Social Ventures Media

A media training & production 
enterprise, providing informal training 
in digital media technologies,
digital storytelling and
community arts/media projects 
to grass-roots communities.

SVM also engages digital media 
production and multi platform delivery
- in video, photography and audio.

SVM's mission is to meet the challenges of ordinary people participating in media production, publication and broadcasting in a time when information, education and entertainment converge through new technologies as never before.

Laszlo on location in Mungindi
 "Harriet's Daughter" Dir: Angela Stanley 2004
Metro Screen Indigenous Mentoring Scheme

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Other SVM Sites

Visit Our Wix Site - demonstrates the use of free flash based site builder



Visit our Webs.Com Site - another free site building/hosting service
featuring SVM videos



SVM Posterous


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The SVM Approach

Stories | Learning | Change

To the community

the tools to make culture,
the means of expression
access to the media of communication, publication and broadcasting.

With the community

record and share their stories,
celebrate ordinary lives through digital media
demystify the processes of media production
build capacity in communities

SVM Core Activities - 

  • Digital Project and Event Documentation
  • Digital Media Production
  • Community Based Digital Media Training 
  • Participatory Communications Design


Mutli Media Documentation of community projects, events, public forums and conferences that fit the social ventures/ social enterprise models

Digital storytelling - using the New Media to record and publish the stories of ordinary people

From a single mini DV video camera and stills camera  to create a raw archive of audio visual materials 
through to fully produced digital films and Live-to-Web documentation with video, stills, text and audio, 
using Web 2.0 technologies like youTube, Google's services, and social networking web sites.


SVM works in partnership with:

  • Consultancy Companies
  • Community Groups & Organisations
  • Researchers & Academics
  • Community Drug & Alcohol Intervention & Awareness Bodies
  • Environmental & Sustainability groups
  • NGO's
  • Government Organisations & Departments
  • Educational Institutions
  • Trainee Media Workers
  • Emerging Community Artists
  • Social Enterprise Businesses
  • Arts Councils and Arts Organisations
  • Media Production Enterprises

Client Organisations have included:
  • Arts NorthWest
  • Rural Regional High Schools
  • NW Regional Community Drug Action Teams (CDAT)
  • Armidale Youth Centre
  • New England Institute of TAFE
  • Elton Consulting
  • Aroonbah Aboriginal Corporation
  • Regional Drama Schools
  • bigHart
  • University of New England
  • The Benevolent Society Aust.
  • Dept of Juvenile Justice
  • CrocFest - Indigenous Youth Dance Festival
  • AusDance Youth Dance festival
  • Evolveris
  • Peaceworks
  • New England Sustainability Strategy(NESS)
  • Starfish Enterprises Network
  • Northern Region Aboriginal Land Council(NRALC)
  • High Country Urban Biodiversity Project(HiCUB)
  • Armidale Harmony Group International Students Sub Committee (ISSC)
Client Communities in Northern NSW have included:

Armidale, Uralla, Tamworth, Gunnedah
Bellingen, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Lismore
Connabarabran, Moree, Bogabilla, Mendooran,

Practice, Training & Informal Education


SVM builds it's approach around using the digital (and other) media currently available to ordinary people  and the social/cultural imperative to tell the stories of ordinary people.

Methods & techniques are drawn from the disciplines of Theatre Making, Film Making, Visual Art & Design, Computer based cultural production, digital storytelling, writing and other literacies, including oral traditions of storytelling and personal histories.

This multi disciplinary approach is brought to hands-on training, project based learning, skills sharing and social purpose  which together form a framework for flexible, informal and accessible media training in communities.

  • Digital Video - video film production, web video
  • Digital Audio - field recording, interviews, radio promos, radio ads
  • Digital Photography - digital story slideshows, photo archives
  • Computer based design - graphics, web site graphics, desktop publishing
  • Online technologies - web sites, content management systems, social networking, media hosting etc
  • Audio Visual presentations - web based presentations, presentation software etc
  • Community Arts Events - live performance & screenings
  • Story making - storyboarding, scripting,