headspace, Elizabeth, SA, July 2012
CHALLENGE:
As part of our A Penny For Your Thoughts initiative, Tallstoreez’ Change Media worked with up 15 youth participants, during a hands-on 2-day workshop at the Northern Sound System. Participants include staff from the Adelaide Northern headspace office in Edinburgh North, Youth Advisory Council members and young people dealing with social problems and mental health issues. The aim was to engage with the Change Media co-creative production and training methodology, including a basic intro to equipment and digital media narratives and how to create relevant digital media art works to raise awareness for mental health for young people.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; headspace Northern Suburbs; Northern Sound System Elizabeth; OurCommunity; Tallstoreez Productionz
headspace media training
Watch: Mental Health Man.
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Watch: Get Confidence.
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Watch: Hopes and Fears.
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OUTCOMES:
All participants trained hands-on in no-nonsense video techniques, including HD camera and sound work on Day 1, a strong focus on recording interviews on Day 2 and how to build engaging narratives, create video messages and artistic documentations.
On the second day the group reviewed their footage and discussed improvements and changes for their second attempt at interviewing and developing story structures.
Topics included: interview techniques training and tips how to structure a story in 5 key points.
Special focus was given to cross-cultural process and equitable negotiations, the push for excellence as a political necessity especially in community youth arts. We demonstrated examples from our latest creative laboratories with Bell Shakespeare, Indigenous and refugee communities, to develop innovative strategies to craft messages and how to best use digital media for CACD work and social justice campaigns.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
headspace arranged for a fabulous ‘World Premiere’ of the films in September 2012, as part of their mental health campaigns.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
The headspace national office was very impressed with the results and offered our team to produce the Elizabeth branch virtual tour video with their youth participants.
Strathmont training, SA, May 2012
CHALLENGE: The Change Media team delivered a hands-on workshop with clients and support workers and management staff at the Strathmont Centre for people living with intellectual disability in South Australia.
During the training day on May 21 at Strathmont, clients and staff members of the Disability Services learned skills in film narrative, interview recording and instant video-making techniques using Apple’s Photobooth and iMovie. They learnt how to use iMacs and Probooks’ inbuilt web cameras to record photos and video, apply filters and edit their creations into short films.
This workshop formed part of the ongoing documentary production, following the process, challenges and improvements as clients are moving out of institutional care into houses in the community.
PARTNERS: Department for Communities and Social Inclusion – Disability Services; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Strathmont Centre community; Tallstoreez Productionz
Easy stories with Photobooth + iMovie
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Our team in collaboration with staff and community members is developing a creative approach to produce a unique client-centred documentary with people living with mental disabilities. What does it take to shut down an institution and move clients into community care facilities? Will they be better off in their brand new community house?
The training day on May 21 formed part of our A Penny For Your Thoughts initiative.
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OUTCOMES:
The Change Media team introduced our methodology and showed examples of past projects, including Pinnaroo Surfer, 10×14 Bricks – Stories from youth in lock-up trailer and 10×14 Bricks My Crib – Shane’s story.
The 14 participants, 11 support staff and managers and 3 clients, learned hands-on with HDV cameras, how to set up gear, handheld and tripod work, how to record good interviews, including sound, framing and lighting.
Before lunch break, Felix demonstrated how to use computers to create instant clips, using Photobooth and iMovie.
After the break 3 clients joined the team. The support workers used their newly learned skills in interviews with several clients outside the training facility.
At the same time we ran our mobile computer lab inside the training room to show how easy it is to create instant videos with iMovie and Photobooth. Strathmont staff and clients worked together for the rest of the day, experimenting with the software, editing their stories and creations in iMovie, training how to shoot with HD cameras and reviewing the interviews they recorded earlier. We also discussed how to best integrate digital media into their workflow, within community care and institutions.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates! The final documentary will be launched at a national health and disability conference in Adelaide, mid August 2012.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
The feedback was great, many participants commented on how much they learned and that they are keen to use digital media as part of their support work. The support workers expressed strong interest to get digital media equipment into each of the care facilities to work creatively with their clients, make micro docos and creative reports with their clients.
Our team also documented aspects of the training day to be included in the final documentary about moving Strathmont clients into community care.
Camp Coorong, SA, May 2012
CHALLENGE: The Change Media Team ran a 4-day workshop with 6 Ngarrindjeri Working on Country and Heritage Rangers to edit the documentation of the inaugural Indigenous rangers Working on Country Forum, held in April 16-20 2012.
During the 4-day post-production workshop, the Ngarrindjeri rangers trained in how to media manage footage, create a relevant and engaging story line from multiple events and edit them into a 10-minute video.
The workshop also covered basics in post production workflow.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan; Tallstoreez Productionz
Edit for Working on Country Forum 2012
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The team also created s new peer-produced training video, that will form part of our Indigenous Media Training online resource and will be uploaded by end of May 2012 on our online training tool kit.
Click on the link to watch - Laurie explains how to transfer your footage from SD card to Final Cut – Working on Country.
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OUTCOMES:
The edit workshop enabled the Ngarrindjeri team to use latest technology in digital video production, working with SD card HD cameras and record instant training videos about their newly learned skills.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
As a result of the successful edit – the Department of Sustainability was thrilled with the documentary and wants to show it to the Minister!!! – the team is now discussing to take part in Uncle Moogy’s trip to Sydney end of May, to launch the Yuki [the bark canoe] on the Darling Harbour as part of an Indigenous water craft forum held at the Australian Maritime Museum May 30-June 1.
We are also negotiating with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority to invest into professional equipment for the three teams in Murray Bridge, Meningie and Raukkan, to fast track the Ngarrindjeri trainees and enable them to access high-end gear on a weekly basis.
We are confident that if the teams get appropriate support and continue their training with the same enthusiasm they have shown so far, they will be able within the next year to produce their own media and take on professional work.
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Calperum, WoC Forum, April 2012
CHALLENGE: The Change Media team spent five days at the end of April at the inaugural southern Working on Country Forum at Calperum Station just outside of Renmark, SA. The Forum was a national meeting of minds for Indigenous rangers to improve their skills and to make (or maintain) national relationships. Over 120 rangers from SA, NSW, TAS and VIC, gathered to learn about the unique challenges faced by their counterparts, with significance to traditional culture and maintaining our lands and waters.
Change Media was there to document every step of the way, from canoeing, quad bike safety, water quality monitoring, to basket weaving and digital media workshops, and you couldn’t turn a corner at Calperum Station, without seeing the roving media teams gathering pixels.
During the 5-day production the Ngarrindjeri media team trainees learned how to document a major event and take supporting roles in two hands-on training workshops.
They learned advanced skills in film narrative, interview, camera and event coverage techniques.
PARTNERS: This Change Media project was funded through the Australian Government, Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; and the Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; supported by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan; Australian Landscape Trust; Tallstoreez Productionz
Working on Country Forum 2012
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OUTCOMES:
Change Media founders Jennifer Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell ran two 3-hour workshops during the five-day event, to demonstrate hands-on how the rangers and their organizations can use digital media and set-up small media initiatives in their communities. It became clear to the participants they can share important stories and knowledge for future generations, with some excited rangers even rallying for funding to start their own productions!
Meanwhile, the Change Media trainers and Ngarrindjeri media trainees managed the pressure of covering an event, (dozens of parallel activities you can only shoot once, noisy generators, and sand in your camera’s focus wheel, to name a few!). To increase the challenge, the team also agreed to shoot and collate footage for the Department of Sustainability media kit, (including interviews, overlay and photos) to be delivered midway through the forum.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
During the edit workshop in May 1-4 at Camp Coorong, the Ngarrindjeri trainees said that shooting a documentary about the Working on Country forum gave them a deeper understanding of Working on Country, as they had to engage with the workshops and knowledge shared on a different level, as media makers and as WoC rangers.
It was brilliant on the job training, from scheduling interviews and events, shooting on the fly, ferrying media from the on-the-field camera teams to HQ editors, to upload, edit and export in under 2 days – short of building a time machine they couldn’t have been more effective…
Raukkan / Camp Coorong, SA, February 2012
CHALLENGE: The Change Media Team conducted a 4-day workshop with 10 Ngarrindjeri Working on Country and Heritage Rangers at Camp Coorong and in Raukkan at the Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan Depot.
During the production in Raukkan and Camp Coorong near Meningie participants learned intermediate to advanced skills in film narrative, interview, camera and editing techniques.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan; Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee; Tallstoreez Productionz
Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Ngopamuldi – Working on Country
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The team also made several peer-produced training videos, that form part of our Indigenous Media Training online resource in our online training tool kit.
Click on the image above or the link to watch - Ngarrindjeri Nation Pitch.
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Click on the link to watch - Owen explains the 5-Point Story Plan for Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Ngopamuldi – Working on Country.
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Click on the image above or the link to watch - Owen shows storyboard process for Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Ngopamuldi – Working on Country.
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Click on the image above or the link to watch - Owen explains basic interview tips.
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OUTCOMES:
The project covered storytelling and camera techniques, shooting on traditional heritage locations, interview and event coverage techniques and editing. The resulting short film is a follow up on last years’ Ngarrindjeri Ruwe – Working On Country, and is available online and will be used by NRC staff to present at the inaugural Indigenous rangers conference in Renmark, April 2012, and for training, recruiting and PR. This project built on the success of the workshops in the last two years.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates! This film will be used as training and induction tool for Caring For Country projects in the Coorong and also features as part of our online training resource.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: We have retained several young members from our first groups at Camp Coorong, Meningie, and Moogy’s Yuki in Millicent/Murray Bridge, while gaining new participants from Raukkan, Tailem Bend and Murray Bridge. All of the team have recorded their own training videos and had hands-on task during the production, including production skills ranging from organizing the shoots, securing interviews with elders and representatives, storytelling, creating digital storyboards, presenting on screen, camera and sound work, uploading and file management, to editing and music production.
Adelaide ARA, SA, May 14-15 2011
CHALLENGE: Change Media worked with 18 new arrivals and young refugees as well as Australian Refugee Association staff over 2 days, to build on last years training in film narratives, interview techniques and digital media skills and prepare for a 3-year multi-arts project with Bell Shakespeare.
PARTNERS: The Australia Council for the Arts Creative Communities Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Australian Refugee Association; Bhutanese Community Association SA Inc, Bell Shakespeare Company; Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Video training: Camera Basics
Click on the image above or the link to watch - Community training with young refugees – Sita, Neru and Khagendra demonstrate camera basics.
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Click on the link to watch - Uploading Demo with Devi.
The team’s peer-produced training videos form part of our online training tool kit here.
OUTCOMES:
This project aims to built on the success of the first workshop with ARA participants in 2010. The training covered basic screen narratives, interview techniques and how to upload your footage to computer.
The youth team also worked on the overall creative concept for the work with us and Bell Shakespeare, in preparation to the upcoming workshop with Shahin Shafaei.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Stay tuned for updates.
April 20th, 2010: Tallstoreez’ Change Media founders invited for national arts curriculum consultation forum
Change Media creative director, Jennifer Lyons-Reid, and executive producer, Carl Kuddell, have been invited to attend the national forum for the first Australian arts curriculum, to advise on media in schools and community empowerment. The forum is organized through ACARA, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, as part of their consultation process for the Shape of the Australian Curriculum.
Directing the Hero Within – DVD RESOURCE
Directing the Hero Within is a step-by-step guide to digital video production for young people and their supporters.
WINNER: Best Educational Resource, ATOM Australian Teachers of Media Award 2006
FINALIST: Best Learning, Australian Interactive Media Association Awards 2007
The unique peer-educational and cross-curriculum approach makes this guide an engaging resource for primary and secondary students in Media, Art, English, Drama and IT Studies. The teacher’s manual contains lessons plans, script examples, storyboards and assessment rubrics.
It is also ideal for youth empowerment training, community groups, personal use and tertiary education.
The DVD and manual offer tips and tricks to create short films with your class, youth group or by yourself. It covers hands-on digital video training; from first idea to realization: explaining in easily communicable terms, camera and sound work, storytelling and film analysis, story-boarding, screen language and digital editing wizardry.
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chapters menu
camera basics
rule of thirds
1. Behind the scenes
This module shows you how to make a film with a young team. It showcases a variety of documentaries and films by young people followed by a special ‘making-of’ each film to introduce all aspects of video production. This peer education format provides positive role models and is ideal for an introductory 1-hour discussion that covers the basics of most aspects of film-making.
sound is everything
2. What’s your story?
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This module shows you how to develop your ideas and translate them into exciting films. How do filmmakers make their message interesting without compromising its integrity? It covers brainstorming, storytelling structures, storyboarding using cartoon techniques and how to prepare interesting interviews including several perspectives. We share lots of ideas to create a ‘funky’ story, including event coverage, satire and dramatic re-enactments.
Click on the link to watch - Convert Your Story To Film..
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Tip: When you do an interview, ask your subject to sum up in the end. This way you often get the most concise and vibrant statements.
Click on the link to watch - Screen Language Basics.
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Click on the link to watch - Screen Language Exercise – Edit-in-camera.
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3. Using the camera
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camera sound
This module shows you how to become friends with your digital video camera. It covers basic camera work and compares different handling techniques, including hand-held and tripod, teaching your team techniques and practices that promote steadier, more interesting filming. Young people explore the reality of ‘just catching the moment as it happens’, setting up shots and things to look out for on location.
Click on the link to watch - Camera Handling..
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Tip: Use an L-shaped handle to hold your camera stable when shooting hand-held. This is a cheap and easy way to improve your shooting technique.
Click on the link to watch - Cool Camera Moves.
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4. The importance of sound
Click on the link to watch - Sound Basics.
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If you can’t hear anything, your film becomes flat…This module delves into the often overlooked world of sound recording and shows what microphones to use in different situations.
Click on the link to watch - Microphone Basics.
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Tip: If you don’t have an external microphone, make sure to record your interview close to your subject – and always wear headphones to monitor your sound!
5. Putting it all together
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This module introduces the basics of non-linear video editing. How to get your footage onto the computer, organize your files and start building your film. We share tips + tricks for adding sound effects, music, titles and how to pace your film to make it an exciting ride.
Click on the link to watch - Editing Basics – Effects.
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Tip: Now you will appreciate the effort you put into your storyboards and the fun begins because you can cut it up and re-arrange it!
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