Working with Bell Shakespeare and artists from refugee background on The Perfect Refugee - Shakespeare in a Time of Crisis.
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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
Ngarrindjeri - Working on Country
Ngarrindjeri Media 2011 June - Murray Bridge - Raukkan - Coorong SA
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The Change Media Team conducted 4x 1-day workshops with Ngarrindjeri Caring For Country and Heritage Rangers at the Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting Depot.
During the production in Murray Bridge, Raukkan and Meningie members of the Ngarrindjeri Ruwe and the Raukkan Caring for Country organizations learned skills in film narrative, interview and editing techniques.
Find the training videos the Ngarrindjeri team produced here.
The project covered storytelling and camera techniques, shooting on traditional heritage locations, interview and event coverage techniques and editing. The resulting 10min film, Ngarrindjeri Ruwe – Working On Country, is available online and will be used by NRC staff for training, recruiting and PR. This project built on the success of the workshops in the last two years.
The NRC and its Heritage Rangers employed on a long-term contract have agreed to setting up a micro business and utilizing digital media as part of their everyday work. Already their rangers and Caring For Country workers are using GPS-enabled ‘Cyber-Trackers’ to map and track sites, re-vegetation efforts and link it with traditional knowledge. Recording knowledge by interviewing their elders will form part of the essential training over the next year.
Partners
Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities
Australia Council for the Arts
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
Australian Refugee Association media training
2011 June - Adelaide SA
Change Media worked with 16 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.
Partners
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Refugee Association Inc
Buthanese Community Association SA Inc
The Perfect Refugee - Theatre Games
2011 May - Carclew SA
Change Media worked with acclaimed director, actor, filmmaker and social animateur, Shahin Shafaei, and 18 young migrants, to create new work as part of a long term project. The forum theater workshop ran over 4 days, using mixed theater and acting techniques with digital media skills, to prepare for a 3-year multi-arts project , The Perfect Refugee.
Find below the resulting 20 Forum Theatre Game examples:
This Change Media project aims to build the creative foundations for an exciting and innovative collaboration with young migrants and Bell Shakespeare in South Australia. The training covered forum theater, image creation and screen narratives, storytelling, interview and reenactment techniques and documentary shooting. The team also recorded some of the behind-the-scenes documentations.
We were excited to work with Shahin Shafaei [Through the Wires; From Bagdad to the Burbs] to kick start our newest creative challenge for the community arts and cultural development sector – to create high profile work that bring mainstream art and marginalized communities together to explore the ruptures of our society and our mythologies around refugees, racism and integration through a classical lens: Shakespeare In Times Of Crisis – The Perfect Refugee…
Partners
Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Refugee Association Inc
Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships
Change Media Showreel
2011 March - SA
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The 15min video features excerpts from our work with young refugees from the Buthanese and African communities in Adelaide, creating powerful documentaries for cultural transmission with Indigenous communities across South East SA and a variety of fun projects we have conducted nationally.
We tailored the documentation to speak directly to our current proposal to the Community Arts Development at Arts SA and to Australia Council’s Creative Community Partnerships Initiative. And as of May 2011, we have been successful with the CCPI application and received funding for our 3-year program!
Partners
Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Refugee Association Inc
Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport