“And action...” held a different meaning for participants in the Orana Arts video editing workshop on Wednesday, with the camera and clipboard being replaced with mobile phones and tablets for the day.
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The workshop was held as part of the Orana Arts My Arts. My Town mobile video competition for budding directors who were thinking about helping showcase arts and cultural tourism within the region.
Alicia Leggett from Orana Arts said the workshop was a way to help filmmakers with ideas they maybe hadn’t thought about before.
“As long as they get something out of it then we can call it a success. The workshop is relevant in a way because we get to see the different point so view. While Nikki and Taylor have probably focused more on video for social media, Mr White has already started filming interviews – two different ways of using the same platform to get a point of view across,” she said.
High school students Taylor Hannaford and Nikki Alkamraikhi joined Hunter White from Watershed Landcare at the workshop to learn new tips and tricks when it came to shooting video on a mobile device. Andrew Barnes from Geagle Productions was on hand to guide the filmmakers through the two-and-a-half-hour workshop and dropped a few handy hints along the way.
The workshop started with a fun look a video formatting – shooting horizontally instead of vertically – before Mr Barnes showed the group a TropFest winner who had used his mobile to shoot a short film in the days before iPhones. Each filmmaker was asked to discuss the types of projects they had already completed before Mr Barnes spoke of the trickier aspects to using a camera phone over a video camera.
“When filming on a smart phone you have to be mindful of where you’re going to film. Phones pick up everything when it comes to background noise so try and find someplace quite to film. The other problem is with the lighting because the cameras on most phones don’t have high definition like a video camera. Look for shade where you can and stay away from plain white backgrounds,” he said.
The My Arts. My Town competition is open to anyone looking to portray the arts and cultural tourism in the Dubbo, Narromine, Gilgandra, Warrumbungles and Mid-Western local government areas. Subjects can include festivals, exhibitions, galleries, artists, museums, or art groups and videos should not exceed three minutes.
The competition closes on September 26 with finalists announced on October 27. For more information on the competition, visit oranaarts.worldsecuresystems.com/Projects/my-arts-my-town