Asylum Seeker Resource Centre virtual tour, produced during a series of training workshops with refugees.
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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
The Perfect Refugee - Bell Shakespeare
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
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
Culture Shock - Aus Refugee Association
Australian Refugee Association - media training - 2010 March - Australian Refugee Association SA
Change Media worked with 15 new arrivals and young refugees as well as ARA / Pt. Adelaide Council staff over 4 days, to train them in film narratives, interview techniques and digital media skills. They created ‘Culture Shock’, a peer-produced, satirical documentary about their lives and the challenges of coming to Australia: Culture Shock
The training covered an introduction to screen narratives, file management and interview & reenactment techniques, documentary shooting and Final Cut editing skills. After an involved debate about the many issues faced by young refugees, the team (comprising of 15 young people from Kongo, Sudan, Bhutan, Belarus, Tanzania and Burundi) decided to use a mix of fun and serious examples of situations they were faced with as new arrivals. The team also created the original soundtrack in Garageband and recorded most of the behind-the-scenes documentations and individual interviews.
The team managed to create engaging stories that raise awareness about issues faced by young refugees living in the Port Adelaide Enfield district and wider Adelaide area. The participants hadn’t worked as a team were able to produce one film together; everybody conducted several shoots, interviews and took part in the edit and music production. By the end of Day 4 the team finished a rough cut of a funny and engaging documentary about appropriate / inappropriate behaviors and other challenges. The whole team agreed on the changes they wanted for the fine cut, for the Change Media team to clean up the edit, add title cards and insert the participants self-made music. We have already been approached by ARA to conduct another project soon, as the participants are keen to build on their new skills.
The workshop was a fantastic introduction to a longer term project planned for 2010-11, to create a social archive and reference video manual for new arrivals to Australia, to enhance cross-cultural understanding and mutual respect. Besides the fantastic 14min film, this DVD also includes rough cut interviews by the participants, which showcase their experiences as new arrivals and demonstrate not only their skills, but also their resilience surviving often horrific journeys. Again, a huge applause to the team – it was a very rewarding collaboration for our trainer team.
Partners
Apple
Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Refugee Association Inc
City of Port Adelaide Enfield