Next door to Cultural Survival's Community Radio Project monthly training and production session, a week-long workshop on video production was also getting underway with the help of two documentary filmmakers, Hanna Adock and Karin Stowe, from the University of Winchester, England. Behind the Lens is a citizen journalism project that teaches storytelling and documentary film-making skills to empower a group of community radio volunteers to make news and tell their stories via short films on the web. Starting with the basics of how to operate a digital video camera, the workshop covered angles, framing, storytelling, interview styles, editing, and web uploading. Putting skills into practice, four groups took to the streets of San Mateo to produce 5-minute documentaries about issues important to them. At the final day's session, friends and families were invited for a special screening of their productions. Check back soon to see the final films online, at http://guatemalafilms.yolasite.com/
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