On June 28, 2024, the Ukrainian Institute for Advanced Training of Television, Radio Broadcasting and Press Workers (UTRPI) completed the training course in the specialty “Television camera operator skills” (television camera operator of news stories), which began on May 17 of this year. The participants of the course were employees of the Kyiv City Council local company “TV channel “Kyiv”.
Director of the Ukrainian Institute for Advanced Training of Television, Radio Broadcasting and Press Workers, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Secretary of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Honored Journalist of Ukraine Glib Golovchenko addressed the audience: “First of all, I want to congratulate you all on the Day of the Constitution of Ukraine, which is not only the main law of our state, but also the basis for all legislation that ensures freedom of speech and independence of Ukrainian media.
And, of course, today I am very happy to congratulate all of you on the successful completion of the course “Television camera operator skills “.
This is the first time that the UTRPI has formed an all-female group for the course of television camera operator skills, and I am sincerely grateful to all of you for the fact that this course turned out to be successful. I am also grateful to you for the fact that you boldly break the stereotype that the television camera operator is a male profession. Every year more and more women get behind the camera and we know that women can shoot just as well as men. Your group is the best proof of that!
I wish you all success and let each of you shoot your most desired material as soon as possible – the material about our Victory!”
Course teachers:
Mykhailo Lebedev, a teacher of the highest category at the UTRPI, an experienced cameraman, director, honored worker of culture of Ukraine, a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.
Workshops on the topic of “Film Lighting” were held at the course by Viktor Kush, a teacher of the highest category at the UTRPI, laureate of the T.G. Shevchenko’s State Prize of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.
The curriculum consisted of the following profiling disciplines:
- Mastery of a TV cameraman (Job responsibilities of a TV cameraman. Chronicler cameraman and documentary cameraman. Means of expression of the cameraman. Video surveillance and video reporting. Shooting point. Shooting moment, etc.).
- Frame composition (Frame. Frame size. Framing process. Geometric construction of the frame. Lines of interaction. Story-compositional center. Weight in the frame is stable-unstable. View. Detail. Symmetry. Rhythm. Perspective and others).
- Cinema lighting (Functions of light, nature of light. Types of lighting devices. Lighting accessories. The concept of “amount and type” of light. Light contrast. Exposure control. Lighting in nature and others).
- Shooting equipment and optics (Focal distance. Concept of “normal” lens. Optical camera format. Optical ruler. Light filters. Optical extenders and optical nozzles, etc.).
During training, practical training was conducted for participants, which included:
- Video surveillance.
- Photo report.
- Interview in nature.
- Shooting a portrait in the interior.
- Interview in the interior.
- News story.
At the end of the studies, the participants completed the defense of final theses (news stories).
We congratulate the students on the successful completion of their studies and wish them new creative success in their