Join us for another half an hour of Jaguar News with up to the minute information about Melbourne's 4th Lockdown, Corona Virus, SARS and COVID-19. In this episode, Sophia interviews an Award Winning Film Maker and learns a thing or two about Quarantine Lockdowns!
This film also marks 100 Films 'made for experience in two years' and foresees a transition from Amateur to Professional (by my own decree). That means a new format is under construction and there may be (hopefully) a very small cost for you to view the films.
So enjoy this one while its free!!
Time To Tell
A short story or a poetic prose written into the Doodly Platform and given a voice.
Celebrating Three Hours In The Sky
Another Film of IFly Tunnel Skydiving? Yep. And now I have 3 hours experience/practice. I am told that when I get to 20 hours I'll feel more free to do my own thing and at this rate it could be four and a half years away! Until then, feel free to check in to this update as I attempt to master Back Flying. It is broken into four sections so feel free to watch it in parts if binging half an hour is not your thing! Grab a cuppa first if it is!!
Sophia's 53rd Birthday | An Event In 3 Parts | Short Version
Skydiving, High Tea and All You Can Eat Dinner - what else would you do for your birthday? Sophia's skills in Skydiving are improving, as demonstrated in her 2 minute interactive-exhibition; then the next level of training leading to "Back Flying" is covered. The High Tea has been shortened to reduce watching time so you will miss the Stand-Up Comedy Routine! The deliciousness of the Japanese Dinner can be seen on the faces of the participants. Stay right through to the end to catch the Ballerina in the Tunnel ... and the credits at the end are worth watching too! Enjoy.
Sixty to 120 Minutes In Twelve Weeks
And the passion continues to run hot! With weekly visits to the Tunnel, I have clocked up an additional one hour and one minute in twelve weeks! Building my stamina from 5 to 7 minutes, divided into 3 or 4 games, I am ready to bring on the 10 minutes on my next Birthday (watch out for that film!). In this film you may be as entertained as my instructor and I. While you cannot see the "Air Traffic Controller" (as I like to refer to him) in the room behind the camera, you can guess his enjoyment from the glances my instructor makes across to him on occasion! Boil that kettle again and sit down with a cuppa!
Zero To Sixty Minutes In Three Years
My joy, my love, my new found freedom ... dancing in the tunnel! This tribute to my first 60 minutes of experience flying in the IFly Indoor Skydiving Tunnel shows the progress I have made. While spread over 3 years as I waited for Melbourne to start building and then complete their Tunnel ... and then interrupted by two COVID-19 Lockdowns while their business closed ... I eventually got there! Sit down with a cuppa and have a laugh with me (or at me) and enjoy!
Happy New Year 2021
With 85 Films under her belt, Director Sophia Cull is now starting to combine the various platforms for film making she has been dabbling with (Doodly, Toonly, Zoom & Mobile Phone Filming) in preparing herself for her next level of Film Making in Health Education and Health Promotion Videos. While there is a message in this film (!!) the gap of time of 12 days between making it and editing it has rendered it "off" (any other time of year might not have been a problem but this is like a 2 week late birthday wish). Just so that in years to come when Sophia's name is on the big screen alongside other film directors like Mr. Ridley Scott, you can say "Oh Sophia - yes, I saw the films that got her started!".
First love
A 29 year old Poem finds new life in an animation film. Not exactly the pictures to go with the words but we must work within our boundaries until we can expand them!
Dining Out After Stage 4 COVID Lockdown In Melbourne
While the story was written while sitting in a café, it was not intended for film until the Toonly program presented itself to me. The next level to Doodly, Toonly promises a bit more creativity. So for my first practice run I took the story I wrote and "practiced". Enjoy!
What Would My 12 Year Old Self Think Of My Life Now?
Inspired by a series made by ABC Television for NAIDOC Week 2018 where "famous people" were asked about what their 12 year old self would think of how their life is now (at their current age) ... I decided it was a good question to consider and made my own interview (of sorts) asking the same questions. You can Google the NAIDOC week episodes on iView and if you do not meet their level of "being famous" to score an interview, give me a call and I can interview you !!
Jaguar News 4 Episode 2 Saturday 3 October 2020
It is 10 months since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic and our conversations still center around this. Can't avoid it? Join us here at JAGUAR NEWS 4 for the latest information you have probably heard everywhere else!!
Straight Through The Heart
The closest story-telling in animation format, Sophia has used the limited graphics in Doodly.com to create a story 'close to her heart'*. A story about life, about death, about families, about love, about grief and about anger. That says it all really. The main message, though, is 'life's too short' to be nasty to each other!
*Forewarning - there is emotive foul language used in this film!
Jaguar News 4 Episode 1 Thursday 10 September 2020
Have you had enough of listening to the daily BAD News that invades your home and your head? Well then, it is time to switch to JAGUAR NEWS 4 for a lighter perspective of what is going on in the world outside your window!
Stage 4 Lockdown ~ Activity 1: Scrub The Floor
Stage 4 Lockdown, Melbourne, Second Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic, my business closed again, what else is there to do but the tasks one hates! Join Sophia for another scrubbing of the massage room floor! Much better & faster than the first film called "Bill Said I Couldn't Do This" !!
Sign Erection
It was a long time coming and with all the changes in services provided, the new clinic sign could not be decided upon by the team. With the continuous decline in economy, mixed in with a COVID-19 Pandemic, The Health Exchange has undergone a death and re-birth experience. To celebrate this Rite of Passage, a new sign was erected!
Twins Down The Line - Part 2: More Than Was Bargained for
A follow up to the first film in this section "Twins Down The Line", we listen in again on an update as Maria moves into her 3rd Trimester. There is more than was bargained for ... so listen in to hear what that could be!
A Tribute to Dad on the 98th Anniversary of his Birth and to Mum on her "would be" 56th Mother's Day
If my father lived to tell his story he would be 98 years old. This year the Anniversary of his birth falls (again) on Mother's Day. It would be my Mother's 56th MD, if she was here to enjoy it. In preparation for their Centenaries, not too far away, here is my tribute to two very important people in my life!
Recreate Your Own Melbourne Masterpiece Challenge
Radio 774 ABC Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria put out a challenge for us to recreate a masterpiece that is currently on exhibition at the gallery. While they wanted a photograph, I was unable to take a photo of myself in the sculptured pose of Speed 1921. So I filmed it instead !! Look out for the bonus at the end !!
Sophia's Birthday 2020
Who said Birthday Parties are for kids? On the further side of half century, Sophia enjoys the adventures of Indoor Skydiving and offers you a peak into her world, just for fun and entertainment !
Meet Sven
The real question in life is this - "Who Massages the Massage Therapist at the end of the day?" This is not your question? What about this - "How do you put the word RELAXATION in the same sentence as MASSAGE?"
Pulito Il Bagno (To Clean The Bath)
To celebrate the 95th Anniversary of her Mother's birth, we are taken on an Italian journey to clean a bath tub!!
Poetry Recital Number One
Top three Poems accessible to my memory that I wrote more than 20 years ago!! First Love, The Student - Oh How I Loath Thee & The Theological Belief System of The Fly. Enjoy !!
Bill Said I Couldn't Do This
When told "you can't do this" some people react by agreement; however, there are a group of people that when hearing this, will just go ahead and do it anyway!! Watch this rebel clean up her mess!!
Twins Down The Line
Listen in on a private conversation between identical twin sisters and hear the secrets they don't want anyone to know!!