Youth Empowerment Programmes connected to ‘STEAM’ and ‘Citizen Science’ for Students of Indian Universities
As a part of the Citizen Science Programme on Climate Change, Biodiversity Awareness & Conservation, a brief Media Training Session was conducted by the Founder President at Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata during the months of June-July, 2018. 12 students, from different streams of study, who have completed the 1st Phase of the Citizen Science Programme, had participated in a 3-day training session on the Basics of Documentary Filmmaking and Reporting. The session was divided into indoor/classroom training on the use of different types of Cameras and Audio-Visual Equipment and outdoor shooting session at the Rabindra Sarovar Lake, South Kolkata. The session was divided into indoor/classroom training on the use of different types of Cameras and Audio-Visual Equipment and outdoor shooting session at the Rabindra Sarovar Lake, South Kolkata.
The students got a chance to learn about Basic Cinematography and Pre-Production through simple exercises on Script-writing, Pre-Production and Storyboarding. Example Documentary Films were screened during the introductory session to familiarise the students about different types of Camera Shots, Camera Moves, Transitions, Use of Light in Filmography, etc. The Students were taught the use of proprietary Video Editing Software - Sony Vegas, where Evaluation/Trail Versions of the Software was used to impart the training. They came up with scripts of their own and got a chance to learn the use of Audio Editing Features of the Software to record their own narrations for 3 min short films which they shot and edited. For most of them, this was the First time that they were trying to make a film.
The Media Training Session attained an International Dimension with the participation of Ariel Gans, Student from the University of California, Berkeley, who came over an interacted with the student participants and shared her own work related to Environmental Awareness and Conservation. A friend of the Founder President, who met her during his training at the National Conservation Training Center, West Virginia, US. Ariel was invited by him to join the programme and participate in the outdoor shooting sessions. WildRoots is really grateful to her and commends the way she interacted with the students, sharing her ideas. She, along with one of her fellow interns who had been to Kolkata, working at the Tata Medical Center, were interviewed during the outdoor shooting session, where they shared more about the conservation measures that are taken in the US, and some simple ideas that can easily be replicated in the Indian scenario, to combat Global issues and work for a collective outcome.
Moments from the Programme - Photo Documentation
Short Films made by the Student Participants of the Media Training
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