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Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA) Strengthens Partnership with Ghanas National Film and Television Institute

As part of a three-year partnership contract checked in 2016, in between Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA) and the National Movie and Television Institute, Ghana (NAFTI), a second collection of workshops, promoted by professionals from CCNA, is being organized at NAFTI from February 13-17, 2017 in Ghana.

The objective of the partnership and the workshops is to enhance the knowledge, ability and skills of Ghana's creative and professional talents in movie and digital photography, and develop fulfilling job chances for them. CCNA will certainly collaborate with NAFTI, the main film school in Ghana, in arranging the workshops.

The initial set of workshops, which took place in July of 2016 and was gone to by NAFTI students and industry practioners, included brief programs in videography and photography, and elevated awareness of Canon's latest affordable technology in imaging and their abilities.

Roman Troedhandl, Managing Director, Canon Central and North Africa, stated: "Our partnership with National Movie and Tv Institute is focused on supporting the nation's goal of training the future generation of talent. The workshops offer the required abilities and knowledge needed to advertise imaginative ability and motivate the growth of the film and digital photography industries in the country."

The 2nd group of workshops consists of training courses in illumination, video movie making, and sporting activities photography.

The very first of 2 workshops on speedlite lighting and lighting for movie will be held from the 13th-16th February by Canon Trainer Raul Gabat and Canon Ambassador Mark Williams. It will cover key topics such as 'Why use flash?' 'Flash Basics', 'Blink exposure metering systems', 'The results of flash on exposure' and 'Wireless flash'.

The workshop on 'Canon Basic Video Filmmaking' will certainly have six modules consisting of 'Introduction to Filmmaking & Filmmaking Cameras', 'Capturing for Stills vs Shooting for Video', 'Grammar of filmmaking', 'Controlling & Changing Display Instructions', 'Outside Aspects', and a 'Practical Evaluation'. It will certainly consist of pre-course and post-course analyses and with a variety of sensible sessions, and end with an article course tracker.Canon Explorer, Eddie Keogh, a prominent sporting activities photographer from the UK, will host an unique Sports digital photography short program'. He has actually benefited a variety of leading UK national newspapers and is currently associated with

Thompson Reuters picture agency. The workshop will be held from February 13-17 and cover topics such as 'Sports photography 101', in addition to talks on area and live shooting experiences in both football and boxing games.Professor Linus Abraham, the Rector of NAFTI stated "" The partnership in between NAFTI AND Canon is a really tactical one geared to creating not just the knowledge of faculty and trainees of NAFTI yet additionally shoring up the specialist skills and knowledge of the movie and photography industry as a whole in Ghana.

The partnership with NAFTI is the company's 2nd calculated one in Ghana after Invest in Africa to release the Canon Professional Print Excellence programme focused on training and mentoring tiny and average sized printing business in Ghana.

It is likewise a testament to Canon's Miraisha Sustainability program which celebrated its second anniversary and is targeted at developing the ability and skills of people in the African countries where Canon operates. The campaign has actually been inspired by 'Kyosei' the company's corporate approach which embodies the ideal of living and working together for the usual good.

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