Training course in Yerevan is coming!

Here you will find information about our training course, which we are going to organize in Armenia in May 2012 together with our partners from Armenia, Spain and Georgia.

The project „Civil society empowerment and media participation for volunteers” will implant a new training course within the range ICT / media competence and project management for the Caucasus Youth. The training courses for Youth and youth workers realizes extensive and sustainable measures to the improvement of media competence, learning competence as well as social competence and social sharing.

The ICT media are generally a methodical and a technical organization means to the communication promotion in Caucasus societies. The conceptual contentwise emphasis of the media education formation of the proposal lies on the contentwise argument of the participants with the group of topics „citizen, social and political competence“.

Purpose of this contentwise component of the vocational training measures is the sustainable promotion of active citizenship and / or social participation in Armenia and Georgia. The training course enclose the modules “Crossmedial Journalism” and the module „NGO -Trainer”.

First module will raise media production skills – youth and young multipliers will learn to use digital media tools and produce social reports, radio / TV / web-TV magazines as well as upload and exchange their productions in Internet, Radio and Web-TV. Second module „NGO -Trainer / project management” will offer strategic management for young leaders and young activists of NGOs in the South Caucasus.

It focuses on the needs of NGO leaders who are seeking to develop sustainable business models within the context of civil society and political system in Armenia and Georgia. The training will improve project management skills and enable 24 multipliers to initiate public discussions about civil society and democracy issues, document them by the help of creative media tools and community media.

European partner institutions together with organizations from Caucasus will work on establishing cross-border networks of youth media work.

The course content:

  • identifying basic functions of a film camera
  • shooting and editing a short interview
  • drawing up the synopsis of the video report
  • understanding the meaning of film composition
  • operating the camera at a basic level
  • understanding the elements of and producing a shooting plan
  • executing the shooting plan (raw film footage)
  • getting skills in editing video and audio material
  • incorporating graphic elements into a video
  • distributing the video to the web

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