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UNESCO trainings Training 2 Training3 The weavers Contact Us Updated 12 Nov 2009
Training for the Gamo weavers group September / October2009
UNESCO's communications manager Mr. Paul Hector in an organized multimedia training class at the CRDA building! Such trainings accompanied with workshops are having a good impact in groups of young people! 1. Mr. Solomon is showing to the young participants the use of Adobe's Photoshop! 2. A combination of training together with workshops gave excellent results! 3. The installation of the HP high resolution printer-scanners an extremely useful tool for the young designers! Supported by	UNESCO's Addis Ababa Office in concert with Ltd, a communications firm is organizing multimedia training workshops in Addis Ababa for rural Community multimedia centers (CMCs) in Ethiopia. The workshop will focus on reinforcing skills and capacities of 12 young men and women coming from the UNESCO centers located in the towns of Bahir Dar, Lalibela and Harar. In addition to being exposed to the underlying technical skills and theory behind using Video cameras, digital photo cameras, and PCs with audio-visual editing software, participants will have ample opportunities to gain hands-on experience in creating multimedia products in local languages addressing local development issues. In September, a two week training was organized by Mr. Paul Hector UNESCO's communications manager at TSALKE's office for 8 young participants from the weavers group in Suromeda! The weavers group comprised from young artists and 'loom' enthusiasts mainly from the Arbaminch area working with traditional looms! Generation after generation this profession is taught at homes or local traditional workshops! The participants had the opportunity to familiarize themselves and create new designs as well as learning ways to manipulate various settings using Adobe's Photoshop! In addition they have benefited from the everyday workshops offered to store and print a number of new designs! *Two 'workstation' PCs were donated by UNESCO in order to assist the weavers in order to develop new designs as well as archiving them for future use!* The HP high resolution printer-scanners proved very useful as well as the demand to distribute the new designs and follow an optical approval/correction by the group's skilled designers is important! Organized by:

The weavers workshop at Shuromeda

The weavers group have their workshop in Shuromeda.

The weavers group comprised from young artists and 'loom' enthusiasts mainly from the Arbaminch area working with traditional looms!

Generation after generation this profession is taught at homes or local traditional workshops!

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Multimedia training for a mixed group November 2008

Many CMCs in Ethiopia and other developing countries face great difficulties in ensuring their long-term financial sustainability after the initial seed project funding that created them dries up. With this lesson in mind, the workshop will also be seeking to expose participants to the concept of social enterprise and encourage them in identifying ways in which the skills developed in the workshop can be used to both provide meaningful and beneficial services to their respective communities while at the same time providing opportunities for revenue generation, part-time or even full-time employment and the longer term sustenance of the CMC concept.

Hopefully, the sharing of experiences and meeting of these creative young minds will provide new, rich and innovative locally relevant insights to the challenge of sustainability.

All participants are photographed in front of CRDA

entrance with Mr. Paul Hector communications manager from UNESCO top row in the middle and Costas Papa from SCC on the left!

The way the lighting is placed is an art!

There are though basic rules to help you out

starting with correct lighting positioning!

In Appendix C you can find such basic

'Cameras and lighting' positioning.

The Storyboard, to help filming, our story is made in form of sequenced pictures!

UNESCO's Addis Ababa Office in concert with Ltd, a communications firm will be organizing a 1-week multimedia training workshop in Addis Ababa for rural Community multimedia centers (CMCs) in Ethiopia.

The workshop will focus on reinforcing skills and capacities of 10 young men and women from the UNESCO centers located in the towns of Bahir Dar and Harar. In addition to being exposed to the underlying technical skills and theory behind using digital cameras, audio-visual digital editing software, participants will have ample opportunities to gain hands-on experience in creating multimedia products in local languages addressing local development issues.

The workshop will seek to build on experiences gained in a previous training conducted for the Harar CMC in conjunction with the Harar Regional Bureau for Youth, Sports and Culture which oversees the operation of the Harar CMC and to share their experiences in social enterprise with the Bahir Dar group. One outcome of this earlier workshop was the production of a VCD highlighting various aspects of the history and culture of the city of Harar and which is now being sold to tourists and visitors. The Harar CMC is also pursuing plans to design and print t-shirts which can provide other streams of revenue in addition to the traditional offerings of ICT courses and printing services.

On the left some pictures from our book 'Advance filming Techniques' which was developed especially for these trainings. This book was distributed to all participants and to a number of students.

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UNESCO training of the Hareri group 2005-2006

During the multimedia training everybody had

a good hands-on experience with capturing and

editing DV video!

Picture taken in front of the CRDA entrance. All participants photographed with me and Mr. Paul Hector from UNESCO top

row in the middle.

Part of our project "Harar the medieval walled city" was to give a comprehensive training to a local team in filming and multimedia. The idea was to produce a promotional CD / DVD about all aspects of Harar and at same time to give means and knowledge to a local team of creative individuals in order to be able to involve themselves in future productions. The overall training program included filming, editing and authoring interactive CDs in order to finally produce CDs and DVDs with local content.

The last part of this training course was held in CRDA compound here in Addis Abeba with six participants from Harar and one participant from Addis itself.

The scope of this final session of the Multimedia training was to conclude all subjects taught in the previous sessions using Adobe's Photoshop and Premiere as well as Macromedia's Director. We had also to put together all edited material filmed previously on location and produce the final interactive CD using Macromedia's Director ! This proved to be a difficult task as we had to record and insert all 'voice over' audio parts in video clips needing narration as well as to correct all spelling and historical mistakes! But with the help of the Hareri team we manage to overcome all problems, complete this difficult task and successfully produce the interactive CD during this final session!

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