Tom Price, WA, June 2010
CHALLENGE: The Change Media Team worked with the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation in Tom Price to train local Indigenous youth and community leaders in film narratives, interview techniques, editing and digital media management and create a peer-produced DVD about issues of juvenile justice for Indigenous youth in the Pilbara region.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Gumala Aboriginal Corporation; Office for Crime Prevention WA, Tom Price Community Arts & Culture Centre; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Marlpa Holiday
Watch - Marlpa Holiday
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Watch - Recording My Elders
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Watch peer-produced training videos made during the workshop:
How to set up Gumala Aboriginal Corporation’s Sony A1 HDV camera
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OUTCOMES: The production covered an introduction to screen narratives, storytelling for social issues, editing & file management and basic interview, shooting and editing techniques. The participants came up with strong story concepts and are keen to continue to make films. The workshop was the first of 2 projects as part of our 2-year community partnership with the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation in 2010-2011.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Please watch this space for updates. Marlpa Holiday will feature on Gumala’s website and we will present the film to NITV.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The challenge this session was to create engaging stories that raise awareness about issues of juvenile justice, drug and alcohol abuse, faced by young Indigenous living in Tom Price and the Pilbara area. The workshop focused on short innovative story techniques, fun camera and sound work, and editing and music production. Each team member worked together producing two films, recorded several interviews and training tools. They planned, researched, scripted and conducted several shoots and took part of the edit. At the rough cut viewing in the Tom Price Arts and Culture Centre, the Gumala representatives were impressed with the outcomes and discussed the potential for future media work for the participants through the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation.
Yalata SA, May 2009
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with the Yalata community and Tullawon Health Service to produce a short film addressing community concerns around healthy eating.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support DEWHA; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Tullawon Health Service Inc; Anangu School; Yalata Aboriginal Community; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Mai Palya.Anangu Kunpu.Kata Palya
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Mai Palya. Anangu Kunpu. Kata Palya -
Good Food. Strong Body. Good Mind
C’mon kids, you look tired! Lets go cook something healthy to eat, it’ll give you energy to run and play all day.
Fish is good for the brain, vegetables keep you healthy and bush tucker like kangaroo tails keep you strong.
OUTCOMES: During the 4 day workshop with over 25 participants the group brainstormed, shot and edited their film to promote healthy and active lifestyles. To get the whole team on board, we moved focus from healthy eating to healthy living; as there was huge pride for their sporting activities; BMX biking, acrobatic back flips, playing footy. To showcase healthy food the group prepared and cooked easy to make meals in the bush and kitchen. On location the whole team filmed the preparation of damper and kangaroo tail at a camp fire. The outcome overwhelmed the whole community.
The project is a benchmark for us to show how digital media (from making snapshots to complex films), can bridge cultural and social divides.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The entire school attended the final screening on day 4.
Tullawon Health Service ordered 100 DVDs to distribute to other remote communities and health services.
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Coorong SA, January 2009
CHALLENGE: The Change Media team were invited to work with the community at Camp Coorong to explore how they could use digital media for social change. 20 Ngarrindjeri community members from Raukkan and Meningie participated in the workshop.
The youth participants had an ambitious vision: they wanted to make a hard-hitting documentary about the water problem AND interview their elders in only four and a half days. To make things even more challenging, a professional TV crew came down from Canberra to document the Change Media process with the Ngarrindjeri team for ABC TV’s Message Stick, at the same time…
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support DEWHA; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: NUKKAN.KUNGUN.YUNNAN
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This powerful 22 minute documentary presents the real impact the water crisis is having on the Coorong and its people. Driven by Ngarrindjeri youth it examines the effects on Ngarrindjeri culture as well as the damage for all Australians. The question is, what will we do to change it?
OUTCOMES: The Change Media team worked with the community to identify key issues and stories and trained the participants in digital media skills from scripting, storyboards, video and sound recording to editing.
The team conducted over 15 interviews with Ngarrindjeri Elders and youth to create an informative, emotionally charged documentary. After they recorded the interviews with their elders, the team weren’t keen to edit their stories and potentially loose important information or be disrespectful. We demonstrated how to use their footage to create a film and interview assembly clips to produce a multi-layered DVD: with a short, media friendly 5min trailer, a 22-min documentary and a sub menu with the entire interviews with their elders. During the workshop the 22 min rough cut was screened to over 40 community members and elders. One of the participants gained part time employment as a media officer for Caring For Country, at RUWE Ngarrindjeri Resource Corporation, as a direct outcome of the Change Media program.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2010 The project has been selected to screen at the national Communities in Control conference in Melbourne, as part of Change Media’s Kookaburra Award for Best Community Project 2010.
2010 The film has been invited to screen at the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York in June 2010.
2010 National Indigenous TV Australia broadcast the 22-min version of the film February 2010.
2009 On Nov 16th, Ngarrindjeri elder and community leader Tom Trevorrow was awarded the Special MyHero Award at the International MyHero Film Festival in LA.
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Regional Arts Australia conference: Art at the Heart, Sept 2008
CHALLENGE: During the RAA’s (Regional Arts Australia) most recent bi-annual conference in Alice Springs, the Hero Project was invited to present its community empowerment work in a 1 hour conference presentation. We also were selected to run a 2-hour edit-in-camera workshop, introducing regional art workers and artists to our unique model.
PARTNERS: Regional Arts Australia; the Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA ; CAAMA; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia; DECS
Film: Art at the Heart edit-in-camera films
OUTCOMES: We had a record number of participants: over 100 people attended our presentation and 40 people participated in the hands-on workshop on the second day. The 4 teams producing 4 great films. Feedback from the participants and audience was that it was one of the best presentations at RAA that year…
Above you find links to the films made during the Saturday 2-hour workshop at ‘Art at the Heart’ at CAAMA.
(We found the ‘lost film’, yah) and couldn’t resist making some tiny-weeny changes to support your edit-in-camera film ideas (as we understood them), we hope you like our input… Again big thanks to CAAMA for supporting the workshop and offering their great space.
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Quorn SA, January 2008
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team worked with 6 students at the Quorn Area School, supported by the Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service, the Quorn Area School, the local council and the Quorn Caravan Park, as a direct result of the 2007 Document Your World competition.
PARTNERS: Arts SA; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service Inc; Quorn Caravan Park; Tallstoreez Productionz, Apple Australia
Film: Every Drop Counts
OUTCOMES: To create a short documentary that addresses environmental concerns arising from the ongoing drought in north SA.
The participants identified a number of relevant interviewees, great locations and found fantastic archival footage about a flood. This was the final production in a series of 4 workshops with the Quorn community; as a result the local school has taken up digital media as part of their curriculum and the community has a great team of young documentarians and upcoming journalists.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The film screened at the Screen Australia outback touring program in Quorn.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Their films screened as part of the Screen Australia outback touring program at the Quorn caravan park, to an audience of over 200. Read the rest of this page and add your comments »
Come Out Festival Adelaide, May 2007
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team worked with 10 participants from regional and remote SA to run a documentary master class during the Come Out 2007 Festival. Come Out commissioned the youth crew to document a range of festival activities and events. The regional youth also took part in an open 1-day session with over 30 Adelaide school students.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion Through The Arts; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Australian Festival for Young People; SA Youth Arts Board; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Cooking Up A Storm
OUTCOMES: The diverse youth team created an engaging promo about the multitude of events during the Australian Festival for Young People, aka Come Out 2007. The team discovered what it is like to work to a client brief: guaranteed to be a challenging production – and the team handled it very well. It involved brainstorming the overarching theme, devising interview questions, securing interviews and permission to film performances, production managing multiple locations and promoting efficient teamwork to shoot and produce on the go.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2007 The film screened at Come Out Youth Film Festival at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
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Port Lincoln SA, January 2007
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team were commissioned by the Community House in Port Lincoln to engage young people in their activities. The 10 youth participants agreed to make a promotional video to get more people to engage with the community house, as long as it involved fish…
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion Through The Arts; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Community House Port Lincoln; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Pilchard Ninjas
A 3-min fish-slapping comedy extravaganza, that doubles as a quirky advert for the Community House /social centre in Port Lincoln.
OUTCOMES: The team created an engaging promo-clip about the community center – but really most of young people came to the social centre to make a fun film – so they worked on combining the two! They identified they wanted to create something Python-esque and that the fish factories are a big issue in town [renown for its tuna]…During the workshop the young filmmakers learnt all basic skills required for video production, including scripting, story-boarding, camera + sound work, acting, directing, editing and music production.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS :
The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
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Quorn SA, October 2006
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team worked with 16 students at the Quorn Area School, supported by the Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service, the Quorn Area School, the local council and the Quorn Caravan Park.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion Through The Arts; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service Inc; Quorn Caravan Park; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Working Quorn
OUTCOMES: To create a series of short documentaries that address possible future careers in a remote town like Quorn. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? To whom could you speak to get advise?
The participants identified a fabulous set of characters, the most amazing locations and learned a lot about their local professions: from hairdressing, being a postie, to farming, camel riding and meat processing. The locals came up trumps, especially the Quorn butcher, who proved to be comedic talent, just stay away from his knives…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Festival at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Their films screened as part of the Screen Australia outback touring program at the Quorn caravan park, to an audience of over 200.
Koonibba SA, April 2006
CHALLENGE: The Koonibba Aboriginal Community Council commissioned this workshop as a cultural activity for their young people.
The youth team wanted to address the recent vandalism within their community.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion Through The Arts; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Koonibba Aboriginal Community; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Vandalism
OUTCOMES: The project was an outstanding success, with 25 young people involved for 5 days. The group documented the vandalism in their community and juxtaposed this with all the activities available to them at the youth centre. The young vandals turned up during filming and were keen to get involved and then unannounced cleaned up the damage. On the last day the whole community celebrated their film with a shared lunch screening.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Come Out 2007 Youth Film Festival at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Over the last years, the surrounding remote communities watched the DVD and were very impressed with the outcome. Three years later, during our most recent visit to the Nullabor community of Yalata, most of the participants still remembered seeing the film made by the Koonibba youth in 2006.
Coober Pedy SA, June 2005
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 20 students and teachers from the Coober Pedy Area School. In a series of workshops the students learnt essential digital media skills, scripting, story-boarding, filming, recording sound.
The aim was to address issues around bullying in the classroom.
PARTNERS: Office for Youth; Arts SA Healthy Initiatives; SA Film Corporation; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Coober Pedy Area School; TAFE SA; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Everyone’s A Hero
OUTCOMES: How do you speak back to a bully and reclaim the playground with your friends? Sometimes it takes the support of a magical friend to understand that everyone is a hero…
The film and production process were based on the student’s voice team, who had identified the need to talk about bullying. These primary school students wanted to screen their film to the whole school – which they did to huge applause.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: EVERYONE’S A HERO was selected for the award winning Directing the Hero Within resource DVD.
Coober Pedy SA, November 2004
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project ran an introductory workshop in Coober Pedy, with the support of the local TAFE, aboriginal youth action council and other youth clubs. 8 Indigenous and Non-Indigenous youth discussed how they could use video in their region and experimented with the cameras.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Healthy Initiatives; TAFE SA; Coober Pedy Council, AYAC; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Desert Gypsy
OUTCOMES: The team, who never made a film before, decided to tell a story about the local op-shop. The owner, Desert Rose, runs an op-shop like no other…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Come Out and Hero Project Festival at the Mercury Cinema 2007.