Oblates, mission partners undergo basic media literary training
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The Oblates and its lay mission-partners pose after the 4-day Media Literacy Course in Kidapawan City. (Photo by Amiel Cagayan/I-WATCH)
KIDAPAWAN
CITY – To equip Oblates and its mission partnerswith knowledge and skills in effective communications,
a four-day Media Literacy Course was conducted by the Oblate Mass Media
Ministry on Nov. 9-12 to 25 participants, mostly priests and OMI lay partners in missions.
Fr. Jonathan
Domingo, OMI, chair of Oblate Media Ministry and chief executive officer of the
Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC), said the course primarily aims to equip
the participants with the necessary knowledge, attitudes, technical skills and competencies on Media Literacy and
Techniques in the service of our respective ministries, the poor and those in
the peripheries.”
It was held
at NDBC Kidapawan Auditorium with 11 Oblate priests from four OMI districts of
Manila, Sulu-Tawi-Tawi, Kidapawan and Cotabato. Also in attendance were chairpersons
of OMI Ministry Committees on Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Indigenous
Peoples, and Education, including 12 lay participants or partners-in Mission
and two Oblate Postulants.
Fr. Domingo
said the course was one of the Inter-Ministry Council’s Collaborative Action
Programs, presented by the OMI Mass Media Ministry during the OMI Provincial
Assembly last October, 2015.
Fr. Domingo, the
course director, talked about the importance of Media literacy, anchored on New
Evangelization, Pope Francis’ Joy of the Gospel and Encounter of Culture,” and
how to incorporate electronic, digital and social media its principles and
techniques in various OMI ministries and programs in the service of the poor
and those in the peripheries.
He also
talked about The necessity of being able to read the signs of times” (Matthew
16:1-3) in the mass media and digital media, and respond, if one to be a
Christian, Muslim, Lumad in a mass-mediated culture.
He emphasized
on the importance of being analytical and critical of the media content and how
it affect our culture in a globalized and commercialized media culture.”
Grace
Vergara-Tanghal, NDBC chief human resources officer and NDBC-Kidapawan station
manager shared The Power Radio” or how to
grasp the business of radio and how it works, learn the techniques in
creating powerful radio with Barkada ko si Pads” radio program as point of
reference.
Malu
Cadelina-Manar, NDBC-Kidapawan program director, the most NDBC multi-awarded
journalist, guided the participants on the basics in writing news, news
delivery/reporting, program hosting, and script writing and how to produce a 30-minute radio program.
Jeffrey
Mendez, NDBC-Cotabato program director and another multi-awarded journalist,
led the participants on the technical requirements for radio production, skills
in recording, editing and saving audio materials for radio production and
develop creativity and innovativeness in producing radio materials.
Fr. Eduardo
Vasquez, OMI, Chairperson of OMI Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation and director
of I-Watch Productions, and Mr. Amiel Cagayan taught the participants how to
fully use digital camera and make the best of it.
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Vasquez and Cagayan shared basic photography and how to capture good photos and
know the kinds of shots and the different angles and movements. Both shared how to
determine a photojournalist from photographer, framing stories through images.
Fr. Vasquez introduced
the multimedia and familiarizedthe
participants with the audio-visual terms and the basics of video editing using
Adobe Premiere
To test the
waters, workshops were conducted among the participants on news writing,
newscasting, radio production, photography and multi-media productions.
Fr. Domingo
said the group will meet again for Voters Education Campaign radio and
multi-media materials productions next year.The OMI I-Watch served as the training secretariat. sand//scontent-hkg3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10464217_10207635095896547_1642635984064993485_n.jpg?oh=376f814ee476e0a4fdc5933475b98232andampoe=56C21D88 (Fr. Eduardo Vasquez who studied multi-media course in Rome shares his insights on audio-visual production.)