Twin Worlds Digital Storytelling Workshop
Contracted by Boronia Multicultural Services, ICE provided a one week digital storytelling workshop for Tamil youth aged 6 – 18 at the Switch Digital Media Arts Centre.
The Twin Worlds Project is a community arts project to promote inter-generational harmony within Sri Lankan Tamil refugees and Tamil migrants in the Western Sydney region. It is a collaboration between the Boronia Multi Cultural Services and artist Jiva Parthipan.
The training was faciliated by Merlyn Bilas of Camera Wallih Pictures.
In the words of the Twin Worlds participants, the week was ‘epic’.
Over the course of 5 days, 14 students aged from 5 – 18 years of age worked together to create short films about objects in their life that mean a lot to them.
The weeks learnings included:
- photography
- storyboarding
- narrative development
- scripting
- voice production
- editing in imovie
Over the week we learnt about the aspirations of the participants, who predominately had Tamil heritage. The class included a basketballer, a digital musician, a painter, a writer, an astronomer, a historian and a whole bunch of creativity.
The results can be seen here, as youth make films about symbols in thier life that respresent a topic of significance to them.
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