Journalism students at Walter Sisulu University will be screening their final year documentaries at the Eastern Cape Audio Visual Centre today.
The annual screening started six years ago and aims to give final year students the exposure and opportunity to showcase their work to the East London community at large.
“It really is journalism at its core.
“We’re getting facts, we’re creating a story visually and that’s exactly what they are learning in broadcast journalism,” said videographer and broadcast journalism lecturer Sharon Cumming.
Cumming said the documentaries were the students’ contribution to filmmaking in East London.
Each year, a panel of three media experts is tasked with choosing six or seven documentaries out of 35 ideas based on interest, relevance to the community, logistics and the students’ motivation and ability to come through with producing the film.
Sinethemba Nogude, 24, is one of the students who were successful at selling his idea to the panel and is the director of a film about women who raise their grandchildren. The documentary is titled Gogo My Mother.
“Making this documentary was challenging. Finding people who want to be a part of the production was hard; people didn’t want to put their lives out there,” said Nogude.
Yonela Mofu, 23, who directed a documentary about the quota system in South African rugby Lucky Number 7, said creating a documentary about rugby, an interest of his, did not make the process any easier.
Other documentaries to be premiered include Umkhondo The Direction, I Want to Tell My story, Abandoned, Perfectly Imperfect and Make or Break.
lThe show starts at 5pm and tickets cost R5 for students, R10 for non-students and are available at the door.
WSU students to screen doccies
The annual screening started six years ago and aims to give final year students the exposure and opportunity to showcase their work to the East London community at large.
“It really is journalism at its core.
“We’re getting facts, we’re creating a story visually and that’s exactly what they are learning in broadcast journalism,” said videographer and broadcast journalism lecturer Sharon Cumming.
Cumming said the documentaries were the students’ contribution to filmmaking in East London.
Each year, a panel of three media experts is tasked with choosing six or seven documentaries out of 35 ideas based on interest, relevance to the community, logistics and the students’ motivation and ability to come through with producing the film.
Sinethemba Nogude, 24, is one of the students who were successful at selling his idea to the panel and is the director of a film about women who raise their grandchildren. The documentary is titled Gogo My Mother.
“Making this documentary was challenging. Finding people who want to be a part of the production was hard; people didn’t want to put their lives out there,” said Nogude.
Yonela Mofu, 23, who directed a documentary about the quota system in South African rugby Lucky Number 7, said creating a documentary about rugby, an interest of his, did not make the process any easier.
Other documentaries to be premiered include Umkhondo The Direction, I Want to Tell My story, Abandoned, Perfectly Imperfect and Make or Break.
lThe show starts at 5pm and tickets cost R5 for students, R10 for non-students and are available at the door.
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