This new film documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt by print journalists learning video journalism techniques.
I was able to make this film with great contributions from a translator and a top film assistant. We directed the efforts of 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary about this issue in only one week’s time. We worked with people who had never done a project like this before . . .
Mish mush kella, we used the daily tasks as a customized lesson for each day of the workshop.
The journalists worked in two teams on locations around Egypt’s second-largest city with the goal of interviewing a wide range of people. The film project is presented here entirely in Arabic language. (An English-language dub may be available later in 2009)
Over the course of four days the reporters received daily instruction in the fundamentals of video journalism by the director and were given daily filming assignments to produce the reporting for this documentary.
This film was made during a video journalism training workshop sponsored by USAID and the Egypt Media Develpment Project.
The movie was first screened at the Bibliotech Library in Alexandria for an international journalism conference that was organized by the Media Development Project.
The conference theme was focused on how to produce better local media and reporting in the Arab world.
See more of my multimedia films and documentaries.
I have been invited to speak about non-narrative journalism techniques at the 16th World Editors Forum to be held next March in Hyderabad, India.
This will be my fifth consecutive WAN/WEF event and my second as a presenter. I will also be directing a team of video journalists to produce daily reports just like I have done for the Editors Forum in 2006 in Moscow, in 2007 in Cape Town and in 2008 in Sweden. More details on that will come, but I am delighted to again be sharing the stage with a couple of world-class visual journalists. Alberto gave a great graphics presentation at a Paris event I attended in June and Joerdis presented on adventure mobile journalism and advanced graphics at SND Las Vegas.
Sixth Session (14H30 – 15H30) Visual journalism: the rise of infographics and non narrative news Newspaper design and infographics are more and more important in an increasingly visual world. Participants will learn from the best examples of 2008’s print and online redesigns and get an in-depth look at the best in non-narrative news.
With: Alberto Cairo, Professor of Visual Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Joerdis Guzman Bulla, Art Director, Welt am Sonntag, Germany Robb Montgomery, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, visualeditors.com, USA
More information about the India congress can be found here.
WAN and the Newspaper Society of India will host the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum, to be held in Hyderabad, India, from 22 to 25 March.
All Forum sessions will take place at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. Simultaneous translation will be provided in English, Spanish, French, German and Arabic.
Today I taught a magazine design at Cairo University, Faculty of Mass Communication and in the afternoon returned to finish the last day of my four day design workshop at the Supreme Press Council.
It’s been an adventurous 30 days in Egypt training student and professional journalists under the Media Development Program.
Below are some photo slideshows from my video and design classes conducted in Alexandria and Cairo.
Design workshop the Supreme Press Council in Cairo
Egypt: Press Syndicate design and redesign workshop
Robb Montgomery is the CEO of Visual Editors and an independent consultant.
He has worked as a visual editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and partners with media groups and journalism associations in more than 16 countries to design training curriculum for video journalism, newspaper design and multimedia reporting.
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