Cherry Gardens SA, November 2008
CHALLENGE: Horse SA commissioned the Hero Project team to work with a group of teenage girls to produce a film about horse and land care. During the workshop the youth team met the challenge head on: in only 3 days they created Horse TV!
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnerships Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Horse SA; Horse Owners of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges; the Melbourne Water Corporation; the Evironmental Protection Agency; the Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Horse TV
Welcome to Horse TV: This series of funny TV ads and soap spoofs raises awareness about environmental issues around horse ownership and addresses 5 key messages:
Healthy Pastures all year round spells healthy horses
Cheap Cheap Cheap: reduce dust and mud, horses hate cheap pastures
Purer Trough: safe, clean, easy water for your horse that doesn’t impact on creeks and waterways
Silver Service – A Ladies Companion to Classy Compost: Horse manure management 101
Horse CSI: Control your weeds before it is too late…
OUTCOMES: The workshop focused on training teenage girls and in the brainstorming session they decided to create a series of TV Advert spoofs as an upbeat way to share land care messages for horse owners. 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 final film was screened 4 day after the workshop to over 50 people in the Cherry Gardens community hall.
The film was distributed online through the Australian Pony Club to over 10.000 members.
Horse SA have presented it at several conferences.
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Whyalla SA, May 2008
CHALLENGE: D’Faces commissioned the Hero Project team to run a holiday program. The Hero Project extended the workshop as part of their commitment to produce the Document Your World finalist films. 20 young people, aged 10-19, from Whyalla and surrounding communities were involved in this project.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Dfaces of youth arts Whyalla; Australian International Documentary Conference; Australian Childrens Television Foundation; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Artists not Aliens
Follow three aliens on their journey to find out if there is artistic life in Whyalla, a sports-mad steel town in South Australia. Whyalla has more sports facilities than you can count on your fingers and toes, but only a few places to do some art…
OUTCOMES: At the beginning of the workshop James presented the initial idea he pitched to a large audience of professional film makers and broadcasters at the Document Your World competition, hosted by the Australian International Documentary Conference in February 2007. The group were excited about the idea, and had a great team of actors and crew to make this ambitious film work.
The Hero Project trained all of the participants in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and part- edit their film during the 5- day workshop. The group split up into teams to make it to all of their desired locations and apportioned roles and tasks according to age and ability – a fantastic team effort. Take a look for yourself, it is sometimes hard to grasp that they managed to have the same actor appear multiple times in the same scene…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2008 2nd prize in the national ReelLife Film Festival 2008 in Sydney.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The Hero team delivered D’Faces newly purchased media equipment, so both D’faces staff and youth members needed to be trained in Final Cut, camera work, computer file management, while they created their film.
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Mount Gambier SA, June 2005
CHALLENGE: 12 young people from Mt. Gambier and surrounding communities made a series of short films as part of our long term outreach program. The Hero Project ran ongoing workshops, networking with local schools and the community BushTV. Teamwork is essential to film-making and helped bridge the socio-economic boundaries of the group. Seeing mixed groups relate and share their stories is very encouraging in a world dominated by mistrust and prejudices.
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: Track of Death
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Animal Interviews 2
OUTCOMES: The team produced many films, from ‘extreme sports’ to nature mocu-mentaries that resonate across youth cultures. They had the opportunity to work with renown documentary film-maker Peter Wintonick and sound designer Jason Sweeney during two master classes. The workshops received news coverage on regional commercial channel WIN TV and gave accolade to the participants and their families.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Track of Death, Skater Boy and Animal Interviews I & II formed part of the award winning Directing the Hero Within DVD resource.
Their films broadcast on BushTV, which can transmit to the 20 000 homes in the Mt Gambier district.
The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
Mount Gambier, April 2005
CHALLENGE: 10 young people from Mt. Gambier and surrounding communities made a series of short film as part of a masterclass with world-renown filmmaker and SA Thinker in Residence, Peter Wintonick.
The Hero Project ran ongoing workshops, networking with local schools and the community BushTV. Teamwork is essential to film-making and helped bridge the socio-economic boundaries of the group. Seeing mixed groups relate and share their stories is very encouraging in a world dominated by mistrust and prejudices.
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: Skater Boy
Watch also: Animal Interviews
OUTCOMES: Skater Boy: A live report with the Extreme Team! At the opening of the local skate park, Chris and Travis speak with a professional skater about his worst stacks.
The team produced many films, from ‘extreme sports’ to nature mocu-mentaries that resonate across youth cultures. They had the opportunity to work with renown documentary film-maker Peter Wintonick and sound designer Jason Sweeney during two master classes. The workshops received news coverage on regional commercial channel WIN TV and gave accolade to the participants and their families.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS Their films broadcast on BushTV, which can transmit to the 20 000 homes in the Mt Gambier district.
The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Track of Death, Skater Boy and Animal Interviews I & II formed part of the award winning Directing the Hero Within DVD resource.
Pinnaroo, April 2005
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project continued its program in the Mallee with the second workshop in Pinnaroo. 3 local young people were involved in the production, with the support of the local youth and health workers.
PARTNERS: Office for Youth; Arts SA Healthy Initiatives; SA Film Corporation; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Mallee Health Service Inc; TAFE SA; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Pinnaroo Surfer
OUTCOMES: Kade Richardson and Danah Ribbons discussed the impressions city folk have about them living in the country, and created a story about a local quirky character. Pinnaroo is over 300 km from the beach – but they do have their own surf beach and aren’t really worried about sharks…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Pinnaroo Surfer formed part of the award winning Directing the Hero Within DVD resource. The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.
MyHero International Film Festival 2007;
Little Big Shots International Film Festival 2008,
ABC TV 2009;
Lahore International Childrens Film Festival, Pakistan