Doordarshan Director Delivered Lecture

Sagar(1, February )

“Documentary is the documentation of a relevant subject. When a documentary feature is converted into visual presentation, it takes the form of Documentary”, said Dr.Santosh Awasthi, Director of Doordarshan, Gwalior(M.P). While delivering his lecture in Ink Media School of Journalism, Sagar(M.P) on the subject of ‘Production in Doordarshan”, Dr.Awasthi introduced the trainee journalists to new trends of production. While discussing the technicalities of camera at large, Mr. Awasthi told the students that during the time of Rishikesh Mukharjee(Former Film Director), the trends of recording were critical but it has become easy and advanced now a days. He also discussed about different types of camera shots with students.

Mr. Awathi also gave the knowledge of different wings of Doordarshan like Programs wing, Engineering wing and Administrative wing to students during his lecture. He also told the students about ENG (Electronic news gathering) which is considered as important term in Production. While answering a question of a student, Mr. Awasthi provided guidance about scope of employment for media students in Doordarshan to students and he also told that recruitments in Doordarshan are done through SSC&UPSC also. He further told the students that live programs in Cricket and Parliament are broadcast through 30 and 8 cameras respectively with the help of trained Cameraman and Producers. Dr. Awasthi answered all the queries of students in a satisfactory manner during the lecture. In the end of the programme, vote of thanks was extended by Manish Tiwari.The Memento was given to guest by Dr. Ashish Dwivedi, Director of Ink Media School Of Journalism.

Submitted by: Romesh Sahu