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  • Sub-Editing

    Sub-Editing

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • “All glass industry workers use sand, fire and glassblowing…but they don’t produce the same glasses” (Ahmad Zainuddin) The above quote reflects the sense of creativity in media editing, in the sense that the press release is not just an ordinary descriptive essay of an important event; it is rather an industry that needs continuous training, professionalism and creativity in news gathering, processing and dissemination, in an era of rapid advances in communication technology and telecommunications involving analytical thinking and a strong sense of ethics. Therefore, Journalism is a craft that is not different in its essence from any other crafts such as metalwork, carpentry …etc. However, the difference between a blacksmith/carpenter and other counterparts is the levels of creativity skills and type of tools used.

    Objectives

    • At the end of this session, course participants should be able to:
    • Gain all forms of media editing skills
    • Understand the basic techniques of good editing
    • Gain the ability of careful investigation and organization in media editing

    Level Expectations

    • Introduction to editorial:
    • Introducing the main types of journalism
    • Characteristics of the journalistic text and its quality elements
    • The differences between writing for radio, print media and TV
    • Types of media editing:
    • News formulation: simple news, the news coverage, composite news
    • Field media editing: investigation, reportage, profile
    • Editing of personal stories, interviews, opinion essay
    • Writing for the web.
    • Editing and linguistic skills
    • Rewriting/reviewing media text
    • Writing good headlines, intro, comments, summaries and headnotes
    • How to choose the best quote from an article
    • Proofreading and discovering own mistakes
    • Rhetoric and personal style
  • Promote Your Skills Through Media

    Promote Your Skills Through Media

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • Communication with a variety of concerned parties including customers, employees, suppliers and competitors. This course is designed to provide participants with the principles of promoting themselves through social/digital media and the ability to market their skills and experience on various social media platforms. This course provides a simple guide to master professional self-promoting and go ahead to attract followers and create a strong digital reputation about your skills and experience, in addition to building a communication strategy and a promoting/marketing plan for oneself. Thus, participants will have experience in hands-on training on various forms of social media technology. They should also participate in classroom presentations, readings and studies discussions … etc, which would shed light on the strategies and applications of these new effective platforms.

    Objectives

    • At the end of the course, participants shall be able to know and understand:
    • The importance of self-promotion.
    • Identify the principles of your character’s self-promotion.
    • Websites and tools to promote/market yourself.
    • Appropriate social media sites to promote/market oneself.
    • Principles of self-promotion online.
    • How to measure self-promotion online?
    • How to deal with people having different ideas than yours?
    • How to know your influence on social media?
    • How to increase your followers on social media?
    • How to build a 30-day plan for online self-promotion?

    Level Expectations

    • This course offers an interactive training content which contains lectures, group discussions, exercises, self-assessment questionnaires, case studies, activities and learning based on videos. The program is designed to provide a comprehensive guide to the basic skills necessary for self-promoting
    • Facts about the Course:
    • Each unit is followed by a session to ask questions and share answers.
    • A questionnaire and a survey will be provided at the end of each unit.
    • All units include role-playing, discussions, collaborative activities, case studies and examinations
  • Dubbing & Voice Over

    Dubbing & Voice Over

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • The art of Dubbing requires dedicated sensitive awareness, performance skills and rhythm because it is concerned with verbal performance that replaces the voices of film characters with identical acting performance, taking into account the synchronized lip’s movement, while the Voice Over is a vocal element inserted in moving pictures despite the fact that it is not part of the picture components. Sometimes Voice Over becomes essential and could add new aesthetic dimension to the picture or minimize its significance. The Art of Dubbing and Voice Over is even more important when it comes to how message is received, and is now among the arts that requires distinctive skills and training.

    Objectives

    • At the end of the course, all participants should be able to:
    • Understand the right methods of breathing during vocal performance.
    • Use diverse voice tones consistent with cartoon pictures, film character or documentary film.
    • Handle Dubbing or Voice Over with high efficiency.

    Level Expectations

    • General Techniques
    • Familiarizing the participants with different equipment in the audio studio and recording programs and techniques.
    • How to use the microphone and ensure fault-free and clean recording.
    • Art of Dubbing
    • Introduction to Acting (actor’s tools)
    • Voice: importance, tone, rules of precise delivery, correct pronunciation of alphabets, pauses, soundbite, and avoiding monotony.
    • Simplified description of Arabic language grammar and how to adhere to its rules.
    • Theoretical introduction to “Art of Dubbing”.
    • Stages of Dubbing process: translation, preparation, verbal performance (acting).
    • Applied methods in Dubbing by analysing selected related films.
    • Voice Over
    • Overview on types of documentary.
    • Voice Over (importance – methods)
  • Illustrator

    Illustrator

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • Adobe Illustrator CC is an essential design tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the web, and in any other medium. In this three-day course, you will get a thorough overview of the interface, tools, and features of Illustrator CC. You will learn, step-by-step, the key techniques, as well as tips and tricks, for working in Illustrator CC. In this combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice led by Adobe certified instructors, you will learn the basics of working with Illustrator CC so that you can incorporate visual effects into your workflow

    Objectives

    • By the end of the course, trainees should:
    • You will use Adobe Illustrator to create illustrations such as logos and advertisements that include type and graphics.

    Level Expectations

    • Getting to Know the Work Area
    • Working with Artboards
    • Drawing Basic Shapes
    • Working with Layers
    • Selecting and Aligning
    • Transforming Objects
    • Creating an Illustration with the Drawing Tools
    • Using Colour and Patterns
    • Organizing Your Artwork with Layers
    • Working with Type
    • Blending Colours and Shapes
    • Creating Logos with Brushes
    • Exploring creativity with effects and graphic styles
    • Working with Perspective Drawing
    • Working with Symbols
    • Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
    • Printing and Exporting Artwork
  • Journalistic Article Writing

    Journalistic Article Writing

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • The course is designed to acquire creative writing capabilities and learn how to choose attractive and influential titles. In addition to acquiring the techniques and skills for writing successful articles, exposure to samples of newspaper articles and analyzes them in Journalistic Article Writing Course.

    Objectives

    • By the end of the course, trainees should:
    • Be familiar with press/journalistic article as a significant press pattern
    • Principles of journalistic article writing

    Level Expectations

    • What is journalistic article?
    • What is the difference between the journalistic article, the news and the report?
    • Types of journalistic article
    • Presentation and analysis of journalistic article samples
    • What are the components of journalistic article?
    • Title and its role in journalistic article
    • Journalistic article foreword/introduction
    • Journalistic article conclusion
    • Presentation, review and analysis of articles and determining their various elements
    • Practical exercises on writing journalistic/press article.
  • Field TV Reporter

    Field TV Reporter

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • Wherever there is the human-being with his joys and his sorrows and wherever there are important events or raging conflicts, there is the reporter. He is the eye with which we see these events and the ear with which we hear about them. He is that person who defies the odds and does not -very often- care about the dangers he might face, just to tell us the truth. In fact, TV reporting is one of the most physically taxing television jobs, but certainly one of the most exciting and interesting ones. This training course is especially designed to arm those wishing to do this job with the necessary professional tools of journalism, whether written or visual, to enable them to convey the truth from the field to the public with honesty and objectivity.

    Objectives

    • At the end of the course, participants should:
    • Understand the nature of the reporter’s role and his work in the field as well as his tools and responsibilities
    • Learn the foundations and principles of writing a TV report
    • Be able to prepare and produce TV reports from the field

    Level Expectations

    • Introduction to TV work fundamentals
    • Principles and ethics of journalism
    • Characteristics of TV journalism
    • Different TV news formats and packaging
    • Relationship between the reporter and the rest of the team ( photographer, the picture editor (
    • TV news Production
    • TV reporting mechanisms
    • How to make a report from the field
    • How to conduct interviews for television reports ( form and content)
    • Creative and technical skills
    • Basic technical principles of photography and image editing
    • Visual configuration
    • Importance of natural sounds in the TV report
    • Watching and analyzing some press reports
    • Writing for the picture
    • Parallel TV news types
    • Diction skills and piece to Camera
    • The reporter’s live TV message DTL (Down the Line)
    • Walk and Talk
    • First Person Story
    • Emergent problems and how to deal with them
  • Meeting the Press

    Meeting the Press

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • This course of meeting the press aims at transferring the knowledge in an effective way that serves objectives and goals of public or private organizations. This could be through television, radio, newspapers, internet, conferences, or any other means directed at large audiences. This course is designed to help professionals and managers understand the basics of dealing with the media in a real environment and to provide participants with the appropriate skills needed to understand the media tools in general.

    Objectives

    • At the end of the course, participants should:
    • Understand the rules of dealing with the media (TV, radio, interviews, conferences….)
    • Be able to understand the different media tools and perceive the general concept of journalism
    • Learn how to properly prepare interviews and use them for the objective goals

    Level Expectations

    • Reaching the media through personal relationships with journalists and media producers
    • Types of interviews and talk shows currently prevailing in media (information talk, opinion talk, personal features)
    • How to prepare and organize a press conference
    • Interviews: an ordeal or a breakthrough
    • Interview skills
    • The three main building features: clarity, confidence, control
    • The difference between TV, radio and newspaper’s interviews
    • Understanding the information values
    • What creates the story or the event?
    • Who is the audience?
    • Why some stories are outstanding and others are not?
    • What makes your message relevant?
    • Defining your main message in relation to your experience and specialty
    • Conclusion ( make your message condensed and brief)
    • Techniques of interviews
    • How to deal with difficult questions
    • Moving to positive content
    • ABCD formula: acknowledgement, building, control, dangling
    • Dealing with difficult situations
    • Reason, regret, remedy
    • How to express concern without accepting the responsibility
    • Telephone interview: (storytelling and orienting the journalist)
    • Preparing the telephone interview
    • The interview
    • Reviewing and analysing the interview
    • The live studio TV interview (improving the TV presentation techniques)
    • Basics of filmed interviews
    • The dos and don’ts
    • Relaxation exercises
    • How to dress?
    • Face expressions and breathing
    • Preparing the TV interview
    • Interview in the studio
    • Review and analysis of the interview
    • The art of dealing with DTLs
    • Preparing for the interview
    • The interview
    • Reviewing and analyzing the interview
  • Skills of Voice Placement & Elocution

    Skills of Voice Placement & Elocution

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • ”Make your voice heard” The news might be interesting, but it will not captivate the receiver (viewers or listeners) unless presented in a suitable way. Therefore, this course gives the radio and TV program presenters and indeed all media professionals the necessary tools to develop their voice skills in addition to providing them with the knowledge and the technical skills they need to be aware of their voice and to control and train it in order to make it appealing to the receivers.

    Objectives

    • At the end of the course, participants should:
    • Be fully aware of the importance of the voice
    • Understand the basics of the voice and its concentration mechanisms
    • Improve the performance abilities of the voice and how to control it
    • Be able to attract the attention of the receiver

    Level Expectations

    • The importance of the voice
    • The concept and criteria of a nice voice
    • Explaining the voice characteristics and its effect on the receiver
    • The voice and the self-confidence
    • Control and command
    • Breathing form the diaphragm
    • Relaxation, concentration and control of fear and emotions
    • The face and tongue muscles
    • Voice expression
    • The voice tone, presence and speed
    • The tone and the voice
    • Rhythm and dynamics
    • Using the body language for more freedom
    • Presentation and diction
    • Diction, cutting the text and highlighting the intonation and stress in the sentences
    • Addressing the audience
    • Radio presentation
    • The artistic dubbing
  • Stills Photography

    Stills Photography

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • “Photography is the icon of reality” Ronald Mountain Stills Photography is not simply a camera that everyone can buy and it is not simply pushing a button to shoot souvenir pictures. In spite of its apparent simplicity, stills photography is a noble art requiring a lot of technical and aesthetic skills in order to achieve creativity and the capability to shoot the reality with spontaneity and credibility. This training course will expose participants to the basics of stills photography and will help them to deeply understand it to enable them to record the reality around them in a more aesthetic and profitable way.

    Objectives

    • At the end of the course, participants should:
    • Become familiarized to the art of stills photography, understand its fundamentals and know its principal elements and tools.
    • Cultivate the basics of the visual culture in youth in order to create a generation which is able to contribute to the world creativity and arts

    Level Expectations

    • General introduction
    • Definition of the concept of the art of stills photography
    • The philosophic and aesthetic difference between stills and motion pictures
    • The difference between digital cameras and filming cameras and types of cameras
    • The concept of art and reality in stills photography
    • Types of photography
    • Shooting techniques
    • Introducing the stills photography tools
    • Introducing the camera components
    • The tripod
    • Camera settings
    • Types of lenses, differences between them and uses
    • ISO and white balance
    • The concept of nature lighting and artificial lighting and how to use them
    • Aesthetics and creativity in photography
    • The visual composition
    • The elements of image attractiveness
    • Understanding the criteria of picture quality
    • Handling the common mistakes in stills photography
  • TV Presenting

    TV Presenting

    Online based

    Downloadable exercise

    Offline viewing

    Fixed/flex schedule

    Fixed time homework

    Certificate of completion

    Course Description

    • TV Presentation The fame and stardom of those working in the TV field have often been tempting elements for people who try their chance in the world of TV. Some do that out of curiosity, to discover the details of this exciting work but others do it armed with the conviction that they are fit to become one day successful anchors.

    Objectives

    • By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
    • Learn about the profession of TV presenter thoroughly by prominent experts in the field.

    Level Expectations

    • Introduction to TV
    • Introduction to TV
    • Introducing the studio and the relationship between the presenter and the editorial and technical teams
    • Qualities of the presenter
    • Charisma, presence and voice
    • Serenity, promptness and concentration
    • Skills of TV presentation
    • Proficiency in conversation/language, good control of the body language and readiness to contingencies
    • Good use of the automatic reader, headset, and relationship with the director