The Gangarri Solar Project

Title: Shell – Gangarri Announcement

Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds

Description: This ad is used to show Shell’s new solar farm located in Wandoan, QLD. It shows the benefits of the solar farm, and how their solar farm will better the environment.

SHELL – Gangarri Announcement

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Filming a man in a warehouse like room – with white walls – speaking to the camera.

[TEXT DISPLAYS] Brad Burke

General Manager, External & Government Relations

Shell Australia

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Brad Burke: At Shell, we want to make a positive contribution to society and

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Image of man fades out, as image of grass and nature fades in.

[TEXT DISPLAYS] Shell is building its first commercial-scale solar project in Queensland.

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Brad Burke: there is no more important part of that than the traditional owners of the land we operate.

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More trees are now shown faintly in the background

[TEXT DISPLAYS] The project is being built on Iman land, in partnership with the Iman people.

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Picture is now a close up and out of focus video on hay-like grass.

[TEXT DISPLAYS] The project has been named Gangarri.

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Video now shows man in the white room

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Man: the meaning of Gangarri is sunlight,

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Video now captures the land in which the project is taking place. The land looks quite dry, with trees and shrubbery that fill the video frames.

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Man: we came up with that word because the project was all about sun and the ray of the sun, the energy of the sun.

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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Gangarri

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Man: Gan meaning light, and Garri meaning sun.

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Video shows traditional indigenous art with white text over the top

[TEXT DISPLAYS] To commemorate the land the project will be built on, the Iman people have developed a piece of artwork – by artist, Samantha Booth.

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Samantha Booth: The landscape from where we all come from pretty much will see all the wattle trees and

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Samantha Booth is talking to the camera in the white room. She is captured to be in the room with other people as you see parts of their arms.

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Samantha Booth: real nice landscape out there, felt good doing something to represent our people.

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Video now moves to another man sitting next to Samantha in the room.

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Man on screen: So we don’t just use one part of the country, we use all the country.

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5 adults are now sitting around the piece of artwork Samantha Booth had done. One being Samantha herself, and another being Brad Burke.

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Man on left of screen: Our culture it never dies, it is always there. Our language is asleep, it just needs to be woken again.

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Close up of bark on a tree

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Man continuing his sentence: and these are things that our own country, we are looking to do

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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Revitalising language.

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Man continuing his sentence: revitalise language

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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Putting more Iman people in employment on Country 

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Man continuing his sentence: Putting more Iman people in employment on Country

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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Opportunities for Iman people to reconnect with Country and culture.

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Man continuing his sentence: projects where Iman people are going back out on country and practicing their culture and revitalising and rebuilding

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Video of the 5 people in the room.

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Man continuing his sentence: and revitalising and rebuilding

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Close up of man in teal t-shirt.

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Man in teal t-shirt: To me, I thought the best way Shell, or any company, will deal with traditional owners is to actually understand where they come from, understand their culture, their identity, their spiritual beliefs.

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Brad Burke is now in the room by himself, talking to the camera.

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Brad Burke: What we’d like to have, is relationship that’s built on respect, and the creation of those opportunities over the years and decades to come.

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Filming the land in which the project will take place, with a drone from the sky.

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[TEXT DISPLAYS]

{Shell logo}

#MakeTheFuture

C Shell International Limited

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