Honour Roll Video transcript
[Tim sitting in ABC 3 Studio with Make Up artist]
Tim: [reading script to himself] Hey you’re back in studio 3 with Tim and James … Oi Jimbo, Knock
Knock! … James?
[James sitting in backstage room, reading a book, laughing]
James: What happens next?!
Tim: Jimmy! Jimmy what are you doing?
James: Man, this book is just the best, you have to read it man, it takes me somewhere else. [Laughs
enthusiastically]
Tim: Dude, I know it’d great but we’ve got a job to do. Back to the studio!
James: Ok. Job, then book?
Tim: Job, then book. Yes!
[Tim and James sitting in ABC Studio 3, clapper indicates start of filming]
James: Hello and welcome back to Studio 3 with James and Tim.
Tim: So much good stuff for you guys this afternoon.
[James starts reading book and laughing]
Tim: James! What are you doing? [laughs]
James: I love books!
Tim: That’s our James.
[Melbourne United basketball player sits reading a book on the side of the court]
Coach: That book must be good but we’ve got training, let’s go! Get on the court.
[Player keeps reading]
Coach: [to other players]: Guys, help me out here.
[Other players yell to come on court, throw basketball on top of book, player runs on court and slam
dunks]
Coach: That’s how it’s done.
[Footage of Diamond Valley library]
[Lachlan the reading dog looking at a picture book]
[Library staff, carrying rabbit]
Library staff: Where’s Lachlan? Lachlan? Lachlan? Lachlan, where are you? Lachlan, c’mon!
[Lachlan runs to staff]
Library staff: Come here Lachlan, we’re going home!
Text on screen: BOOKS TRANSPORT YOU
[Tim and James sitting in ABC Studio 3]
Tim: Hey, what up guys, Tim and James here from studio 3
James: And we just wanted to congratulate anyone who completed the Premiers’ Reading Challenge,
you guys are legends!
Tim: And until 2015, keep reading! I know I will be.
James: Are you reading right now whilst we’re doing a shoot?
[Melbourne United basketball team standing in group]
Basketball player: Congratulations to everyone who completed the 2014 Premiers’ Reading
Challenge
Team in unison: From all of us at Melbourne United [clapping].
[Lachlan the reading dog and library staff at Diamond Valley library]
Library staff: Congratulations to everyone who completed the Premiers’ Reading Challenge for 2014
from Lachlan, Marlies and the Diamond Valley library.
[Cartoon of Lachlan the reading dog sleeping]
Text on Screen: Thanks to: James Elmer and Tim Matthews, ABC3, CTI Melbourne United, Lachlan
the Reading Dog, Marlies and Diamond Valley Library for making this video possible. Video by Jeff
Hoogenboom, Departmend of Education and Early Childhood Development, Communications
Division. Music: Carefree, Kevin MacLeof (incompletech.com), Space Explorers, Kevin Macleod
(incompetech.com).