What to keep and what to discard

… and how to organize the available material.

There is a time in every collaborative project when each team member needs to articulate their stance.

We started week 3 with 3 questions for ourselves.

What do I want to achieve from this project?
What is the meaning of this project?
How I can personally contribute to this project?

It is important for the team to clarify our focus before we start editing our gathered materials.

It is necessary for us individually to know why we are doing this project. Otherwise why do it at all? It is crucial that we understand our differences amongst each other when addressing what is important for the project.

Then we know what materials to keep, what materials to discard, and how to organize them towards a direction that is meaningful to us all.

Appearing in video: Sam Heseltine, Patrick Jones, Dik (Richard Mayhew), Kirra Donnelly, Amy Rob and Yasmine Roe . Animation by Patrick Jones and Mayu Kanamori. Music by Bart Pigram. Training support, training facilities including editing suite by our partner Goolarri Media Enterprises

– Posted by Mayu Kanamori / Philosopher’s Photos

Collecting

The Broome You Are Here team and youths from the community began to collect oral histories and corresponding visual materials including archival photographs, mementos from the old pearling days, landscapes and icons around town.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

– Posted by Mayu Kanamori / Philosopher’s Photos

Team Here in Broome Now

Our team workshops began with trainers Dik (Richard) Mayhew, Bart Pigram, Sam Heseltine and Ben Wandei  (Life Without Barriers) interviewed each other about where they came from, their work and their relationship to Broome and collecting corresponding visual materials – photographs, archival photographs and video.  Although this was meant to be a simple exercise in interview skills, the questions and answers were very personal and yet socially relevant to Broome, its youth, to community, and to humanity. The material gathered set a meaningful tone for the collaborative work with the youths and elders of the community to come.

Trainer Kirra Donnelly joined us during the editing workshops at Goolarri Media training rooms, and with assistance from Goolarri trainers Greg Hain, Chris Mitskinis and senior cameraman Jon Armstrong we have successfully edited and created four short stories from our trainers.

The Team - Broome You Are Here / Left to Right - Ben Wandei, Sam Heseltine, Kirra Donnelly, Mayu Kanamori, Bart Pigram and Dik Mayhew

– Photo by Amy Rob

– Posted by  Mayu Kanamori / Philosopher’s Photos, Facilitator, Broome Your Are Here