TRAINING MATERIAL IN arabic
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STORY-TELLING:
CHARACTERS, WRITING, STRUCTURE, AND FOCUS
STORYTELLING THROUGH A CHARACTER’S JOURNEY
رواية القصة من خلال رحلة شخصية
This course focuses on developing your characters and interviewing them
building a dramatic structure
ابن هيكلاً درامياً
Stories need a beginning, middle and end, building tension.
FIND YOUR FOCUS
جد هدفك
Focus guides your story, your structure, what you film. You need a verb, action, conflict - it’s not a noun or a topic.
THE ISSUES STORY:
WHEN YOU HAVE NO CHARACTERS
رواية "قضية" في قصة
من دون شخصيات
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
THE INVESTIGATIVE CHECKLIST
قائمة التحقّق الاستقصائية
Download the PDF slideshow in Arabic
A checklist to help you choose, start, organize, and complete a complex investigation.
You can also DOWNLOAD A ONE PAGE CHECKLIST HERE
WRITING THE INVESTIGATIVE STORY
كتابة تحقيقات قوية
How to write powerful stories, with emotions, all five senses, showing not telling.
WE TELL STORIES, NOT JUST SCOOPS
نحن نروي قصصاً
لا نكتفي بالسبق الصحافي:
لهذه الأسباب، تحتاج في الصحافة الاستقصائية إلى شخصيات تخوض رحلة
Download a PDF of the slideshow
Even when you are doing an intense investigation, with lots of revelations, documents or facts, you need to tell a story about people and conflict. Don’t publish your research, tell a story. This slide show include parts of the other slideshows on this page about character, writing, interviews and structure
TELEVISION STORY-TELLING
The Art of TV Story-Telling
فن رواية القصة التلفزيونية
An overview course that includes summaries of some of other courses below on Characters, Focus, Structure, Sound and other topics
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THE CAMERA AS STORY-TELLER
الكاميرا: كراوية للقصة
Teamwork between the cameraperson and journalist. Planning the mood of every shot. How to set up buildings, locations and interviews.
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GREAT SOUND MAKES GREAT STORIES
الصوت الرائع يصنع قصة رائعة
The 8-second rule. Stop talking, let the sound come through.
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MAKING GRAPHICS PART OF YOUR STORY-TELLING
كيف تجعلُ الرسوم البيانية (الغرافيكس) جزءًا من سرد قصتك
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transitions: how to move from scene to scene
عملية الانتقال:
كيف تتحرك من مشهد إلى مشهد آخر
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writing for television
الكتابة التلفزيونية
Writing to the pictures, not about them
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the reporter on camera
البيس تو كاميرا:
المراسل أمام الكاميرا
Making sure the reporter’s appearance in the middle or the end of the story helps not hurts the story.
OPENING AND CLOSING SHOTS
لقطتا الافتتاح والختام:
التحية والوداع الأكثر
The images you choose to open and close your story are important in grabbing the viewer and then leaving them thinking about your story
older slideshows:
mastering the investigative interview: (2019)
the art of investigative story-telling: (2019)
how to organize your investigation: (2019)
VIDEOS OF CLASSES:
Investigative Story-telling: (2017)
arab reporters for investigative journalism
Video of a 90-minute class given at the ARIJ conference in Jordan, 2017.