ABU Media Academy in collaboration with RT Academy* is conducting a series of trainings. The programme focuses on succeeding in social media, creating and finding high-quality video content and using AI in news production. Top specialists from RT will share their experience on how to find and verify videos, tips for blogging and building a community around your social media brand, the ways to conduct great interviews and much more.
Finding an interesting character is key to the success of a documentary film.
We’ll talk about:
– where and how to look for people with unique life stories
– how to gauge your character’s story dramatic potential
– how to win people over and get their consent to be filmed.
This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday 24 April | 2.30 pm KL time.
Trainer: Lyudmila Shamanova, Producer, RT Documentary
Lyudmila Shamanova joined RT Documentary in 2009. At RTD, she’s worked on dozens of projects, including award-winning pieces like ‘She is My Son’ (Bronze World Medal at the 2017 New York Festivals World’s Best TV & Films), ‘Project Duterte’ (1st at Telly Awards 2017), ‘Lady cops of Afghanistan’(Human Rights Press Award), and ‘Dying alone’(Gold Medal in the Human Concerns category at the New York Festivals 2020 TV & Film Awards).
* RT Academy provides online courses and in-person seminars on different aspects of international journalism by top professionals from the RT news network. Our presenters, correspondents, producers, content creators, social media specialists and heads of various departments share their decades-long experience with aspiring and professional journalists from all over the world. Among the deep dive topics are lessons on delivering a news broadcast, formatting social media news, fact-checking, verifying video content, on-camera delivery, conducting interviews, using AI in news production and much more.
RT is a global TV news network providing news, current affairs and documentaries in nine languages and is now available to 800 million viewers in more than 100 countries around the globe.