Heath Hocking's Bread and Butter

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VISUAL: Collingwood versus Essendon football match.

[Announcer]

Clever slap wide, Chris… well, he got there first, just pushed off the ball too easily then. Merrett, Hocking, brilliant!

TEXT ON SCREEN: Heath Hocking, Essendon Player and RMIT Activator.

VISUAL: Heath placing metallic bowl on kitchen scales, putting and then mixing ingredients.

AUDIO: Music starts.

[Heath Hocking]

2015 I was injured for a bit of the year, so I started working La Luna Bistro with Adrian Richardson. Just, yeah, doing a bit of cheffing sort of stuff.

VISUAL: Mid shot of Heath laughing.

Obviously, it's nice to having something outside of footy to look forward to and things like that.

VISUAL: Bread dough being poured into bowl and kneading it by hand.

So, chatting with Adrian it was that I was probably interested in bread and read a book, Tartine, that he recommended, and it sort of inspired me to just start doing it and, you know, getting a starter going and haven't looked back for probably the last 3 years now.

VISUAL: Heath placing bowl on scales and then picking up water jug.

Really enjoyed doing it, enjoy baking bread for friends, family and, ideally, yeah, if it can become something that, you know, can be a job would be amazing.

VISUAL: Heath uses a tool to mix the dough.

Started out just one at a time and then getting up at 4, turning the oven on, started baking at 5, 5:30.

VISUAL: Camera pans across ceramic bowls.

It's obviously something I want to do, which is good.

VISUAL: Single shots of the scales, mixing tool, metallic bowls sitting on the oven and a close-up of the oven timer.

Bought a new oven, just so I can take it to the next level and give me that sort of drive to do it. So, doing… yeah, can do 12, 12 at once and people are like, oh, when is the bread… when can we get some more bread?

VISUAL: Collingwood versus Essendon football match.

And I was obviously playing footy and not having enough time. But, I guess, now that I am a sort of there in a capacity where there is a bit of time on my hands I…

VISUAL: Mid shot of Heath talking to the camera.

…yeah, I thought, people have been asking for it.

VISUAL: Heath kneading dough in metallic bowl.

So, let's give the people what they want and it's sort of taken off.

VISUAL: Emptying bread dough onto paddle.

I've just been, yeah, shooting out an email here and there saying, if you are in Friday, I can bring you a loaf of bread and it's been quite a good experience.

VISUAL: Scoring two doughs and places them in the oven.

RMIT will help with just probably clarifying or clearing up that direction of what it actually looks like. And that's sort of where I've been stuck, is this is what I want to do.

VISUAL: RMIT Activator foyer with person walking through, then Heath is sitting in class talking to students at his table.

It's about how do I get there, and it will provide me with some steps to get there and I'm absolutely loving it.

VISUAL: Classroom activity with group discussion.

You know, I'm getting to mingle with people who are like-minded and doing sort of similar things.

VISUAL: Heath uses paddle to take baked bread out of the oven.

I just, I love baking and I'd love just to get my product to the people.

VISUAL: Camera pans to show a series of baked bread.

And the idea for me, is that people can take this and share it with their family, and it sort of brings that quality and community together. Yeah, I can definitely see myself with the big paddle and the big oven and punching out the bread.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Official Education Partner, Essendon Football Club.

VISUAL: Essendon Football Club logo and RMIT University logo.

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