Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Hossain was recently appointed as the new Director General of the National Institute of Mass Communication & Chief Executive, Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute.
Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Hossain was recently appointed as the new Director General of the National Institute of Mass Communication & Chief Executive, Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute. A proud freedom fighter, Dr Jahangir is a member of Bangladesh Civil Service Information Cadre. He started his government career in 1986, working at various levels under the Ministry of Information, Prime Minister’s Office, and Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre.
His interests cover mathematics, journalism and mass communication, which have served him well as a researcher, writer, teacher, and editor. He has a Ph.D in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dr. Jahangir has around 40 publications in different journals and received many awards. Among his research work were on Communication Pattern of Bureaucracy in Bangladesh: Internal and Public Dealings; Pattern of Public Relations of the Civil Servants: A Case of Dhamrai Thana; and Local Level Initiative in Development: A Case Study on Total Mass Literacy Program, conducted in the District of Lalmonirhat in Bangladesh.
]]>AIBD and BBS organised an In-country workshop on Children’s TV programmes from 21 – 25 November 2016, in Thimphu, Bhutan, funded by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). With 11 participating producers from Bhutan Broadcasting Corporation Services, this workshop mainly focused on dramatic content in Children’s programmes, the cultural, historical and language representations.
AIBD and BBS organised an In-country workshop on Children’s TV programmes from 21 – 25 November 2016, in Thimphu, Bhutan, funded by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). With 11 participating producers from Bhutan Broadcasting Corporation Services, this workshop mainly focused on dramatic content in Children’s programmes, the cultural, historical and language representations.
The main area explored in the workshop was the need for creating local content for children today which would help to strengthen their identity and their linguistic and cultural foundation. This would in-turn help with children’s need to take their own cultural ballast with them in order to be able to understand and take other cultures, values, and religions seriously and accept them.
The participants approached this workshop with the intention of increasing the number of quality children’s television programmes broadcasted within the country as evinced by the number of creative and innovative ideas generated during the workshop, which the consultant felt could be used as an information platform for the younger generation. This 5-day workshop was conducted by Mr Kalle Fürst, Consultant for NRK & Director of Fürst & Father, Film and TV Ltd., Norway.
Connect4Climate, the World Bank Group’s global partnership program, launched the Film4Climate Global Video Competition to promote sustainability in the creative industries through active engagement with young people in finding solutions to climate change.
Connect4Climate, the World Bank Group’s global partnership program, launched the Film4Climate Global Video Competition to promote sustainability in the creative industries through active engagement with young people in finding solutions to climate change.
Announced at the Cannes Film Festival, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition invites aspiring filmmakers from around the world to express their vision for a sustainable future by creating a short film or video about climate action. The competition calls on filmmakers to explore Climate Action, the 13th goal under the UN Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing what individuals and communities around the world are doing to promote action, offer solutions and inspire positive change to combat climate change and its impacts. Filmmakers are encouraged to deploy personal narratives that explore fundamental questions such as: What does climate change mean to me? What actions am I taking to mitigate the advance of global warming? What is my Climate Action message to the world?
The competition will be open for submissions through September 15, with the winners to be announced at a high-profile awards ceremony at the United Nations COP22 Climate Summit in Marrakesh, Morocco in November.
The winning entries will receive cash prizes of $8,000, $5,000, and $2,000 for first, second and third place in each of two categories: an under one-minute Public Service Advertisement (PSA) or a Short Film up to five minutes.
The competition offers filmmakers a chance to have their work reviewed by a jury chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci, and including other preeminent directors, producers, writers and political leaders.
The competition is the outcome of a partnership between the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate program, the United Nations, Vulcan Productions, and the Italian energy company Enel, which has endorsed the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and targeted carbon neutrality for its operations by 2050. Other presenting partners include the UNFCCC, UN Sustainable Development, UNEP, The Global Brain, and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco. In addition, more than 50 collaborating partners, including AIBD, are supporting the competition.
For more information about Film4Climate Global Video Competition, please visit: www.film4climate.net.
]]>The URTI organises, with the support of UNESCO and the entirety of the international audiovisual organisations, the International Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary.
The URTI organises, with the support of UNESCO and the entirety of the international audiovisual organisations, the International Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary.
In television, the International URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary enjoys a great renown thanks to a strong participation and to the quality of the programmes accepted in competition.
Four prizes will be given, among which the URTI Grand Prix (Arman Trophy) awarded to the director of the best documentary with a 500 dollar reward.
Each television channel can register for free one or two documentaries. The rules and the registration form can be obtained by simple request addressed to: nathalie.lacroix@radiofrance.com
Deadline for sending entries: Sunday, May 1st 2016.
]]>The Dart Centre Asia-Pacific is providing two expense-paid fellowships to Australian and regional mid-career journalists who want to develop knowledge Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma of emotional trauma to improve coverage of violence and disaster.
Fellowships are open to media professionals from all modes of reporting with at least five years of journalism experience.
The Asia Pacific Fellows will join ten or more European, American and Latin American journalists at an intensive week-long program of seminars and discussions held at Columbia University in New York City.
The Dart Centre Asia-Pacific is providing two expense-paid fellowships to Australian and regional mid-career journalists who want to develop knowledge Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma of emotional trauma to improve coverage of violence and disaster.
Fellowships are open to media professionals from all modes of reporting with at least five years of journalism experience.
The Asia Pacific Fellows will join ten or more European, American and Latin American journalists at an intensive week-long program of seminars and discussions held at Columbia University in New York City.
To apply for an Ochberg Fellowship download an application form from www.dartcentre.org
Closing date is 28 September 2015.
Seventeen participants from Bangladesh Television (BTV) participated in the In-coutry workshop on ‘Children’s TV Programme’ which took place from 8 to 12 June 2015 at BTV office in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Seventeen participants from Bangladesh Television (BTV) participated in the In-coutry workshop on ‘Children’s TV Programme’ which took place from 8 to 12 June 2015 at BTV office in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The participants came from several departments of BTV: production staff, designers, camera, editing and staff members from children's programmes. During the activity the consultant, Mr Kalle Furst (consultant for NRK) focused on dramaturgy, brainstorming, project development and pitch of new projects. As part of the workshop he spent half a day on the screening of the participants programmes
The participants were divided in several groups. At the end of the workshop, each group gave a presentation (picth). All the possible ways to present a creative pitch were used: from PowerPoint presentation to the production of a new animation and drama manuscript (performed and played).
This workshop was organised by AIBD and supported by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
‘Pagbangon’ from Philippines and ‘Extreme Weather’ from Australia won the World Television Awards 2015 under Humanity and Science / Environment categories, respectively.
‘Pagbangon’ from Philippines and ‘Extreme Weather’ from Australia won the World Television Awards 2015 under Humanity and Science / Environment categories, respectively.
The Awards were announced during the Asia Media Summit held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ‘Pagbangon’ broadcast by GMA Network, Inc, Philippines and directed by Ms. Angeli Guidaya-Atienza won the award for the best documentary under the Humanity category. This year’s topic for the category was “Dealing with Natural Disasters".
Mr Chang Jin, Director of AIBD, and Mr Abdelrahim Suleiman, Director General of Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), who jointly announced the winner, presented a trophy and certificate to Ms. Angeli Guidaya-Atienza.
Mr Chang Jin, Mr John Maguire, Ms Angeli Guidaya-Atienza and Mr Abdelrahim Suleiman
(From left to right)
To announce and present the best TV Programme under the Science / Environment category Mr. Chang Jin was joined by Mr. Damien Syed, First Secretary of the Embassy of France in Kuala Lumpur. “Extreme Weather”, directed by Ms. Anja Taylor and broadcast by ABC, Australia won the World Television Awards under the category Science/ Environment. This year’s topic under the category was "Building Resilience to Climate Change”.
Ms Lynley Marshall, Chief Executive Officer Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) International received the trophy and certificate on behalf of Ms. Anja Taylor.
Mr Damien Syed, Ms Lynley Marshall, Mr Chang Jin and Mr John Maguire
(From left to right)
As the Chairperson of the jury for the World Television Awards 2015, Mr John Maguire, Director of International Relations and Cooperation of France Médias Monde, explained the selection process.
For each category the winners will receive a cash prize of US$5,000.
The World TV Awards 2015 are supported by Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and Islamic Broadcasting Union (IBU).
]]>Next year Thai PBS is coming up with a new channel for children and family programmes. The organisation has taken up many new projects to increase the production of children’s programmes for the new channel. Thus an AIBD/NRK/ Thai PBS workshop on ‘Children TV Programmes was organised from 23 to 27 February in Bangkok to develop six of these projects.
Next year Thai PBS is coming up with a new channel for children and family programmes. The organisation has taken up many new projects to increase the production of children’s programmes for the new channel.
Thus an AIBD/NRK/ Thai PBS workshop on ‘Children TV Programmes was organised from 23 to 27 February in Bangkok to develop six of these projects.
20 participants – from Thai PBS and independent production companies participated in this activity. The participants were talented, enthusiastic and hardworking TV professionals – with a sense of humour.
As part of the workshop we spent half a day screening programmes made by the participants — for me this has always been the most interesting part; for the participants it is a learning experience. As many of the participants were coming from small companies, opportunities to get professional feedback were limited. This part of the workshop gave them the opportunity to meet others from the profession and get the much needed feedback. In return they also got the chance to evaluate and learn from other such programmes.
In my workshops I try to focus on creativity, besides sharing in depth information about children’s use of media. I discuss, development needs of different age groups, new ways of using media via Internet and give a lot of exercises with drama and improvisations. These exercises are meant to give ideas to work with children.
The theory that 4 brains are better than one was put to use in my workshop. The participants worked in six groups to maximise on creative processes. Group work helped in combining ideas which eventually gave better results than that of a single person’s ideation.
At the end of the workshop the 6 groups presented their ideas in a Pitch. The hard work put in by the group was evident in the attractive presentations they had made.
Children from the Thai-Singapore International School meeting the participants
Finally, I wish to say that it is important for every country to produce their own children’s programmes. Using children from your own country for the programmes and scheduling them correctly is crucial. Therefore it is encouraging to see that Thai PBS is focusing on increasing nationally produced children's programmes. There is a digital war out there – everyone is fighting for your children’s soul and money! If you are not there for your children — others will take your place!
By Mr. Kalle Fürst, Consultant for NRK and Director of Fürst & Far Film and Fjernsyn
Every year February 13 is celebrated as World Radio Day. UNESCO has invited radio producers and broadcasters to celebrate the World Radio Day 2015 around the theme “Youth and Radio”
Every year February 13 is celebrated as World Radio Day. UNESCO has invited radio producers and broadcasters to celebrate the World Radio Day 2015 around the theme “Youth and Radio”.
Broadcasters around the world organise radio events to mark and celebrate the occasion. UNESCO’s website for world Radio Day www.diamundialradio.org gives many suggestions on how broadcasters can celebrate the event. UNESCO is partnering with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to broadcast a full 24-hour of programming, including contributions from broadcasting unions all over the world. Broadcasters can access this content and stream it on that day. With an interesting theme such as “Youth and Radio”, broadcasters can come up with their own creative ideas as well.
The day marks the love for Radio, as it continues to grow despite bombardment by New Media. It continues to touch our lives and is still able to bring together people across the globe. Advent of digitalisation and technology has also added teeth to this traditional medium.
As per the UNESCO website, there are over 2.4 billion radio receivers and over 51,000 radio stations worldwide. Even in developing countries, at least 75% of households have access to radio. Between 2006 and 2013, there was a steady increase in online radio revenue worldwide from $278 million to $827 million. This represents an average annual growth rate of 28% per year. Further, the internet only seems to be helping radio as the younger generation around the world is consuming a lot of online radio.
The first World Radio Day was observed on 13 February 2012, a date chosen to mark the day that United Nations Radio was established in 1946. The United Nations General Assembly voted to endorse World Radio Day as a UN International Day, cementing its position as a major global celebration for years to come. The Day is organised by UNESCO and supported by the International Committee for World Radio Day, created by the Spanish Radio Academy and comprised of fifteen major regional and national broadcasting organisations.
Mr. Turan Ali, Director of Radio Netherlands Training Centre, Netherlands, has identified various elements in producing programmes that have an impact consistently with audiences.
Mr. Turan Ali, Director of Radio Netherlands Training Centre, Netherlands, has identified various elements in producing programmes that have an impact consistently with audiences.
Creativity is a key element, he said, which mandates broadcasters to break fixed patterns in the way they create and produce stories.
“Creativity must go hand in hand with varied formats in developing story, such as magazine type, actualities, reports, montage, game, interview, drama, and demonstration. There must always be something new in your content and format”,he said.
Mr. Ali spoke at the session on ‘Creative Content for Capacity Building and Training’at the 3rd International Conference on Broadcast Training in Kuala Lumpur.
In his brief presentation, he said the format and the creative content must work together and the story must also be persuasive to generate an impact on the audience.
Another key element is how to find the target audience and that involves audience mapping, he said, stressing the need to identify communities you want to reach, build loyalty and create connections.
“Remember that audiences now don’t want fixed patterns in the stories they hear and see. They want surprises that trainers must teach broadcasters to be successful in the multimedia environment with shifting consumer behaviours”, he said.
Other speakers, namely, Ms. Cosmalinda Simanjuntak, Programme Planning Manager, TVRI Training Centre, RRI, Indonesia, and Ms. Munira Murad, Head of Radio Training, IPPTAR, Malaysia, raised the issue related to difficulties in tapping competent trainers in the multimedia industry. They said public service broadcasters don’t have the money to pay competent digital trainers and the need to find approaches to this problem becomes critical.
Ms. Liu Ying, Vice President of Research and Training Institute, State Administration of Press Publication, Radio, Film and Television, China briefly talked about Internet integration in their training programmes.
“While we need to find new ways of training methods, a combination of face to face and online approaches should be ideal. But there must be flexibility”, she said.
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