Community Media/Workshops/Educational Production DominicaJune09

Aim: To improve the skills of producers working within educational media units in the Caribbean

Objectives

Vision: Participants will work together in small groups throughout the week to produce a high quality piece of educational media content and to make it available online. The workshop will take a peer-based approach to learning, drawing on the skills and experience of participants as the real experts. Each day will also feature a different skills development session on a different topic, led by either a participant or an external resource person.

Participants

Programme

Monday (29 June)

Morning

Introduction

• Welcome from Dominica MoE
• Welcome from COL
• Participants introductions

Starting the workshop

• The main assignment: producing an educational media piece
• Breaking into groups and identifying your resources
• Skills sessions and leaders

Afternoon

The Story Curve: Basic elements of a story (review)(Raymond Henderson)

• Intro
• Links
• Selecting the clips

Working in groups

• Identifying story ideas and assigning roles
• Present to the larger group

Tuesday June 30: Putting it all together

Tools of the Trade: Borrowing from broadcast (Raymond Henderson)

• The Desk Report
• The Script Clip
• The One-minute Story
• The Rant
• The Vox Pop
• The 5-minute Interview

Scriptwriting (Delia Cuffy-Weekes)

Afternoon

Wednesday (July 1)

Morning

Intro to Software for converting material (Robert Guiste)

• Converting video to AV
• Cool Edit Pro

Afternoon

Thursday (July 2)

Morning

• Podcasing and YouTube

Afternoon

• Tour of Island

Friday (July 3)

Morning

Working in groups

Afternoon

Closing Ceremony

Departure