Reel times in Jigalong

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Jigalong

Last term, the Youth Choices team headed to Jigalong to make movie magic at Jigalong Remote Community School.

The Remote Intensive Media Program saw secondary students at Jigalong Remote Community School spend a week making a short film about a social/community issue affecting their lives. In this case, the theme chosen was “stealing” – an issue causing difficulty in their day to day lives that they wished to unpack and explore.

Their hard work culminated in a community screening of their film, where the audience participated in facilitated discussions, and live, interactive theatre, to devise and act out solutions to the issues presented.

The Remote Intensive Media Program empowers remote and regional students to explore and develop solutions to challenging youth issues through creative filmmaking processes.

Under the guidance of our facilitators, students research and discuss issues, and creatively explore solutions through the representation of their own experience via a short film, music video or commercial. This is screened at a community forum, engaging participants and a public audience of peers and wider networks in a discussion and collaboration on solutions.

By all accounts, the program was a huge success, with teachers and audience members from Jigalong Remote Community School providing the following feedback:

“Across the whole class, student engagement was fantastic. There was at least one aspect of the production that every student engaged with, even if it was not acting.”

“The final screening and the many subsequent screenings have been warmly welcomed and discussed both in the school and the community. Everyone who has seen it has been very positive about the production and it has fostered some strong discussions around choices being made by young people, and how to avoid getting sucked into poor decisions or choices.”

“The whole school and community members who have seen the production have all loved it. The students throughout the school keep asking to watch it again and again, and it gives us a chance to discuss where the decision-making process went wrong for the characters.”

“I think giving them confidence to stand up and express themselves in front of others is such a crucial part of their education, and the Youth Choices team did a fantastic job with this.”

“Just seeing the students enjoying the opportunity to try something completely new and to see something that is possible outside of our small world at Jigalong… So important for the students!”

Constable Care Foundation and the Youth Choices team extend our gratitude to Telethon7, for providing grant funding towards the recent Remote Intensive Media Program in Jigalong, which was made possible with the ongoing support of the WA Police Force.