Collaborative media project has been one course that offered so much space to explore our interests and our hidden talents. It gave us the room to play with projects that demanded persistent, hard work and dedication. Every collaboration required ownership, may it be self driven or may it has a project leader, to make things work at the end of the day, motivation and persistence is the key to get things done.
As an open opportunity to work in as many projects as we can managed, I initiated a project and took part in the ones driven by others includes:
MY COLLABORATIVE MEDIA PROJECT PORTFOLIO
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1. HUMBLEBEINGS
Humblebeings is a story sharing global platform, If someone has any inspirational story for humanity it could be shared with Humblebeings. The aim of the project is to drive the social media platform users to engage in the process of contributing towards this bank of stories that helps in giving a positive aspect to life and a perspective that motivates people to contribute towards humanitarian cause.
I took hold of two projects that i led, one being “Beyond Borders”, The team consisted of
- Alex Dick – Director of photography
- Angela Lowe – Director of photography
- Courtney Coulter – Producer
- Nicole Kitto – Camera person
- Lucille Schnierer & Sofii McKenzie – Assistant Editors
The other one was compilation of memorable journey of collaboration that reflects upon what happens when we collaborate. This project was self-initiated and executed, as the idea came to me in the end of the last week, but it self this is linked to the footage I had from the shoot of 3 different projects. The video title is “When we collaborate”.
2. A KNOTTY AFFAIR
Love can do wonders! It can mould us and our mind sets! It can broaden our vision and increases our ability of accepting the odds for the best of everyone’s interest! Love shapes up the Human inside us and promotes harmony and togetherness!
A beautiful story of a couple’s wedding told by their family, sharing their struggle in accepting the change but loving it for the sake of humanity!
A Christian Hindu girl weds a South Indian Tamilian boy.. and their families blend their cultures within the wedding events to accommodate for everyone’s interests!
“A Knotty Affair” is an illustration of modern-day weddings in the regions of the world which are religiously connected to their cultures and traditions…
“A knotty affair” is a short documentary shot in India by the producer and director of the film Angela Lowe.
Angela and I decided to promote the video through the platform of Humblebeings, as the story serves the needs of one of our relevant themes.
3. INSCRIPTION
Inscription is a short fiction film and the brainchild of Alex Dick, one of the highly talented, pro and professional collaborators. His project was a short comedy film, where a man dedicated to his job attempts to propose a lady. The flow of the project was very smooth, it was very well planned, organised and executed. One of the projects that wrapped up very quickly.
I was appointed the task of social media for the film, as it is important to maintain an online profile of the film, we managed to gear audience and put the name online by sharing bloopers, behind the scene pictures and live updates from the day of the shoot.
At this very stage we used Facebook page to take this venture online. The official Inscription page has about 61 likes at the moment and is growing eventually.
4. JUST IN CASE
Yuri Ardana is a highly talented all-rounder, under his production and direction, “Just in case” was planned, produced and published. It is a short comedy film which comes as a package of action and humor. I did the social media for the project and extended it to shooting for bloopers, photography for the profiles and editing the contents for the Facebook page.
This opportunity gave me a chance to experiment with camera and enhance my skills technically. I thoroughly enjoyed this project and the team was well thought of and organized throughout the production process.
5. Foreign Aid in a Climate of Change – Short Documentary
A short documentary* by Lucille Schnierer talks about the Foreign aid being distributed by Australia to different parts of the world to facilitate the calamity stricken countries cope up with the disaster and stand back on their feet. A well thought out and organized project with a strong vision that translated well in the outcome.
I was a part of project as Editing Assistant, in this collaboration I was required to give a constructive feedback on the edit of the project, help troubleshoot the issues arising with the software and incompatibility of video source files. We managed to look through the rough draft multiple times and discussed the possible ways of adding overlays and color grading for the footage to look consistent and interesting.
6. A MINUTE OF SCIENCE
The project led by Sofii McKenzie is a short infotainment clip that aims at covering a science topic within a minute.
I helped with the lightening for the project on the set as well as took pictures for behind the scenes for the project.
This was the second time I got a chance to work with a green screen background production. The videos will be published on Youtube and shared on Facebook page.
We plan on sharing different latest science researches and short films that cover the same area of interest.
COLLABORATION IS FUN:
Collaboration is an interesting process of creating unique and intriguing content. The process of collaboration helps you think and process information in a very different way. You have so much room for experimentation and execution based on multiple ideas that even facilitate in troubleshooting the issues that come in way of project execution.
Cashing an opportunity of my little sister’s 11th birthday, I decided to make a surprise birthday video* for her. I requested my friends overseas to help me in executing this idea, by sending me their birthday wish clip. The process of sharing data began through a facebook group where we all posted pictures with the girl. While video sharing happened through Whatsapp messenger, Facebook inbox and emails.
I compiled the data and made a birthday surprise for her in minutes. Because I was overseas and missed her birthday twice in the row, who said I couldn’t celebrate the moment. Collaboration facilitates us in a thousand ways. Its a wonderful way on learning, unlearning and relearning through a series of practical work.
CONCLUSION:
Collaborative processes do not necessarily have to be successful, but it allows us to learn working in multiple settings, with people who’re different to us, and blend in with others to collectively make the project successful. So the idea of collaboration shouldn’t be restricted to success of the project, but how much you can extract out of it for personal and professional growth.
(* Please note, the videos with asterisk sign are password protected and sent to tutor through form submission and the highlighted blue words are linked to different parts of the portfolio)
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