Courses - Sky News Arabia Academy

Get acquainted to effective communication skill using motion graphics, including its application in the areas of film titles, broadcast, commercial design and interactive media. Learn the use of industry standard tools for motion design, video animation and compositing. Emphasis on key frame animation, basic motion design, audio integration, effects, 3D space and compositing. Participants will work extensively with video footage, still images, and audio assets to create ads, promos, and general video content.

From major brands to emerging influencers, promotional culture is spreading all around us. Our unique course in promotional production is designed specifically for a new generation of storytellers. This is to help them develop the skills and knowledge they need to work in this exciting digital world. Through an unparalleled approach to practical and interactive learning, students will find themselves fully immersed in their course of study from day one. Classes are provided by specialists in the field, in an environment that reflects the real world and utilizing state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. You will learn a combination of creative, analytical and technical abilities.

Do you post on social media? Do you work for an institution produces digital content? Do you have a passion for storytelling, or would you like to write about current events with the potential to make profit? In this course, you will learn to create the right content for different social media platforms. This course teaches the basic tools, how to make the most of them to optimize content on each platform.

You are an economic specialist - you just don’t know it yet. From daily shopping to buying a car, real estate or simply budgeting for the week, you are making economic and financial decisions on a daily basis.   In this course, you will learn everything journalists need to specialize in the business sphere, in addition to acquiring the basics of economics and the dynamics of financial markets and bourses. Contrary to what some may think, financial journalism is a vibrant field with constant updates and changes. Journalists need to hone their skills and acquire financial knowledge to produce topics and stories that are interesting to large audiences.

Graphic Design is all around us! Choosing your outfit, taking a picture, creating a story on social media or even writing an email. Everything requires you to work with shapes and colors, layouts, compositions and typography. In this course you will have a great opportunity to learn photo compositing and color correction using Photoshop, as well as leaning how to develop a brand and a logo using illustrator.

Voiceover is an art that requires talent and special voice quality, in addition to some learned techniques. In this course, we will explore how voiceover artists adjust their tone based on the material, including cartoon films, documentaries, series and dubbing.

A newsroom hosts a number of media specialists with different roles, from news editors writing stories, reporting department collating external stories and news, and the planning department preparing coverage of important events, to a specialized department for introducing guests, providing information, analytics and updates. Ultimately, all these parts work together to support the news bulletin. However, it is the news producers who prepare the news bulletin and coordinate all those parts. This course will outline a news producer’s responsibilities, from checking news to timekeeping and maintaining editorial policy.

Writing for digital and supporting media. In the world of the digital, millions of websites compete to attract the largest readership, and through this course, participants will learn how to enter this competition by training in the nature of website writing, identifying target audiences, and providing material quickly and accurately, supported by multimedia that increases its appeal, such as video clips or photo albums.

Your voice mark is the address that indicates and distinguishes you from others... Leave your mark wherever you go With continuous perseverance, you can exercise, train and develop your voice to be able to adapt it and use it in the world and media platforms of all kinds and forms. Do you ever want to become a commentator, propagandist or broadcaster for various media? This course will do that for you Are you seeking to become an integrated journalist with a distinct voice footprint? At Sky News Academy you are in the right place

A detailed course on the basics of radio writing and how to prepare reports for radio. The course covers the main strategies for writing all types of reports; how to write for the ear, how to use language and audio clips to support text, and finally how to produce a complete radio package.

The podcast is no longer limited to voiceover experts, but has become available to all talented people that have stories and ideas. How can you become one of the distinguished in this field? How can your voice and content make a difference in this field?

Modern-day media organizations rely on all-round journalists who can write, shoot videos, and cover news live, all of which can be done with one tool - the smartphone. From script writing through to shooting, voiceover and editing, this course will empower students to harness the smartphone and produce complete reports.