Ngarrindjeri Projection Masterclass

2012 October - Hindmarsh Island SA

As a precursor to the Kumuwuki Big Wave festival, Craig Walsh and Country Arts SA held a projection masterclass in Goolwa with Ngarrindjeri participants. The masterclass explored the importance of context and space, and the meaning and context an artwork shares with its environment. Change Media were invited along to document the masterclass and develop a piece of digital media to be projected at the Regional Arts Australia festival.

Participants shared their experiences using the medium of projection art, and their experiences of person and place. The short documentary showcases the fun and adaptability of the medium, with a uniquely Ngarrindjeri perspective.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Country Arts SA

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

A Life Well Lived - Disability Services SA

Strathmont disability arts - 2012 August - Strathmont SA

This 22-min community documentary is a great discussion starter for anyone working in or interested in supporting for people living with intellectual disabilities.
The DVD was officially launched at the national ‘Stronger Together’ disability conference in Adelaide, August 14-15, 2012.

The Change Media team ran a series of workshops with residents and staff at the Strathmont Centre, documenting the process, challenges and improvements as people are moving out of institutional care into houses in the community.
During the collaborative production in Adelaide, Strathmont Centre, Salisbury and Elizabeth, Strathmont residents and staff members of the Disability Services also learned skills in film narrative, interview and editing techniques.

Our team in collaboration with staff and community members produced a unique person-centred documentary with people living with intellectual disabilities. What does it take to shut down an institution and move its residents into community care facilities? Will they be better off in their brand new community house?

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Department for Communities and Social Inclusion – Disability Services

OurCommunity

Strathmont Centre community

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

Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar Ruwe Partnership

Ngarrindjeri Media - 2012 June - Camp Coorong SA

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The Change Media Team was commissioned by the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority to document the ceremonies for the Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar Ruwe Partnership Program held on June 7 2012.
Our team conducted interviews with SA Government Minister Caica, Associate Professor Daryle Rigney, Dean of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement, Flinders University and Chair of the Ngarrindjeri Enterprises Pty Ltd.

Additional interviews including Ellen Trevorrow, Simone Ulalka Tur and Steve Hemming, Australian Studies Flinders University. Chair of Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority Research, Policy and Planning Unit.

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 Regional Authority

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

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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

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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