training
Arete Workshop: NGO and Humanitarian Storytelling through Video and Multimedia
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell powerful stories through video and multimedia. You will learn to create an effective video strategy and how to work with professional video producers and teams. We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write a creative brief, how to coordinate bigger productions, and how to use web platforms and social media effectively.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
Workshop: Public Speaking
From pitching to an editor or presenting to an audience, to interviewing key witnesses and getting in front of the camera, speaking well in public is a necessary skill to help you tell your stories. This one-day workshop will cover some of the main stumbling blocks associated with speaking effectively in public. These include relaxation, voice projection, effective use of pauses, owning the text and good and open body language.
Fact to Fiction: A one-day workshop
Are you interested in learning how to turn true stories – either contemporary or historical – into compelling drama or fiction? This one-day workshop focuses on the art of fact-to-fiction adaptation.
Workshop: Improving Audio – An introduction to the tools and techniques of sound production
This is one-day technical workshop is designed for anyone wanting to create, enhance or edit audio content for media projects. Discussing sound for narration, interviews, field recordings, ambiances and performance, the workshop will focus on general principles of sound production and will be relevant to users of most recording or editing systems.
Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV & Video Journalists
Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television and video packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.
Two-Day Workshop: Filmmaking on a Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR
This two-day course gives an overview of DSLR and larger sensor Canon cameras for video and filmmaking, detailing in particular the Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro X
Final Cut Pro X has redefined the post-production process for journalists and video professionals, and is now the software of choice for BBC news. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.
Workshop: Storytelling for the Edit
This one-day workshop will inspire participants to think about storytelling from an editor’s perspective. It is designed to help you confidently make decisions in order to create a concise and powerful digital narrative. We will look at theoretical approaches and how to apply practical tips and tricks.
Two-Day Workshop: Filmmaking on a Canon EOS C100 Mark II
This two-day course gives an overview of the Canon EOS C100 Mark II camera and is particularly focused on anyone wanting to shoot money-making, magazine-style films or corporate videos.
Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists
Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.
Two-Day Workshop: Filmmaking on a Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR
This two-day course gives an overview of DSLR and larger sensor Canon cameras for video and filmmaking, detailing in particular the Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera.
Workshop: Public Speaking
From pitching to an editor or presenting to an audience, to interviewing key witnesses and getting in front of the camera, speaking well in public is a necessary skill to help you tell your stories. This one-day workshop will cover some of the main stumbling blocks associated with speaking effectively in public. These include relaxation, voice projection, effective use of pauses, owning the text and good and open body language.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro X
Final Cut Pro X has redefined the post-production process for journalists and video professionals, and is now the software of choice for BBC news. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.
Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists
Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.
Workshop: Storytelling for the Edit
This one-day workshop will inspire participants to think about storytelling from an editor’s perspective. It is designed to help you confidently make decisions in order to create a concise and powerful digital narrative. We will look at theoretical approaches and how to apply practical tips and tricks.
Two-Day Workshop: Filmmaking on a Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR
This two-day course gives an overview of DSLR and larger sensor Canon cameras for video and filmmaking, detailing in particular the Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera.
Through a series of modules, you will learn how to shoot video with the EOS 7D Mark II, how to deal with sound, lighting and movement. You will look at different styles of shooting, comparing treatment types and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of directed film making against more ‘organic’, ‘run-and-gun’ style filmmaking.
First Aid for Conflicts and Challenging Environments
If you have done a first aid course before or a hostile environment course, then this is the one day programme to refresh those skills. This practical workshop will allow you to update your core skills to save someone’s life in the field. Basic Life support – breathing and bleeding and other useful tips as well as how to do this in a hostile environment. Our practical simulations will provide you with a good reminder of what to do, refresh those forgotten skills.
Workshop: Improving Audio
Improve your audio for video, film and other audio media with this one-day workshop. Suited to self-shooters, those currently producing media content who have not previously specialised in sound and others new to sound production.
Workshop: Old Dog, New Tricks – Journalism at internet speeds
This one-day SecDev workshop will help you apply traditional journalism to an interconnected digital environment. With this aim in mind, participants will learn the skills used by intelligence agencies of search and discovery, data collection, source verification, understanding networks and data analysis.
Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists
Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.
Workshop: Storytelling for the Edit
This one-day workshop will inspire participants to think about storytelling from an editor’s perspective. It is designed to help you confidently make decisions in order to create a concise and powerful digital narrative. We will look at theoretical approaches and how to apply practical tips and tricks.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro X
FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.
Workshop: Video Compression
This workshop will teach you how to compress video, organise workflows and perform batch-encodes. It will also teach you to create podcasts, mobile and web video, email movies, DVD files and more.
Workshop: Introduction to Online Media Law
This one-day workshop acts as a refresher, to update delegates on new areas of media law. It also serves as an introduction to media law for those with little or no experience in this field. David Banks, three-times editor of McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists, will focus on the law as it applies to online publications and social media, illustrated by the latest cases.
Workshop: Disruptive Technology: Disruptive Journalism
[user generated content: the source and the story]
The social fabric of cyberspace is as important as the physical world. From commerce to sex, every interaction is mirrored online. Traditional media feel left behind by bloggers, social media, and the race into cyberspace – but that race has just begun. The next-generation news organisation will be agile and smart. It will apply the trusted techniques of traditional journalism to the online world. Speed is just as important as accuracy – and both can be won.
The SecDev training programme considers how journalism has changed, and offers solutions for media professionals to break the news without compromising credibility and integrity in a real-time digital age.
Workshop: Improving Audio
Improve presenting audio for video, film and other audio media with this one-day workshop. Suited to self-shooters, those currently producing media content but who have not previously specialised in sound or others new to sound production.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro X
FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.
Two-Day Workshop: Video Journalism
Join us for an intensive two-day introduction to video journalism. You will learn the essential skills needed to film and edit your own material to a broadcast standard. Using your own camera and editing equipment, we will guide you through the very best techniques for storytelling for television and video.
Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists
Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro X
FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.
