The crew at Channel42 got to work on a couple of new genre’s of moviemaking over the last week or so. First I put together a light-hearted parody of “Man vs Wild” shot with a couple of friends and our kids whilst camping a couple of week-ends ago.
I shot these on the iPhone4, in HD, and decided to enter them into Australia’s inaugural Mobile Screenfest Competition. The guidelines state the movie has to be shot on a mobile phone, and between 30 secs and 4 mins 30.
Then, on Thursday at the Northside Coffee Morning, I had opportunity to capture some of Tony Hollingsworth talking about his “Black Dog Ride.” This is a charity motorbike ride, 6,000 kms to the Red Centre of Australia, to raise funds and awareness of depression.
Our family has lived with depression for 7 years, and I decided to shoot a mini-documentary as support for Tony. Again everything was shot on the iPhone4, and edited to the short 4:30 for the competition. I figure if we do well in the competition, this can only add interest in Tony’s cause. However, I will edit a longer version of the interview over the next week or so for Tony’s blog.
You can view the 2 Aussie vs Wild episodes on our camping Vimeo Album, and here’s: Discussing Depression!
In this transparent and vulnerable video, a young 20 year old, Em and her dad, me, share their 7 year journey with depression.
All to support Tony Hollingsworth as he rides to raise awareness for depression in the Black Dog Ride to the Red Centre in Sep 2010.
Every aspect of the movie was shot on the Apple iPhone4 in 720p HD
How about you? Are you struggling to cope? I’d recommend you talk with someone (I’m certainly happy to chat).
In my experience, I had no idea at all, that my then 13 year old daughter was depressed, until the day I was called to Westmead Kids as she’d taken an overdose. Certainly teen depression doesn’t exhibit in the same way as adult depression. But it is an illness, not a weakness. Again, I’d be happy to talk and recommend the professionals that helped our family.