North Adelaide Carclew, SA, May 20-23 2011
CHALLENGE: Change Media worked with acclaimed director, actor, filmmaker and social animateur, Shahin Shafaei, and 18 young migrants, to create new work as part of a long term project. The forum theater workshop ran over 4 days, and mixed theater and acting techniques with digital media skills, to prepare for a 3-year multi-arts project with Bell Shakespeare and Tallstoreez.
PARTNERS: The Australia Council for the Arts Creative Communities Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Australian Refugee Association; Bell Shakespeare Company; Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships; Tallstoreez Productionz
Training videos: coming in June 2011
Until the new videos are ready, click on the image above or the link to watch last years amazing outcome – Culture Shock !
OUTCOMES:
This Change Media project aims to build the creative foundations for an exciting and innovative collaboration with young migrants and Bell Shakespeare in South Australia. The training covered forum theater, image creation and screen narratives, storytelling, interview and reenactment techniques and documentary shooting. The team also recorded some of the behind-the-scenes documentations.
We were excited to work with Shahin Shafaei [Through the Wires; From Bagdad to the Burbs] to kick start our newest creative challenge for the community arts and cultural development sector – to create high profile work that bring mainstream art and marginalized communities together to explore the ruptures of our society and our mythologies around refugees, racism and integration through a classical lens: Shakespeare In Times Of Crisis – The Perfect Refugee…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Stay tuned for updates.
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
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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.
Australian Refugee Association, March 2010
CHALLENGE: Change Media worked with 15 new arrivals and young refugees as well as ARA / Pt. Adelaide Council staff over 4 days, to train them in film narratives, interview techniques and digital media skills. They created a peer-produced, fun documentary DVD about their lives and the challenges of coming to Australia: Culture Shock! Order your copy in our online store here.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; City of Port Adelaide Enfield; Australian Refugee Association; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Culture Shock
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OUTCOMES: The training covered an introduction to screen narratives, file management and interview & reenactment techniques, documentary shooting and Final Cut editing skills. After an involved debate about the many issues faced by young refugees, the team (comprising of 15 young people from Kongo, Sudan, Bhutan, Belarus, Tanzania and Burundi) decided to use a mix of fun and serious examples of situations they were faced with as new arrivals. The team also created the original soundtrack in Garageband and recorded most of the behind-the-scenes documentations.
See also participant interviews: Interview – AJ, Interview – Bikram, Interview – Bunam, Interview – Chris, Interview – Damber, Interview – Graick, Interview – Devi Interview – Kangimo, Interview – Peter, Interview – Maxim, Interview – Priyanka.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Please watch this space for updates. The final film screened at ARA in April 2010 to huge applause. Several local councils and NGO’s have acquired copies of the DVD for their work with young refugees. Please order a copy of Culture Shock here. The project was one of the main reasons why Change Media was selected as winner of the Kookaburra Awards 2010 for Best Community Project.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The team managed to create engaging stories that raise awareness about issues faced by young refugees living in the Port Adelaide Enfield district and wider Adelaide area. The participants hadn’t worked as a team were able to produce one film together; everybody conducted several shoots, interviews and took part in the edit and music production. By the end of Day 4 the team finished a rough cut of a funny and engaging documentary about appropriate / inappropriate behaviors and other challenges. The whole team agreed on the changes they wanted for the fine cut, for the Change Media team to clean up the edit, add title cards and insert the participants self-made music. We have already been approached by ARA to conduct another project soon, as the participants are keen to build on their new skills. Read the rest of this page and add your comments »
Two awards for Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan at the MyHero International Film Festival 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, as part of the Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan documentary. The film he appears in was produced during a workshop with the newly formed Ngarrindjeri Youth Media Team.
Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan, won 2nd place in the International MyHero Film Festival’s community film category, selected from hundreds of entries from around the world.
Since then the film has been invited to screen at the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York;
it screened during the Key Note opening speech at the Australian Community Broadcasters Conference;
OXFAM Australia has used excerpts of the film to promote their climate change campaign.
Propel Youth Arts WA, October 2009
CHALLENGE: Propel Youth Arts WA created the PropFest project with support from Museums WA to explore how young people engage with the museums and galleries of Perth. The Hero Project worked with 15 young people and youth arts workers at Propel Youth Arts WA to teach them digital media and video production skills, so they could produce a film about this issue.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnerships Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Propel Youth Arts WA; Museums Australia WA: Lottery West; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Y ART?
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Y Art? That is the question for two Gen Y’ers who set out to prove that Perth doesn’t need a YOUTH ARTS CENTRE. This tongue-in-cheek documentary reflects on Perth’s vibrant youth arts scene, how to revitalise galleries and museums, and of course mining, monster trucks and shopping.
OUTCOMES: The newly formed team spent a lot of time debating what art, culture and gallery spaces means for them as young people. They settled on one main theme and created a film in only four days to address an urgently needed service to support young artists in the community; a youth arts centre for Perth.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The rough cut was screened at the end of day 4, to huge applause from all the participants, Propel Youth Arts and Museum WA staff.
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Gloucester NSW, April 2009
CHALLENGE: Arts Upper Hunter invited the Hero Project to run a workshop titled ‘Portraits of Place’, to work with locals to create a film about Gloucester. 20 participants from all walks of life decided very quickly they wanted to explore the potential impact of coal mining on their community and environment.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Arts NSW; Arts Upper Hunter Inc; Gloucester City Council Youth Centre; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: What’s yours, is Mine..d
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Join Eric Ingot as he shows Gloucester their future. With reassuring confidence and panache he identifies the multitude of benefits to enjoy from an open cut mine. “ At Envira-Coal, we dig the future! “
OUTCOMES: The Gloucester team met for the first time at the Council’s youth centre. Within an hour, they had identified their story – the looming open pit coal mine, that is threatening to destroy their beautiful environment. Their biggest challenge: how to make a community film that depicts a possible threat, raises awareness and educates without scaring your audience? They created a satirical pro-mining advertisement, applying spin doctor messages to sell-up potential problems as benefits! The diverse team, aged 14-65, learnt how to script and pace a comedic narrative, storyboard and film on multiple locations. 8 laptops formed a mobile edit unit, with every team producing a different chapter of the story, plus music, titles and GFX.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
AWARD WINNER at the International Foster Short Film competition 2009 – congratulations! Forster International Film Festival
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Their 5min film attracted over 600 hits and many comments on YouTube within the first week of upload by one of the youth team members.
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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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Buy your copy of the full documentary DVD with extended Elders interviews here.
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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Juvenile Justice Program
Cavan Secure Care Facility
SA, June 2008
CHALLENGE: 10×14 Bricks – Stories from Youth in Lock-up was produced at Cavan Secure Care Facility (SA) and its Youth Education Centre [DECS] over a 5-week intensive workshop. Participants learnt essential 21st Century digital media skills to create relevant crime prevention messages for their peers. In candid meet-the-director documentaries and in their own films young offenders share their life choices about crime and the consequences.
Why choose to commit a crime? How far will you go?
Is it worth it? What is it like in lock-up? What would you do differently? What can you do to change?
This new peer-educational DVD offers relevant crime prevention strategies from the experts: Young offenders share their life choices, crimes and consequences in their own films and unique ‘meet-the-directors’ documentaries – made behind bars.
For info kit and order forms visit the DVD section.
Click here to buy the resource kit in our online shop.
PARTNERS: The Australian Government through the Attorney General’s Department; Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; the Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnerships Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Department of Families and Communities; Cavan Secure Care Training Centre; Youth Education Centre Cavan DECS; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Trailer: 10×14 Bricks – Stories from Youth in Lock-Up
Watch the youth films and ‘meet the director’ documentaries here:
CHOICES: Watch
Compact Crib + Meet the Director [6’ 31]
Shane is 15, he knows it is not fun in lock up but he keeps coming back. What does he need to do to break the cycle?
ANGER: Watch
Angry, Young, Male + Meet the Director [10’ 48]
Bayden is 17, after a drunken night he woke up in a police cell charged with attempted murder. What does he need to do to control his anger?
REGRET: Watch
If Only… + Meet the Director [10’ 49] + Restorative Justice [6’ 23]
Sam is 18, he regrets committing armed robbery to finance a drug debt. What does he need to do to avoid future events that could lead to crime? What is the impact of your offence on you, your family, your victims?
HOPE: Watch
Another Day in this Place + Meet the Director [10’ 48]
Robert is 18, he feels like he is trapped in a cage, waiting for the day he can leave. What can he do to make his dreams become reality?
FREEDOM: Watch
Getting Out, Staying Out + Meet the Director [12’31]
Greg is 17, he is ʻjust an Indigenous boy trying to get through life and come out on topʼ. What does he need to do to stay out of trouble? What support is available?
OUTCOMES: All 5 team members deeply engaged with the project, as they all had to make their own story AND be the production team and talent in their peers’ films. Through the unique ‘meet-the-director’ mini-docs we were able to delve deeper into each of their stories of crimes & consequences, and also showcase the incredible film making process.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: 10×14 Bricks won the SA Screen Awards 2009 for Best Innovation in Digital Media and was nominated for Best Editing and Best Cinematography.
DECS Multicultural Unit Adelaide, July 2007
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team worked with 20 students and several teachers to produce a multi-cultural awareness video for the Department of Education Multicultural Unit.
PARTNERS: Department of Education and Children Services SA; Apple Australia; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Mission Possible
OUTCOMES: The Hero Project worked with 20 students from Gilles St Primary School, Adelaide, to record positive example and activities around multi-cultural educational practice.
The participating teachers from several Adelaide schools received professional development training to use digital media in the classroom. The team included Helen Grant [Gilles St PS], Shona Russo [LeFevrre HS] and Andy Mewett [Glenunga HS].
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
The film screened as part of the Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: DECS SA used the film to promote their multicultural unit across Government schools in South Australia. The film was officially launched by Minister for Education Hon jane Lomax-Smith at the Glenunga International High School alongside a new multicultural manual.
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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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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, April 2005
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CHALLENGE: 6 young people from Port Augusta made this film in the first 3-day workshop as part of the Hero Project outreach program. The Hero Project trained the participants in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and edit their films.
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: The Big Find
OUTCOMES: The team made an impressive short documentary about the impact of gambling on the local community. Their aim was to make a film about the pokies, to include different points of view from members of their community about this challenging issue.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The state-wide no-pokies-campaign used the film to raise awareness about pokies.
The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: There are only 3000 people living in Coober Pedy, but in 2005 alone, around $2 million was gobbled by the poker machines – a big problem for a small township with many people existing on welfare. Find out how the community deals with this issue.
Mount Gambier, March 2005
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 8 local youth and a number of council and arts officers were involved in an introduction to film-making, with the support of the Loft Youth Centre and Mt. Gambier City Council.
PARTNERS: Office for Youth; Arts SA Healthy Initiatives; SA Film Corporation; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Loft Youth Service; Mt. Gambier City Council; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Animal Interviews 1
OUTCOMES: The team decided to develop a story about the local skate park and also a series of nature documentaries. Please have a look at the other Mt. Gambier workshops in 2005 to see all the films they made.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Their final films and training documentations form part of the award winning Directing the Hero Within resource kit, ATOM winner 2006 for Best Educational Resource