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Highlights of the Industry
Development Interventions
• The Business Unit successfully implemented a COVID-19 compliant Schools Programme after the lifting of level 5 restrictions. Due to schools’ interest in the programme, 123 learners were trained, instead of 100, showing that there is still great interest in Film and TV related training programmes at that level.
• The Business Unit managed to successfully implement a Drone training programme of which nine out of ten students completed the programme.
• Two KZN based films were produced in 2020 under the NFVF Women’s Filmmaking projects.
15 FITI students are completing their final third year and they would be graduating in 2021. Already five students have received placements in internships or offered permanent positions (3 placed in internships and 2 offered permanent employment to start in May 2021). The programme has been successful and the learners were fully vested in it – the graduates are an inspirational and committed group of young people. The project closes with the production of one student film with the title of “Close Proximity”, the project is 30 minutes in duration.
The KZN SMME Incubation
Programme
The programme was suspended due to Covid-19 restrictions in March 2020 and restarted in September 2020. With only the final part of the training to be completed, namely the content development aspect, a tender was issued to appoint a Supervising producer.
Skills Development Programmes
During the financial year the HCD department completed a number of programmes detailed below: Bursary Scheme.
The 2020 Bursary scheme came to a close in March 2021 due to the delays experienced at tertiary institutions during lockdown with only one student failing from a group of 24 group. - The group of students had Male: 10, Female: 14, Youth: 24, Disability: 2, PDI: 24
NQF Level 5 Film and TV Production
Learnership Programme
Due to Covid-19 disruptions, in-class instructions were suspended in March 2020. Teaching and training moved online to the Telegram APP and the learners were able to
cope with e-learning continuing up to September 2020. Due to the Covid-19 related delays, the programme will only be completed in June 2021. 29 learners are participating. There are 13 males; 14 females all from designated groups. 93% were youth, 35% women.
NQF Level 4 Film and TV Production
Operations Learnership Programme
This programme was launched in March 2021 in Groutville and is hosted at the Luthuli Museum, a prestigious and welcoming venue. Thirty (30) students are partaking, with one learner who lives with a disability. There were 22 females, 8 males; 30 PDI’s and they are all youth from designated groups. The programmes cover – Technical Production Learnership.
Postproduction Skills Programme
The purpose of the Film and Television Post-Production skills programme is to ensure KZN Filmmakers are skilled, capacitated and understand all the disciplines related to film and television post-production, including editing, final mix and grading, with the elective component allowing for this specialisation. 25 learners participated in the programme; three-month programmes based at 1KZN TV, Richards Bay. Postproduction Skills Programme. They were 17 Male, 8 Female, 21 Youth, 0 Disability and 25 PDI.
Schools Programme
The purpose of the schools’ programme is to introduce learners in the province to the audio-visual industry. The programme covered aspects of visual literacy for learners, storytelling, scriptwriting, Audio Visual development and orientate learners in the theory and practice of film and AV. The schools that participated were in the Amajuba District, eThekwini Metro, Ugu District, Uthukela District and Amajuba District. 123 students participated in the programme. Youth: 123, Disability: 0, PDI: 123, Females: 88, Males: 35, Pietermaritzburg – 20 learners, Durban – 52 learners, Port Shepstone – 15 Learners, Newcastle – 16 learners, Umgungundlovu – 20 learners
Drone Technology
Cinematographers are finding increasingly creative ways to use drone technology. Drones have allowed cinematographers to capture a whole new world perspective while incurring only a fraction of the cost of traditional aerial filming. Adapting drone technology allows the filmmakers in delivering high- quality footage and to create footage that would otherwise be impossible. The programme commenced in January with 7 students and ultimately 6 students graduated.
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