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.

In this training video Damber explains basic set up of the Sony Z1 HDV camera. Change Media worked with 18 new arrivals and young refugees as well as Australian Refugee Association staff over 2 days, to build on last years training in film narratives, interview techniques and digital media skills. Change Media runs training workshops with marginalized communities. When the group has learned a new skill they film each other; to document their learning progress, record relevant information they want for future use and to provide free training to other communities online.

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.

In this training video Kangimo explains basic set up of the Sony Z1 HDV camera. Change Media worked with 18 new arrivals and young refugees as well as Australian Refugee Association staff over 2 days, to build on last years training in film narratives, interview techniques and digital media skills. Change Media runs training workshops with marginalized communities. When the group has learned a new skill they film each other; to document their learning progress, record relevant information they want for future use and to provide free training to other communities online.

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

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:

Leading Noises

Leading Hands

Blind Buses

Bears and Tree Planters

The Plate

The Talking Ring

Human Bowling Alley

Energy Ball

West Side Story

Sword Leader

Images of a Struggle

Sculpting

Blind Sculpting

The Protector

Fox and Rabbit

Blind Cars Trust Game

Clapping in Time

Boxing

Glass Bottle

Forum Theatre Games Showreel

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

Collaborative art vs everyday supremacy thinking