My video application!

Hello again!

Well, no need to upload the experience blog, as it's pretty much covered in the final video, and the aquarium vid is coming, but I'm having microphone troubles on the voice-over.

Took all weekend to upload the submission video onto islandreefjob.com, thanks to heavy traffic and the site accidentally shutting down at 11:59pm Queensland time on Saturday instead of 11:59pm UTC Sunday. The site was back up on Sunday and after trying since 11am, my 10MB file finally uploaded somewhere between 10-11pm.


Congratulations to all the Oscar winners, especially Danny Boyle and co for their awesome achievement with "Slumdog Millionaire" and Heath Ledger in an instantly classic performance, in a film that should have been on the list of Best Picture nominees.

I have to admit it was weird seeing an Oscar show presented by an Australian, Hugh Jackman, just after slipping in for the final deadline of this contest, with one of the major nominees, Anne Hathaway, born on the same day as me, Nov 12 1982, and the Best Picture winner being a great Hollywood-meets-Bollywood rise-from-the-slums epic with musical numbers, something I've dreamed of doing for years and am glad got made so well (although I still wanna do mine!).

It feels like a message that I can achieve something great with my life too, and one of the reasons I want the Hamilton Island job is that I want to be a filmmaker, I want a place to inspire me, I want to be spending my time on and making my money from movies. To be employed to explore and report back on that place is surely the most awesome job a young filmmaker could do, a jolt of artistic, scientific and adventurous inspiration and experience. The chance to get the freedom and time to study my craft in paradise.

I hope I have a shot. If I don't get this job, well, I've always got the dream to go there one day, I've got the rest of my dreams, I've got a great city to play in and I've got a lovely girlfriend. I might apply for a loan and start a production company, and study and work for my craft that way, although obviously this is a pretty scary time to be getting into starting a business.

Good luck to all the other applicants - I'm gonna post another blog on some of my favourites, and I'm sure I'll keep seeing more great ones. I will also post the official Tourism Queensland YouTube version of my video, so you can vote on it and give me five stars. So if anyone's out there, keep coming back!