How to Laugh in English - Aus Refugee Assoc

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:

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

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.

Bikram

AJ

Bunam

Damber

Devi

Graick

Kangimo

Maxim

Chris

Peter

Priyanka

Culture Shock

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