TV

TV

Description

Discover some of our training courses below. If you have needs in other domains, please don't hesitate in contacting us for a made-to-measure solution.

To give credibility to their work, broadcasters often report in the field - on the frontline, in the middle of a protest or at the site of a disaster. France 24 will share with you several rules about the content and form of special reports that must be respected to ensure that on the ground reports are appropriate.

Course objectives:

  • Being at ease in front of a camera outside and during an ongoing situation

  • Reporting an event

  • Learning how to work quickly and at times in difficult environments

Content:

  • Understanding the building blocks for on-camera credibility

  • Perfecting your body language

  • Expressing yourself clearly and simply

  • How to work with space, moving while presenting (walk and talk technique)

  • Choosing a setting that works

  • Live interviews

Teaching method:

  • Intensive on the ground training with real life situations and feedback

Target audience: Reporters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 3 days

Location:  On-site

“Early shift”, “late shift”, “midday conference”: television channels build their schedules around news segments. Discover how to construct a 2 or 3-hour news bulletin by including news programmes, analysis, debates, reports and how to manage editorial teams with the news editors at France 24.  

Course objectives:

  • How to build a 2 or 3-hour news bulletin

  • Developing an experienced team

  • Managing different team members (presenters, editors, producers, guests)

Content:

  • Determining components in a rundown and their length

  • Varying rhythm and themes

  • Foreseeing potential events by preparing in advance for breaking news

  • Leading daily conferences and prep meetings

  • Team management

Teaching method:

Looking at different types of news bulletins. Practical exercises on how to construct a news bulletin.

Target audience: News channel directors, news editors, producers

Number of trainees: 10

Duration: 3 days

Location: On-site

Every week France 24 broadcasts long-format reports lasting 6, 13 or 26 minutes. Learn the best work process from those who report from all over the world. From determining an angle, choosing interviewees, to planning an outline and editing, the reporters at France 24 will walk you through this difficult exercise.  

Course objectives:

  • How to produce a long-format report

  • Determining an angle and finding interviewees

  • How to make the most of surroundings and drawing on the best subjects

  • Bringing your surroundings to life by editing video footage and audio

Content:

  • Why is an angle important?

  • Documentation

  • Finding locations

  • Working on the ground and interview techniques

  • Communicating with your cameraman

  • What not to forget before leaving the shooting location

  • Planning how to edit your report

  • Scriptwriting

  • Audio editing

Teaching method: Broadcasting in real-life situations, personally accompanied in the field by the course leader.

Target audience: Reporters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 5 days

Location: On-site

Whether it’s a town in ruins after a battle, an earthquake or a migrant crisis, there are many situations which require aerial shots to improve a viewer’s understanding of the story. Specialists at France 24 will teach you the techniques for operating drones and their journalistic purpose.

Course objectives:

  • Operating and programming a drone

  • Understanding when to use a drone and how to film for a report

  • Highlighting the most powerful images through effective editing and audio editing

  • Sharing images as quickly as possible with your editorial team and/or on social media

Content:

  • Why use a drone?

  • Preparing and setting up the equipment

  • Using a drone in the field

  • What images to film with a drone

  • How to steer a drone to achieve different shots

  • Questions to ask before and during shooting

  • Planning video editing

  • What sound to include with aerial images

  • Shooting for video editing

Teaching method: Broadcasting in real-life situations, personally accompanied in the field by the course leader.

Target audience: Video journalists and cameramen

Duration: 4 days (one day for familiarising oneself with the equipment, learning what shots are needed for reports and about safety measures, one day for learning how to operate a drone and digitalisation, one day for shooting, editing and sharing on social media)

Location: On-site

How to act in front of the camera, what to wear, what to do with ones hands, how to appear relaxed yet credible, and how to cope with breaking-news stories? The Académie can teach you to master your nonverbal communication and successfully appear on live TV.

Course objectives:

  • Improving your on-camera presence

  • How to write concisely and to the point

  • How to present on live TV and to keep a cool head in stressful situations

 

Content:

  • Determining your on-camera credibility

  • Ways to improve your on-camera credibility

  • Perfecting writing intros, news flashes and sign-offs

  • Coping with technical problems while on-air  

 

Teaching method: The course starts with a short presentation on theory followed by broadcasting and live presenting exercises. Numerous opportunities for reviewing videos and group feedback.

Target audience: Presenters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 5 days

Location: On-site

Every news channel stages daily debates in order to analyse the day’s top stories. How should the guests be grouped? How does the presenter make the debate coherent? How do they stimulate the discussion? Debate specialists from France 24 will share their techniques on galvanising a debate programme.

Course objectives:

  • How to chair a lively debate

  • Mastering interview technique and bouncing off ideas

  • How to steer the discussion and slip-ups

Content:

  • Debate themes

  • Set designs

  • Choosing the right guests

  • Highlights the issues under debate

  • Introducing and concluding debates

  • Managing speaking time

Teaching method:

The course starts off with a presentation on theory followed by exercises practicing live debates. Participants will take turns playing the guests. Professional actors can also be invited to play the guests. Numerous opportunities for group video review and feedback.

Target audience: Presenters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 5 days

Location: On-site

France 24 reporters are on the ground for every major international event. Learn from their experience, discover reporting techniques, their tips about saving time while filming, test your professional reflexes in your editorial team and while in the field.

Course objectives:

  • How to plan a news report and determining its angle

  • How to master on the ground reports and how to draw out the best material

  • Bringing the setting to life through effective video and audio editing

Content:

  • Why is an angle important?

  • Planning a report and finding contacts

  • On the ground work and interviewing techniques

  • How to shoot footage alone

  • What not to forget before leaving the shooting location

  • Planning how to edit your report

  • Scriptwriting

  • Audio editing

Teaching method: Making on the ground news reports, personally accompanied in the field by the course leader.

Target audience: Reporters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 5 days

Location: On-site

Whether it’s a plane crash, a deadly attack, or an election, a number of events - foreseen or not - warrant changing a segment and organising a special edition in a studio or in the field. Senior producers and news editors at France 24 will teach you how to anticipate events, manage logistics and give a full account of events.

Course objectives:

  • Developing the ‘special edition’ reflex

  • Managing time and logistical constraints

  • How to lead a technical and editorial team

Content:

  • What’s the aim of a special edition?

  • Choosing the location, day and length

  • Putting together a production and editorial team

  • Technical and administrative constraints

  • Choosing the right guests

  • Making the rundown

Teaching method:

Participants will make their own special edition programme with help from technical and editorial teams.

Target audience: In the field managers, news editors and presenters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 5 days

Location: On-site

Acknowledging a wide variety of opinions, quoting work by newspaper and online journalists, bringing information or a photo to light are the aims of a press review. Learn how to deliver an informative and original press review by including a variety of media outlets and different points of views with specialists at France 24.

Course objectives:

  • Reading between the lines of news stories

  • How get across the main points and unearth the finer details

  • How to mix print and online

  • Finding your presenting style

Content:

  • Distinguishing news stories from opinion pieces in the written press

  • Online news

  • How to read between the lines

  • The role of humour and irony

  • Making links between stories (the role of common themes)

Teaching method: Intensive training and reviewing videos

 

Target audience: Reporters and presenters

Maximum number of trainees: 10

Duration: 3 days
Location: On-site