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

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)
Afternoon
 * Converting video to AV
 * Cool Edit Pro

Thursday (July 2)
Morning
 * Podcasing and YouTube

Afternoon
 * Tour of Island

Friday (July 3)
Morning

Working in groups
Afternoon

Closing Ceremony
Departure