Student Life | Issue 41

My Own Documentary
BY CAMERON LUSTY
I spent weeks mulling over this brief.
I tried to come up with the perfect
documentary idea. Something
captivating; something interesting;
something educational. I binge
watched all of the Louis Theroux’s
documentaries that I could find. But,
after much deliberation, I realised
that I didn’t have a single idea. I
had loads, yet none were perfect.
So, I present to you three ideas for
documentaries...
DOCUMENTARY IDEA 1
The first documentary is an
exploration into a profession that
I find particularly fascinating: party
clowns. Why do they still do it? Do
they make a living? These questions
- and a few others - are what I hope
to answer in this documentary.
I didn’t think it was a popular
choice because, well, clowns are
either scary, creepy, weird, or a
combination of all three. Anyone who
likes clowns will, inevitably, become
one themselves.
It’s a world that I have stayed away
from my whole life, but the idea to
explore, in depth, to find out the
true, inner feelings of the people
who choose this profession, and the
opinions of what their family and
friends make of their life choice. If
it’s successful enough, then it will
lead nicely into a successor of sorts:
Mimes.
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