2008 Program
Follow the Story...
Telling stories is the core of the film and television industry, and AIDC 2008 will have a special focus on storytelling. Western Australia, home of some of the oldest living storytelling traditions in the world, is the perfect location to look into the parameters of a good story. Master classes, craft sessions and invigorating discussion panels will focus on the different elements of storytelling in the media production process, and investigate how different members of the creative team all contribute to the final story.
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Master Classes
Speakers who excel in particular genres of factual film and television making will provide master classes. In this series, we welcome: Award winning filmmaker Mark Lewis of Cane Toads fame. John Smithson, producer of many blue chip documentaries including Touching the Void will show us how to unlock the story, a session he previously developed for the BBC. Bruno Felix, from Amsterdam based production powerhouse Submarine, will lead us in to the secrets of interactivity and serious games.
MashUp
Originating from 80’s Hip-Hop music, ‘MashUps’ are all about recycling and repurposing. Run-D.M.C. Documentary Style, MashUp explores alternative purposes for documentary content and the skills of documentary makers. In other words, searching for outlets and career options outside the cinema and broadcast model by combining industries, needs, skills and ambitions in a quest to invent a new type of media occupation. Chris Griffith, Deputy News Editor Online, The Australian newspaper, will present the newspapers online future, its transition from stills to moving images and the introduction of documentary content. From Canada we will be joined by Katerina Cizek who will showcase work she made as Filmmaker in Residence at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. Initiated by the NFB, Katerina teamed up with nurses and doctors, researchers and patients working on the front lines of inner city health. The project partners media with medicine in a very innovative way.
What’s The Story, Morning Glory?
The Australian production climate has changed since the producers offset has been introduced; Screen Australia will see the light in July 2008; and there is always something changing at the offices of the broadcasters. A series of sessions under the strand title What’s the Story, Morning Glory? will focus on the reality that will dawn on us in the 12 months between AIDC 2008 and AIDC 2009. This program strand includes an update from the Screen Australia steering committee.
Tell the Right(s) Story
In a media landscape that is dramatically more complex than a decade ago, an understanding of rights is essential. AIDC will organise workshops which will include Mythbusting Copyrights (in collaboration with Film Australia); Creative Commons – a presentation of a rights management system that provides a potential answer to the incompatibility between the traditional broadcast licensing model and the new forms of digital distributions; and Community Rights which will examine how copyright laws need to be adapted for indigenous groups who have a tradition of community, rather than individual rights.