Desert Gypsy - Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy Indigenous youth workshop 2004 November - Coober Pedy SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project ran an introductory workshop in Coober Pedy, with the support of the local TAFE, aboriginal youth action council and other youth clubs. 8 Indigenous and Non-Indigenous youth discussed how they could use video in their region and experimented with the cameras.

OUTCOMES: The team, who never made a film before, decided to tell a story about the local op-shop. The owner, Desert Rose, runs an op-shop like no other…

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Come Out and Hero Project Festival at the Mercury Cinema 2007.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

AYAC

Coober Pedy Council

TAFE SA

Mallee Health intro workshop

Mallee Health youth intro workshop 2004 November - Pinnaroo SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project ran an introductory workshop in Pinnaroo with the support of the Mallee Health Service. 3 local youth and a number of health and arts officers discussed how they could use video in their region and experimented with the cameras.

PARTNERS: Arts SA Healthy Initiatives; Mallee Health Service Inc; Tallstoreez Productionz

OUTCOMES: The team decided to develop a story about the local quirky characters and locations and pitched their ideas to camera. Little did they know that this was the start to a long term and life changing process…

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Kade went on to produce a number of films, including the ABC series Pinnaroo Surfer. He got selected for the prestigous Flinders University Screen Studies.

Partners

Arts SA Healthy Initiatives

Mallee Health Service Inc

Gepps Cross High School workshops

Gepps Cross Girls High School workshops 2004 October - Adelaide SA

CHALLENGE: The Hero Project developed their unique training methodology during a 6 week program with 20 Middle School students at Gepps Cross Girls High School.

OUTCOMES: The Hero Team were introduced to the hectic pace of incorporating media into class lessons. A big thank you to Michael Darley and the girls involved.

The students learnt basic team work, storytelling, camera and sound recording skills. One of the highlights was the compositing work using a green screen for interviews. Each student pitched her film idea to camera and the group.

IMPACT AND FEEDBACK: The teaching methodology we designed formed the proof of concept to develop the Hero Project to the next level, including multiple awards and a national outreach program.

Partners

Come Out Australian Festival for Young People

Gepps Cross Girls High School

Human Pastures - Luminosity Public Art

Adelaide City Council public art Luminosity 2004 July - SA

Human Pastures: Waltz through the weekly ritual of grazing the aisles – from a child’s perspective, chained to the trolley on a consumer roller-coaster, experience the visual extravaganza of product placements.

Commissioned by ANAT and the City of Adelaide, the 3-week shop-front video projection commenced in July 2004 in the shop front of 25 Leigh Street in Adelaide’s CBD.

Commissioned for the Luminosity Public Art Program of the Adelaide City Council and Australian Network for Art & Technology ANAT.

Find more images at: http://www.anat.org.au/luminosity/

Partners

Adelaide City Council

Australian Network for Art & Technology ANAT

Meltdown – the rise & fall of empire

SALA 2004 public video projection 2004 June - SA

Meltdown – the rise & fall of empire: Shop-front video projection, for SALA Festival 2004 Adelaide.

Life size plastic toy soldiers with guns meltdown and resurrect into a tank as a petrol pump meter counts the fuel consumption.

Partners

ANAT

South Australian Living Artists Festival 2004