Pom Fiction - Hallet Cove SA

Hallet Cove Council youth workshop - 2009 February - Hallett Cove SA

Hallett Cove R-12 School and the Cove Youth Service asked the Hero Project team to work with their students to produce a documentary about their experiences coming to Australia, to support new arrivals from Britain.

There are many challenges for young British migrants when they first arrive in Australia. A group of teenagers from Hallett Cove have set out to demystify those first impressions: from flies, thongs, spiders, sharks, sunburn to football… Australia is different – but you are not alone!

The participants, who had only recently migrated from the UK, had a very clear idea how they wanted to proceed: create a tongue-in-cheek, humorous take on boring edu-videos. The adult supporters had a different vision about how educational material should look. The Hero Project brokered a viable compromise. This peer-produced documentary is full of heart-warming tips and tricks, to support new arrivals from Britain. It also keeps an upbeat and fun tone, no need to bore the students who watch this resource in school!

Partners

Apple

Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities

Australia Council for the Arts

Cove Youth Service Inc

Hallett Cove R-12 School

Marion City Council

Horse TV - Horse SA

Horse SA youth workshop - 2008 November - Cherry Gardens SA

Horse SA commissioned the Hero Project team to work with a group of teenage girls to produce a film about horse and land care. During the workshop the youth team met the challenge head on: in only 3 days they created Horse TV!

Welcome to Horse TV: This series of funny TV ads and soap spoofs raises awareness about environmental issues around horse ownership and addresses 5 key messages:
Healthy Pastures all year round spells healthy horses
Cheap Cheap Cheap: reduce dust and mud, horses hate cheap pastures
Purer Trough: safe, clean, easy water for your horse that doesn’t impact on creeks and waterways
Silver Service – A Ladies Companion to Classy Compost: Horse manure management 101
Horse CSI: Control your weeds before it is too late…

The workshop focused on training teenage girls and in the brainstorming session they decided to create a series of TV Advert spoofs as an upbeat way to share land care messages for horse owners. During the workshop the young filmmakers learnt all basic skills required for video production, including scripting, story-boarding, camera + sound work, acting, directing, editing and music production.

During the film making workshop the youth team met the challenge head on: working with a client brief can be difficult but they brainstormed lots of snappy ways to address the 5 key messages. They had to find appropriate locations, use horses as their film talent and keep to a tight deadline. The brief was developed during a 1-day ‘train-the-trainer session with teachers, parents and representatives from Horse SA and EPA.

Partners

Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board

Apple

Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities

Australia Council for the Arts

Horse Owners of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges

Horse SA

the Evironmental Protection Agency

the Melbourne Water Corporation

Artists not Aliens - Dfaces Whyalla

Dfaces Whyalla youth workshop - 2008 May - Whyalla SA

Artists not Aliens: Follow three aliens on their journey to find out if there is artistic life in Whyalla, a sports-mad steel town in South Australia. Whyalla has more sports facilities than you can count on your fingers and toes, but only a few places to do some art…

D’Faces commissioned the Hero Project team to run a holiday program. The Hero Project extended the workshop as part of their commitment to produce the Document Your World finalist films. 20 young people, aged 10-19, from Whyalla and surrounding communities were involved in this project.

At the beginning of the workshop James presented the initial idea he pitched to a large audience of professional film makers and broadcasters at the Document Your World competition, hosted by the Australian International Documentary Conference in February 2007. The group were excited about the idea, and had a great team of actors and crew to make this ambitious film work.

The Hero Project trained all of the participants in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and part- edit their film during the 5- day workshop. The group split up into teams to make it to all of their desired locations and apportioned roles and tasks according to age and ability – a fantastic team effort. Take a look for yourself, it is sometimes hard to grasp that they managed to have the same actor appear multiple times in the same scene…

Partners

Apple

Australia Council for the Arts

Australian Childrens Television Foundation

Australian International Documentary Conference

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

D’faces of Youth Arts Whyalla and its HYPER program through the Attorney General’s Office SA

Every Drop Counts - Quorn SA

Quorn youth workshop 3 -2008 January - Quorn SA

The Hero Project team worked with 6 students at the Quorn Area School, supported by the Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service, the Quorn Area School, the local council and the Quorn Caravan Park, as a direct result of the 2007 Document Your World competition.

To create a short documentary that addresses environmental concerns arising from the ongoing drought in north SA.
The participants identified a number of relevant interviewees, great locations and found fantastic archival footage about a flood. This was the final production in a series of 4 workshops with the Quorn community; as a result the local school has taken up digital media as part of their curriculum and the community has a great team of young documentarians and upcoming journalists.

Partners

Apple

Arts SA

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Quorn Caravan Park

Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service Inc

Youth media - Aboriginal Family Support

Aboriginal Family Support Services youth workshop - 2008 January - Adelaide SA

Aboriginal Family Support Service (AFSS) commissioned the Hero Project team to work with a group of Indigenous young people to set up a youth media team and make a series of short films about their lives. During the workshop the youth team met the challenge head on: in only 2 days they created a film each!

I Love Animals

Hoops and Dribbles

Hide and Seek

Going Places

Drum It Up

Biggest Mob of Chips

The workshop focused on training teenage Indigenous kids and in the brainstorming session the team develop the concept ‘Where will I be in 10 years time? and created an upbeat series of clips to share their future outlook. During the workshop the young filmmakers learnt all basic skills required for video production, including scripting, story-boarding, camera + sound work, acting, directing, editing and music production.

During the film making workshop the youth team met the challenge head on: they were keen to work as a team but make a film for each team members, working together as directors, camera person, sound recordist, actors and extras. Each day they shot 3 separate locations across Adelaide, a huge achievement for this team, who met the first time for this workshop. Each of the team members edited their own films and created original music for it.

Their empowering films have been shown to Indigenous communities across Australia. The films were very well received during our presentation at the Federal Government State Managers meeting in Adelaide, February 2008.

Partners

Aboriginal Family Support Service

Apple

Arts SA

Derringers Adelaide

Distinctive Homes Basket Ball Stadium

Office for Premier and Cabinet Premiers Community Initiatives Fund

RSPCASA

Metropolitan Fire Service

Adelaide Bites - Adelaide Fringe

Adelaide City Council youth art campaign - 2007 May - SA

We made 10 experimental short films for Adelaide’s new, large public digital screens, by SA youth sharing stories about Adelaide, as part of our public art game, Love Referendum, for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, supported by Adelaide City Council and Arts SA. Love Bites - do you love or hate Adelaide?

Partners

Adelaide City Council

Arts SA

Adelaide Fringe

Directing the Hero Within

ATOM 2006 winner - Youth Media Training Resource 2006 July - Adelaide SA

Directing the Hero Within is a peer-training step by step film making resource for young people, available as interactive DVD and CDrom. The project was produced with hundreds of young people across South Australia in 2005-2006 during a series of youth video workshops, with support from the SA Film Corporation, Arts SA, Office for Youth and Country Arts SA.

The DVD features hands-on training videos, plus additional youth films, each paired with a specific behind-the-scenes mini-documentary. The CDrom has a 50-page teachers manual with lesson plans, student exercises and useful templates.

The resulting DVD kit won the national Australian Teachers of Media Awards in 2006 and was shortlisted as a finalist at the prestigious Australian Interactive Media Industry Awards 2007.

Whats Your Story?

Convert Your Story to Film

Camera Basics

Camera Handling

Cool Camera Moves

Microphone Basics

Sound Basics

Screen Language

Screen Language Exercise

Editing Basics

Basic Effects

Click here to buy your copy of the award winning training resource DVD.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Australian Festival for Young People

Coober Pedy Area School

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Mallee Health Service Inc

Mt. Gambier City Council

Murray Mallee Community Education Network Inc

Murrayville Area School

Office for Youth

Port Augusta Youth Service

SA Film Corporation

SA Youth Arts Board

Warriappendi Aboriginal School

Pinnaroo Heist

Mallee Health youth workshop 3 - 2006 April - Pinnaroo SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 3 communities and schools in Murrayville, Pinnaroo and Karoonda in the second series of workshops to train the students in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and create edit-in-camera films.

OUTCOMES: The energetic and truly inter-generational team made a fun and engaging short film, shot and edited in one day! Using their quirky op-shop – a former bank with the old safe still intact – the young people created a fantastic little comedy. We especially enjoyed the tumbling tumble weed, which required a dedicated tumble weed wrangler…

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Come Out 2007 Youth Film Festival at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The project was a great step in our ongoing outreach program to make digital media more accessible to regional and remote schools and communities.

Partners

Arts SA Health Promotion through the Arts

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Mallee Health Service Inc

Surviva Nunga Style - Warriappendi School

Warriappendi School workshop - 2005 November - Warriappendi SA

CHALLENG: The Hero Project worked with 10 young Indigenous students and their teachers at the Warriappendi School. In a series of workshops the participants built on the training already in place through their Nunga TV experience and further developed essential digital media skills, scripting, story-boarding, filming, recording sound.

PARTNERS: Office for Youth; Arts SA Health Promotion Through The Arts; SA Film Corporation; Warriappendi School; Department of Education and Childrens Services; Tallstoreez Productionz

OUTCOMES: The group decided to split into two teams, each developing separate film ideas. They decided to join forces and selected a very challenging subject: to produce a film about racism and media analysis wrapped in two competing Reality TV shows.The result was hysterical: the teams managed to weave their competing story-lines together into a hilarious comedy. Do you need keys in Grand Theft Auto? Who will be voted off the island? Some people are just too black …

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Surviva Nunga Style was selected for the award winning Directing the Hero Within resource DVD.
Nunga TV developed to a leading Indigenous community TV program.

One of the participants gained access to an film industry work placement as a result of the workshop.

Partners

Arts SA Health Promotion through the Arts

Warriappendi School

Department of Education and Children Services

Office for Youth

SA Film Corporation

TAFE SA

SnapTV - CrocFest Port Augusta

Port Augusta Council youth workshop 3 - 2005 August - Port Augusta SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 16 young people and youth workers from Port Augusta. In a series of workshops the participants learnt essential digital media skills, scripting, story-boarding, filming, recording sound.

OUTCOMES: The team documented the best of CrocFest 2005 – and this meant preparing shot lists for key events, sending out teams to catch them as they happened, while others uploaded the footage and edited watchable clips! The film and its entire production process happened during the CrocFest on the local oval. Over the course of the event they planned, shot and edited just like a professional crew – and their final film was screened to huge applause on the last day of the festival.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK: SnapTV was selected for the award winning Directing the Hero Within resource DVD.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Office for Youth

Port Augusta Youth Service

SA Film Corporation

Hating Nanna's - Murrayville

Murrayville Area School workshop 1 - 2005 June - Murrayville SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 3 communities and schools in Murrayville, Pinnaroo and Karoonda in a series of workshops to train the students in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and create edit-in-camera films.

OUTCOMES: The aim was to build on the ongoing outreach program and make digital media more accessible to regional and remote schools.The team made a series of fun and engaging short films, all made in under 3 hours!

The films screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Mallee Health Service Inc

Murrayville Area School

Office for Youth

SA Film Corporation

Port Augusta youth media

Port Augusta Council youth workshop 2 - 2005 June - Port Augusta SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with participants from Port Augusta  youth club and an Indigenous youth team from the Port Augusta Secondary School. In a series of workshops the students learned essential digital media skills, scripting, story-boarding, filming, recording sound.
The aim was to build in the ongoing outreach program and make digital media more accessible to regional and remote schools.

OUTCOMES: Tanks: For most people the concrete tanks at the Lincoln Gap are just ugly ruins at the edge of the desert. But for some people it is a giant canvas, to reflect on – be it the teams they barrack for, Jesus or a place to proclaim eternal love…art, culture or… – decide for yourself.

The teams learned basic film making skills and were able to address issues ranging from mobile phone theft, graffiti and public art. Aimee Knight was accepted into the Flinders University Screen Studies with her films made during the 2005 Hero Project outreach program. In 2010 she is in her post graduate year and we expect to see amazing work from her in the coming years.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Tanks was selected for the award winning Directing the Hero Within resource DVD.

The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Office for Youth

Port Augusta Youth Service

SA Film Corporation

Everyone’s A Hero

Coober Pedy Area School workshop 2 - 2005 June - Coober Pedy SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 20 students and teachers from the Coober Pedy Area School. In a series of workshops the students learnt essential digital media skills, scripting, story-boarding, filming, recording sound.
The aim was to address issues around bullying in the classroom.

OUTCOMES: How do you speak back to a bully and reclaim the playground with your friends? Sometimes it takes the support of a magical friend to understand that everyone is a hero…
The film and production process were based on the student’s voice team, who had identified the need to talk about bullying. These primary school students wanted to screen their film to the whole school – which they did to huge applause.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK: EVERYONE’S A HERO was selected for the award winning Directing the Hero Within resource DVD.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Coober Pedy Area School

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Office for Youth

SA Film Corporation

TAFE SA

Pinnaroo Surfer

Mallee Health youth workshop 1 - 2005 April - Pinnaroo SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project continued its program in the Mallee with the second workshop in Pinnaroo. 3 local young people were involved in the production, with the support of the local youth and health workers.

OUTCOMES: Kade Richardson and Danah Ribbons discussed the impressions city folk have about them living in the country, and created a story about a local quirky character. Pinnaroo is over 300 km from the beach – but they do have their own surf beach and aren’t really worried about sharks…

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Pinnaroo Surfer formed part of the award winning Directing the Hero Within DVD resource. The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

MyHero International Film Festival 2007;

Little Big Shots International Film Festival 2008,

ABC TV 2009;

Lahore International Childrens Film Festival, Pakistan

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Mallee Health Service Inc

Office for Youth

SA Film Corporation

TAFE SA

The Big Find - Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy Area School workshop 1 - 2005 April - Coober Pedy SA

CHALLENGE: 6 young people from Coober Pedy made this film in the first 3-day workshop as part of the Hero Project outreach program. The Hero Project trained the participants in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and edit their films.

OUTCOMES: The team made an impressive short documentary about the impact of gambling on the local community. Their aim was to make a film about the pokies, to include different points of view from members of their community about this challenging issue.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The state-wide no-pokies-campaign used the film to raise awareness about pokies.

The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Coober Pedy Area School

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Office for Youth

SA Film Corporation

TAFE SA

Keepin’ It Country - Port Augusta

Port Augusta Council youth workshop 1 - 2005 April - Port Augusta SA

PROCESS: 15 young people from Port Augusta made this film as part of the ongoing Hero Project outreach program.
The Hero Project trained the participants in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and edit their films during a 3-day workshop.

OUTCOMES: Country is a way of life, mate – meet the original cowboys at a Country & Western talent quest…
Aimee and her team made a beautiful short documentary about the local music festival. Keepin’ It Country shows that there is a lot more to Country & Western than meets the ear… One of most valuable lessons was to always monitor your sound – a fabulous interview with an up-and-coming star got lost in the rumble of the passing road trains…

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: The film screened at Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Aimee continued her progress as a young filmmaker and gained access to the Flinders University Screen Studies.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund

Office for Youth

Port Augusta Youth Service

SA Film Corporation