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To participate in this session you need to have a USQ account. To generate an account please email Dr Daryl Sparkes daryl.sparkes@usq.edu.au your name, email address, work number and school/organisation.

Dr Daryl Sparkes

Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television Producer for Network 7 in Sydney and has made numerous documentaries for Networks 9, 7, ABC, Foxtel and SBS. A number of his films have won international and national awards and have been screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Leonie Jones

Leonie teaches in areas of cinematic language, scriptwriting and pre-production development and management across narrative, documentary, experimental and interactive film at USQ. Leonie is an active writer and director of documentary and narrative films. She is an active oral historian. Leonie’s practice is situated in post-conflict storytelling. Some of her projects include feature documentaries: The Battle of Milne Bay ’42, The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral (Fox History Channel, winner best sound OZ Flicks 2018); Long Tan: The Soldier’s Story (SBS & History Channel). Feature and short films include: Panic, The Unquiet, Gone Fishing (final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards). Interactive Documentary 26 days: The Battle of Coral Balmoral.

Mr James Miller

James Miller is a post-production guru who teaches editing and post at USQ. The rest of his time he devotes to film making, predominantly with a focus on post production but serving in a wide variety of roles. He’s made several thousand corporate promos, around 1200 TV commercials, dozens of short films, a handful of features and a bunch of internationally broadcast documentaries as well as deeply nerdy side projects involving Photogrammetry, motion capture and virtual production techniques. His client list is long and varied, counting among it the BBC, ABC, Foxtel, Channel 7, 9 and 10 and many many more. 

Mr Simon Van Der Spoel

Simon is USQ’s lecturer in Cinematography. Before that he was with Channel 7 as a Commercial Producer and Channel 9 News for 14 years. He has made over 300 promos, billboards, and TV Commercials per year, as well as produce and direct 6 half hour TV shows, as well as news broadcasts statewide and nationally. Career highlights have been producing and directing a documentary on WWII Spitfires with Bud Tingwell, broadcast on The History Channel.

Dr Chris Carter

Chris has recently started at USQ as a Senior Lecturer. Before that he was at USC and Head of School – Film, Television and Animation at QUT. Chris has wide experience in animation, games and visual effects as well as virtual and augmented reality, especially for use in film and animation.

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In this hour long session, I will walk you through the process of creating an interactive video project, with a view towards teachers being able to guide their students in how to create a video-based interactive story project from start-to-finish (teachers are encouraged to bring a PC or Mac laptop to follow along during the session). This session could be useful for a junior-secondary Media Arts whole-class project, or as a potential component of a Senior FTVNM Unit 3 project.

Back in 2016, I did a fun task with my year 7 class at the time — they designed the branches of a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style interactive story, then shot videos based on each branch, and finally collated them into a finished short interactive-video story. Those students are all in year 12 now, and this year while looking at exemplars for FTVNM Unit 3: Participation as a class, they saw that a number of the exemplars were projects that included an interactive video component, which prompted a nostalgic discussion about how much they’d all loved the class project they’d made together back in year 7. Inspired by how fondly they remembered that unit, I thought it would be fun to share with other teachers how they can demonstrate to students how simple it is to actually create an interactive component for their own projects.

Mark Deere

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Dr Daryl Sparkes

Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television Producer for Network 7 in Sydney and has made numerous documentaries for Networks 9, 7, ABC, Foxtel and SBS. A number of his films have won international and national awards and have been screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Leonie Jones

Leonie teaches in areas of cinematic language, scriptwriting and pre-production development and management across narrative, documentary, experimental and interactive film at USQ. Leonie is an active writer and director of documentary and narrative films. She is an active oral historian. Leonie’s practice is situated in post-conflict storytelling. Some of her projects include feature documentaries: The Battle of Milne Bay ’42, The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral (Fox History Channel, winner best sound OZ Flicks 2018); Long Tan: The Soldier’s Story (SBS & History Channel). Feature and short films include: Panic, The Unquiet, Gone Fishing (final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards). Interactive Documentary 26 days: The Battle of Coral Balmoral.

Mr James Miller

James Miller is a post-production guru who teaches editing and post at USQ. The rest of his time he devotes to film making, predominantly with a focus on post production but serving in a wide variety of roles. He’s made several thousand corporate promos, around 1200 TV commercials, dozens of short films, a handful of features and a bunch of internationally broadcast documentaries as well as deeply nerdy side projects involving Photogrammetry, motion capture and virtual production techniques. His client list is long and varied, counting among it the BBC, ABC, Foxtel, Channel 7, 9 and 10 and many many more. 

Mr Simon Van Der Spoel

Simon is USQ’s lecturer in Cinematography. Before that he was with Channel 7 as a Commercial Producer and Channel 9 News for 14 years. He has made over 300 promos, billboards, and TV Commercials per year, as well as produce and direct 6 half hour TV shows, as well as news broadcasts statewide and nationally. Career highlights have been producing and directing a documentary on WWII Spitfires with Bud Tingwell, broadcast on The History Channel.

Dr Chris Carter

Chris has recently started at USQ as a Senior Lecturer. Before that he was at USC and Head of School – Film, Television and Animation at QUT. Chris has wide experience in animation, games and visual effects as well as virtual and augmented reality, especially for use in film and animation.

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This fun session will demonstrate and explore how to create a television studio environment with lighting, sound and multi-cameras (using ipad cameras) with program direction during filming in the classroom on a limited budget and timeframe. Can be used with Primary or High School Media programs with a variety of programming applications.

In person only

To participate in this session you need to have a USQ account. To generate an account please email Dr Daryl Sparkes daryl.sparkes@usq.edu.au your name, email address, work number and school/organisation.

Dr Daryl Sparkes

Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television Producer for Network 7 in Sydney and has made numerous documentaries for Networks 9, 7, ABC, Foxtel and SBS. A number of his films have won international and national awards and have been screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Leonie Jones

Leonie teaches in areas of cinematic language, scriptwriting and pre-production development and management across narrative, documentary, experimental and interactive film at USQ. Leonie is an active writer and director of documentary and narrative films. She is an active oral historian. Leonie’s practice is situated in post-conflict storytelling. Some of her projects include feature documentaries: The Battle of Milne Bay ’42, The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral (Fox History Channel, winner best sound OZ Flicks 2018); Long Tan: The Soldier’s Story (SBS & History Channel). Feature and short films include: Panic, The Unquiet, Gone Fishing (final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards). Interactive Documentary 26 days: The Battle of Coral Balmoral.

Mr James Miller

James Miller is a post-production guru who teaches editing and post at USQ. The rest of his time he devotes to film making, predominantly with a focus on post production but serving in a wide variety of roles. He’s made several thousand corporate promos, around 1200 TV commercials, dozens of short films, a handful of features and a bunch of internationally broadcast documentaries as well as deeply nerdy side projects involving Photogrammetry, motion capture and virtual production techniques. His client list is long and varied, counting among it the BBC, ABC, Foxtel, Channel 7, 9 and 10 and many many more. 

Mr Simon Van Der Spoel

Simon is USQ’s lecturer in Cinematography. Before that he was with Channel 7 as a Commercial Producer and Channel 9 News for 14 years. He has made over 300 promos, billboards, and TV Commercials per year, as well as produce and direct 6 half hour TV shows, as well as news broadcasts statewide and nationally. Career highlights have been producing and directing a documentary on WWII Spitfires with Bud Tingwell, broadcast on The History Channel.

Dr Chris Carter

Chris has recently started at USQ as a Senior Lecturer. Before that he was at USC and Head of School – Film, Television and Animation at QUT. Chris has wide experience in animation, games and visual effects as well as virtual and augmented reality, especially for use in film and animation.

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MICHELLE BROWN 

Creative Technologist & Artist

Elektrolab

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Media Arts consists of easily transferable skills and can be used as a vehicle to communicate the knowledge and understanding of content of any topic. There lie opportunities for multidisciplinary approach to curriculum or the development of interdisciplinary tasks. What are the pros and cons of this approach to curriculum? This session will provide delegates with case studies from two inner-city Brisbane schools taking different approaches to curriculum – Brisbane South State Secondary College and Fortitude Valley State Secondary College.

Moneth Montemayor is President of Australian Teachers of Media (QLD) and Co-Chair of Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). She is a Head of Department at Fortitude Valley State Secondary College. She has experience in teaching Junior Secondary interdisciplinary Arts courses, Senior FTVnM and Drama. She has written teacher resources for SBS Learn and Matchbox pictures. Greta Evangelista (Brisbane South State Secondary College) Treasurer of Australian Teachers of Media (QLD)

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Dr Daryl Sparkes

Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television Producer for Network 7 in Sydney and has made numerous documentaries for Networks 9, 7, ABC, Foxtel and SBS. A number of his films have won international and national awards and have been screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Leonie Jones

Leonie teaches in areas of cinematic language, scriptwriting and pre-production development and management across narrative, documentary, experimental and interactive film at USQ. Leonie is an active writer and director of documentary and narrative films. She is an active oral historian. Leonie’s practice is situated in post-conflict storytelling. Some of her projects include feature documentaries: The Battle of Milne Bay ’42, The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral (Fox History Channel, winner best sound OZ Flicks 2018); Long Tan: The Soldier’s Story (SBS & History Channel). Feature and short films include: Panic, The Unquiet, Gone Fishing (final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards). Interactive Documentary 26 days: The Battle of Coral Balmoral.

Mr James Miller

James Miller is a post-production guru who teaches editing and post at USQ. The rest of his time he devotes to film making, predominantly with a focus on post production but serving in a wide variety of roles. He’s made several thousand corporate promos, around 1200 TV commercials, dozens of short films, a handful of features and a bunch of internationally broadcast documentaries as well as deeply nerdy side projects involving Photogrammetry, motion capture and virtual production techniques. His client list is long and varied, counting among it the BBC, ABC, Foxtel, Channel 7, 9 and 10 and many many more. 

Mr Simon Van Der Spoel

Simon is USQ’s lecturer in Cinematography. Before that he was with Channel 7 as a Commercial Producer and Channel 9 News for 14 years. He has made over 300 promos, billboards, and TV Commercials per year, as well as produce and direct 6 half hour TV shows, as well as news broadcasts statewide and nationally. Career highlights have been producing and directing a documentary on WWII Spitfires with Bud Tingwell, broadcast on The History Channel.

Dr Chris Carter

Chris has recently started at USQ as a Senior Lecturer. Before that he was at USC and Head of School – Film, Television and Animation at QUT. Chris has wide experience in animation, games and visual effects as well as virtual and augmented reality, especially for use in film and animation.

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WIFT Gender Equity Workshop is a facilitated conversation about intersectional gender equality and equity in the Australian screen industries. It looks at core reasons behind gender equity generally and how these play into the screen industry. It lays out WIFT’s ideas for how these can be challenged in order to create profound industry wide changes. The workshop is designed to empower participants to think critically about industry culture and production. This is done by equipping participants with shared language, knowledge and space to create shared goals. This is run by an experienced WIFT facilitator.

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Narrative structures within screen media frequently adapt and evolve to suit changes in mediums. TikTok has allowed traditional film movements and conventions to adapt into the 1-minute video platform. These structures can be seen within standalone videos and also within web series created specifically for the platform. This session looks are exploring these structures to allow high school students the opportunity to adapt these for either Unit 3, or a fun unit within ACARA.

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In this presentation we will share a selection of our favourite lesson ideas, assessment, units and examples of student work across Years 7 to 12. For Junior Media Arts, we will cover unit ideas such as “There’s always a bad guy” where students in Year 7 explore how villains and anti-heroes are created in media, and “Home Grown: Australian Film and Television” with a focus on using ACTF resources with Year 9 students. Our team will also share successful units and assessment for senior Film, TV and New Media, and Media Arts in Practice.

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Dr Daryl Sparkes

Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television Producer for Network 7 in Sydney and has made numerous documentaries for Networks 9, 7, ABC, Foxtel and SBS. A number of his films have won international and national awards and have been screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Leonie Jones

Leonie teaches in areas of cinematic language, scriptwriting and pre-production development and management across narrative, documentary, experimental and interactive film at USQ. Leonie is an active writer and director of documentary and narrative films. She is an active oral historian. Leonie’s practice is situated in post-conflict storytelling. Some of her projects include feature documentaries: The Battle of Milne Bay ’42, The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral (Fox History Channel, winner best sound OZ Flicks 2018); Long Tan: The Soldier’s Story (SBS & History Channel). Feature and short films include: Panic, The Unquiet, Gone Fishing (final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards). Interactive Documentary 26 days: The Battle of Coral Balmoral.

Mr James Miller

James Miller is a post-production guru who teaches editing and post at USQ. The rest of his time he devotes to film making, predominantly with a focus on post production but serving in a wide variety of roles. He’s made several thousand corporate promos, around 1200 TV commercials, dozens of short films, a handful of features and a bunch of internationally broadcast documentaries as well as deeply nerdy side projects involving Photogrammetry, motion capture and virtual production techniques. His client list is long and varied, counting among it the BBC, ABC, Foxtel, Channel 7, 9 and 10 and many many more. 

Mr Simon Van Der Spoel

Simon is USQ’s lecturer in Cinematography. Before that he was with Channel 7 as a Commercial Producer and Channel 9 News for 14 years. He has made over 300 promos, billboards, and TV Commercials per year, as well as produce and direct 6 half hour TV shows, as well as news broadcasts statewide and nationally. Career highlights have been producing and directing a documentary on WWII Spitfires with Bud Tingwell, broadcast on The History Channel.

Dr Chris Carter

Chris has recently started at USQ as a Senior Lecturer. Before that he was at USC and Head of School – Film, Television and Animation at QUT. Chris has wide experience in animation, games and visual effects as well as virtual and augmented reality, especially for use in film and animation.

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Dr Daryl Sparkes

Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television Producer for Network 7 in Sydney and has made numerous documentaries for Networks 9, 7, ABC, Foxtel and SBS. A number of his films have won international and national awards and have been screened at the Toronto Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Leonie Jones

Leonie teaches in areas of cinematic language, scriptwriting and pre-production development and management across narrative, documentary, experimental and interactive film at USQ. Leonie is an active writer and director of documentary and narrative films. She is an active oral historian. Leonie’s practice is situated in post-conflict storytelling. Some of her projects include feature documentaries: The Battle of Milne Bay ’42, The Battle of Fire Support Base Coral (Fox History Channel, winner best sound OZ Flicks 2018); Long Tan: The Soldier’s Story (SBS & History Channel). Feature and short films include: Panic, The Unquiet, Gone Fishing (final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards). Interactive Documentary 26 days: The Battle of Coral Balmoral.

Mr James Miller

James Miller is a post-production guru who teaches editing and post at USQ. The rest of his time he devotes to film making, predominantly with a focus on post production but serving in a wide variety of roles. He’s made several thousand corporate promos, around 1200 TV commercials, dozens of short films, a handful of features and a bunch of internationally broadcast documentaries as well as deeply nerdy side projects involving Photogrammetry, motion capture and virtual production techniques. His client list is long and varied, counting among it the BBC, ABC, Foxtel, Channel 7, 9 and 10 and many many more. 

Mr Simon Van Der Spoel

Simon is USQ’s lecturer in Cinematography. Before that he was with Channel 7 as a Commercial Producer and Channel 9 News for 14 years. He has made over 300 promos, billboards, and TV Commercials per year, as well as produce and direct 6 half hour TV shows, as well as news broadcasts statewide and nationally. Career highlights have been producing and directing a documentary on WWII Spitfires with Bud Tingwell, broadcast on The History Channel.

Dr Chris Carter

Chris has recently started at USQ as a Senior Lecturer. Before that he was at USC and Head of School – Film, Television and Animation at QUT. Chris has wide experience in animation, games and visual effects as well as virtual and augmented reality, especially for use in film and animation.

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This workshop allows everyone the opportunity to learn and practice the skillset for vertical video filmmaking. It looks at providing teachers and students a variety of ways to film vertically; either through mobile apps, iPad, and DSLRs. During the workshop, the adaption of traditional filmmaking conventions and film language will be explored and explained.