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Digital storytelling with your smartphone

With its combination of hands-on exercises and intensive feedback, MISA Malawi’s digital storytelling course teaches you how to use your mobile phone to report and tell engaging multimedia stories.

Course content

The three-day course covers the mobile journalism process from shooting to producing and publishing, including:

storytelling essentials
shooting professional video and photos
types of shots, composition and lighting
audio recording
editing video and photos on your mobile
writing for video and social media
using text and graphics to enhance your story
publishing to social media
essential apps to improve your product.

Who should attend?

The digital storytelling course is designed for journalists in Malawi who want to use a mobile phone for reporting, including:

beginner, mid-level and advanced reporters
journalists and editors
media professionals with a background in print, online, radio or television.

Who are the trainers?

MISA Malawi trainers are experienced, practising journalists who have completed a rigorous ‘Train the Trainer’ course to develop their training expertise.

They have also conducted workshops alongside trainers from DW Akademie, Germany’s media development organisation, to benefit from their international experience.

Find out more about our trainers here.

Where is the course held?

Course offered in Lilongwe are held at MISA Malawi’s purpose-built media training centre: Mtolankhani House, Plot 99 in the Acacia area, Lilaga Community.

The centre is equipped with:

audio recording kits
modern computers equipped with audio editing software
projectors and projector screens
high-speed internet.

It includes:

two large well ventilated training rooms
air conditioning
library
kitchen
outside luncheon area
ample car parking.

Mtolankhani House is located about 7km from Gateway Mall. From town, take the Mchinji Road, turn right on the newly constructed Kasiya Road. Turn left at the Acacia signpost and follow the signposts from there to Mtolankhani House.

More information

For more information please contact us on:
info@misamalawi.org or
+265 1 758 091

All of MISA Malawi’s media trainings have been developed in close cooperation with DW Akademie, Germany’s leading media development organisation. Our media workshops meet international standards while being tailored to local conditions.