Prerequisites

• High school and preferably a degree in media, journalism or human sciences.
• Basic knowledge of mobile phone technology.

Course Description

Amid the speedy technological development and the digital boom affecting all aspects of our life, a new type of audio-visual journalism emerged opening the door to recreational publishing, blogging and photography. As a result, people could now convey their digital journalistic production to wide audiences. When an event takes place, nothing is faster than a smart mobile phone to record the moment in sound and picture and communicate it immediately to an audience which is permanently hungry for breaking news. In this course, participants will be taught how to make a professional documentary using the technologies available in their mobile phones.

Course Objective

• Become familiarized with and get trained on the best way to use mobile phones in filming, recording sounds and editing.
• Know the potentials of mobile filmmaking and its shortcomings.
• Become familiar with the ethical issues governing the production of short documentaries using mobile phones.
• Acquire the ability to shoot, edit and broadcast a short documentary using a mobile phone.

Course Outline

• Exploring the available technical possibilities:
- Picture recording (ENG/EFP zoom lenses).
- Special tripods.
- Sound recording microphones.
- Available editing apps.
- How to delay battery drainage.
• Content processing skills:
- Using mobile phones for video recording: handling the mobile phone and getting a steady frame.
- Playing videos on mobile phones: settings…
- Fundamentals of the picture framing, its movements and types.
- How to compress a ready sequence and broadcast it right away.
- How to conduct an interview with a good sound.
- How to make a simple and good editing.
- Editing exporting and publishing in a proper format.

Course Benefits

• A graduation certificate by Aljazeera Media Institute.
• Graduation project.