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Giving a Voice to the Community!

Open Channel's Regional Training programaims to service communities with relevant training outcomes. Regional Training is designed to provide people in remote areas access to film and television training/ equipment and give regional communities a voice to tell their stories.

As a Registered Training Organisation with a 35-year history of providing quality training, Open Channel draws on its extensive resources to deliver training to Victoria's regional communities.

Training in Regional Victoria can be provided in the following ways:

• Short workshops in introductory or intermediate filmmaking, directing, editing, writing, and producing. Such workshops already exist as part of Open Channel's short course program and individual course outlines are available upon request. All workshops are taught by industry professionals so that current industry practice is reflected. Class sizes are kept small and relaxed to maximise students' learning opportunities and interaction with the tutors.
• Project Development Training that focuses on skills development necessary for participants to make short films of their own, and could be either generalist or specialist in their approach. This may be more appropriate for very small groups such as Project Managers, established groups with a common goal, and those wishing to develop on-going working methodologies in teams.
• Part-time courses (delivered over several weekends) that have documentary projects as an outcome. The documentary projects would address regional issues and be screened as part of local arts/ film festivals and become a marketing tool for the future participants.

Regional Training can be delivered to Victorian residents in their local region or at Open Channel's Docklands premises. For all courses where equipment is not readily available in the community, professional equipment can be provided by Open Channel. We provide training resources including professional production and editing equipment, access to post-production software, handbooks, information handouts, DV and DVD media stock, and where applicable, copies of projects produced during the training are duplicated for all participants.

All Open Channel tutors are experts in their field and are actively working in the film, television and multimedia industries.

Previous clients include Shire of Wellington, Yarriambiack Shire Council, Daylesford Neighbourhood House and Learning Centre and Central Highlands Wimmera Region – Re@ct Student Film Festival.

Testimonials

Digital Filmmaking Introduction, Sale, Vic

"The course was a wonderful experience that covered a broad range of areas helping me in both my personal interests in photography & drama as well as supporting me to gather ideas for my teaching my own students in a rural primary school setting. Ian Dixon our presenter was flexible in his approach, giving all the participants (from our broad age and knowledge background) great support to help guide us through the skills required.

"At the end of the program we also had a great feeling of success and achievement in producing our own DVD of the Gangster movie. The best part was that despite all of our age differences (I am 50 and the others ranged from 14 to 18) we had a lot of fun in the whole program."
Ken Jeanes, April 2007

Documentary Filmmaking for Young People, Yarriambiack Shire and Murtoa Progress Association

“Thank you so much for running the course for the young people of Murtoa. It will be something they will remember for a long time. [The Tutor’s] patience was exceptional! Many thanks for making the long journey... and thank you to Open Channel for all the preliminary organising.”
Paula, July 2007

 

For further information or a free quote contact the Training Manager
Phone: 03 8610 9300
Email: training@openchannel.org.au