Tutorial Four: Video Production Part One

As a group we had to plan and produce a film that was one minute long. The film had to be based on one of the four concepts that we were introduced to. These being occupational justice, occupational disruption, occupational transition, or occupational deprivation. We decided as a group to base our video on occupational transition. Occupational transition is defind as “reorganisation of a person’s occupational identity, restructure of roles and habits and adjustment to changes in the kinds of environments in which one does things.” (Kielhofner, 2008 p. 136)We discussed with each other what occupational transition means to us and what experiences we have had where we have had to transition ourselves. We realised then that we had all experienced a similar occupational transition in our lives. Our transition from home to Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin.

Occupational Transition to Dunedin Video:

We wanted to be creative in showing this idea so we decided to write on two pieces of paper each. On the first piece of paper it said phrase to do with where we came from and on the second piece of paper a phrase that represents us now that we have transitioned. The video begins with occupational transitions our main theme. Then transitions through life stages, then there is a drawing of different houses to represent our different places then arrows to Dunedin representing the transition. We then in turn show our two pieces of paper representing our occupational transition to Dunedin. The different transitions include; Warm House to Damp Flat, Alternative Steiner School - Mainstream Tertiary ‘Tech, Country Bumpkin - Big City…. Hello, Mum made my lunch - I make my lunch now, Adventure Capital - Scarfie Land. This video represents our own personal occupational transitions to Dunedin.

Reference:

Kielhofner, G. (2008). Model of human occupation: Theory and application (4^th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins