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Executive producer Ivo Burum, Cherbourg elder Vera Sullivan and tutor Jameel Sullivan with the MoJos’ main tool of trade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 28, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the oldest storytellers in the world will soon be using some of the latest technology to tell their tales, thanks to a digital media project starting soon in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

The Cherbourg MoJo (“mobile journalist”) project will be training young people to research, write, shoot, edit and upload short video films.<\/p>\n

Run in conjunction with the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE, the program will also have a serious side … helping to make literacy and numeracy training fun for young people who need these basic skills to gain employment.<\/p>\n

At least five TAFE teachers will also be trained with the aim of making the project self-sustaining after the initial 10 weeks.<\/p>\n

Cherbourg MoJos will be run by Ivo Burum, CEO of Burum Media and a former executive producer at both Channel 9 and the ABC.<\/p>\n

He’s been in the TV industry for 33 years and has been working with Indigenous communities since 1981, including helping to establish CAAMA Productions in Central Australia.<\/p>\n

Ivo conducted a successful MoJo program in the Northern Territory<\/a><\/strong> in 2011 but the Cherbourg program is different … it combines the literacy and numeracy training which organisers believe will make it even more successful.<\/p>\n

The videos will be shot on\u00a0<\/strong>iPhones with clip-on accessories\u00a0but that doesn’t mean they’ll be amateur productions.<\/p>\n

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The aim is to produce broadcast quality clips that could be shown on NITV or SBS.<\/p>\n

The 10-week program will run five days a week so the participants will also experience a “work routine”.<\/p>\n

People eligible must be aged 15-19 and not going to school.<\/p>\n

The project was officially launched at the Nurunderi TAFE campus on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director of TAFE Qld English Language and Literacy Services Helen Murphy said literacy and numeracy were the basis of all sustainable employment.<\/p>\n

“But it’s not the most attractive option for people to study,” she said.<\/p>\n

The Cherbourg MoJos project aimed to overcome this and at the same time ensure valuable new skillsets remained in the Cherbourg community.<\/p>\n

Cherbourg State School Deputy Principal Bevan Costello said he would like to encourage people to take the MoJo project on board.<\/p>\n

He said there were “heaps and heaps” of stories in the Cherbourg community that could be told using the technology.<\/p>\n

SQIT Faculty Director David Taylor said it was a really different and exciting project for Cherbourg.<\/p>\n

“MoJo will open up opportunities for people,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is an opportunity to get involved in world-class stuff, focussing around digital film-making and journalism,” Mr Taylor said.<\/p>\n

Mr Burum said several of the NT MoJos he had worked with had won awards for their work and all had been offered paid work as “stringers”.<\/p>\n

Two have picked up government contracts and two ended up working full-time in community media.<\/p>\n

A documentary of the Cherbourg project will also be produced by professional film-makers in conjunction with the training and will be previewed during NAIDOC Week in July.<\/p>\n