Multimedia Skills to Re-Shape Journalism and News reporting

Students in the training in lab4 with trainer Eunince Rukundo giving the introduction.

Ultimate Multimedia Consult carried out a multimedia training at Kampala International University Kampala campus where 30students were skilled with many skills of multimedia storytelling.

The training was a two weeks program that commenced on 28th/10/2019 at the US center and later at Kampala international university in the computer lab4 to Friday 8th/11/2019.

The first week, the 30 students gained skills on multimedia storytelling and good journalism and a lot more lessons such as web designing ,live streaming and publishing, social media, mapping among others.As Agnes Tumuheire narrates in the audio below

Agnes Tumuheire a trainer explains what the training was about and what it intended to do.

”The training was so good to the journalism students and we skilled them oh how to write multimedia stories such the elements of multimedia story.” as Herman Nnyanzi also a trainer ellaborates;

Herman Nnyanzi tells how a multimedia story should be such as Audios,Videos,Texts among others.

The videos below show some of the training sessions that went on;

@gbusinge explains why Crowdsourcing is an important aspect in journalism. #MyMultiMediaStoryTelling pic.twitter.com/9zKlohYVjQ
— Ultimate Multimedia Consult (@ultimate_UMC) November 2, 2019

@TashEsie gives tips on how to prepare for and conduct an interview. #MyMultiMediaStoryTelling pic.twitter.com/KF01obTjdu
— Ultimate Multimedia Consult (@ultimate_UMC) October 30, 2019

Photos are very essential in capturing things that cannot be expressed in words – @tumwineedward #MyMultiMediaStoryTelling pic.twitter.com/NqIgLTd0oj
— Ultimate Multimedia Consult (@ultimate_UMC) October 30, 2019

Mr Odeke Julius,a lecturer at kiu also said,”The was very good training because it equips our students with multimedia skills so as to compete well in the journalism proffession.”

Mr Odeke a lecturer at kiu tells us why the training was important.

Students appreciated the Ultimate Multimedia Consult for the training offered in the videos below;

Prossy one of the participants explains how the training was and what she learnt in the training

Dismas aslo sends his gratitudes to the Ultimate multimedia training.

In the 2nd week,all students who participated in the training pitched their in their story ideas and the best 20 stories were facilitated for their complete coverage,later which the best 2 stories will win items such as smartphones and so much more credits as the certificate of exellence.