2012 August - Melbourne VIC
The Change Media team ran the first collaborative workshop in Melbourne with members and volunteers from the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre). The 2-day workshop, focused on creating a virtual tour to show off the incredible work of the ASRC and to raise much needed funds and awareness.
The workshop forms part of an ongoing two year collaborative effort to debunk the myths surrounding asylum seekers and to create powerful media messages for TV, internet and/or video projection art. The Change Media team will skill up members and volunteers at the ASRC, to support them to create a self sustaining media hub as a resource for asylum seekers to have a voice in the digital age.
Participants collaborated with us on the overall concept of a virtual tour video for ASRC and trained in basic and advanced camera techniques using the latest in HDSLR cinematography, screen language, editing, uploading to web and be exposed to running and managing productions, budgets, shoots and crews.
We also developed an overview of the 2-year co-creative process to produce a creative campaign to support asylum seekers in Australia.
Training of participants (members and volunteers at the ASRC) is a strong focus of this collaboration, the main goal after two years being that the ASRC has a fully functional media team.
The project also has a strong emphasis on delivery of practical artistic outcomes, with a virtual tour of ASRC being the first video, along with a set of peer-training tools as well as a host of creatively driven video messages to debunk the myths surrounding Asylum Seekers in Australia.
Partners
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative
OurCommunity
Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships
