Camera! Action! Editing! Final Cut!
MEDIA RELEASE
15 November 2011
Camera! Action! Editing! Final Cut!
Ongoing skill development is not a new concept for the staff at Desert Channels Group who embrace it with enthusiasm and interest.
Ronell Frazer has certainly been upskilling in the area of filming since starting as Project Officer for the Recording Traditional Ecological Knowledge (RTEK) project, under Caring for our Country funding.
With a deadline of 4 DVD stories before Christmas, Ronell is busy this month, editing hours of footage of interviews with traditional owners and custodians of the land in the Barcaldine, Eromanga and Diamantina National Park areas.
“Interviewing Indigenous people from the Cooper and Diamantina catchment areas has been an interesting and educational experience,” said Nellie. “It is important to capture Indigenous experiences and perspectives relating to flora, fauna, land management and biodiversity. To have these stories recorded on film and stored in one place means they will be preserved for future generations.
“I am a custodian of the Iningai people, and to be shown significant sites of historical and environmental significance in and close to Diamantina National Park has been a highlight of my work,” adds Ronell. “For example, I visited ‘Springvale’ where many Indigenous people worked in the early days. Hearing of the changes to the landscape in the last 200 years, has opened my eyes to a better understanding of how the land used to look before then.
“I am looking forward to completing this first set of stories so that I can concentrate on the second set which will be within the Georgina Catchment area in early 2012.”
For more information on the work of Desert Channels Group, visit www.dcq.org.au.
Media enquiries: Roelie Hartwig Ph: (07) 4652 7812 Fax: (07) 4658 0122 or roelie.hartwig@dcq.org.au
