I am a writer and media maker. I have worked as a script writer and script editor for a range of TV series and serials including childrens' television. I have written and directed 'I'd Rather be Surfing', a documentary exploring young people and surfing and set up a website called 'Women Go Surfing'. I am currently working on a novel exploring family and intergenerational trauma.
Soul-Patron is an interactive documentary made by Federick Rieckher as part of a masters degree in 2010. The documentary explores Japan and more specifically Mizuko Jizo. Mizuko Jizo is the guardian of children who have died and are thought to have lost their way in the afterlife. Mizuko Jizo rescues the dead children by folding them in … More New Directions in Narrative: Week 1 Digital Narrative Analysis
Portfolio Essay – PIM (S1 2015 Meg Mappin s9756866) How has my practice changed over the duration of the semester in this studio? What have I learnt? I began the semester from a position of mostly using my mobile phone to record travel or family moments, as a personal record. I used a DSLR or video recorder for … More PIM Portfolio Essay
PIM Project 4 Final Video and Report This blog includes my final video for Project 4 with a brief reflection on this work. It also includes a link to the Project 4 final report This video is my final video for project 4. It explores life working on Swanston Street in the busy heart of … More PIM Project 4 Final Video and Report
Project 4 Iteration #2 The second iteration of the video for Project 4 has advanced significantly from the previous iteration and sketches but is still very much a work in progress. In this iteration I am working towards assembling a piece that captures the feel of working on the street rather than focus on the interviews and … More PIM Project iteration #2: on the streets
Reflection on Iteration #2 This edit has really brought the work back to the affordance I am exploring, portability. This piece is beginning to capture the feel of moving through busy city streets and glimpsing as you go into people’s lives. The camera’s unobtrusiveness allowed me to film moments without people becoming self-conscious. There is beginning … More PIM Iteration #2: Reflection
Project 4: Portability – Reflection on Iteration #1 The first iteration of this project involved a number of short sketches that captured people who work on the streets of Melbourne. At this stage I hadn’t put these together into one piece as I was still considering how I would work with the content. These iterations … More PIM Project 4 Reflection: Iteration #1
Project 4 Iteration #1 I have presented a number of interviews as part of Project 4 that are leading to my first iteration for Project 4. These sketches were the result of my first filming on the streets of Melbourne interviewing workers on the street. After the first round of interviews I wanted to spend more … More PIM Project Iteration #1: Harun’s kiosk
This is the first sketch where I interviewed the subject, a Japanese busker playing on the corner of Little Lonsdale Street. The immediate question this sketch raises is copyright. The subject is singing Hotel California. Can I use this? If not, as I discussed in my busker sketch it rules out quite a lot of work … More PIM Project 4 Sketch: Hotel California
This is the second clip I shot exploring the topic of people working on the streets of Melbourne’s CBD. This sketch is of two buskers. I chose not to ask these buskers for an interview. Mainly because the first one was at the start of my filming and I hadn’t worked up the courage and … More PIM Project 4 Sketch: Busking
This is the first sketch exploring the topic of people who work on the streets of the Melbourne CBD. This video is an exploratory sketch. The speaker gave verbal permission on film but I hadn’t thought through what I needed to say so I think this isn’t a strong permission. As a first sketch this … More PIM Project 4 Sketch: Selling God on the street
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