By Sherub Dorji | Assistant Programme Officer
Comunication Through Visual Storytelling
With the increasing number of new technologies, a variety of tasks like filming and editing video and audio have been made easier. We can now learn and tell our own story without relying on the media. We can tell a compelling story ourselves through multimedia as long as we have basic storytelling skills. To give multimedia skills to the Bhutanese, the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy organised an eight-day multimedia workshop called “Communication through Visual Storytelling” from 22-29 July at the Media Lab.Led by Mr Vairam Gopalakrishnan, Media Production Specialist, the workshop not only aimed to enhance the capacity of the participants to become effective storytellers through the use of simple multimedia tools, but also identified people with the potential to make short films on social change after the workshop. Five groups worked on with five different topics to produce short films. The topics are waste management, unemployment issues, animal cruelty, awareness on disability and promotion of indigenous arts and crafts. The films were screened on 29 July at the Media Lab and followed by a short discussion on the films. The participants consisted of young graduates, CSO members, a teacher and students from school and colleges.Music Video to Encourage READING
This is a short music video dedicated to the 60th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuk. The video celebrates the national reading year 2015 in Bhutan.OPEN MIC NIGHTS
Creating a small cohort of community at the media lab is the ultimate goal of the open mic nights. Apart from music, literature and art, the open mic night also provides a space for fruitful discussion on the current pressing issuce. Another open mic night was held few days after the mothers day. Participants shared their love for their mother and how she became an inspiration in their lives. Poems were recited, songs were sung and stories told to remember the most important person in our lives.Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
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