This E-Learning Platform on Professional Media Production gathers a selection of filmed courses covering three fields of media production: photojournalism, feature writing and filmmaking. It is based on the Pan-African Workshop for Professional Media Production held in 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that brought together students from various African countries and renowned professionals of African descent from the Diaspora.
This course introduces the work of renowned African-American and Jamaican photographers, and covers the main principles of photography and photojournalism in todays’ context: ‘rule of thirds’, depth of field, community photography, smartphone photography, and use of social media, among others.
What is news? What makes a story? How do you find the focus of your story? How do you convey your story idea? How do you prepare an interview? This course responds to these questions through the sharing of professional experience of renowned journalists and writers from Europe and the USA.
Through reference documentaries, this course highlights the link between Identity, community, culture and media and focuses on how to use the camera as a tool for social change in different contexts; it also introduces the basic principles of script writing.
Film director, producer and founder of Chimpanzee Productions based in New York, USA.
Photo editor at The New York Times and producer of the NYTimes Lens blog.
Harlem-based photographer/photo-educator and one of the founding members of the Kamoinge Workshop.
The main goal of the platform is to empower African media professionals with analytical and technical skills in order to improve the quality of media coverage of Africa in national and international media.
