Change Media highlights 2002 - 2021

Change Media highlights from 20 years of community arts and cultural development practice across Australia since 2002: Collaborative art vs everyday supremacy thinking… Enjoy!

Thanks to all our supporters and participants - what a ride...

Intro and theme music courtesy of Nexus Arts - artist: Tagore (feat. The Three Seas), by voiceROM, from the album Nexus Album: https://voicerom.bandcamp.com/album/nexus-album

For all other credits for music and artists involved, please visit the individual project pages.

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Change Media Training

2013 June - Adelaide SA

Our Digital Media Training Toolkit offers a range of tips and tricks we have created over the years in collaboration with communities across Australia between 2010 and 2013. It covers the key elements of digital media production, from development, production and editing to ethics, impact and evaluation.

The toolkit has a strong focus on Indigenous media training and features many Ngarrindjeri participants explaining their step by step training process, during workshops in regional South Australia.

Copy of Interview Tips with Owen

Copy of Using Storyboards

Copy of 5-Point Story Plan

Copy of How to upload photos

Copy of Sony A1 HDV set up

Copy of Basic 5-point story example

Copy of Storyboarding with ComicLife

Copy of Organize Your Shoot - Equipment

Copy of How to upload example

Copy of Camera basics with Cyril

Copy of Camera basics with Chris

Copy of Camera tripod with Rita

Copy of Camera basics with Rita

Copy of Camera training with Craig

Copy of Camera training with Arnold

Copy of Camera training with Laurie

Copy of Camera basics with Junior

Copy of Camera basics with Junior

Copy of Camera basics with Jeremy

Copy of How to set up a Sony A1 camera

Copy of How to set up a tripod

Copy of How to upload footage

Copy of Uploading demo

Copy of Distribution - Burn To DVD

The toolkit was produced with assistance from the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnerships.

The project also received support from the South Australian Government through Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships.

Partners

Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Australian Refugee Association Inc

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Asylum Seekers Resource Centre training

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre media training 3 2013 September - Melbourne VIC

The Change Media team ran the final collaborative workshop in Melbourne with members and volunteers from the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre). The 1-day workshop, focused on handover of a broadcast quality camera for the ASRC, to enable their members to produce their own creative myth busting videos and community campaign films.

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.

During the handover workshop, participants trained on their new camera and media literacy skill to enable them to transfer their stories into screen language.
This workshop conceded a successful 2-year co-creative process to support asylum seekers in Australia. The ASRC community media team now has their own iMac media hub with broadcast quality camera and all skills necessary to commence their own artistic work.

Big thanks to the Australian Nurses Federation for the use of their fabulous venue!

Partners

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

OurCommunity

Tallstoreez Productionz

Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Change Media Training Toolkit

2019 August - Adelaide SA

Our Digital Media Training Toolkit offers a range of tips and tricks we have created over the years in collaboration with communities across Australia between 2010 and 2013. It covers the key elements of digital media production, from development, production and editing to ethics, impact and evaluation.

The toolkit has a strong focus on Indigenous media training and features many Ngarrindjeri participants explaining their step by step training process, during workshops in regional South Australia.

Interview Tips with Owen

Using Storyboards

5-Point Story Plan

How to upload photos

Sony A1 HDV set up

Basic 5-point story example

Storyboarding with ComicLife

Organize Your Shoot - Equipment

How to upload example

Camera basics with Cyril

Camera basics with Chris

Camera tripod with Rita

Camera basics with Rita

Camera training with Craig

Camera training with Arnold

Camera training with Laurie

Camera basics with Junior

Camera basics with Junior

Camera basics with Jeremy

How to set up a Sony A1 camera

How to set up a tripod

How to upload footage

Uploading demo

Distribution - Burn To DVD

The toolkit was produced with assistance from the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnerships.

The project also received support from the South Australian Government through Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships.

Partners

Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Australian Refugee Association Inc

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships

headspace Virtual Tour

headspace youth media workshop - Adelaide Northern Virtual Tour2013 January - Elizabeth SA

headspace Adelaide Northern Virtual Tour - PLAY FILM

For their first project of the year, the Change Media team got together with headspace Adelaide Northern and their YAC(youth advisory committee) to create a fun and engaging virtual tour. During a two day workshop at the centre the team brainstormed and shot the film, which was aimed to make the service more accessible, fun and friendly and give some information about it for those considering accessing it.

The participants were part of a professional production, building on previous experiences from their July 2012 workshop with Change Media. Participants learned good interview skills, set dressing, and lighting theory.

“It looks professional and fresh and colourful and !!!!!! So excited about it! Thanks to everyone for giving us the opportunity to make something that will hopefully help more young people feel brave enough to come to headspace!”
-Suzanne

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts

headspace

Tallstoreez Productionz

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre training

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

headspace media training

2012 July - Elizabeth SA

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.

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.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Northern Sound System Elizabeth

headspace

OurCommunity

Working on Country Rangers Forum

Ngarrindjeri Media - 2012 May - Calperum SA

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.

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 team, (including interviews, overlay and photos) to be delivered midway through the forum.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Australian Landscape Trust

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Indigenous Coordination Centre SA

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting

Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation

Working on Country Forum edit workshop

Ngarrindjeri Media 2012 May - Camp Coorong SA

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Indigenous Coordination Centre SA

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting

Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation

Strathmont disability arts workshops

2012 May - digital storytelling - Strathmont SA

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.

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.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Department for Communities and Social Inclusion – Disability Services

Strathmont Centre community

Health Arts Reseach Centre - media training

2012 April - Sydney NSW

Change Media worked with 12 participants, aged 14-63, during a hands-on 2-day workshop at the Sydney North Shore Hospital. Participants included director and staff from the Health and Arts Research Centre, HARC, Glebe community development workers, Burundi community members with refugee background and people living with mental health issues. All engaged with the Change Media production and training methodology, which included a basic intro to equipment and digital media narratives and how to create relevant digital media art works.

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. Three main project proposals were developed, alongside mentoring for several individual concepts.

We also developed a scope for a larger partnership with the Health and Arts Research Centre, to create art with people living with dementia, as part of a long term research project. We started to develop creative concepts to support survivors of involuntary ElectroConvulsiveTherapy, ECT, in finding creative ways to address issues around memory loss, the injustice experienced and ways to connect to other electroshock survivors and advocate for changes in the mental health system.

In feedback sessions during both days – from initial expectations, to how the process worked and what possible future collaborations may bring – we discussed our process, costs, time frames and how to engage communities.

The feedback was enthusiastic throughout, people reported that they learned new and relevant skills, confronted and overcame fear of technology and made new connections. Especially moving was the feedback for our ways of challenging perceptions and representations of ‘other’ and life-changing moments for some participants as they developed new ways to cope creatively with very difficult mental health issues. The team decided to meet again with the next 4 weeks and was very interested to run more workshops with us.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Health and Arts Research Centre HARC

Ngarrindjeri Media - Women’s Workshop

2012 February - Camp Coorong SA

The Change Media Team conducted 4x 1-day workshops with 10 Ngarrindjeri women at the Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association.
During the introduction workshop at Camp Coorong, community members learned basic skills in film narrative and camera techniques.

The team worked on several peer-produced training videos and documentaries, that will form part of our Indigenous Media Training online resource.

The project covered storytelling and camera techniques. The participants reviewed the rough cut edits currently in post production, which were on hold after one the team leaders suffered an aneurism [she is in recovery now]. The review enabled the team to provide feedback and suggestions for the scope and vision of the overall project.

We ran this workshop after receiving strong expressions of interest from Ngarrindjeri women and their elder, Ellen Trevorrow, to learn basic digital media skills and be able to record their cultural practices on their own.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Indigenous Coordination Centre SA

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngopamuldi Working on Country

Ngarrindjeri Media - 2012 February - Raukkan SA

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.

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.

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.

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.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Indigenous Coordination Centre SA

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting

Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation

How to Laugh in English - Aus Refugee Assoc

The Perfect Refugee - 2011 July - SA

Change Media worked with 13 new arrivals and young refugees from Buthan and several African countries as well as Australian Refugee Association staff over 2 days, to continue training in film narratives, interview techniques and digital media skills as part of our 3-year multi-arts project, The Perfect Refugee.

During the 2 days, the participants engaged in comedy concepts and developed ideas for several projects.

Each team pitched their ideas as 5-point story plan. They also started creating their own digital storyboards and continued intermediate camera and interview training. Ideas presented included: How to Laugh in English?, Racist Car and Love Story Music Video.

The participants worked on their main project ‘How To Laugh In English’. They used Image Creation techniques they’d learned at the Forum Theatre workshop in May 2011. They continued to work on their own digital storyboards for their individual films. The team also improved their camera work on HDV Sony Z1 cameras and started post production training on Final Cut 7.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts

Australian Refugee Association Inc

Bell Shakespeare Company

Buthanese Community Association SA Inc

Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships