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.
Dfaces has now established its own youth media centre as part of our outreach program. The team has made a controversial documentary about the threatened cuttle fish in Point Lowly and produced video documentation of their theatre performances and are working on many film ideas.
Susie Skinner, Artistic Director, D’faces of youth arts, Whyalla SA, Oct 2009
Hi there Carl
Maddie, Dan and I say THANKS to you and the team
We finally got the process going by buying an external hard drive as Felix suggested
The mac didn’t seem to have any room to save anything at all so we are saving directly onto the hard drive
Thanks again for your invaluable support
Dfaces