training
Workshop: An Introduction to Lighting for Television
This one-day workshop will teach you how to make the most of lighting interviews, pieces to camera and talking heads. It is aimed at journalists, self-shooting producers and other filmmakers shooting on DSLRs or small cameras.
Workshop: Improving Audio
Improve your audio for podcast, film and video productions. This one-day workshop will teach you about recording, editing and filtering methods, as well as audio principals that can be applied across nearly all sound editing systems and recorders.
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 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.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Data Journalism
Combining theoretical elements, practical exercises and a bespoke online learning resource, this two-day workshop seeks to give you tangible data analysis skills that can be immediately applied to your journalism.
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.
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. It focuses on the law as it applies to online publication and social media, illustrated by the latest cases.
RISC training at the Frontline Club
The Frontline Club will be hosting the first RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) training course in the UK. The four-days of training will end with a Group Show that is open to everyone on Wednesday 9 October at 7pm, to register to attend see HERE.
Workshop: Video Compression
Learn how to compress/encode audio and video, organise workflows, perform batch-encodes, create podcasts, mobile, youtube, email movies, DVD files and more.
Workshop: Video Compression
Learn how to compress/encode audio and video, organise workflows, perform batch-encodes, create podcasts, mobile, youtube, email movies, DVD files and more.
On the media: Unprepared, inexperienced and in a war zone
As more and more freelance journalists choose to cut their teeth in the field rather than in local newsrooms, we will be joined by a panel of journalists and editors to discuss what precautions need to be taken to keep them safe. Should they be deterred from heading straight to conflict zones, or should the training, insurance and guidance be more freely available?
2 Day Workshop: Introduction to editing with Final Cut Pro X
FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. The workshop will step you through this revolutionary new way of editing by taking you through an edit from start to finish.
‘Storytelling for the Edit’ – Sunday Workshop
This course is the second day of our new 2 day editing workshop. Both days focus on different aspects of the editing process. Each day is self contained, but there is a discount for those who choose to attend both. Own laptops and software/media are optional – we do not provide hardware or software in these workshops. […]
Introduction to editing with Final Cut Pro X – Saturday workshop
This course is the first day of our new 2 day editing workshop. Both days focus on different aspects of the editing process. FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. The workshop will step you through this revolutionary new way of editing by taking you through an edit from start to finish.
Photo Week 2012 – VII Photo seminar: Making the media work for you
Join photojournalists from the prestigious agency VII Photo for a half-day of seminars on photojournalism at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
An unmissable opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the work of VII and the state of modern photojournalism.
Frontline Club: blogging and social media training
Cross-posted from my now rather inaccurately named Mediating Conflict blog, this is just a note to let you know that I’ll be running the Frontline Club’s blogging and social media training course on 1 and 2 February 2010. Hopefully it will be great fun and a really good way to get yourself started in online […]
U.S. Army’s “Sim Refugee”
U.N. officials are scrambling to prepare for the prospect of tens of thousands of refugees pouring into eastern Chad from Darfur to escape escalating tensions in Sudan. An mass movement of displaced peoples will pose major challenges to the European Union peacekeeping force in Chad and Chadian government troops, considering that combatants in the Darfur […]