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STUDIO EQUIPMENT : BRS funding 1995/96- $28,678 spent MVS99A SVHS camcorder case, MF055-136 tripod, Brolga radio panel, PD 104 CD players, CTS 140 cassette recorder, mics, booms, headphones, amp, shelving, speakers, Marantz CP430 field tape recorder & mic, SVHS edit suite, 2 x8 video audio switcher, 2 x NVS800 VCRs, 2 x TC14S10A TV monitors, AB1 Videonics edit controller, 2 x VHScamcorders. 1997/98 BRS equipment applied for; radio studio phone link, CP430, video mixer & titler.
31 Oct - 2 Nov ‘95 request show / radio broadcast / camera, Mel Porter 2 women, 1 man. July ‘96 1/2 day video
STUDIO EQUIPMENT : BRS funding 1995/96- $21,982 spent (Delivered late ‘96 - still to be installed) Brolga mixer, 2 x cassette decks, 2 x CD players, amp, speakers, 2 x mics & stands, 3 x mic amps, booms 2 x headphones, Panasonic MS4 SVHS camcorder, case, MF 055-136 tripod, 2 x 8 video/audio switcher, 2 x AVNN SD 200A VHS VCRs, TC14S10A TV monitor. WAGES / HOURS : No employees yet Has broadcast videos on occasion in the past. TRAINING : 4 days in 1996 with the CDA, his wife & 3 others. Future training requested, after installation. NEEDED : 1997/98 BRS equipment applied for; phone interface & mic boom. WANARN BRACS Operators : none Chairman : Bruce Richards Administrator : Fred Twine BRACS phone : None Office phone : 08 8956 7353 Office fax : 08 8956 7375 Postal Address : PMB 117, Via Alice Springs NT 0872 LOCATION : 100 km SW of Warakurna ATSIC Region : Warburton (Western Desert Regional Council) Austmap reference : Zone 52 - Easting 354600 - Northing 7201800 POPULATION : Indig - 171 Non Indig - 13 Total - 187 TRANSPORT : Road LANGUAGES : Ngaanyatjarra Broadcast : None BRACS LOCATION : CDA’s front room Building : relocation dependent on ATSIC funding for a community centre which will include space for a media centre TRANSMISSION : Good Television : (3) ABC / BRACS Ch 66 GWN Ch 69 Imparja Ch 63 Radio : (3) ABC / BRACS ? CAAMA ? PMFM ? Service Licence Nos : TV: 5074 Radio: ? FUNDING :
STUDIO EQUIPMENT : BRS funding 1995/96 - $18,764 spent MVS99A camcorder, case, MF 055-136 tripod, 2 x 8 audio/video switcher, 2 x AVNVSD 200A VCRs, TC14S10A TV monitor, mic & stand, mic amp. WAGES / HOURS : No community access or employees TRAINING : None. Future training requested, Irrunytju Media needs to attend a community and/or council meeting to consult. NEEDED : 1997/98 equipment applied for; radio panel, phone interface, 2 x cassette decks, 2 x CD players, minidisk player, amp, 2 x mics, booms & headphones), field tape recorder & mic (& relocation $). WARAKURNA Other names : Giles BRACS Operators : None as yet Chairman : Hayden Scott Administrator : Gerard Coffey BRACS phone : None Office phone : 08 8956 7366 Office fax : 08 8956 7367 Postal Address : PMB 62, Via Alice Springs NT 0872 LOCATION : 180 km N of Irrunytju ATSIC Region : Warburton (Western Desert Regional Council) Austmap reference : Zone 52 - Easting 429000 - Northing 7233000 POPULATION : ? TRANSPORT : Road LANGUAGES : Ngaanyatjarra Broadcast : None yet BRACS LOCATION : Waiting for relocation to old office Building : 2 rooms needs minor renovation, a/c installed TRANSMISSION : Good Television : (3) ABC /BRACS Ch 66 GWN Ch 69 Imparja Ch 63 Radio : (3) ABC / BRACS CAAMA PMFM Service Licence Nos : TV: 5074 Radio: FUNDING :
STUDIO EQUIPMENT : BRS funding 1996/97 - $34,839 spent. (delivered June ‘97 - still in boxes) Brolga mixer, 2 x cassette decks, 2 x CD players, 1 x receiver amp, 2 x microphone booms, 2 x Redfern studio quality mic, Koss headphones, 1 x monitor speakers, Marantz field tape recorder; Panasonic NVMS5A SVHS camcorder & spare battery & case, tripod, Omni lights, mic line amp, 1 x Redfern studio quality microphone & desk stand to suit, Panasonic VHS VCR, SVHS VCR, Panasonic TV monitor, video audio switcher, phone link, 1 x Tri-MM interface, power conditioner. no 1997/98 equipment applied for
BRACS / School 98 Mhz Service Licence Nos : TV: 5074 Radio: SL010018 FUNDING :
STUDIO EQUIPMENT : BRS funding $8,886 1995/96 - fencing not done. MVS99A SVHS camcorder / case (at arts centre?), Manfrotto 055-136 tripod (snap plate missing), video/audio switcher, (VCR & TV monitor - stolen), Videonics edit controller (missing?), mic & stand, mic amp ( from Cosmo’s $$). School has a Panasonic AG5700 SVHS edit suite, AVE-7 vision mixer, WJ-KB 50 titler, OTEK sound mixer and a radio studio with Numark 4 input+mic mixer,100 CD stacker.
2 days at Kanpa Festival in September & 3 people for a week’s editing at Irrunytju in 1995. 16 - 17 August ‘95 School meeting / SW Chat / Sound recording / TV Broadcast. 2 people for 3 days advanced camera & editing in 1996. 2 people for 3x 2 days editing at Irrunytju June ‘97. Future training requested, editing at Irrunytju Media and Warburton school. Previous Operators : At one stage there were five operators. Arthur Robertson, Jason ?, Theresa ?, Enrico ?, Daniel ?, Lalla West ?. NEEDED : 1997/98 BRS equipment applied for - phone interface. Warburton CAAMA REGION
CAAMA Regional Overview Geographical and language boundaries CAAMA services three gazetted BRACS units, one other community subsequently provided with broadcast facilities and two smaller aspirant communities in this central Australian region, which extends from Papunya in the west to Santa Teresa, southeast of Alice Springs. Languages spoken are Eastern Arrernte, Western Arrernte, Luritja and Pijtantjatjara. There has been some demarcation dispute with Warlpiri Media in the past over jurisdiction for three other communities up the Stuart Highway to the north of Alice Springs - Alekarenge, Pmara Jutunta and Nturiya - who, along with Yuendumu, Kintore and Willowra, contracted CAAMA to supply and install their BRS radio equipment and did receive a little bit of training at the time, but have always been nominally supported by WMA for BRS funding purposes, ongoing training and regional representation. Establishment of CAAMA Regional support services and BRS co-ordination for the four communities, (Papunya, Areyonga, Ntaria and Santa Teresa) are provided by CAAMA (Central Australian Media Association) who in 1980 were the first indigenous media association to broadcast radio with their own community licence. CAAMA produced programmes in three indigenous languages and distributed them in the early days on “CAAMA cassettes” through stores in bush communities. CAAMA Radio subsequently expanded its broadcast range beyond Alice Springs via the 8KIN FM Network to Santa Teresa, Ntaria and Alekarenge and on a share basis with the ABC over the HF shortwave shower transmitters in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek (“Bush Radio”). In May 1989 CAAMA Radio were the first to ever provide indigenous radio programming for BRACS community retransmission (a service still not yet available in the west) and went up over satellite for the first time, “piggy-backed” on the Imparja Television signal. In fact it was for this intended purpose that the Aboriginal Broadcasting Consultative Group insisted in the early formulation of the BRACS Scheme that DAA provide two satellite decoders in the original standard console. (Communities still had to buy their own second transmitters). For various reasons it became difficult to maintain regular production of language programmes in town and CAAMA began to look to the bush as a source of programming to continue this service on the network. Revitalisation CAAMA (along with TAIMA) were the first to receive BRACS Revitalisation funds ($165,000 capital and $100,000 training) in 1992/3 but I have not been able to source records this far back to find out what it was spent on. With rolled-over 1993/4 and 1994/5 BRACS Revitalisation funds CAAMA equipped a radio training studio (when they moved from Little Sisters to new premises in town), employed a trainer, provided him with a vehicle and office equipment and commenced community installations of high quality radio desks with Ogenic (PKE) “Minuet” mixers, professional Denon minidisks, CD players, cassette decks, Beyer M69 microphones, Symetrix 501 Compressor / limiters, etc. and a cheap custom-made one-way telephone interface box for communities to send programmes through to CAAMA for uplink on the satellite. (no receive or talkback capability for the community end as on a TRI-MM). Networking Early networking trials were conducted in 1994/5 with BRS funds. I’m not sure how successful the trials were, but Santa Teresa was heard on air fairly regularly. Today, Ntaria, Areyonga, Papunya and 5NPY provide almost daily programming in language through the CAAMA network on a normal 3khz phoneline only, but as in TEABBA’s experience, audiences are very appreciative of programme content in language despite the reduction in sound quality over the phone. Santa Teresa are expected to complete “sorry” business in their community soon which will then mean all of CAAMA’s communities will be broadcasting weekly programming “live” in language. Telstra are planning the roll-out of optic fibre through Ntaria to Papunya in 1998 and this should enable the use of CODECs to improve programme bandwidth for these communities at least, though the 1997/8 budgeted purchase of these has been held off until tests confirm their suitability (it seems they will not give any improvement on the 2.5 Khz limitation on DCRSS microwave repeater switchboards). CAAMA have recently completed broadcast capable phone connections at both Papunya and Areyonga. Warlpiri Media have had a couple of successful test transmissions from Yuendumu over the CAAMA satellite network and their other seven communities are also potential contributors. P.Y. Media have negotiated access to the satellite transponder via a program line from their network hub at Umuwa on the Pitjantjatjara Lands to CAAMA and Imparja in Alice Springs and successfully conducted test transmissions of their Pitjantjatjatjara language service (Radio 5NPY) on Imparja’s sixth BMAC audio channel in February 1998. They are now another weekly supplier of language programming to CAAMA. CAAMA are offering to pay operators in the bush $40 per hour for good quality language programmes which should provide considerable incentive for production. CAAMA believes payment of this incentive is essential if BRACS radio development is to be sustainable. In the medium term BRACS communities should be able to access CBF program production funds. CAAMA installed an automation system in 1997 for their radio transmission with BRS funds. It is operational under close monitoring as they are still ironing out a few problems with pprogramming systems. This cost $34,999 in 1996/7. CAAMA has a long term strategy of linking in with BRACS communities through a computer network where community BRACS units can access the music stock loaded on the 350 CD Juke Box at any time that they are broadcasting. The automation can also be used to store and air BRACS programmes sent into CAAMA at any time, which is what is happening now. Video A 3 chip SVHS Panasonic AG-DP800 camera with Fujinon zoom lens and Manfrotto 116MK3 tripod was purchased on Santa Teresa’s behalf in 1994/5. Santa Teresa have had good SVHS editing facilities for many years including a MX 50 mixer, purchased through TAFE or community BRACS funds. They used to hire these to outside groups such as the Arrernte Language Project. Ntaria had a small domestic SVHS Panasonic edit machine with titler and AVE-7 mixer which they have now sold to Areyonga as a back up system. Areyonga had a VHS only domestic set-up with a cheap Videocom editor from Murray Neck Retravision. Since my visit CAAMA have rectified shortages in BRACS video production equipment with the purchase of three “state of the art” Panasonic DX100 digital cameras, Miller DS9 tripods and Casablanca 9 gigabyte non-linear digital edit suites for Papunya, Areyonga and Ntaria. All three have already completed projects with the new equipment. Papunya and Areyonga have produced music videos, while Ntaria made a video to play at their pottery / silk painting stall at the Royal Easter Show. Training Until recently all training provided by CAAMA has been primarily in radio only. Now that an arrangement for co-delivery of the certificate course is being worked out with Batchelor College, CAAMA’s co-ordinator / trainer, Chris Tangey, is now also delivering on-site video training workshops and ATAS tutor support and Batchelor are reimbursing CAAMA for his time under an Organisational Consultancy Agreement. This is a good way for regional media associations to assist Batchelor in the wider delivery of the Certificate course than college staff have hitherto had the personnel and resources to offer, and at the same time supplement their revitalisation training budgets with Batchelor Part Time Instructor and DEETYA ATAS tutor support funds. Satellite Television Broadcast The CAAMA Group now owns three subsidiary companies - Imparja Television, which holds the RCTS licence for the Central footprint and has been broadcasting commercial television by satellite since January 1988, CAAMA Productions and CAAMA Shop. CAAMA Productions’ language series “Nganampa Anwernekenhe” (two series of thirteen half hour episodes per year) was for many years the only indigenous television programming available by satellite feed to BRACS communities (and then of course only to those in the central footprint). Since 1997 CAAMA Productions have been compiling BRACS video programmes supplied by community producers for broadcast on “Ngkwinhe Apmere” (The BRACS Show) which at last provides a wider broadcast outlet for BRACS SVHS edited video production. CAAMA Productions pay up to $934.56 for a full half hour episode’s worth of material or pro rata for smaller compilation segments used on this show. This series (13 half hour episodes) has raised the profile of BRACS video production tremendously in Top End and Central Australian communities. It is a real incentive for community producers to raise standards and increase output and must be nurtured and expanded if possible. NIMAA’s film and video committee have recommended allocation of $100,000 from the 1998/9 NIDF funds and a $100,000 submission to AIATSIS in order to supplement Imparja’s (approx. $13,000) broadcast presales and create a production slate for this important community video broadcast platform where none has ever before existed. Funding agencies and film and television authorities such as ATSIC, AFC and State Film bodies should be encouraged to support the ongoing production of initiative such as these where cultural material is produced either for community viewing or on regional or national broadcast platforms. Ongoing support is needed for the “Nganampa Anwernekenhe” and “Ngkwinhe Apmere” series. Yüklə 2,06 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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