Term 3- Practising Interviews

We welcome Year 8 back to term 3 and start off the new term with some more skills building! The Year 8 students are in the process of creating a short video for MTHS with the intention to promote all the positive things about their school.

In today’s lesson we looked at the basics of filming an interview and tips on how to get the best answers from an interviewee. Students practised with the camera and sound gear, and took turns to interview each other.

We can’t wait to see what they come up with for their school video!

Photo taken by Year 8 ReFill student

Practising Video Work

For our last workshop of the term, Year 8 students put their director, cinematographer and actor hats on and worked together in teams to film a series of short videos. We gave them prompts such as creating a hyper reality scene or fantasy scenario about their school and this is what they came up with. Check out some of those videos below!

Stay tuned for next term to see what Year 8 students create using their filmmaking skills developed during term 2!

Photography Prompts

Year 8 students this week got to play around with photography and storytelling. We asked them to take photographs that captured joy and sorrow, through the use of shadow and light. Check out what they captured on camera below!

ReFill Term 2- Filmmaking with Year 8 students

Term 2 has officially begun! For ReFill this term, we welcome an enthusiastic group of year 8 students and together we will explore the basics of filmmaking and storytelling. To start off, students learnt how to make zines as a way to storyboard an idea. We then asked them to design a house which would represent their characters and short film ideas. 

ReFILL at the GEN2168 Festival

GEN2168, which ran from March to April, was a free youth arts festival for the young creative dreamers and changemakers of Miller. The 2 month-long arts and community festival’s aim was to foster the creativity and imagination of young people through socially-engaged creative workshops, live performances, interactive art exhibits and community gatherings.

Filled with colour, art and design, the last day of the festival transformed the Mission Australia space in Miller into a creative hub, leading a path to a world of storytelling, filmmaking and zine development. All work created in ReFill this term was displayed at the festival.

Year 9 Digital Illustrations

In the last weeks of Term 1, we worked with a few Year 9 students interested in digital illustration. They were able to play around on Procreate and had a blast doing so! Check out what they sketched below.

ReFILL 2022 commences

ReFILL is back and ready for a new year! To kick off the term, we worked with a group of amazing Year 7 students on their PBL theme for the year, Fire and Flood.

Facilitators Sandra May and Samantha Barahona asked Year 7 students to go deep into their imaginations and think about what a future impacted by climate change would look like.

All works created in the workshop will be displayed at the Miller Technology High School Year 7 PBL Showcase and the GEN2168 festival in April.

Term 4 ReFILL Recap

Term 4 was another challenging term for ReFILL but despite the difficulties, Year 8 students put their creative caps on and worked on their very own short films. Guided by facilitators Dave and Samantha through zoom, the students were encouraged to make short films exploring the theme of ‘connection’. Each student came up with interesting concepts and week by week developed their story visually using a range of materials provided in class. 

Below is an example of one of the works created in Term 4. Year 8 ReFILL student Ebony used animation as her medium and created a beautiful short film. Check it out!

Term 3 ReFILL Online Workshops

The statewide lockdown has thrown a wrench into everyone’s lives again but it did not stop ReFILL students from creating cool things! 

This term, ReFILL moved to zoom and our main goal for the term was to create a space for students to relax, get away from home learning stressors and have fun creating! We set out weekly tasks and students had the choice of choosing which activity they wanted to focus on.

Students chose a range of mediums to work with from animation, to stop motion and drawing. 

In term 4 we will continue to work online with Year 8 students. The ReFILL crew wishes everyone well during this difficult time.

Blast From The Past: ReFILL Film School pt.3

If you have nothing to do this lockdown, check out this fun series about filmmaking created by students from ReFILL in 2008. This last video is about shots and framing.