User:Dblackal

Wikiversity Projects

 * Video journalism - The intention for this my first Wikiversity project, is to design and develop a study schedule where University of Wollongong students, and other people interested in video journalism, can network their learning in practice-based online communities. Participants can follow this study schedule to produce an end product in video news, ready for dissemination on Wikinews. Prior to starting this project, I assigned two groups of University of Wollongong students print news projects on Wikinews in 2011.

About David
David Blackall's earlier work in an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, was built on the concept involved here in 'Video Journalism' (2004 to 2007 - 'Making News Today' for high school students). This current Wikiversity schedule is far more advanced, designed for university students and professionals wishing to gain an understanding of video news production.

Therefore, as university academic, David Blackall's research profile is a blend of creativity and scholarship. This is focussed on documentary film production, journalism, education and the naturally associated media ethics and law. His research strength is best practice film-making.

Over the last 20 years David Blackall has broadcast, mainly via SBS TV Australia, over 60 hours of factual programming. His research profile, therefore, covers output in the traditional academic sense (co-written papers in journals, chapters in books), while also working as cinematographer and consultant director on short artistic works, extended documentary and for news and current affairs programs. In 2008 and 2009, his camera material formed three broadcast ABC television current affairs stories and one news story (see external works). As cinematographer, director and producer on Guerilla documentaries, David Blackall uses a range of formats: from Super 8 film to High Definition video. His multi award nominated documentary, 'Delinquent Angel', was built around this multimedia approach and first screened in the 2000 Sydney Film Festival. 'Delinquent Angel' is an intimate expose of the art and life of arguably the best Australian painter, John Perceval. Here, Super 8 film conveys a sense of close personal archive and history.

His latest film, 'Lost Innocents of Kashmir', similarly uses Super 8 film. Grainy and beautiful Super 8 film suggests a sense of archive and authenticity that reinforces the integrity of the story as narrated. 'Lost Innocents of Kashmir' was also designed with voice grabs in slightly different tone, as if these were thoughts arriving at different times from memory, as triggered by revitalising the archival Super 8 material.

Dr David Blackall

Senior lecturer / filmmaker

Faculty of Creative Arts

University of Wollongong

Telephone: 02 42 213864

Mobile: 0414 838784

Skype: dblackal

Email: dblackal@uow.edu.au

https://misprd.uow.edu.au/ris_public/WebObjects/RISPublic.woa/wa/Staff/selectPerson?id=9689&group=55

External works
October 2011 - October 2012 Our short (23 minute) documentary film, Lost Innocents of Kashmir, screened 3 October, World Premier in London at Raindance Film Festival:

http://www.raindance.org/site/index.php?id=550,7808,0,0,1,0

Lost Innocents of Kashmir then screened the North American Premier in Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM):

http://www.ridm.qc.ca/en/programmation/films/220/lost-innocents-of-kashmir

http://murmitoyen.com/75575

The link to the trailer for Lost Innocents of Kashmir on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5WOMdqGxGY