Video Essay: (Make it a power point presentation) Applying theories of power to contemporary debates in policy and practice relating to marginality and empowerment Weight: 40% Format: power point presentation Length: 20 minutes Overview Using the knowledge on digital storytelling and on the video essay provided in class, construct an academically informed and visually-engaging 20 minutes of video where you will 1. create an argument and an exposition outlining Aboriginal empowerment and struggles to gain political, cultural, social, and economic recognition and benefits. 2. This video can take an historical-to-the present approach, or it can remain within more contemporary events. 3. You will include the barriers that non-Aboriginal peoples have posed, as well as the various policies that have impacted upon them, 4. But also actively search and show the ways in which Aboriginal peoples have sought their empowerment. 5. You may want to use one of these topics, but you may have others in mind: Colonisation, massacres, and fight back; 1967 Referendum and Freedom Rides; Australia Day date change; Aboriginal Sovereignty; Bringing them Home report and its after-effects; Deaths in Custody and the fightback. 6. You need to relate this to social work and the meanings that this has for your practice. 7. You need to use and articulate a power analysis in your final product. Details Mode: Visual, academic and expositional References: Minimum 12, to be included at the end of the video as a still photo or slide.   Marking Criteria: Research: Demonstrates postgraduate level ability to research, disseminate, analyse, and collate the necessary material relevant to the topic Conceptual Clarity, Creative and Critical Thinking: Demonstrates postgraduate level ability to engage critically with concepts presented, and shows depth of understanding of concepts through visual means. Demonstrates willingness to create academic work through visual means Demonstrates openness to present academic ideas creatively and to critically express them visually. Content: Demonstrates depth of understanding of the material researched Is able to present the depth of understanding visually. Can creatively expand on the material researched, and what this means for their practice. Produces a coherent argument, well-structured and self-contained within the visual work. Has represented this work using a power analysis framework. Style and Grammar: Can express the work coherently and fluently in a visual format.