15 Second Place

Projection of light and shadow can transform a place.

Melbourne celebrates projection art at Gertrude Street Projection Festival each July.

Artists light up the night; their work is projected on to buildings, footpaths and shop windows and changes the way we see these everyday places.

Watch the video to learn about the video art piece The Hawker's Song by Greyspace, and then answer the questions below.

Discover Yandell Martin's incredible projected artworks in this short video, then answer the questions below.

Browse the Gertrude Street Projection Festival website and watch the Highlights Reel from the latest festival. What are the aims of the festival?

Create

Plan a piece of projection art for a chosen location. Be thoughtful about the relationship between what you are projecting and the place in which you are projecting it.

Street art inspires, questions and challenges our experience of the street as a public space.

Street artists choose walls, bridges and alleyways as their canvas to communicate directly with their audience.

Opinions are often blurred between whether it is art or vandalism; is it a case of ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’?

This unit looks at all kinds of street art around Melbourne and Australia. Watch the videos to learn more, and consider the questions under each video.

Artists Ghostpatrol and Miso discuss making street art.

Dr Lachlan MacDowall discusses the incident with Banksy's Little Diver.

What different styles of street art exist? Research as many as you can.

Choose some examples of Melbourne street art and identify the social issues addressed.

Create

Compose a series of clips that explore the political and social messages communicated by street artists in your local area. Use a range of interesting shots, angles and movements to capture the work. Experiment with timelapse techniques to show a particular piece of street art as a permanent or temporary fixture in its environment.

Public art turns up in our world to claim part of the streets.

Beautifying or challenging our ideas, art is always controversial.

Watch the videos and answer the questions to find out more about public art and sculpture in Melbourne.

Vault by Ron Robertson-Swann is a public sculpture in Melbourne. It was commissioned by the Melbourne City Council in 1978, but it received some criticism from the public. Find out more by watching the video below.

ACCA curator Juliana Engberg talks about Ron Robertson-Swann's sculpture Vault.

Poor little Larry La Trobe! The whereabouts of this popular Melbourne sculpture of a dog is still unknown. Listen to the artist's story below.

Create

Create a short film that demonstrates the relationship or connection between public art, its environment and the community. Use a range of interesting shots, angles or even time lapse techniques to show people engaging with the art work over the course of a day.

Big screens of all types dominate our cityscapes, advertising screens, events live sites, drive-ins, outdoor cinemas.

When people gather to watch a big screen together it allows the community to share and participate in public events.

Watch the videos below and answer questions to find out more about big screen.

SMS_origins was a project that happened in Federation Square. The large screen asked people to message SMS their birthplace, as well as the birthplace of their parents, and when they did it would be mapped on the big screen. Watch the video to see how it worked.

Have a look at the Fed Square's Fed Cam.

What do you find interesting on this page?

Create

Using time-lapse, record a clip that shows a crowd gathering for an event. Capture the sounds of people congregating in a public place and combine this with visual footage that shows the same place empty. Are you able to communicate a sense of community in your clip?

Ever wondered if a film shot on location was filmed in the actual place it depicts? Find out about interesting film and television locations near Melbourne.

In filmmaking, a location is any place where a film crew will be filming actors and recording their dialogue. Filmmakers often choose to shoot on location because they believe that greater realism can be achieved in a "real" place; however, location shooting is often motivated by the film's budget. Many films shoot interior scenes on a sound stage and exterior scenes on location.

Watch a set of videos and answer the questions to find out more about film location

Browse the locations listed over at Film Victoria. Choose five and think about the genres or types of stories that these locations would match.

Create

Try capturing locations for specific genres, such as romance, action, thriller, drama and film noir. Focus on objects or features in the environment that would make the location interesting, such as a path, a bridge, seating, an interesting tree or a doorway.

Flash mobs transform an everyday place into an impromptu stage.

They can happen anywhere at any time, you just have to be in the know.

Watch the videos below and answer the questions to find out more about Flash Performance in Melbourne.

Research what types of flash mobs have been conducted around the world?

What is the relationship between flash mobbers and their audience? Advertisers and marketers are now employing flash mobs to promote their products and causes. What are the implications of this? Reference: Crazy Uptown Funk flashmob in Sydney

Create

Hold your own mini flash mob – for example, a choreographed dance or freeze. Capture the performance from different points of view. Make sure you include the audience’s responses and reactions to the performance. Remember to ask permission before filming people.

Street festivals, parades and parties turn ordinary places into sites of celebration and community sharing.

The laneways of Melbourne’s Little Bourke Street fill up with people around the time of Chinese New Year. Drums, lions and firecrackers excite the crowds and the celebration lasts all night.

Watch the videos and answer the questions to find out more about Chinese New Year in Melbourne.

In what ways can people express themselves, their identity, their story, their background and their history in public?

What community festivals do you know of?

Create

Capture the colour and movement of a festival or public outdoor celebration using a range of shot types, angles and movements. Include objects and decorations that symbolise celebration and festivity, such as lanterns, lights, banners and balloons. During the editing process, try to communicate the rhythm and pace of the public festival by paying close attention to the relationship between sound and image.

Communities often create memorials to remember someone or something that is no longer physically there.

They are dotted over our cities and are important for remembering people, places and events.

Watch the videos below and answer questions to find out more about memorials in Melbourne.

The 8 Hour Day Memorial in Melbourne commemorates the 1856 protests by the led by the Victorian Stonemasons.

The protest successfully campaigned for "8 Hours Work, 8 Hours Recreation, 8 Hours Rest", instead of the 12 hour work day which was expected by many employers at the time.

Listen to the secretary of the Trades Hall Council Brian Boyd relate the history of the 8 Hour Day Memorial.

The Forgotten Australians is a memorial to approximately 500,000 children who grew up in government and non-government institutional care (orphanages and homes) during the first half of the 20th century.

Lots of children experienced abuse in these places, and in 2009 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an official public apology on behalf of the government.

Watch the video to find out about the memorial from the artist Helen Bodycomb.

A slum is a neighbourhood of decrepit houses which are generally inhabited by very poor people.

In the early 20th century, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Heidelberg and Port Melbourne (among many other suburbs) were slums, and their inhabitants lived in very challenging circumstances.

Take a look at these photos to get a sense of what life was like, then watch the video below about the artist who created a memorial to these communities.

What memorials have you seen or do you know about that are expressed through art? Consider these examples:

Ghost Bikes

Art Trams

Create

Plan a montage of a memorial location using a range of camera shots and movements. Include appropriate found words at the memorial. Think about the sound and music you would use. Would the absence of sound create a stronger impact for the montage?