Welcome to our page on the World Fish Photofilm Training Bangladesh 2012. If you’re reading this then you’re probably coming on the training. Great.
What is photofilm training?
We’ll be teaching you how to make engaging and arresting films using photos and audio. With some focused training, a bit of practice and lots of hard work its something that we believe anyone can learn to do.
Here’s an example of a film we made during a period that we spent teaching at ILRI last year:
What will we be doing in Bangladesh?
The four days will consist of both classroom learning and going out into the field to collect the materials for your own story. You’ll be working in groups of three and Mike and I will take you through the whole production process. By the end we should have three draft photofilms.
These are some of the skills you can expect to develop:
- How to identify a suitable story for a photofilm
- How to plan the steps to gather audio and photos
- How to record audio
- Photographic approaches for shooting stills for photofilms
- Interview skills
- Editing skills
Draft Schedule
| Sunday 8 January | 10.00: Depart from Dhaka to Jessore (Salma to provide flight details) |
| Travel by bus from Jessore to Khulna, book into CSS Ava Center (accommodation) | |
| Afternoon: Training in conference room at CSS Ava Center | |
| Monday 9 January | Training in conference room at CSS Ava Center |
| Tuesday 10 January | Early morning departure for field locations to record training stories |
| Afternoon: Post production training in the conference room at CSS Ava Center | |
| Wednesday 11 January | Training: Post production training in the conference room at CSS Ava Center |
| Thursday 12 January | Morning: Screening of completed projects and training recap13.00: Departure from Kulna via bus for Jessore18.20: Departure from Jessore to Dhaka (Salma to provide flight details)Dhaka (accommodation to be confirmed based on participants onward travel) |
Kit
Each group of three will need the following kit;
- A digital recorder. I recommend the Roland RO5
- Windshield (fluffy thing that goes over the top of recorder, a woolly sock would do)
- Overear headphones (something like these are fine but no earbuds!)
- Spare batteries and SDHC card to record on
- Digital Camera
- Laptop with Soundslides software (demo version fine) and Adobe Audition (30 day demo fine)
Will the training be fun?
YES.
We don’t want to blow our own trumpet, but here’s two examples of participant feedback from a photofilm workshop that we led for the British Council here in London in December 2011.
‘Big thank you to you and Mike for the training this week. I would rate the training course incredibly highly. The delivery was excellent and done in such a way that anyone, regardless of how familiar you are with photo films and multimedia, could engage. I really do think this is a useful tool that the British Council can employ.’ Emma Cooksen, British Council
‘I learnt an incredible amount in a short space of time which was made possible by the excellent knowledge of both Ben and Mike. It was informal and fast paced at the right times and more importantly it was really enjoyable.‘ Phil Catchpole, British Council
If you have a question
If you have a question then just leave a comment at the end of the post and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can
And finally
We’re more excited about this training than any other we’ve got planned next year because to me Bangladesh is a really magical place. Mike and I can’t wait to meet you.
About the trainers
duckrabbit founder Benjamin Chesterton is a former BBC Radio 4 documentaries producer, profiled by the Observer as ‘one of radio’s biggest turn ons’. He was the Country Representative of the BBC World Service Trust in Ethiopia and is recognized as a pioneer of photofilms.
Here’s a photofilm he produced for the BBC earlier this year:
Mike Lusmore is an English photographer, multimedia producer and superb trainer.
We’ll finish by showing one of his films:
