Personal Experiences of the One Minute Jr WorkshopLineo Shabalala (15) “My name is Lineo Shabalala, I am 15 years old. I'm coming from Durban in Umlazi Township. I’m doing grade 10 at Sishosonke High School. I have experienced a lot of things here in this campaign, like how to start our own Girls and Boys Education Movement Clubs in our school. I also know how to make a one minute video, that you must first do the story board and draw frames with pictures and your film must have maybe 3 types of shot, e.g. it can have a total shot, a medium, and maybe at the end of your story it can have a close up shot that will be showing or expressing something very dramatically. I also know how to use a camera and how to do a pan shot. A pan shot is when you are moving a camera around a place until you focus on your subject, whereas a tilt shot is where a camera is showing something from the bottom upwards slowly. What I really noticed is that when you are filming you have to think about your time and don’t zoom move to the subject and you have to move away again. You have to decide whether you want a tripod in shooting or you want to hold the camera, and if a person is holding a camera he must hold it gently and tight. When you finished shooting you have to write names on the cassette if the box get lost. I think these clubs are valuable because they help us young people to tell our stories and express our feelings about things that happens around our areas. And now I also know that when you are doing a film there must be editors, actors and actresses and the director. It’s a lot of work.” Agnetha van Syfer (16) “The workshop was a very great experience, filled with challenges and excitement. I think the hardest part was probably coming up with an idea that would suit the topic ‘agriculture’. Team work was great and we gave each other moral support. I learned a lot of new things like storyboards, frog view, bird view, close up, total etc. You really have to concentrate if you want to make a film work and I would love to thank all the organizers (Scott, Merel, Emile and Bonnie) for all their hard work. This was an opportunity of a lifetime and I would not change it for anything in the world…Oh, that’s a lie, I would swop it for a video camera!” Read the press release: South Africa’s youth share visions through film at One Minute Workshops
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