Amazing Training at Wide Horizons

Using Computer Skills With Video Training

the first day of video training

The video training is one of essential training for Wide horizons students to perform their skill in their organization. In November, from 23 to 27, we learned video shooting training from DVB Youth Voice journalist Nyan Soe. Firstly, he trained us how to shoot photo and video in a professional ways. We went outside to shoot videos as practice. Then, we created a short video by divided group of 4 based on the project team. Moreover, we continued to create our videos pitch for our proposal with different projects. This video training helps us to apply video pitch to build trust with donors. Furthermore, this training is very useful for us to help our mother organizations for writing proposal and video pitch, when we return. Furthermore, Wide Horizons students can transform the news from community as a public journalist.

Writing By

Zoaw htaw & J. Ah Dau

Joyful Photography

Taking photographs with your emotion or feeling can produce a meaningful quality of photo for the audience. In Wide Horizons, students gained photography training from the photographer, Rebecca Robybs who came from Child Dream. She provided the training for 3 hours, and she also explained about how a good photo is useful and important to show someone’s feeling or something’s connotation.

Firstly, we started the training when she arrived in class. Next, she started to explain about the training which concerned with the taking photographs in different views. In her explanation, in photography, people have different views and perspectives based on their emotion and their feeling to create their own pictures. Different photos have different various meanings depended on the photographers. So pictures can change people’s views and it can also give too much knowledge to the audience. Moreover, she explained more about following the photography’s instruction is the best way to receive a nice, meaningful picture for the audience.

Secondly, she divided all students by a group of 4 to take the photos with their own feeling to produce a good quality of photos. After dividing groups, she let the students to take photos around the school’s compound and outside of the school for one hour and half. Furthermore, she followed and helped some students during taking photographs. Students took many different photos based on their emotion and their feeling to create a good quality of photo for the audience. Additionally, they also gave each other suggestions to create the best picture for their group by taking plenty of pictures.

Finally, all students gathered together with the teacher at 11:00 am in the class. Next, every group shows the pictures which they took from outside or in school compound. After that, the teacher let them to choose top 5 pictures for representing their group. She told them to choose the best picture among 5 pictures which could give a good story for the picture. So, after they chose the pictures, each group showed the best picture and described the interesting story about the pictures.

All in all, the things that we learned in this training would help us to create the pictures as we wish. It also gave us to spread out massages and knowledge to the target community for our organization. In addition, it also helps us in photography skill to get the best quality of picture. 

Written By: John

Graphic Designing 

Students' Icon

Nowadays, there are many ways to share and advertise information to the world. Before the end of second trimester in December, we also have a week long training to advertise our information by info sheet (A4 sheet) and poster. This training provided by one teacher named Farmi who comes from Malaysia. He had done many experiences about design poster during living in Malaysia.

Firstly, he shared his experiences how did he learn how to design and how he participated in his community by helping design poster. Also, he shared his design info sheet and poster with a short presentation. The first day of our training, he let us to decide what we would prefer to learn from him. Then, he introduced the basic of design such as line, shape and circle, etc. Furthermore, he taught us how to design info sheet and poster for sharing our mother organization’s information. In many case, we practiced in class. He brought some article with picture and logo for us and he let us design in class by divided four groups. Firstly, we couldn’t design but he showed how to design and how is important to design correctly to get more persuasion from audiences.  

The last day of our training, we designed one movie poster by ourselves and he gave suggestion for our designing. We were happy that we had a chance to learn how to arrange the information and logo or pictures in info sheet and poster. When he trained us that everyone was motivated in that training. Moreover, it was useful for us and it was the best to distribute our information to the community by using info sheet and poster. Not only that but also it is important for us when we went back to our own organization by designing to distribute the organization information.

Over all, we all have learned happily and finished our design training successfully with him in a whole week. On behalf of Wide Horizons’ students, I would like to say thanks to him for giving us design training. 

Written By: Than Maung