Sorry for the Delay

It has been a few days since the last post, Easter weekend was busy here in Quinhagak.  Our young artists have been filming away and learning how to edit their films.  The software that we are learning to use is iMovie.  It came preloaded on our laptops from the school and it is a pretty user friendly piece of software.

Jawna Williams and Jonelle Matthew 

Stella Oldfriend and Martia Tunutmoak

A few more practice interviews and just plain fun filming took place during the workshops...






Then the cameras when home over the weekend with our young filmmakers to interview more Elders and community members.  Our young artists will be editing their films, sneak peeks coming soon...

Interviewing

As we were waiting for some of our young filmmakers to arrive, we started with a warm up of pass the emotion.  Some of which were caught on camera this time.

Adrienne Sam portraying sad

Dion Pleasant portraying happy 

Jawna Williams portraying mad

Since many of our young filmmakers have chosen to do interviews for their projects, next we practiced interviewing each other.  Everyone had a chance to interview and be interviewed.  This practice helped us to think about the background of our films... like are there other people in the shot, background noise, and how we should set up the camera.  Everyone was pretty nervous to be the one interviewed, but it was a good reminder that the people we would be interviewing would be nervous too (even some of the elders).  

The practice interviews, though scary at first, really got us excited and we started to call elders and family members to interview right away. The first interview took place at the end of the workshop today.  Finally cameras were assigned to crew members who are responsible for them, then off our young filmmakers went into the community, filming the people of Quinhagak.

Yellow Crew is first to interview... Kaitlyn Henry, Marita Tunutmoak, and Darryl Small Jr. interviewing Pauline Johnson.

Filming Away

Once again our day started with theater warmups.  Today we did pass the emotion, where one person selects an emotion to act out then passes it around the circle... if anyone laughs when they aren't supposed to, then they are out.  At first some of us had a hard time trying to make realistic faces for each emotion, but as we went on each young filmmaker got better.

After playing pass the emotion, we did popcorn.  Each person jumps up and claps at different times, making the final outcome look like they are popcorn.  Good exercise to get some of that energy out. 



Following our warm-ups and snack, we formed groups for our projects.  Each group discussed what they want to do in their project to answer the question "What does it mean to be Yup'ik?"  Each group chose what form their film was going to take... a play, interviews, etc., who their audience was going to be (old, young, yupiit, kass'aqs), and started to make storyboards to plan out their scenes.

At the very end of the workshop today, we got to use the cameras again, experimenting with how to film.  Some of the videos were quite silly and some are possible parts of projects.

Darryl Small Jr. seriously fliming

Pauline Roberts and Jonelle Matthew filming each other. :)

Video Workshops Have Begun

We had our first day of video workshops and boy were we excited!  We had 14 young filmmakers ready to get started.  First off we covered the rules of the group as there were a few new faces, then on to what our projects are going to be about.  The group is going to be creating a YouTube Channel called Yup'ikTube.  This channel will display the films created by the young filmmakers in Quinhagak.  For our introduction to the world, the projects will be focused on discussing, "what it means to be Yup'ik".

After discussing our projects a little, we did some theatrical warm up exercises, as not only are the filmmakers going to be behind the camera, some may be in front of it as well.  Several of the young filmmakers were less than excited to participate in our little activities (2 Truths and 1 Lie and The Machine).  Hopefully tomorrow we can get the whole group going.

 To finish up our day, the cameras came out and we started to take video...

Anthony Kelly, Kaitlyn Henry, and Jonelle Matthew using cameras

Dante Karels and Anthony Kelly Making a Film

Photographic Time Traveling Art Show Pieces

Some of our photographers had finished projects to show, some had works-in-progress.  We are so proud of all the hard work our young photographers have put into their pieces.

Dante Karels

(Playing outside)

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Elia Guest

White Mountains

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 Jawna Williams

(Clothing)

Cuignilnguq Atkuk

Front of Parka

Logan Carlie

Qanganaq Atkuk

Qanganaq Atkuk

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Jezalynn Jones

(Cartoons)

Using Yup'ik Knives to Make Cartoons

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Jezalynn Jones

(Garbage)

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Amber Jones

Moravian Church

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Angela Jones

(Berry Picking)

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Chelsea Pleasant

(Yup'ik Sunglasses/Snow goggles)

I Have 500 Year Old Sunglasses

Want to Buy Me? 

What You Looking At? 

Where's the Moose?

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Jonelle Matthew

(Jewelry)

Aqlitek Asverem Tuluanek Piliak

Asutelgek Aqlitek Tulumek Piliak

Tallirak Tegglineq Pilimalriik

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Kaitlyn Henry

(Taking care of children)

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Kayleen Small

(Playing outside)

Drawing

Families Working Outside

Playing with Water

Sitting in the Snow

Waiting for the Rock

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Mackenzie Forbes

(Toys)

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Marita Tunutmoak

(Dolls)

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Meghan Cleveland

(Toys)

Modern Easter Bunny

Colorful Furby Boom!

Old Game Piece

Hand Made Doll

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Stella Oldfriend

Beautiful Sky

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Sydeny Cleveland

(Berry Picking)

Achkiar Carter Berry Picker

Berry Pickers Of The Past

Buckets Modern Vs. Past

Elder Berry Picking

Qakva Jones Berry Picker

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Tenaya Tunutmoak

Pretty Dayligh

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