Digital Diaries fosters creative, analytical and critical thinking by way of developing screen literacy understandings and knowledge in both 'reading' screen content and creating screen content.
Digital Diaries profiles the work of Sadie Benning a young American filmmaker.
This program supports the implementation of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS), drawing together the three strands and supporting student growth across the domains. This program is also of interest to and in support of VCAL English and VCE Media.
Please note this program is best maximised by students 15 years and over.
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Discipline based learning Domains |
Physical, personal and social learning Domains |
- Communication
- Thinking processes
- Information and communications technology (ICT)
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- Interpersonal Development
- Personal Learning
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http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ The
Digital Diaries program invites a diverse range of people to share a personal story as they connect memories by way of simple moving images. Participants in the workshops look at one 'moment' in their lives and, concentrating on the simplicity and power of that one moment in time, create a 'lo-fi' video work that speaks to the mind and heart.
Digital Diaries sets out to demystify the process of filmmaking and to demonstrate that 'story' is more important than access to expensive technology. Participants choose a topic and write a brief monologue, record it and capture a series of images on camera. The voice over is then edited to a selection of moving images and photographs.
When complete the diary is burnt to DVD for the participants to keep. Workshops are conducted with young people from around Victoria.
Digital Diaries workshops are run for secondary school groups in ACMI's state of the art Studio 2 at Federation Square. In a full day of production students learn to fine tune their story, record it, and use software tools to craft their video production - their
Digital Diary.
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Images(L-R): 1. Tim Significant Moment 2. Lelia Earliest Memory 3. Anon. 4.Rhys Earliest Memory 5.Trav Scariest Moment 6. Michael What Inspires Me
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Outreach
The
Digital Diaries program is fee based and predominantly runs in-house at ACMI. ACMI Screen Education however welcomes enquiries from schools, youth residential units, YWCA, hospitals and other youth organisations to run funded outreach
Digital Diaries workshops. To date the project has worked with schools in the Northern, Western and Eastern suburbs, a juvenile justice centre and a community primary school.
For bookings and contact information, see
Education Bookings
