas would expand and a failsafe mechanism of the gas bottles is that the gas is allowed to escape in a safer manner as possible. Over the next several weeks we will make every effort through our disaster victim identification teams. We have anti-mortem and post-mortem teams working with the family and the community, obtaining dental records, identifying items of property that loved ones may have come into contact with so that we can obtain fingerprint identification and try to possibly identify their loved ones so that each family group can be 100% guaranteed that the loved ones that we're returning to them are from their family groups so that they can deal with their loved ones in the traditions of their cultures. The investigation team of detectives have been working significantly around the clock and we will maintain this investigation and prepare a report for the state coroner. Not on Facebook, there was a threat some weeks ago over a text message on a telephone. An image from that text message had been posted on a Facebook account. We've conducted investigations into that threat. We're keeping a very open mind but at this stage we are satisfied that the individual who sent that text message is not responsible for this event. Well of course not the matter goes before the coroner but all the indications prior to a thorough forensic examination at the scene would indicate that the fire was by accident and the seat of the fire was in a lower level of the dwelling. Yes it was but beyond that no. We have discounted at this stage that person's involvement. Well the threat wasn't made to burn down that family's home. It is a large extended family group. That family group live in a number of houses throughout the district. There was no specific threat to burn down that house. The threat was directed towards a member of that family. We've spoken to a person associated directly from that family group and they hold no fears that that person is responsible and we have spoken to that person as well as part of our investigation. The family have been helping us as best they can. You can understand that the family interacts with the community. There is a some information that was provided to the major incident room that a person in the community was unhappy with one of the family members. However there was no direct threat made to that person in any way shape or form. The fire was that intense that on the information that I've received that the gas bottles were venting at one stage and they were venting away from the house towards the neighbouring house on the left hand side. There is some fire damage to that house on the left hand side. I don't know whether that's as a result of the gas venting and that being a flame or whether it's from the intense heat but I can tell you that the heat and the destructive nature of that fire was significant. I'm not a forensic expert however from my limited knowledge obviously the fire feeds off fuel sources. Those fuel sources include what the dwelling is constructed of. Any fuel source could include papers, other furniture, curting that are in and around the area where the seat of the fire is and oxygen itself. Yes. No. Yeah and we've spoken to the gas scene examiners and during the venting process there would be a sound of a banging sound as they vent and that could also be glass in the house exploding due to the intense heat as well from the intense fire and the heat brickwork like blockwork has cracked and in some areas shattered as well. Well look the the gas bottles were intact and they're all connected correctly to the dwelling. Well obviously it was it was one of the survivors from the family group had been working in that area just prior to the to the fire around midnight and shortly thereafter he had gone upstairs seen the smoke coming through the floorboards and returned returned and saw that room well of light. That person was Tal Tapa. That's right. The level of destruction is such that they will not be able to determine. We're relying on eyewitness accounts and the information to date is that no smoke alarm was heard. We're unable to say if there's one installed. House was owned. Yes. Look there was a car at the front of the dwelling that was fully engulfed in flame as the flames licked out from the underside of the house and yes it could be from that. There is slight damage to a number of vehicles that were parked at the rear of the house and another at the side that is possible but again until that thorough examination is done the loud cracking and explosions could be a number of things inside the house. Could be the glass as I said or brick work or block work exploding as well. Yes. He attempted to fight the flames with a hose and he was beaten back but at the same time he was trying to rouse family members to get out of the house. That's right. How would you say? I think maybe and again well I'm not a cultural expert either but culturally because of the position these men hold in their families the concerns are the family of the family is that the reports through the media may paint them in a picture less favorably and I've got nothing to indicate from my investigations that their deeds that night were anything more than heroic. I think the best is classified as a father trying to protect his family. I think if you put it in the basic terms it's exactly what he's done. It could be the why me thing. Think of it yourselves. You know you're the one of the sole survivors of your family group. Think of that. There's there hasn't and in fact the three-year-old hasn't been positively identified. That is going to be a long process through the anti-mortem and post-mortem teams and those post-mortem examinations would also include forensic odontologists, DNA collection, fingerprint examinations and a number of other examinations as well to determine age and sex of the deceased which may help us help us identify them. That's a resource issue and they do come to us with a level of expertise that just help us in those investigations. As I said from the outset traditionally when these events, when any tragedy or anything of this particular scale or a lesser scale to that matter, when it occurs it's been my experience and I think I can speak on behalf of Detective Inspector Jury as well. It's been an experience that there's something needs to be done so you get in and do it. You do see some horrible things, you do see some shocking images and some of that well it never goes away from you but the simple fact of the matter is that we're trained to do a certain job. We go where we do that job, we do it objectively and I'm speaking on behalf of Queensland Fire and Rescue and also Ambulance as well too. If things happen if you find you're not coping we've got a vast array of resources as I said from our human services officers, peer support officers, chaplaincy services, aspects of early intervention programs if they're actually required but right from the outset right up until the time is completed to a standard that doesn't require as many resources it's simply a case of get in and do the job, let's do it properly and let's do it objectively. That's right. Three bodies were located and removed from the house early and the front right hand bedroom are upstairs, one in the upstairs right hand rear bedroom and we have seven bodies in the lower level of the building believed to have fallen through the floor. Yes, yes, sorry left rear of the house as you're looking at it.  He does say that he'd been talking to the family group so he'd gathered the group to an area which he thought was safe for the family in an effort to gather everyone to get them out but sadly that wasn't so slightly behind that area. No internal stairs so stairs to the front and rear and you know you can imagine from the intense heat that fire seeking fuel air oxygen it if the source was in that room that we believe at this stage that flame licking the under floor of the upper level and seeking out fuel being the floor boards and the support beams and then coming to the outside of the house from images that I've seen from photographs that were captured at the time the flames totally engulfed the front and rear verandas as well of the dwelling so nobody would have been able to get out of those areas that's right well there's two bed towards the left rear of the house is two bedrooms right at that and that's right at the back on the left is looking from the front on the left hand side at the back is two bedrooms and then moving towards the front of the house on that left side upstairs is a kitchen and a lounge area it's in that lounge area which the flooring has collapsed I'm sorry I don't understand I don't know where the dividing wall is but that back left rear area of the house here which was well engulfed is severely damaged as well but as you can appreciate the whole dwelling's severely damaged so Jeremiah the lounge area which is near that near the where the collapse is that's and that's something that we need to clarify with him we're just not 100 sure this is the hard part about it you know he's still carrying a lot of grief and obviously a statement we're going to need to take from him as from the other two witnesses as well it's going to be quite intrinsic very in depth and we'll take some considerable period of time so he's got to get out you know deal with the grief he's got at the moment and then we're able to sort of step in after that and be perhaps a little bit more clinical if we could and to tie him down that's just a that's the process we have to take it's a simple sorry that's right that's right we do have as you've heard I've given you a fair bit of information we've got versions from the three survivors and also neighbors but in a fire scene investigation we need to go into a lot more in-depth with those survivors and that assists the fire examiners and then also the state coroner in making determinations so we've we've got a long way to go with the family we've been briefing the family groups at the scene on a daily basis on the progress and direction of the investigation it's a long drawn-out painstaking process as you've heard and if I could just leave you with one message that at this stage the investigation there is nothing to suggest foul play we are continuing our investigations with an open mind as we should we're preparing a report for the coroner and that report may lead to a determination of an inquest or not we're having discussions with the family group but not directly there's still post-mortem work to be done and they'll be dealing with councillors at the John Tong centre who are attached to Queensland Health and a timeline will be provided to the family once the post-mortem work is done identification is complete and the bodies can be released victim identification could take weeks upstairs yes yes yes yes that's right we do have a version from Missy it's it's consistent with that provided by the other survivors I don't have his version to hand in depth unfortunately but you know I can say that it is consistent he's managed to jump out of a window I believe at the front of the house from memory it's it's a process that we're working through with the family you saw the rawness of their emotion it's we're chipping away at that and when they've had enough we will come back to them a little bit later and we've told them that in the end he had yes he had like minor burns but he he was transported to the PA hospital oh he was in and out yes a couple of times yes thank you thanks very much


Welcome to the Community Television Board of Directors regular meeting for June 25th, 2018. Will the Secretary please call the roll? Chair Guadger. Here. Director Fischer. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Rand. Here. Director Wade. Director Mannheim. Here. Director Laurent. Here. Director Maziaros. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Owen. Here we have oral communications where anyone can address the board about issues not on the agenda. Seeing no one, I want to use this time to say a few words about a previous member and employee of Community Television, Peter McGatigan, who recently passed away. And we recently, there was a special meeting of the City Council where a few words were said about Peter, and my tray wrote us up a nice little statement for the board, and James Fisher delivered it, and I'd like to play that right now. I'd now like to invite up James Fisher. Someone to thank the Council for allowing us this opportunity. This is a prepared document from our board. For generations of members, Peter McGatigan was the face of Santa Cruz Community Achieving. Everywhere one looked, there he was, operating camera both volunteer and staff shoots in the studio and in the field, hunkered away for hours in the old tape-based linear edit base where he was the master, and then reluctantly in front of a Mac editing in Final Cut Pro. Or behind the scenes at the Santa Cruz City Council meetings bringing the proceedings to the public in their homes. Any CTV alumni, some of whom have gone on to professional careers in media, credit Peter as a mentor, beyond how to frame a shot, he taught them the intangibles, things that aren't typically taught in classes, how to put talent at ease, how to take control of an event space, not designed for video or sound, and rearrange the entire room to guarantee a good recording, and not to mention how to find the best free food. An avid local historian and always keenly aware that today's activities are future history, Peter would often convince event organizers that their events simply had to be documented, even if the thought hadn't occurred to them. Through the Davenport Oral History Project, Peter captured for posterity the memories of Santa Cruz County's north coast residents. Known by his friends for his daring, he had always classy fashion sense. Peter was a passionate thrift store bargain hunter and would often gift his finds to deserving recipients. He was quite fond of cooking for his friends and breaking bread over a fine glass of wine. Peter's dry, witty, the revelant sense of humor brought a smile or a laugh to many a face. Peter will be fondly remembered with a sense of gratitude by the many CTV members and staff whose lives he touched in ways both profound and modest. And I just want to add we are all of us molded and remolded by those who have loved us. No love, no friendship can ever cross the paths of our destiny without leaving some mark upon it forever. Mr. Peace Brother. Thank you Mr. Fisher. That was punk rock. So is there any members of the crew at all that would like to say anything about their memory up here? I believe Richard is going to do that. Sorry about that. I just ripped that shut off again. I'm Richard came to community television many, many years ago and met Peter probably a few years after I started coming in here and he was an impressive fellow both in attire as was mentioned which kind of caught my eye. I said well who's your haberdasher? And I asked him what he was doing and what he liked to do and you know said that different things he worked on but I think his passion was documentary and that was my biggest exposure to him having the pleasure of seeing some of his finished work and a documentary that I thought was very polished, very well done, very comparable to work that you would see on PBS or even some of the networks who have money to spend on these things rather than requiring a person to volunteer his time and work with equipment that was available at community television which may or may not have always been in the best condition or whatever. I don't recall him ever complaining about anything. I can't say that I was intimately friendly with him so I didn't know that much about his life but I knew that he was an excellent example of what community television can do and I am thankful for community television. I'm thankful for people like Peter who came in and set up a bar for some of us to try to achieve. Peter, I hardly knew you but I do miss you. Take care of wherever you are. Thank you. Thanks for your turn. Thank you. I would love to chime in as well. I don't usually wear ties but I'm pretty sure Peter gave me this tie. I was one of the recipients of his thrift store finds, most of ties and I wish I had actually written on the back of them but I think Peter probably gave me this tie if not this one, definitely some other ones. I got to know him pretty well because I could say that I wouldn't be sitting here today if not for Peter's taking me as one of his mentees. He invited me to do the Santa Cruz City Council meetings with him for a few years before I moved on to be the government technician for the County Board of Supervisors meetings which led to me working for the county now 18 years as of June 12th. One thing leads to another and if he hadn't reached out and given me an opportunity when I was just working as a volunteer mostly and I probably wouldn't be here today so I'm very grateful for him seeing some sort of potential in me and helping me to nurture that. So yeah I will definitely miss him. We worked together many times. We broke bread a number of times, got to sit next to his pool with him a couple times out in the sun. We'd always see him downtown as a lot of his friends, you know, the Hoffmans, definitely gonna miss him. He was there almost every Friday having his office hours so to speak in Hoffmans and yeah I'm definitely gonna miss him and I'm hoping that you know we can memorialize him somehow. I don't know if we could put a little place, we could stick a small little tiny plaque on camera three or something like that. Whatever's appropriate and feasible but yeah I'll miss you Peter and I'm very grateful for the influence you had in my life and I'm awed to see how much of an influence you had on so many other people in Santa Cruz. Okay good so I remember Peter remember we're still in the other building and at that time we didn't have that bigger studio. We had this probably this much space that we have here. That room is very small the conference room there and he and Clay had this incredible program. Peter was doing the camera and Clay was the host and doing all kinds of very creative acts almost and they also did preparations for comical things so we got to see that you know those who are just started out we got to see how the real pro were using small spaces to make great TV and so I always remember that that's you know no matter how small the space you can make TV. Well Peter and I had all sorts of interactions at the city council and what but I used to do KUSP radio programs and just before the invasion of Iraq I did a series of programs and I have a military background about what goes wrong when you invade another country. Well Peter turned out film to teach in or video to teach in at the university with Alan Richards and another professor and I watched it on community TV and I remembered it so five years later I asked Richard I said can't we get Alan Richard down here and we'll figure out how to produce a TV program that's when I found out producing TV programs is way more difficult. So we kind of fudge some rules of community TV and we produced the program and it was very interesting I'm wearing this tonight because this is the shirt I wore then kind of an anniversary of that I don't have my sports jacket on Alan Richard said all these things again we played the program and Peter did a wonderful job sadly it was too true to be true and as a result of that program about a month later somebody said why don't you try to get on the community TV board so through a couple of steps here I am so that was all from the Iraq war to here and every once in a while I pull out the tape of that program and watch it and here we are all these years later and all the events that that set off are still happening in our lives so Peter by filming that set me off and here I sit. I have to mention one other thing that I didn't include in that list but Peter did for many years the book TV program on community television and then of course C-span or one of the one of the networks ended up doing a program called book TV and you know he thought about trying to go after them. I didn't decide not to. Let them have the name but yeah. We actually have archives and a whole bunch of those book TV's and so if people ever are interested they can get them through us all these book TV's those were very interesting. Okay was there anyone else that would like to say anything before we close out oral communications? If not I will move on. The next item is consideration of late additions to the agenda or addition of deletions to the regular agendas. Seeing none let's move to the consent agenda. We have a lot of items on the agenda today minutes from the meeting in April we did not have a main meeting that we did have two finance committee meetings which I believe I mean all the data is in the packet and Becca will discuss finances also in her report and so the finance committee did recommend accepting those two months reports and I also included you notice we have a huge packet this month the 2016 tax return and Joe was at the meeting by phone. So I was effectively the acting chair in his absence but the four of us on the committee approved the recommendation of the accepting the tax return. Are there any questions on the consent agenda? I'll move the items 4 through 9 on the consent agenda. I will second that but I have one little amendment to make if it's agreeable to the maker of the motion. I got an extra Z in my name in the finance committee. I already have two in my last name so I got one of my first names. I could be my mistake so. I have a feeling that might have been me so I'll accept it. Other than that they looked very accurate and reflective of what transpired. And I'd like to just mention one thing under this one of the things we have to do is keep pretty detailed financial records and we've been going back now and reconcile all the records the last few years and Mel our financial manager bookkeeper has been doing a wonderful job of pulling all the backup together so everything is in order. But what's amazing to me going through it's kind of like visiting the history of what all of the volunteers did, what the board members did, what the executive directors did to get us all in the studio. It's absolutely amazing the trips Keith took to Home Depot. I sat down at the time and added them all up and I keep my voice low but I just wanted to mention Mel's doing a good job and our records are in good order and if her daughters are watching us go catch your mom in the back. I suspect they have other things to watch. Okay well we have a motion and a second to accept the consent agenda. I'm going to call the vote. All those in favor say aye. Opposed or abstentions? Seeing none, we're going to move on to the oral report of the executive director. Thank you. So this report for June and it's so exciting because we're in very good shape. We have the co-working center. If you've read my report it says we've been steadily in profit just you know income versus expenses in the co-working center for the past four months in a row which is really cool. But even cooler Keith pointed out to me I was very excited about this and I missed a big picture is that we're coming to the end of June that's the end of our fiscal year and we can already see that we will be in the black for this year. So this is a good thing. It's really good. This is you know two years ago they said okay you'll be getting no more money for operating and you'll have to make your own and we're still here so we're still making it happen and at this point being here at the the end black piece really is exciting because we have a lot of room to grow. We aren't doing nearly what we could do in the co-working space so we can we can get better and that'll be very nice so I'm very excited about that. All our offices are rented. I couldn't even get into one this morning. They smiley told me no you may not have one and there's a lot more activity in our cafe area. It continues to to be more exciting in there which is very fun. Close captioning which is eventually a revenue stream not just a scary report every month. Our beta phase is over. We actually have done it. We've done all the pieces that we need to do. It all works. We've tested it for a whole month and it's been it's worked. So now we can pass captions on our live telecasts and repeat telecasts and our through our on-demand player and also on our live stream. So there'll be their raw captions they're about 95% correct when they when they come out of to be on a live broadcast and then we go back and fix them so that they're perfect for the on-demand and the repeat broadcasts or telecasts. So we're able to provide FCC and ADA compliant captions on all platforms. We're so excited. It's great. Now Victor is working with Matreya to kind of to get the captions into their Granica system. We're gonna piggyback on your on community TV's greatness. Well thank you. What's the point of being great if no one stands on your shoulder? I only quote the best. So so we'll start to build for that service in August. So we'll like now have a new revenue stream. So we're very excited about that. It's a really good thing and then we'll expand it out as we find more takers for that service. This month we're providing 24 coverage of 24 meetings. So that's pretty intense work for Victor and his team and then they've done a good job of it. So it's a bumper crop of meetings and you know it does get busy at this time of year but that's a lot of meetings for one. That's one a day. They're more than one a day when you subtract out weekends. So our media and documentation service we have an event book for this month and another one book for next month. So that's a good thing. We try to get like eight to ten of them a year. So we're on track. We're a little less than we wanted to be but getting these two makes a difference. We already have one for next year. We added some new furniture to the co-working space if you came through the front door. You might have seen it and the mural is up and I think that you may have seen that but maybe not since we didn't meet in May. It looks great. Oh thank you. It's very fun. It looks really realistic and it makes you feel like you're in a garden. Do you wear that 3D glasses to look at? I started sneezing just looking at you. Well thank you. It's fun and we're still working to improve the kitchen and we have some ideas a little more complex in there to make that nice but we're working toward it still and we want to make sure that Armada is also comfortable and it's organized for them as well. We can't just take it over for our guys so it's something we're being really careful to do correctly and we're going to put we hope to. We've identified a bench that we want to put outside the front door that is like it looks like you know kind of a traditional fun park bench and it has a divider in the middle so two people can sit there and if it's a stranger you don't have to feel like they might elbow you or something and that way people can work outside in the summer and people have asked for an outside venue and we do have tables on the back patio but they seem to like that sun coming in their face so we're putting a nice we hope to put a bench up there we have to get an Okidoki from the landlord to bolt it to the to the walkway because we don't want it to disappear and then we have a lot of small little they call them sea tables people can just pick up and take outside and they can put them on their computers and work away in the sunshine if they like and we added a piece of equipment this month we added a wireless setup for our Sennheiser shotgun because we have we have a really nice boom in a Zeppelin that is for wireless so there are no cords hanging off it and you know those the the booms are metal too basically when you have all those wires on them they bang against it and you kind of hear in the background and so you know not it's not good and this way it'll be clean as a whistle so we're very excited to have that and just takes us up a little notch it's also very rentable did you have a question no I'm just that sounds great sounds excellent so under communications and advertising we've made the changes to our website that we needed that the agency that's working with us asked us to make so they could submit our website to Google to see if we can get the advertising grant so that's in motion we've submitted the website we made the changes and have submitted the website and we've also we're embarking on a new website project and build a fresh new happy modern looking website for CTD so what we will really want to have people understand what what we do for the community and what we offer for the community to do to do themselves so we want to kind of make that a little more obvious at going forward so we want to we want to build our membership and and that's one of the ways we can do it so I'm getting a lot of help from others he does the backside of it so and we have someone working on design as well and and we'll be looking for it we'll probably you'll hear we'll ask you some questions about what do you think that the website on a auto offer as well and that's my happy record for you great excellent report thank you next item is the oral report from the volunteer advisory committee right so I don't have a lot to report except for that after hiatus of several months we have started up again doing orientations we had our first orientation and we actually changed the the direction of the orientations to include more indeed what you're just saying that what people can do for themselves you know you know that we have that people can use their phones for cameras and we have some equipment here that people can rent and of course we do field camera also and so we are more emphasizing the whole aspects of both in the studio but also specifically going out there and so we're inviting people to you know take the field camera class and possibly the fact the volunteer advisory committee would love it that people who take their art classes that they actually because we get so many of the questions from community organizations and that's that people form like a group that would go out as volunteers and we also try organizations to understand if they get their own people trained they can have more of their events and meetings covered so we're working we reworked our whole orientation we are having a studio camera class this Saturday and we have a field camera class on August 6th so we hope to you know in the meantime do another orientation in July and get people going again so that is basically my report unless you have something to add thank you any questions all right the next time we were asked to put on was a board retreat discussion our summer scheduled normally as we would meet in July and we would not meet in August and then we would start up again in September this year not only have things been running so smoothly that we cancelled our May meeting because it was nothing really to cover our financial personnel will not be presenting us with end of the year results in January so we may cancel the January sorry July sorry the end of fiscal year in July we the finance committee won't have a reason to meet because there won't be any financial results to look at in July we may cancel this board meeting for July so it seems like a good summer to us to continue the discussion we've had previous board meetings about possibly having a board retreat in August so that's the current plan I imagine that we will try and ask Matilda if we could use her room at her park oh my clubhouse I'm sure as long as it doesn't interfere with any other activities I can I can invite people to come to my clubhouse we've done it before this night and so the other things would be I would love to hear from the board if there are any topics that we should try and cover if there are any times of dates that are better you could let me know about dates or times we would probably have it on a Saturday like we've done before if that works for people and the latter part of August since we don't know the fourth Monday we always have meetings towards the latter part of the month and like I say I would love to hear any ideas for things that we should cover so should I should I kind of see what Saturdays are available starting with the last one okay good so that would be the v18 to the 25th yeah I'll check if it's available and we would want it probably from what nine to one nine to one okay good are you inviting a discussion now or you wanting us to email you with topic ideas and that kind of thing um either is fine if you have a topic you want to let me know about now I'd be happy to record it otherwise you can email me or beca and work on it I just we asked in the April board meeting that it be on the agenda and we made a little bit of progress discussing it but I did want to bring up also that we probably won't meet in July so in case you're thinking about because we won't have finances to look at unless something comes up it is still scheduled I have a question in terms of just you know procedural so it's in terms of the Brown Act if we have a retreat you know we have a forum of the board so how does it not fall under no as long as we don't do any business well just to be safe we would notice the meeting and it would be open to the public as an ad requirement that we would need well that would be a problem because if you're going to advertise within the paper anything like that no no we don't have the paper just be at our website we'd have to put up a piece of paper at the site right that's what we did last time yeah that seemed to be adequate I mean if anybody asks we'll tell them it's on our agenda our gen is publicly available but typically we don't take any action out of there it's more discussion and getting a vision for the future for the coming year just throwing stuff up against the wall and seeing what sticks and the only thing I'd like to just suggest I could email it but I just throw it out as you've been to a couple of the national conferences and I'd be curious a lot of people are going through the transition we did it's just to get your observations and what people are doing we're survived but how others surviving in this kind of new environment there and that was kind of one of mine because the technology I think we've really come up to date is what I can understand but just kind of looking forward to what some of the others are doing and also we're small I mean we're not New York City or Boston they don't all have this there's only 11 states that have what we have I just wanted to rest of them are still business as usual but he has I haven't been to one of these retreats but I suppose it would be a good opportunity if if anybody has some exciting articles or material that they'd like to share with the board they've come across in their their reading or video content or might be nice to look at I mean I'm trying to watch more community TV and I saw the wonderful Capitola library program and Larry's Larry's boss on there but yeah I don't know it'd be nice to have some highlights maybe you know inspire us to see some of the highlights of community TV I kind of inspire us give us a greater sense of purpose so I like that I like that so you're somewhere listed what the goals or mission of community TV so that we can sort of refresh that so we can be thinking along those lines that's one center on the website one thing too is just in perspective a lot of the treats in the past were how are we going to get to the point we're at now so that's why I think your idea of what we do next and that is important because I mean we've done a huge amount of work everybody here in this whole room that was that similar to what I was actually thinking about which is you know we've now stabilized our organization we had to carve away a lot of things going through that process and assuming the trajectory we're on now there's going to come a time in the future where we can start sort of expanding again start thinking about what are the things that we had to let go of that we might want to think about doing more that needs one of things which kind of goes to the mission goals of the organization I'd be interested in talking about you're right the last one we had we were in small groups talking about how you deal with the fact that we had money for facilities equipment but nothing else right we had a facilitator did not that last one I don't think we need one for this more of a holistic feeling then always we invited staff to come and we always had a number of staff but then we used to have it so of course any staff who wanted to come would be invited but not required okay any other discussion about the board retreat is it like a strategic planning meeting yeah like that okay so we'll move on to the next item the oral report of the board chair the one thing I wanted to mention is that I'm working with Becca and other board members which I put together a general newsletter that I want to send out to everyone and the reason is is that we've had so many good things finally come to fruition it would be really a good idea to let our our long-suffering members know how well things are going and so if you have suggestions I'm like we're suggesting you said it to me I know some of them I've asked us at the voluntary advisory committee meeting and hopefully we'll be getting some feedback from them already talked to Becca we've worked on that already she's giving me some great ideas we'd also like to get some ideas from the board that's why I'm asking the board you got my email address so I don't have any else to particularly report so I move on to the board member our staff requests for specific items to appear on the next agenda which we're thinking would be September would probably be September probably a review of the retreat well definitely the end of the year yeah we will have them down I mean being on camera telling people what we what insights we gained okay and then the last item before German is announcements in announcements I wanted to thank the volunteers that made this production possible that would be Sherry Ross Karen Scott Linda Janakis Richard to sell Jim Russo and Jean Kratzer thank you for producing this show tonight and if there are no announcements I'll take a motion to adjourn this meeting so I will call the meeting adjourned at 6.04 p.m. and thank you


So let's look at an example of a question relating to the lemon orchard by Alex Leguma and what you can consider when answering this question Now the question asks, how does Alex Leguma produce sympathy for the black man in the lemon orchard? Now if I were answering this question, of course, I've written this model answer The first thing is obviously you want to focus on the keywords. So for instance sympathy for obviously the black man This is the African man in the lemon orchard. These are the main points that I need to focus on So let's look at how to structure a response with this question in mind How does Alex Leguma produce sympathy for the black man in the lemon orchard? In Alex Leguma's the lemon orchard, the extreme levels of racism That's faced by black South Africans in South Africa is highlighted through the unjustified brutality Towards the black mind by four white South African men He is kidnapped and tortured as he questioned the authority of an African religious minister Hence the four white South African men wish to use violence to make him submissive and fearful The title itself lemon orchard is used to represent how a lemon can both be beautiful and bitter at the same time Which is a metaphor for how South Africa may appear to be a beautiful wealthy and civilized country Yet there's a deep bitterness and resentment Indeed the lemon is a representation of the inequality between the powerful minority white Africans Who disempowered the majority black South Africans under the system of apartheid Hence the lemons bitterness represents the bitter resentment that grew as a consequence of this systematic racism The treatment of the black man in this story as well as the sadistic nature of the abusers as they cheer and derive enjoyment from abusing him Angers us as readers we pity the black man as he was just being beaten Just for the group of the white men's enjoyment and for them to feel more powerful Also, we as readers sympathize for the black man as we learn about the physical and mental suffering that he faces As he's tortured by weapons and he's spoken to in derogatory terms Now this is a very detailed introduction and obviously I'll begin by linking back to the question How we feel sympathy for the black man and what this represents when it comes to South Africa And of course also the symbolism behind the name lemon orchard, okay So always begin your opening by giving a really good overview of the story rather than just describing it However, you want to obviously add just a little bit of analysis But of course, I was remembering your introduction. You don't add any evidence Now let's look at my first point The actual suffering of the black man causes readers to sympathize for him as he is tortured after being kidnapped in the middle of the night He is taken out of the comfort of his home in secrecy on a cold night And he's wearing pajamas as they command him listen hot not Moreover, they tell him when a boss speaks to you you answer him The imperative sentences in the repetition of the second person pronoun you Illustrates how the white South African men wish to reveal the brutal overbearing power in order to emphasize to the black man That he is powerless and defenseless This makes us his readers feel extremely sympathetic as the language of these men as well as their emphasis on the racial superiority Makes us feel disgusted at the treatment of the black man Moreover, the white man casually describes the night to be as dark as a kafir soul out here And he uses the racist expletive kafir to purposely infuriate the black man The expletive kafir is a racist and derogatory term and this matter of fact simile highlights how normalised it is To use derogatory language which depicts black South Africans as dark and negative people as a whole Hence Alex Lagouma makes readers feel a deep sense of disgust towards the treatment of this black South African man Now what i want to highlight here in my response is how i've used the point evidence explanation method So here thinking back to the question of course thinking back to the keywords sympathy and black man, okay Now i'm going to colour code my points a little bit going back to this, okay Now the first thing i would suggest is obviously making a point and i'm going to highlight my point in pink Then you want to use evidence to support what you've said from the passage, okay, and i'm going to highlight my evidence in blue Then i'm going to talk about and do some word level analysis when i'm relating it to my evidence, okay So here i'm using some word level analysis and i'm talking about the Second person pronoun you and i'm going to mention the word level analysis and colour code it as green, okay And then my explanation Is essentially here, right? So you've got your point evidence. I've added a little bit of word level analysis Now my explanation which i then link back to the question i'm going to highlight that in yellow, okay I've then added additional evidence here, okay So as you can see here i've also added and emphasized how this shows the racist system And then on top of that i've mentioned some word level analysis, okay So the term could fear this is an expletives expletive just means a swear word And then once more i've added Explanation and i've linked it back to the question, okay So do bear in mind you obviously want to always begin by making a point and linking it back to the question Which is how we feel sympathy, but most importantly you need to then of course give lots of evidence Even one piece of evidence is sufficient So for instance if you didn't add this piece of evidence it will still be enough to just add the first section Okay, i'm just showing you how you can for instance just add more marks to your answers by adding some extra information But make sure you're just not listing lots of different pieces of evidence You want to then do some word level analysis, okay So in this case that i've mentioned the second person pronoun that's my word level analysis And then here i'm talking about the racist expletive could fear, okay, and of course this Is a derogatory term. That's my word level analysis. Okay now. Let's move on to my second point The black man is intimidated with a gun But he chooses to retain his pride by staying quiet despite being terrified and this causes readers to sympathize with him The group of white men use various different types of weapons to force him into being submissive As each carried a sham bog and every now and then one of them slapped a quadroid lead with his They all intend to whip him which shows the animalistic brutal nature of the white man and how they lack empathy The phrase every now and then shows how often the men whipped and tortured the black man However, he tried to retain his dignity as he did not ask him to stop torturing him To be sure the black man retains a strong sense of dignity as he does not respond to the foreman's brutality Which makes us readers feel sympathy as the fact he does not respond with violence shows His morally superior to them as he does not stoop to their animalistic levels of cruelty The group of white men try to explain why they're abusing him by saying that it is because he had the audacity to be cheeky And uncivilized towards the minister of our church. The use of the noun audacity Emphasizes how the men feel superior and more powerful The tone of the sentence is accusatory as it depicts the black man questioning any white man as an act of disrespect to all african people It's evident that the white men feel as if they had been wronged by the use of the personal pronoun hour As it excludes the black man The pronoun shows that he believes that his whole race deserves respect and that he is a white man Thus naturally society should give him power The adjective cheeky and the men's statements that they will teach him a lesson is interesting as it seems misplaced in this highly charged environment The white men speak to the black man as if he's a child as this is the kind of language we would use when a child makes a small mistake There is some dissonance between this language as it is contrary to the violent atmosphere The white men treat the black man as if he were intellectually inferior and this language shows that they did not see him as an equal There is irony in their treatment as he is the most educated of them as a teacher Yet these men who are less educated than him attempt to play the role of teacher as a way to force him to learn how to be submissive towards white people Which makes us as readers feel sympathetic Now again here I've made a point And I'm going to highlight this again in pink. Okay Then I've added my evidence Okay So here is my evidence which I'm going to highlight in blue. Okay Now here they intend to whip him and of course I'm explaining this evidence a little bit and then I've added How this phrase is relevant? So this is a little bit of what we'd call a word level analysis I'm focusing on specific phrases and what this means And then I'm now explaining it a little bit. Okay So now here's a little bit of an explanation linking back to the question. Okay, then I've added more evidence Okay, so here's my evidence I've then Picked apart the evidence and I've also talked about the tone of this statement. Okay, so then this is my word level analysis Then and on top of that actually there's even more word level analysis here because I'm also talking about this pronoun. Okay Then I've explained once more and linked it back to the question. Okay, so hopefully this is showing you how to really apply your knowledge of this passage And of course how to answer questions using point evidence explanation and of course word level analysis Let's move on to the next point Moreover, it's interesting to note the fact that not all of the white African men wanted to brutally torture this black man One of the men who's holding a light grows afraid that the leader will kill the man as he begs for god's sake don't shoot him We don't want to be involved in any murder It is evident that this man in particular is terrified at the other three men's actions as he was laughing a little nervously The repetition of don't coupled with the adverb nervously illustrates an interesting difference in the attitude of different african people Towards black South Africans This illustrates that during the apartheid era not all white South Africans were happy or supportive of the oppression of black South Africans Nevertheless, alex the goomer's depiction of this man as still being part of the group of men that kidnapped this black man Still shows the complicit role that white South African people played in upholding this racist system Much like the trees and the lemon orchard which silently stand in the darkness and bear witness to the torture of this black man The white South Africans in society who did not support apartheid But still never spoke out was seen as just as guilty of the terrible brutal treatment of black South Africans as the violent african men In this story, even if the white man wants the other three african men to try to exercise leniency in the treatment of the black man We as readers still see him as playing an important role in the torture of the black man In fact, we feel all the more sympathetic towards the black South African man as we realize one of the reasons why apartheid Was such a powerful system which lasted so long is because of the majority of white african people Who simply stood back silently and never tried to defend black South Africans or remove this racist system Now this is my final point before I conclude and again I've linked it back to the question on my point. Okay Then here i've added my evidence Okay I've then essentially done some word level analysis linking it back to how this one particular man doesn't necessarily support this Violence. Okay, and I've mentioned for example repetition Then I've linked it to context Okay, and I've then linked it all back to the question and why we feel sympathy for the black man But also we think that actually even if a lot of maybe white South African people weren't supportive of the apartheid system Them not speaking out and then not start stopping violence towards other black South African means they're still part of this horrible system Now let's look at my conclusion and do bear in mind that introductions and conclusions Of course, you can write a detailed one But of course make sure that doesn't take away from the points that you make in the bulk of your essay Okay, however, it's always good to conclude your discussion and you can just borrow similar wording from your introduction In conclusion, we as readers feel a great amount of sympathy for the black man in the lemon orchard As we learn of the suffering and pain that he faces when taken hostage by the four white African men He suffers both mentally and physically as he's treated in a violent and derogatory way Just because he spoke out and questioned a white minister as his intellectual equal The extent of the power that the white men think they have is shown through the violent imagery such as the weapons Which they used to torture this black man The lack of empathy and universal love that they have for other humans It's clearly shown when they dare and abuse the innocent black man This causes us as readers to feel sympathy for the black man in Alex the Gouman's lemon orchard So I've concluded I've closed my discussion and of course I've constantly made sure I'm linking it back to the question So these are the points that you should consider when you're answering questions related to lemon orchard Make sure you download this resource and try and revise some of this phrasing from this model answer when it comes to the lemon orchard Thanks so much for listening


Thanks for checking out this video. This is about why our movie remakes and sequels so popular And this is is mainly from the standpoint of you know, why I believe studios do a lot of remakes and sequels But it's also applicable to the popularity amongst audiences as well. This is actually something I was just kind of thinking about this morning. It's something that people complain about and go crazy about in a good way As far as film audience goes so First off just a little bit of disclaimer if I sound a little bit congested and and I have to like stop and You know like take a take a deep gulp of saliva every now and then it's because it is allergy season and damn allergies. They're so bad So anyway, I don't want to take up all my time with that stuff So why are remakes and sequels so popular? So I have a few notes I'm gonna be looking down at my phone because I have a few notes put down because I want to make sure I hit all The main points that I was coming up with here. Now disclaimer on this It is not, you know, I'm not a professional. I'm not in the film industry I didn't do research for this either. These are all things that I sat down and critically was thinking about I do know a lot about film. I've worked on film. I don't want to say I've worked in film I've worked on film because I've done like, you know, independent stuff Nothing with any studios or anything like that, but I have a lot of experience with film I've taken some taken some courses having to do with film and stuff like that So at any rate it total disclaimers is my opinion. So take it for what it's worth So one of the one of the main things About making remakes and sequels is that there's a build-in fan base it makes sense for studios because They already know that they are going to be able to bring people to the film There's a there's always a segment of the potential audience who is going to be down to see that just because it has to do with Material they're familiar with and have liked before most likely The other thing with that is because of that it means they have to do less marketing Think about it from the standpoint of something that's totally new You know think about like get out, you know when I'm always gonna think about it from a horror perspective By the way, because that's kind of how I'm geared But think about it from the perspective of a movie like get out They kind of didn't they had to do a lot more marketing for that film Just because it was so brand new people didn't know what they were gonna be getting into it was New director new material although people knew Jordan Peele. They didn't know him for doing horror So there was a lot more marketing that needed to go into that It was also a very unsure thing with with doing the the sequels and the reboots they Excuse me, they basically know that That materials been tested before and it worked well. So all they need to do is build off of that and You know continue and they can have something successful. So Less marketing needed that's a big point. So that means spending less of this which you know Studios are always looking to do that companies in general are always looking to do that spend less They're gonna sell tickets on familiarity alone at least some and Honestly, this is really all that matters for theatrical releases So I know there are like sequels and reboots that are like straight to DVD straight to Blu-ray Straight to streaming services even, you know, if you think about shutter having doing like the critters a new binge or Puppet master littlest right, you know things like that But for theatrical release, you know, you're going to sell tickets Immediately based off of people's familiarity with the properties. So think about things like the saw films, you know Granted they kept going with those there wasn't a huge time gap between doing the first one or first and second one and then doing others They kept it going but each time they put out one of those movies They knew they were gonna sell tickets because there are people who are like, well, I like saw I like the saw franchise So even though it was diminishing returns for the film and people kept complaining You kept having these people coming back and coming back and coming back because they wanted to know where they were gonna Take the story next because it was one gigantic story, you know now not all you know reboots and remakes sequels are like that, but That's just one example of how they keep the ticket sales going Assured for doing these types of films. So that's another thing to kind of think about with it Studios already own some of these properties. That's another thing They don't have to go out and look for new stuff in these instances They don't have to go out and spend extra money. They already own the property They can go to a writer to a director who they're already very familiar with may already have contracts with and say hey Write this up direct this. Let's get this going. So there yet again is another time Time-saver and mainly money-saver because obviously it's all about money when it comes to these studios every now And then they will take chances on some other Type films that they know may not be as successful But a lot of times that ends up coming in where they've been working with a writer and or director who they really trust And they kind of make a deal with them up front and say if you do these movies for us That we know will make money and these are our cash cows Then we will allow you to do something more creative for yourself I know that um, you know like the big names get that kind of stuff like people like a Spielberg We'll get that kind of freedom people like way back Stanley Kubrick got that kind of stuff someone like Quentin Tarantino is another one Once directors kind of reach that certain status. It's kind of like we trust you But then there are also these moments where they're like we need a certain thing out of you and then go ahead and do what you want So There's that going on They're already on the properties. Just reiterate Um It's riskier to brand new material to put new material out there like I was kind of saying about you know How they had to market a lot more for for the film to get out You have to get people in those seats if they're not already familiar with characters and not already familiar with the title with the story Whatever you have to generate interest yourself as a studio So there's a lot more marketing that ends up going into that and you have to sell it Like it's a much bigger. It's a much harder sell and there have been a lot of Films that have come out in theaters or gone so straight to Blu-ray DVD streaming services, whatever that You know, there were lofty hopes for and it just did not pan out I Just thinking off the top of my head one that had come out kind of recently That I thought looked kind of interesting concept wise But I did not go see it and apparently a lot of other people didn't was that mortal engines Film I know they had high hopes for that film because it looks like they put a lot of money into it But it bombed in the box office and that's another instance of You know if that studio if you go to that studio and you kind of say all right What do you want to do? Do you want to do this mortal engines thing that's new and it may be a little bit tough to sell or Or do you want to do another like something like Harry Potter? Do you want another Harry Potter property? I think if you give them that that option they'd be like well We'll take another Harry Potter because we know we're gonna make money on that one It's a sure thing. Although when I use mortal engines as a As an example, I think that's based off some books. So it's not entirely brand new Because that's that's kind of another aspect of this stuff is films based on on books and comic books Honestly because those also have built-in fan bases and will already sell tickets based off of people have read the books People have read the comics stuff like that. So in a sense those types of films fit into this kind of remake reboot Realm as well. I mean look at the Marvel movies. I mean, they're very well done. They're very well written directed all that but the reason the Particular characters get people into theater seats initially is because they know them from the comics so But now at this point, it's just kind of people just know like if it's a Marvel film They're gonna want to see it just because Marvel's done a good job. So they've kind of built their own reputation Another aspect of doing these types of films there's already story to work off of There's it's much easier for the writer for the director to know what they're going to do with a film That's that's a sequel or a reboot because it's already been done The story has already been laid out the characters have been laid out the environment the world for the story has already been created So you know your parameters You know where you're working and it kind of gives you more focus as opposed to when people have to approach a script That's totally blank make up all your own characters make up your own environment make up your own rules within the world You're creating and come up with a really good storyline. It's much harder Way harder and I know because I've I've written scripts before none of them have I mean they've been made like independently like short films But I mean I have some feature-length scripts. Nothing's that most likely ever gonna happen with that type of stuff There's so many people out there write scripts and goes nowhere, but I do it for myself pretty much. It's a good time Sometimes you can get original talent for less money That's another thing especially with a lot of these sequels sometimes with with remakes But there will be people especially when there's a lot of time that that has passed, you know some decades since another one of those films has been done and You can get the same people who are in who were in the original who may not have been working really much at all since then for Less money It's another money thing, you know You don't have to go out necessarily and get big talent because you'll be able to draw people in with the originals one of the big things that people have complained about a lot in the horror community is the fact that Brad Dorough is not going to be voicing Chucky from Child's Play anymore So obviously Brad Dorough is a big draw for people who love the Child's Play films And I know they're doing a series now and they have cast Mark Hamill actually as the person who's going to be doing the voice of Chucky Which I think is a really good fit, but you have all these people and I understand it who are like no It's got to be Brad Dorough He's still available. He could still do this because he's been the voice and there are just there's just always a segment Who doesn't want change with these things? They love these films. They want to see the next one They want it to keep going, but they want the familiarity of the people involved with it, too And a lot of times you can get those individuals for less money. I Guess I can't say a lot of times sometimes is what I'll say Audience is usually more forgiving with the material this Especially applies with horror films because people have such a Such a close tie to these properties. They already really like them They're going into it with the aspect with the the mindset that I want to like this I really want to like this instead of going into it with a blank slate or saying You know a little bit skeptical of this one Although you do get that a little bit if people have seen the trailer ahead of time and they're like This doesn't look a whole lot like the ones that I'm used to and really like so you do get that, too But for the most part, I think people go into it with a positive attitude saying I want to like this So people are naturally going to look for a way to enjoy the film So for that reason it's a good bet for for studios to do because These audience members are gonna want to like it and that's obviously good for the studios And they're also just more forgiving in that instance if they have a story that just doesn't fully pan out Some people would just be like well, you know, okay But they got x y and z right about the other you know in common with the other films So I'm good or they got x y and z right from the original film because it's a remake So I'm all right with that prime example of kind of like with me I did a review for The puppet master littlest Reich that was on shutter and when I watched it I was like, you know stories not like great, but it's okay And my main thing of what I liked about it was it had the puppets and It gave the puppets a lot of screen time and there were a lot of kills involving the puppets So that's the perfect example like I'm the perfect example of this in in that instance of you know I'm familiar with puppet master. I like the puppet master movies even though a lot of people would say they're not actually like good They're just kind of like fun And because I like that stuff because I have a good feeling about those films. I Like that film, you know, if I had never heard about puppet master before Never seen anything had no tie to it whatsoever if I went into watching that that littlest Reich would I have liked it? Probably not as much. I mean I can pretty much guarantee I wouldn't have liked it as much so there is that at play It's it's much more forgiving For the segment of audience who already knows the property going into it. So The other thing is this place to nostalgia. It really does And I think that's why you end up seeing a lot of reboots The big thing is people To use kind of an old an old adage People view it through rose-colored glasses, you know that when they have a tie from their childhood To a particular film or series of films there. They just are always gonna have fond memories It always just triggers you as ah, yeah, you know, I remember watching that when I was a kid And a lot of times if you go back and watch these films in Adulthood it's not as great as you think Prime example when I was in high school I went to the theater and saw the movie gladiator with Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. I loved it I thought it was amazing Was like 10 years later or so I watched it again, and I was just like What did I see in this? Why did I like this so much? But I remember loving it so much and then watching it as I'm older and have matured a lot more and I'm just like Yeah, I don't I don't like this film this one actually sucks. So I mean the visuals were still good and the fight scenes But yeah, so it's just that whole thing of you know The connection you initially made with that material and it comes into play So that's just one more aspect of driving people to get their butts in the seats at Theaters to see them or buying blu-ray DVD or watching on streaming service, whatever. So yeah, so anyway That's it. Those are all my my points I wanted to hit on this and to reiterate this is a disclaimer. This is just my opinion These are just my feelings on why there's a popularity amongst studios mainly of doing remakes and Sequels to two other stuff so That said what I want is to hear is to well here to read your comments down below and see what what are your thoughts? Can you think of any things that I didn't think of that should definitely definitely be included in this conversation? And let's just have like a back-and-forth. Let's let's see like what did you think I was wrong about? 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You can look back through my through all my video library on on this channel and you can see That there are similar videos mainly for my unboxings where one month they do awesome another month they do Terrible basically and I'm talking about Huge huge huge difference in the amount of views with it and it has a lot to do with you viewers Who jump on as soon as you see it versus, you know saying, oh, I'll get to it sometime later. So subscription notification bell And you're awesome and then you can talk about that down down here. You can just be like, hey, I just subscribe and guess what? I'll be like, you're awesome. Thank you very much Also, are there any particular topics you guys want me to talk about? I'm mainly looking for kind of horror related But if it's not horror, that's that's okay. I'll go with film in general But also like pop culture is fine. 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Hey, welcome back to another reaction video. If you don't know us, we are a family of six that have moved from the US to New Zealand. I have been here for eight years and sharing the journey. So you can check out my channel and find out all the information you need to know about moving and living in New Zealand. But today we're gonna do another reaction video because a couple of reasons. You guys seem to really like them and I enjoy doing them and you keep sending me all of these things to react to and I just feel like it would be wrong for me to just watch it and not actually have a reaction to it. And so today we're gonna do some commercials. Again, that you guys have sent me that I've said, you know, you should check out this and what you should do. And so now I'm really curious. And so today we're gonna watch it. But the first commercial that I'm gonna show you is one that I have seen before. But I just, it's literally probably my favorite commercial and that says a lot being a marketing person. And I just need that, I need my US audience to see this. I need people that who have not seen it. So this is the trumpet commercial. I think it's an Australian ad and it's hilarious. And then we go into a bugger commercial. And then we go, I don't know what that one's about. I think that may be Australian as well. And then there's another one they said, I think it's, I think these are the Australian ads. These are the Australian, because the third one is like, I don't know, take over New Zealand. I don't know, I haven't seen it. So here we go. Okay, this one is so good. If you don't think this is funny, we can't be friends. Trumpet, simplifying summer. How far away from the beach do dogs become undies? Skin tight swimming dogs, an item of clothing you'd happily wear in public, but not in public. So how far is too far? Let's begin. Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, undies, undies, undies, undies. If you can't see the water, you're in underpants. Local supermarkets, pedestrian crossings, office buildings, public transport, anywhere more than 300 meters from the water's edge, all underpants transformation areas. If we treat the budgie smuggler with respect, undies, undies, undies, dogs, everyone wins. Trumpet, simplifying summer. Okay, is that not one of the funniest ads you've ever seen, undies, undies, dogs? So if you don't know, dogs or swimwear, if you're not from, you know, Oceania, right? So it's, oh my gosh, it's so, there's a truck going, it's like one thing. Okay, that's so good. Like it's so true, like why is it so inappropriate to wear it other places? So anyway, the next one, I have not, the next two I have not seen and I, you guys have sent to me and we're gonna do, we're gonna do this. This is Van, Van Toyota.  Oh, looks like this is, there's another one. Stop soil planks. Stop soil planks, I'm right. Australia. Okay, sorry, that's moving on to the next one. Let's just comment on that one. I just, okay, so bugger is not a word that I have picked up after being here for eight years. I am not saying that word very much, but it's so funny. And what I really like about that commercial actually is that it highlights the fact that of the laid back attitude of Australia, New Zealand, how like really kind of horrible things happen.  They're just so laid back. And I love that because they always react, and this is my experience completely, they always react to really like what would make, I would say Americans or a lot of people like really stressed out. They just like, oh, well, it happens and they let it roll off and they just have a really good reaction to things. And I really like that because it just reduces all the stress and it's just like, you know, it's just money. It's just, you know, it happens, things happen and they just accept it and move on. And that's just amazing. So good. A very good quality about this part of the world for sure. Okay, so this one that says Australia declares war on New Zealand, like no idea what that could be. No idea what this is about. Here we go. It's a day off. An zig day, late a day. The Queen's birthday, we love them all. But there are many bubbly holidays in the back half of the year. So this Saturday, we're going to war with New Zealand.  And hey, every year we can crack a beer to mark the day we smash the keyways. It's unusual that you see much infusion. That's hilarious. I have not seen this. That's hilarious. Okay, that was hilarious. I mean, hilarious. I don't know when that came out, but that, I have not seen that. As you can see with my reaction, I have not seen that. Oh, okay, 100% easy. We'll be done by noon. You guys, it's so true. It's, yeah. There's not a lot of protections here. Okay, what was like, it's called Invade New Zealand Department of Defense. Like what are they advertising? I don't know. That's hysterical.  I have not seen it. That is so funny. Thank you for sending that one. That's amazing. I'm sorry, it's taking me a minute to get over that. It was that second one just kind of threw me. I'm like, okay, this must be the same, you know, another ad for the same topic. This just says, Australia declares war on, it's so funny, InvadeNewZeland.com. Okay, so yeah, let's not tell too many people how easy it is. But yeah, so I hope you enjoyed the video this week. Comment below with other things you'd like me to react to. Thank you so much for sending those. Those have been really great. If you wanna shout me a coffee, I'd appreciate it as I'm trying to grow this channel and do new things like this. Otherwise, I will see you guys next week.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup, People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Global outrage over the arrest of BDS Palestine Coordinator Mahmood Nawaja. Trump threatens deployment of the National Guard to Portland, as federal forces are made to retreat. Argentinians march in the national capital, demand answers for Facundo Asturio's disappearance. Members of Germany's Karstad Sports protest mass layoffs and closure of branches. Activists across the world are demanding the release of Mahmood Nawaja, General Coordinator of the BDS National Committee in Palestine. 34-year-old Nawaja was arrested by Israeli forces in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank early morning on July 30th, Thursday. Nawaja has been a vocal opponent of the Israeli occupation and a pathide against the Palestinian people. He has also criticised Israel's proposed annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank as a crystallisation of a 21st-century pathide. According to a statement issued by the BDS movement, scores of Israeli security personnel stormed Nawaja's home at around 3.30am on Thursday, blindfolded and handcuffed him in front of his family before taking him away. According to the last reports, even after 24 hours of his arrest, his whereabouts are still unknown. Nawaja was among 17 Palestinians arrested by the Israeli forces from different parts of the occupied Palestine on Thursday and Wednesday. Jamal Juma, one of Nawaja's colleagues in the BNC in Palestine, told reporters that Israel is attacking any form of resistance in Palestine. US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to deploy the National Guard to Portland if local and state authorities do not quell protests. His statement came after the city police took over the security of the city courthouse from federal law enforcement agencies. The courthouse was a place of intense violence on the part of federal forces on protesters on multiple occasions. Trump accused the state administration of not doing enough to disperse the nightly demonstration, calling the demonstrations a beehive of terrorists. The president also stated that the forces deployed by his administration will remain in the city in standby. This is despite the Oregon state governor Kate Brown's insistence that the federal forces will be leaving the city. The governor also criticized Trump's attempts at violently cracking down on the protests. Recently state and local officials have accused federal forces of unlawfully detaining protesters in Portland with several reported instances of protesters taken away in unmarked vehicles. These detentions prompted an intensification of the ongoing anti-racism protests across the United States. Three months after the disappearance of 22-year-old Pakundo Astudio Castro, Argentinians mobilized in the Buenos Aires province demanding his safe return, led by the Encounter Memory, Truth and Justice movement or the EMVJ. The protesters carried out a march from the National Congress to the district government's office. Social movements, political parties and human rights organizations also organized demonstrations in different cities. The protesters also raised slogans against the security minister of the Buenos Aires province, Sergio Berné. Pakundo has been missing since April 30th, the day he left from his home in Pedro Loro for Bahia Planca. There are witnesses who claim to have seen Pakundo being arrested by the Buenos Aires police and taken in a police patrol car. There is also photo evidence in which Pakundo is seen from behind arrested by two officers. Contradicting statements by police officers involved raised widespread suspicion that the disappearance is a possible case of institutional violence. Three months after his disappearance, a judicial investigation is far from ascertaining what happened. The federal justice system still does not have technical data on the location of the patrol car and the police officer's cell phones. Christina Castro, Pakundo's mother and the human rights organizations supporting the case reiterated their demand of removing the prosecutor Santiago Ulpiano Martinez from the case for allegedly diverting the investigation. On Thursday, hundreds of workers marched to the German capital Berlin, protesting the closure of the Karstad Sports Shop branch in the city. Workers are opposing plans, announced by the management of the retail chain Galeria Karstad, Kofhof or the GKK to lay off hundreds of employees across the country. Along with workers of Karstad Sports, trade union activists from Verdi participated in the march on Thursday. According to reports, GKK management has decided to close 50 branches of its department stores chain by the end of the year. Such a move will directly oust around 5,000 employees and is likely to affect thousands of other jobs in logistics, sports, travel and food as well as subcontractors such as cleaners and maintenance staff. The militant group Klaas Kegen Klaas accused the investor and GKK owner Rene Benko of mismanaging the retail chain in order to preserve only the most profitable parts of the business. Benko himself is estimated to own assets worth 5 billion euros or nearly 6 billion US dollars. Prior to the march, Verdi stated that the aim of the protest is to preserve as many jobs as possible. As per Verdi, since the employer has blocked any progress in the negotiation so far, protesters intend to march to the office of the parent group SIGNA in Berlin in order to address Benko directly. And this is all we have for this episode of the International Daily. If you are new to our channel, please subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.