Fines

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This video is part of Learning the law, an education kit developed by Victoria Legal Aid for secondary school teachers of students with a mild intellectual disability. The education kit covers four topics: Fines, Driving, Sexting and Consent. Each topic includes a short video, online student activities and a teaching resource with lesson plans and legal information. The education kit was revised and relaunched in April 2017. It is not intended as a stand-alone educational resource.

The Fines video looks at public transport and myki, Authorised Officers and what a young person can do if they get a public transport fine.

Transcript:
Text: Learning the law
[A few uplifting, piano-like notes play.]
Text: Fines
[Melodic, upbeat music playing.]
[Two teenage boys are sitting at a desk with a laptop, some books and a folder on it. One of the boys is playing a car racing game on the laptop. The other is slouched over the desk, watching the laptop screen. In the background a cork noticeboard hangs on the wall.]
Text: Axel 15 [cut away to a shot of Axel, looking downwards as he plays the computer game.]
Text: Raymond 15 [cut away to a shot of Raymond, looking down slightly.]
[Camera zooms out to both boys at the desk.]
Raymond [loudly]: No, no, no!
[Axel laughs over the top of Raymond.]
Raymond [loudly]: C’mon!
[The car on the laptop screen crashes.]
Axel: That’s it, that’s it, you’re off. Move over, loser.
[Raymond and Axel swap spots; Axel sits down in front of the laptop.]
[Raymond stands and notices a paper pinned on the noticeboard on the wall.]
[Close-up of the paper, which looks like a fine and has at the top of the page the words ‘Infringement no’ and a yellow handwritten note attached to it with the words ‘RAYMOND how are you going to pay for this?]

Raymond: [Picks up note that reads it.] Whatever.
Axel [now playing the computer game at the desk]: What?
Raymond: My Dad left me a note on my myki fine.
Axel: That’s weird.
Raymond: He’s a weird guy.
Axel: Like father, like son.
Raymond: I didn’t touch on.
Flashback in still images:
[The melodic, upbeat music from the start of the film plays.]
Text: About a month ago
Image: Raymond at a train station, walking past a myki machine.
Image: Raymond walking past a myki reader.
Text: A few stops later
Image: Two Authorised Officers are standing in front of Raymond, showing him their badges
Image: Close-up of one of the Authorised Officer’s badges
Image: Still at the train station, one of the Authorised Officers scans Raymond’s myki card on a handheld myki reader. Raymond looks worried.
Image: Close-up of the Authorised Officer’s handheld myki reader, with the words ‘Invalid for travel. No valid product available’ on the top of the screen.
Image: The Authorised Officers in front of Raymond. One of the Authorised Officers writes in a notepad.
Image: Close-up of Raymond, downcast.
Back to the present: Raymond and Axel at the desk. Axel is playing on the laptop.
Raymond: They always hassle me first.
Axel: Do you want to play again?
Raymond: Nah. [Raymond takes a pen and writes on the fine that he has pulled off the wall.]
[Close-up of Raymond writing on the fine.]
Raymond: “Dad. Why don’t you…”
[Cut away to a shot of Axel playing the game.]
[Close up of Axel’s fingers tapping away at the keyboard.]
Raymond [continuing on]: …pay the fine? You are rich. Your son, Raymond.”
[In the background, the sound of computer keys from Axel playing the game.]
Axel [theatrically, raising his fist]: “Raymond, my son. Why don’t you get a job like the rest of us ‘rich’ old people? You can’t be playing video games all day.”
Raymond [unimpressed]: Thanks, Dad. [Picks up and flicks up the yellow note on the fine, and reads what’s underneath.] Seventy two bucks!
[Raymond scrunches up the fine and puts it in the bin under the desk.]
[The melodic, upbeat music from the start of the film plays.]
Text: Fines
Text: Produced by Victoria Legal Aid and the Aspin Group
Directed and edited by Yum Studio
Photography by Georgina Matherson
Performances by Adam Boswell and Sean Scanlon
Victoria Legal Aid logo
Text: Authorised by the Department of Education and Training, 2 Treasury Place, Melbourne.