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Workshop With Liverpool Public @ Casula Powerhouse

eliasnohra — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:59:38 +0000

Occasionally we run short CuriousWorks workshops out at Casula Powerhouse to get young people interested in making video and to provide them with a fun excursion. Yesterday I had 55 girls & boys from Liverpool Public attend, and you can see their first videos below in this post.

Firstly, I play a little ice-breaker game of introductions with the young people to get them to relax and focus. Then we check out the reFILL Film School videos to learn some basic video skills.

Inevitably, we always make the “Ball Game” video in these sessions. Its a simple exercise that allows us to shoot a structured video and edit it in a limited time, as well as covering some of the filmmaking basics like establishing a frame and simple editing.

The edit takes place on a large projected wall, and I work with 4 or 5 of the students to edit the work. This works surprisingly well, everyone is usually quite engaged as they watch their peer edit the video together. Highlights are usually watching bad takes, though. The edit takes place in Final Cut Pro, but we demonstrate it in such a way that it is totally applicable to other editing softwares such as Windows Movie Maker.

If we have time, we put together a little track in Garageband, as the Liverpool kids did, and voila! An introduction to filming & editing as well as some hand on experience completing your video all in 2 hours.

Here are the videos that were produced yesterday:

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Future Melbourne

Morgan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:04:53 +0000

Future Melbourne is a pretty amazing project, an attempt to harness the power of open government and collaboration to tackle the kinds of foresight and planning efforts even most big cities find themselves unable to take on. Their agenda is pretty ambitious:

Future Melbourne has a vision for the municipality to be a bold, inspirational and sustainable city in 2020. To realise this vision, six high level goals have been set: to build a city for people, a creative city, a prosperous city, a knowledge city, an eco-city and a connected city. The achievement of each of these high level goals is built on attaining thirty three secondary goals and these in turn are built on one hundred and fifty two underpinning goals.

via worldchanging.com

I love how goal 2 is to build a ‘creative city’. Creativity should be a municipal resource like water, business or land. Oh yeah, ‘knowledge’, ‘eco’ and ‘connected’ would other descriptors for Melbourne by 2020. Sweet.

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Jamurarra :: Homeland

eliasnohra — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:27:29 +0000

A film by Martu Media and CuriousWorks as part of the BHP Iron Ore Legacy project, in partnership with Country Arts WA.

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Upon entering Tasmania, we see a sign commanding, “Quiet, trees growing!”

shakthi — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:21:15 +0000

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Catching the Spirit of Tasmania is like going from the mainland to our island state via las vegas

shakthi — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:20:49 +0000

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