Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*Tickets include lunch
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell humanitarian stories through photographs for media, NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes. This is a hands-on photography experience aimed at people working in the NGO sector and non-professional photographers who want to tell compelling humanitarian stories through photos.
What you will cover:
- An introduction to Adobe Bridge (an archiving and captioning program) and Adobe Photoshop (for retouching images),
- How to caption and send an image ready for editorial use; size, resolution and format,
- We will talk through five images from each participant and discuss how they could be improved,
- Using examples, we will look at composition and use of light,
- Participants will be asked to shoot a short photo story based on what you’ve learnt. This will take between one and two hours. You will then download all images with captions and, with the trainer’s help, edit your photos into a short story which will be presented and critiqued by the group
What to bring:
- Five photographs for discussion,
- A digital camera (quality and size not important) or smart phone with camera,
- A laptop if possible,
- Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop (CS5) will be used for the training – if participants have this on their laptops already it would be good to bring along.
About the trainer – Kate Holt
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. The agency was founded by Kate Holt, a photographer and journalist. Holt trained at the BBC before gaining her first field experience in Kosovo photographing the unfolding refugee crisis in 1999. Since then she has travelled extensively documenting refugees and the effects of war and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. Holt and her team have worked with numerous NGOs and UN agencies including UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, MSF, ICRC and Oxfam. She is a regular contributor to both the BBC and the Guardian.
Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell humanitarian stories through photographs for media, NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes. This is a hands-on photography experience aimed at people working in the NGO sector and non-professional photographers who want to tell compelling humanitarian stories through photos.
What you will cover:
- An introduction to Adobe Bridge (an archiving and captioning program) and Adobe Photoshop (for retouching images),
- How to caption and send an image ready for editorial use; size, resolution and format,
- We will talk through five images from each participant and discuss how they could be improved,
- Using examples, we will look at composition and use of light,
- Participants will be asked to shoot a short photo story based on what you’ve learnt. This will take between one and two hours. You will then download all images with captions and, with the trainer’s help, edit your photos into a short story which will be presented and critiqued by the group
What to bring:
- Five photographs for discussion,
- A digital camera (quality and size not important) or smart phone with camera,
- A laptop if possible,
- Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop (CS5) will be used for the training – if participants have this on their laptops already it would be good to bring along.
About the trainer – Kate Holt
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. The agency was founded by Kate Holt, a photographer and journalist. Holt trained at the BBC before gaining her first field experience in Kosovo photographing the unfolding refugee crisis in 1999. Since then she has travelled extensively documenting refugees and the effects of war and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. Holt and her team have worked with numerous NGOs and UN agencies including UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, MSF, ICRC and Oxfam. She is a regular contributor to both the BBC and the Guardian.
Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell stories using video for NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes, to be used on the web, social media or get picked up by news sources. Arete’s video expert will inspire you to create powerful films that have an impact.
This workshop is aimed at people working in the NGO sector and non professional videographers and photographers working with the NGO, CSR or media spheres who want to start telling stories through video. We will discuss what makes a powerful story and an effective video strategy as well as practical information for shoots, taking into consideration budgets, time, security and access. You will get an idea of how to choose and work with professional video producers and teams, looking at various styles best suited to tell your story.
We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write creative briefs and risk assessments, and when and how to coordinate bigger productions (narrative, longer documentary) as well as video techniques for social media.
What you will cover:
· Storytelling basics
· Creative techniques to tell more powerful stories
· Video strategy and theory
· Working with video producers and teams
· Setting up and coordinating productions
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference.
Clementine Malpas is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 13 years’ experience in the developing world. Her films have been broadcast internationally on Channel 4, BBC, ARTE, PBS, ITV, ABC, NBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, PBS and Netflix among others. In 2012 Clementine co-founded the London based production company Tiger Nest Films with Leslie Knott and together they have gone on to produce cutting-edge, award-winning documentaries and videos. In 2013 Clementine’s film The Parable of Gulnaz—the story of an Afghan woman who was the victim of rape and jailed for adultry—led to both a presidential pardon for her from the Afghan President, as well as a Foreign Press Association nomination for “Best TV Documentary/Feature Story of the Year.”
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
This one-day workshop will teach you how to tell stories using video for NGOs, charities and corporate social responsibility programmes, to be used on the web, social media or get picked up by new sources. Arete’s video expert, Eva Gilliam, will inspire you to create powerful films that have an impact.
We will discuss what is required to create an effective video strategy, taking into consideration budgets, time, security and access. You will get an idea of how to choose and work with professional video producers and teams, looking at various styles best suited to tell your story.
We will go over common pitfalls, learn the relevant theory and lingo, and cover practical topics including how to write a creative brief, when and how to coordinate bigger productions (narrative, longer documentary) and how to get the most of your video on web platforms and social media.
· How to tell stories through video and multimedia for NGOs and charities
· Techniques to tell more powerful stories using audio recordings, music and graphics
· Strategy and theory
· Shooting and editing
· Working with video producers and teams
· Coordinating productions
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference.
Eva Gilliam is a highly qualified video-maker and multimedia editor with strong creative skills and a proven ability to deliver high quality work under pressure and to deadline. She is a seasoned audio-visual storyteller and has trained youth and adults in communications and multi-media skills in Somalia, South Africa and Côte d’Ivoire. Her professional output focuses on media in post-conflict regions covering social, humanitarian and development stories and she is a key member of the Arete team. Eva has 16 years of experience working in film, radio and television, often with UN agencies and local and international NGOs. She has produced films in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia and South Africa.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
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