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Government closes down colleges
Government closes down colleges
News from the government
Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVETA) started closing down educational institutions offering unlicensed medical courses and stopped programmes in others a countrywide raid that began on Tuesday morning.
- https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016-10-13-13-illegal-mid-level-colleges-closed-in-countrywide-crackdown/
- https://www.reporter254.com/government-closes-down-colleges-offering-unlicensed-medical-courses/
- https://www.tveta.go.ke/2020/01/22/762/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=TVETA+CLOSED+SCHOOLS&oq=TVETA+CLOSED+SCHOOLS&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i30i546j0i546l2.26042j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
- https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/98807/117649/F1763223240/KEN98807.pdf
Productions in Uganda
The Multimedia Academy is also active in Uganda. Productions take place at location in Kampala city.
About the Multimedia Academy – Slum Journal
FREE TRAINING & WORKSHOP
The Int., Multimedia Academy is conducting a Free Basis TV / Film & Media training in production & broadcasting journalism, for young and interested to work in this media field and industry.
Register here or contact us on: (254)(0)72 85-61-161 or (254)(0)73-50-39-350.
Email: multimediaacademy@gmail.com
Basics of photography
Welcome to this workshop Basics of Photography. We will discuss the following aspects about photography: Aperture, Shutterspeed, Lenses and Sensors.
Aperture
What is aperture
The aperture controls the amount of light going through the lens. This can be contolled by a ring on the lens to open the gap in the lens wider or more closed.
The numbers on the ring of the lens indicate how wide or closed the aperture is: example : 2 –4 –8 – 11 – 16 – 22
An aperture of 2 means that the lens is opened 1⁄2 or a half of total. With a aperture of 22 the lens is almost closed, not much light is going through the lens.
Why to use the aperture
So the aperture controls the amount of light witch is going through the lens. In the end the light is traveling through the lens to the image-sensor located in the back of the camera. For a good photo the image-sensor has to have the right amount of light. Not to bright, not to dark.
Since the aperture controls the amount of light, you can make a good shot by controling the amount of light with this feature.
Shutterspeed
What is shutterspeed
The shutterspeed controls when and for how long the light is coming in the camera to the image- sensor. When the photographer wants to make a photo, he pushes the button. Only then at that moment light is coming into the camera to captive the image. Mostly this is only a split second.
The shutterspeed controls for how long the light comes to the image-sensor. This is done by a shutter which opens en close very quickly.
What does shutterspeed
Just like the aperture, as explained in the previous chapter, the shutterspeed controls the amount of light on the image-sensor. With both features you can make a photo brighter or darker by manipulating these controls. The important thing is to set the shutterspeed and aperture to the right settings in order to get a proper photo, not to dark, not to bright.
The shutterspeed has specific numbers to indicate the speed of open up and closure. For example:
1000/sec – 500/sec – 250/sec – 125/sec – 60/sec – 30/sec – 15/sec – 8/sec – 4/sec – 2/sec – 1sec – 2sec – 4sec – 8sec – 15sec – 30sec
These numbers represent the speed in seconds devided by the number. So a speed of 125 means 125th of a second. 1/125
Sharpness and motion
The speed of the shutter also has effect on the sharpness of the photo. When you push the button to make a photo and the shutter is open en close very rapidly, the image will be sharp. But in the case when the shutter opens en closes very slowly, like 1 second, the image can be unsharp if the subject is moving.
For example, if you want to photograph a walking person and the shutterspeed is just set to 1 second, than the walking person will be unsharp. If you set the shutterspeed to very fast, like 125th of a second, the person will be ‘freezed’ and sharp.
Sluitertijd: 1” (1 seconde)
Sluitertijd: 125 (125e van een seconde)
Lens
The lens can be defined as the eye of the camera, like the human eye can make you see what you are seeing. The lens is capturing the image and brings it into the camera.
Types of lenses
There are different kind of lenses to mention. Each sort of lens have there specialities. Mainly there are 4 types:
- Wide angle lens
- Standard lens
- Tele-lens
- Zoom-lens
Each lens has a specific range or angle of view, as explained in the picture below:
Wide angle lens
The wide-angle lens has a very wide range. When you look straight ahead you can only see some degree on the left and the right side. A wide angle lens has a more wider view than the human eye. It will give you a wide view of the picture. Common use of this type of lens is for documentary and landscape.
Standard lens
A standard lens is in between the wide angle and tele-lens. The angle of the view is about 45 degree, which is about the view of the human eye. The standard lens is usefull for many kind of purposes like portret, landscape and documentary.
Telelens
A tele-lens brings subjects closer to you. The angle of view is very narrow as can be seen in the picture below. This lens is for example used for sports and wildlife photography.
Zoomlens
An other type of lens is the zoom-lens. A zoom-lens is a combination of the lenses mentioned before and can zoom-in to wide angle, standard or tele- range, depending on the type of zoomlens you have.
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| 28 – 70 mm | Wide and standard |
| 70 – 200 mm | Standard and Tele |
Lenses defined by Milimeters
Except for the name wide, standard or tele-lens we can define a lens more specific. That is done by the term milimeters, like 200mm lens.
The definition of lenses in milimeters comes from the lenght between the front of the lens to the backend of the camera. A static lens has a static number of milimeters, like: 28mm lens or an 200mm lens. A zoom-lens has a dynamic range. This means the lens is a 28mm to 70mm lens for example.
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Lens type |
28mm (wide) |
50mm (normal) |
200mm (tele) |
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Range of view |
75 o |
45 o |
12 o |
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Image sensor
The image-sensor is a smale plate located in the back of the camera. The sensor is sensitive for light, captures the incoming light and converts it into an image.
How does it work
Each radius of light has a certain frequency. Depending on the frequency, the light will be red, green or an other color. For example, if a low frequency of light-radius is coming through the lens, the image-sensor will see this as red. A red pixel will be stored on the location where this light-radius was hit on the image-sensor. All light-radiations together will form an image.
Sensibility
The sensibility of the image-sensor is defined by the term ISO. The greater the sensibilty, the lower the light can be to be able to take a photo. In low-light situations you can set the ISO to a higher level in order to take the photo.
Example: How ever, there is a side-aspect to high ISO-levels. The higher the ISO, the lower the quality of the image. A high ISO-level like 1600, results in a grainy image.
Exposure of light
Important for the final image is that the exposure has to be right. This means, the white has to be white, black has to be black. If the white part of the images turn out to be gray, the photo is under- exposed. When black parts turn gray the photo is over-exposed, to much light came through the camera to the image-sensor.
How to measure light
The camera measures light by defining the average of the lightest part and darkest part of the subject. On auto-settings the camera will do that for you. But since it takes an average of the whole, you not always get what you want.
| Light conditions | Sunny | Cloudy | Light bulb |
| ISO | 100 | 400 | 1600 |
Gray card
For example: if your subject is white, and you make a photo with auto-exposure, the result will be 18% gray. That is because the camera thinks in 18% gray.
In order to make this image as white as it should be, you have to over-expose 3 F-stops to make it white. For example if the aperture was f11, you have set it 3 stops more wider: f4. More light is coming through now.
F-stops
F-stop means 1 step lower or 1 step higher exposure. If we look to the graycard above, we ‘ll see that it takes 7 steps to go from black to white. This means 7 F-stops. To adjust a F-stop you can use the shutterspeed, aperture or ISO to make 1 or more F-stops.
Example of 3 F-stops more light:
By Shutterspeed: 2000–1000–500-250–125–60–30–15: from 500to 60
By Aperture: 1.4 – 1.8 – 2 – 2.8 – 4 – 5.6 – 8 – 11 – 16 : from 11 to 4
By ISO: 50 – 100 – 200 – 400 – 800 – 1600 – 3200 : from 100 to 800
Controling the light
By controling the aperture, shutterspeed and ISO , you are able to control the exposure. All 3 aspects have impact on the exposure and depend on each other.
Orientation & Training Workshop with a 4K RED Highend professional camera
THE TRAINING COURSE HAS FINALLY STARTED
On May the 25th we started and with a lot of challenges, but now we look back and we are al- most 10 weeks into the training.
We finally took off with our new media training, in which we hope to get among others, new students and potential people interested not only to learn this TV media, but people and the majority that would also become and be part of our future media team.
Jane Adhiambo
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Jane Adhiambo |
My name is Jane Adhiambo aged 22, I reside in Kibera, I am the second born in a family of four. I am a first year student at International Multimedia Academy pursuing a diploma in Journalism and mass communication.
I joined the International Multimedia Academy in mid September last year in an effort to make my dreams a reality. I heard about this institution from my friend and decided to try it. During the short period I have been at the institution, I have been able to fully understand some aspects in the media. I have now come to appreciate it and I have changed my attitudes regarding different perspective in life. One of my achievements that I have so far gained is a better perfection in reading, public speaking and personal expression. The training is not that easy if one has some weakness, but I have received help and training and I am trying to overcome mine. The theory part of training had some technical terms also prove very challenging but I am sure I will grasp all of it as time goes by.
Although I experience some difficulties due to the fact that is my house is far away from the school and I have to walk a great distance to reach here I am determined because there is a lot of things I am about to learn in both theory and practical work, cooperation in the future.
Our class has been very successful as most of my fellow classmates share the same dreams and aspiration, we are able to assist each other and consult with the teacher lots of times. Our lecturer is very handful in making the best out of us. Although he can be pretty tough sometimes, we all understand him and appreciate his professional approach and resources towards our success.
The location of training is a good place with a conducive atmosphere as there era no major interruptions from people’s noises or cars. A part from working in class with my fellow students and my lecturer, I also do a lot of research regarding the media in an effort to equip myself professionally.
My future prospect is to one day become a successful writer and TV Journalist. To achieve this goal, I read a lot of books and am even composing my own short stories during my free time. This training will take three years and I am already almost finishing my first year, so it is not that long before I complete it.
I am hoping that with the help of the school and my lecturer and class gained knowledge, I will be able to become what I want to be. A successful writer and TV Journalist.
Jane Adhimbo
Ronald Calcano
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Ronald Calcano |
Hallo! Am Ronald Calcano, a young Kenyan citizen of 24 years, living in kibera slums of Nairobi Kenya. Being one of the largest slums in the world.
I am the last-born in an extended family of six children, having been born in a polygamy family. I am proud for having countless relatives.
I attended my first schooling at Kangemi Primary school and later joined High School in Western Province at Senende High School for quit a number of years. One day while at a barbershop, I saw an advertisement about International multimedia and having interest in the courses being offered, Immediately dialled my phone and called the numbers on the advert.
We made necessary arrangements with the people concerned and immediately began my classes. Having now attended my classes for some months and completed my first Semester, I have gained and achieved a lot. One of them which is knowing how film started and also being able to explain to someone how it all started.
The only weakness that I have and face while undertaking this course is reading the modules and understanding them by myself all alone.
I am looking forward to having learnt a lot after my course in the production field and media as a whole. Presently in my class, we are eight students. The students are friendly and Welcoming, thus creating a conducive environment that one admires to be in. Our teacher who is also the Chief trainer Mr.Mabwa Otinga is also a very free and friendly person but although looks very tough and dangerous when annoyed.
Generally the atmosphere of the school is very friendly and admiring to be a very creative and professional person. Majoring my professionalism in TV production and being one of the best Camera persons. As per my future hopes. I am really working hard and trying to know and master major areas and how I can handle different equipments, which to me I know this won’t take long.
That is me Ronald
Yours Faithfully