 Laszlo Szabo - DirectorTheatre & Media Skills
Early SVM Projects: 2004 - 08 establishment phase of SVM's work These projects formed the platform on which SVM began to formalise its community based media and arts enterprise. New England Sustainability Strategy Public ForumSept - Oct 2008Commissioned by: NESS, Evolveris & Paradigm PlayDigital Documentation of a one day forum held at the New England Regional Art MuseumMaking use of integrated existing web based technologies - WikiDot, youTube, GoogleVideo, Picasa, Blogger, gMail etc to document the day's proceedings and processes.
Visit http://ness.wikidot.com to see how the documentation process forms the base of a community knowledge & learning network.
The WikiDot site was handed over to the community of participants at the end of the project.
It now becomes a self organising/governing community for stakeholders in Sustainable Living issues in the New England Region of northern NSW
 Digtial Video Crew at work documenting NESS Forum
New England Regional Art Museum Sept 22 2008 Supplementing the ness.wikidot web site was an information toolkit on DVD that contains the video, photographs and documents produced for the forum. This is used as an educational, promotional and fund raising tool - for computer based presentations to screenings A very simple web based interface was used for this digital publication - making it much richer than a Powerpoint presentation - a flexible resource for all to use - ported to Creative Commons - it is owned by the community. NESS Forum Archive - http://www.sovenmedia.net/Ness_Archive Media Training - Electronic PresentationsJune - Aug 2008Commissioned by: Northern Regional Aboriginal Land Council
Planning & Design of presentations including use of Microsoft's Powerpoint.
5 training sessions
Produced 2 presentations for Regional Council's Meetings  Councillor Tom Briggs - NRALC CEO leading the way in the regional ALC's use of digital & other media. Regional & Rural Youth Video Workshops Video Editing Workshop Youth Arts Festival - Coonabarabran
Two day workshop with youth and adults producing 3 short films to later be screened at Flicks Under the Stars Film Festival.
From DV camera operation basics to scripting, storyboarding, shot selection, camera work, acting and editing in iMovie
A Shearer's Life
 Writer/director: Lorina Barker
Short Film - Digital Video 7 minutes
Mentoring first time filmmaker - historian Lorina Barker,
from script development to completion of a short film
on her father & uncles - Aboriginal shearers from Bourke NSW.
Made under the Lester Bostock Scheme - through Metro Screen's Indigenous Mentoring Scheme and NSW Film & Television Office.
The work forms part of the research Lorina is doing into the Aboriginal community from Weilmoringle in far western NSW UpdateSince completion Lorina's film made it onto the 2008 Metroscreen Showreel, released it 2009. A Shearer's Life is the one film that represents the four films made that year under the Lester Bostock Mentoring Scheme. The film was screened in the Bourke community and at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney. Lorina has presented papers on the project and process at symposiums and conferences - as the film forms part of her PhD submission as a demonstration of other literacies and the use of digital media in gathering and documenting histories. This collaboration with an Indigenous historian/academic was very exciting - an exploration of how digital video can be used as a supplement to collection of oral histories. Along with the 2004 Harriet's Daughter - by Angela Stanley this has been one of the handful of LBS projects to be based in rural & regional NSW. We were able to crew the film with young talent from Armidale - gaining valuable professional experience as mentorees. Both John & Sarah who worked on camera & sound have gone on to further their careers as a result. The Barker Boys have been regarded as local heroes in Bourke and with the Weilmoringle mob. Contact Metro Screen for a copy of the 2008 showreel through their web site at metroscreen.org.au
or Lorina Barker at lbarker3@une.edu.au
Hands on Training & Mentoring! Laszlo hands up - hands-on coaching in workshop on digital photography with At Risk youth in an arts intervention program set up by TAFE & Department of Juvenile Justice. Since 2002 projects with community based organisations, community, health & youth services across northern NSW have engaged At Risk and marginalised kids in digital media production and project based learning - as a platform for the chance to re-integrate into community, education and training. Hundreds of kids over the period of engagement from 2002 to 2005 have worked in video, photography, audio & music production and graphic design, and live performance as Laszlo lugs a portable media studio across the region from Mungindi, Moree and Boggabilla to Coonabarabran and Mendooran, to Port Macquarie and Wauchope and up to Lismore, Coffs Harbour & Bellingen and other towns from the coast to the northwestern border towns. |
 Laszlo on location in Mungindi "Harriet's Daughter" Dir: Angela Stanley 2004 Metro Screen Indigenous Mentoring Scheme Contact UsOther SVM SitesVisit Our Wix Site - demonstrates the use of free flash based site builder
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