After the cancellation of the first workshop I scrambled to find a time to meet with the girls from ringwood. I hadn’t seen them this year yet or had had any contact with them on the facebook site. No uploading or new posts. I felt it was important to get some one on one time early with them. I wanted to find out where they were at with Home Lands.
At the end of 2010 there was a palpable amount of disappointment regarding the outcome of the music/songs they wanted to create, a 12 track cd, which potentially is outside the scope of the project parameters. So i wasn’t sure what to expect from the Ringwood girls for this meeting. They had taken the Hd Camera and laptop to film with over the holidays, so did they have footage? Had they done anything with the equipment? To my surprise, yes they had, with the HD cam-corder flip and the laptop. They had filmed events over the new year. A range of short videos from going shoe shopping to cultural events and camps. Most have limited editing done to them, some have much more. Total awesomeness!
The only thing that didn’t make sense is why didn’t they post these videos on the facebook page? When I asked, the girls just smiled and giggled. I guess that’s the best answer I’m going to get.
The surprises don’t stop there. After seeing their videos I floated the idea of creating a Karen TV video episode. They liked it. They thought it would be cool. Fortunately, it turned out, the girls had forgotten the charger for the laptop so we decided to go to their house to film and edit an invitation by the girls to post on facebook asking other participants to join them in their endeavour to create a Karen TV episode. Cool.
Dave
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