The document summarizes Project Tarzan, a media training program taking place in the Netherlands from February 17-28, 2010. The 10-day training will teach participants to communicate using all 5 senses and media, exploring how images, sounds and gestures can convey messages. Participants will practice communication skills, learn about visual culture and video production, and experiment with creative uses of media. The goal is for participants to learn methods for using media to engage groups and to transfer their new skills by organizing a community activity after the training. Priority will be given to young people from certain countries facing difficulties and those willing to share their knowledge locally.

1. birth of image
presents
Project
Tarzan
the 6th sense
Media Training
The Netherlands
17-28 February 2010

2. project tarzan
>> the story
>> mission
inspiration
what do we offer?
>> the programme
the background
>> target group
>> multiplying the knowledge
>> practical details
dates
>> hosting
>> travel
>> participation fee
>> insurance
>> what to bring
>> previous works
how to apply >> contact
>> trainers
>> contents

3. the story
Tarzan, born in the jungle, has
abilities beyond ordinary humans.
Swinging to his goal using vines and
tendrils at great speed, he looks
peculiar. He hangs out with apes. He
communicates with all species of
jungle animals, able to master a new
language in a day, gets along with
apes and humans alike.
He is the ultimate communicator.
How does he do it? It’s all about the
sixth sense.The ability to get our
messages across in the jungle of noise,
to reach all creatures in that jungle,
and to express messages, feelings,
thoughts, ideas, ourselves.
The five senses are sight, hearing,
touch, smell and taste. During the
training we introduce the sixth sense,
communication through media using all
senses.

4. We will work with the questions:
How can the five senses joined using
media? How can we communicate by other
means than talking? What are the wins and
the challenges in all this?
During the training
you will explore and
critically develop
your communication.
In this training we look at “media” as
communications composed of physical gestures,
images and sounds which create interaction between
people.
mission
Winning video of the Birth of Image “How to
save the world” Challenge, 2010 March

5. inspiration
In Birth of Image we believe that
everyone has a message to tell.
The question is how to tell it.
If I accept that communication is the re-
sponse I get, it is relatively easy to check
the effect of my communication. All I
need is an audience, a video camera or
both.

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what do we offer?
During Project Tarzan you will:
>> practise your leadership and teamwork skills
>> see how (your) “image” works
>> participate in activities, games and processes
where movement, visualization, voice and
sounds will be actively used
>> receive feedback on the impact of your
communication from others around you
>> experiment and play with media and all your
senses
>> learn methods for the creative use of media for
activities with groups
“Information is confined traditionally
on paper or digitally on a screen.
SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing
intangible, digital information out
into the tangible world, and allowing
us to interact with this information
via natural hand gestures.”
Source: http://www.pranavmistry.
com/projects/sixthsense/

7. the programme
23 January –
18 February
2011
18-27 February 18-27 February
18-27
February
until 20
March 2011
Pre-
Training (4
online lessons)
Training
1st to 4th day
Training
5th to 8th day
Training
9th and 10th
day
Post-
training
until 20
March
Theme
Online Media
Literacy basics
“Mirror - The image
I project”
“Bucket – things I
always wanted to
do and never did”
“Transfer” Sharing the
knowledge
Topics Content of sessions Topics
Visual Culture
Visual Grammar
Ethics and legal
background
Web video basics
Picture composition
The image I project
Body movement on
video
Self-representation with
video
Choices I make with a
camera
Transformation on the
catwalk
Choices I make in how I
organize space
The End of the World
the 5 Senses in NLP
and how it can be
transformed in media
Creating a social
impact using all senses
and resources
Communication Styles
Team work and
creativity
Coaching one-to-one
and one-to-many
How to get my
message across
Closing the
experience
Practical
Arrangements
(reimbursement,
evaluation)
Youthpass
certificates
Planning Post-
Training activities
How to
transfer what I
learned to my
environment,
community

8. the background
What is Birth of Image?
It is an 18-month project where young people develop their active media
literacy.
What is active media literacy?
It is the ability to read and write with moving images, to create, share and
understand media. During the Birth of Image project we are setting up
different non-formal learning environment, so that:
>> any young person from Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, Italy or the
Netherlands can develop his or her competences and skills in
audiovisual media
>> participants become able to construct, create and produce innovative,
new, grass-roots media, and they learn to share it;
>> participants improve their skills in analysing, assessing and accessing
new and old media products and formats.
Who funds us?
This project is co-funded by the European Commission’s Youth in Action
programme for promoting innovation in youth work. Additional funding
comes from participants’ own contribution, the European Youth Foundation
and the Olde Vechte Foundation.

9. target group
We are looking for young people with a motivation
to do something in their community or environment
back home.
>> Priority will be given to participants with specific
difficulties in their social or economical background*
and to youth workers working with this target group.
>> No previous knowledge or education are needed.
There is no selection criteria for participation.
>> Participants from Greece, Netherlands, Hungary,
Lithuania and Italy will be given priority due to
funding reasons. There a places for maximum 7-8
people from these countries.
* school, family, personal history, disability of any nature etc.

10. Multiplying the
knowledge you get
We require that each participant
follow the preparation and follow-
up activities of this training.
This means participation in
>> (a) the pre-training (online media
tutorials before the training,
communicating your motivation
using video)
>> (b) the training,
>> (c) and the post-training (you
will organize one activity in your
community of friends, colleagues,
family to actively use what you
learned in the training)