Mobile Journalism – Online Certificate Program

• Dates: 27, 28, 29, 30 Jan, 2 & 3 February, 2021
• Time: 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM
• Fee: Rs 2,360/-

Faculty: G Babu Jayakumar  (Political Editor, Deccan Chronicle), Ramanathan S  (Partner, Content & Strategy - The News Minute),  Smitha TK  (Senior Correspondent, The Quint, )D Suresh Kumar  (Dy Res Editor, The Hindu) &  Nivedhita  Niranjankumar  (Deputy News Editor-South - Boomlive)

To train citizens, journalism students and media professionals to produce content – tailored to different digital platforms using a mobile device to laptops. As journalism embraces digital, students and emerging professionals need a broader skillset to make themselves more employable, whether as mainstream or entrepreneurial journalists. This workshop provides an overview of all the skills and practices needed to be a mobile / digital journalist.

• Key features:
• Underline the importance of story and storytelling, the crucial context journalists always need to keep in mind.
• A step-by-step guidance to mobile technology, laptops and apps, with emphasis on hardware and software.
• The key components of research, shooting, scripting, voice-over, editing and post-production.
• Posting, tags and understanding the nuances of the different social media platforms from facebook, Instagram, youtube, twitter and Linkedin and customizing content accordingly.

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• What will you learn?
• Tools you can use to create images, data, infographics, fonts as visual storytelling elements
• How to experiment with storytelling methods to engage and keep various age groups of the audience engaged
• How to tailor content and visuals for social media platforms

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• Who will you learn from?
• 1. Basics of journalism and reporting – Babu Jayakumar (Deccan chronicle)
• 2. How the digital news ecosystem works: Understanding the medium – Ramanathan S (Partner, Content & Strategy - The News Minute)
• 3. Ground reporting for mobile journalism: Tools and methods – Smitha TK (Reporter, The Quint)
• 4. Running a mainstream newsroom with digital convergence – D Suresh Kumar (Dy Res Editor, The Hindu)
• 5. Online fact-checking tools and methods – Nivedita Niranjankumar (Boomlive)

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• i. HOW TO FIND STORIES
• ii. SCRIPTING
• It is primary to learn to draw a storyboard before you shoot a story.
• You have to grab the viewer’s attention in the first 10 seconds of the video. It has to be with a powerful shot or a byte.
• Subtitling a story, even if it is in English or in a regional language for any platform, helps in increasing the reach with the audience.

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• iii. STYLES OF STORYTELLING
• 1. Short documentaries
• 2. Standup
• 3. BRUT style
• 4. You could shoot as Instagram stories, Snapchat stories or TIKTOK videos. This makes the story very quick and easier to edit as you just need to string them together and you dont need to subtitle as you can add the text directly as text and this can save a lot of shoot and edit time.
• 5. Infographics/ date-driven
• 6. Interactive internal sites
• 7. Photos, text and videos are the most conventional methods of storytelling.
• 8.VLOG

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• iv. EQUIPMENT
• All you need is a good phone, a lapel microphone, a selfie stick and a tripod for a shoot of any kind.

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• v. EDITING
• Phone editing apps - Quik, Adobe Premier Rush, PowerDirector, Kinemaster
• Laptop editing apps - Adobe Premier Pro
• You could create a few templates for name/location tags, subtitles, slugs, so that editing is quicker and they can be accessed quickly every time you edit.

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• vi SHARING CONTENT for different Social Media Platforms
• Design customised teasers for various social platforms and make sure to be active on social media. Can share examples of how to tailor make it based on the platform