Following on from our 1st workshop planning session the FBS team met at the Western Sydney Cycling Network headquarters at the Fairfield Showground in order to discuss in more detail logistics of the workshops as well as the production period. We spoke about how we were going to deliver the film-making workshops within a single day weekly session over the five-week period as well as how we might be able to juggle filming equipment and expertise.
We decided on the schedule below:
- Week 1 (10 Aug): Intro, story-telling, script-writing
- Week 2 (17 Aug) Script development, sound, camera, story-boarding
- Week 3 (24 Aug): Refining everything, pre-production
- Week 4 (31 Aug): Production
- Week 5 (07 Sep): Production
We decided that in order to deliver a truly collaborative workshop where participants’ skills and creativity would be brought to the forefront, we would divide into smaller groups and have a mentor/facilitator for each group. This would allow each participant to have a greater opportunity to have creative influence over the individual short films as well as a greater opportunity to learn from the experience.
From there we had a discussion on what film formats were feasible to deliver while also juggling their potential for engaging the local community’s interests. We discussed recent successful campaigns by programs such as the FilmLife Challenge about organ and tissue donation whereby the winner of the Best Film, ‘Somebody the I’ll never Know’ by Brooke Huuskes which is a parody of the well-known Goyte’s ‘Somebody that I Used to Know’, went viral and was well-received by many mainstream outlets. From these discussions we decided and agreed to deliver the following film formats:
- Doco
- Fictional narrative
- Music video
- Stop motion animation
Other items we spoke about included:
- Website
- Facilitation/production/post-production funding
- Crowdfunding
- Publicity
One of the other exciting things we spoke about was how the project could live beyond the scope of the project. In Sydney CBD there is an annual Sydney Bicycle Festival and Phuong previously met with The Spokespeople who organises the event. They were very interested in FBS’ project and were keen to support it and were considering offering a screening of films participants made, as part of the program for 2013. Melbourne also holds an annual bicycle festival known as Melbourne Bike Fest to which FBS films could also possibly be screened. And of course there’s the internationally-traveling Bicycle Film Festival and we will definitely be submitting our films to that for consideration to travel for screening worldwide! Imagine that… Fairfield cycling culture being promoted worldwide…
A number of other festivals and competitions are also brewing so we’re keeping out eyes and ears out for other potential ways we can spread our bike love.
Fairfield Bike Shorts 