Gumala Aboriginal Corporation workshop - 2010 June - Gumala Aboriginal Corporation WA
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The Change Media Team worked with the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation in Tom Price to train local Indigenous youth and community leaders in film narratives, interview techniques, editing and digital media management and create a peer-produced DVD about issues of juvenile justice for Indigenous youth in the Pilbara region.
The production covered an introduction to screen narratives, storytelling for social issues, editing & file management and basic interview, shooting and editing techniques. The participants came up with strong story concepts and are keen to continue to make films. The workshop was the first of 2 projects as part of our 2-year community partnership with the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation in 2010-2011.
The challenge this session was to create engaging stories that raise awareness about issues of juvenile justice, drug and alcohol abuse, faced by young Indigenous living in Tom Price and the Pilbara area. The workshop focused on short innovative story techniques, fun camera and sound work, and editing and music production. Each team member worked together producing two films, recorded several interviews and training tools. They planned, researched, scripted and conducted several shoots and took part of the edit. At the rough cut viewing in the Tom Price Arts and Culture Centre, the Gumala representatives were impressed with the outcomes and discussed the potential for future media work for the participants through the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation.
The workshop was the introduction to a 2-year project planned for 2010-2011, to skill up the local community, Indigenous support staff in the use of digital media and create a series of peer-produced DVD resources. During the workshop the participants also identified the need to record their Elders in their community of Bellary Springs, about 40ks out of Tom Price.
The team managed to learn essential interview and editing skills and edited their own and their elders interviews during the workshop. They are now keen to continue their training with the aim to train other other communities in remote WA and build media archives to record traditional knowledge.
Partners
Apple
Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities
Australia Council for the Arts
Gumala Aboriginal Corporation
Office for Crime Prevention WA
Tom Price Community Arts & Culture Centre