Focused on narrative storytelling — no documentaries allowed — the Ghetto Film curriculum begins with an intensive nine-week summer course; students are paid a stipend of $500 through grants from the city and corporate sponsors.
How do they know how to operate the camcorder, ship the tapes back, etc.? GC: Most of the people we're training have never held a video camera before, so the relationship begins with an intensive, onsite training program that teaches them how to shoot, as well as what to shoot and why.
The program began with an intensive, week-long "boot camp," where we listened to many prestigious presenters, who provided a general business background that allowed us to "hit the ground running" in our first placement.
The Futures Clinique begins with an intensive dose of Futures Provocation, a presentation introducing the basic concepts of futures thinking and futures research, the central ideas of the background paper and the answers received to the pre-questions.
The program began with an intensive three month phase during which participants attended two, two-hour sessions each week.
A study about the process of collaboration between NTP and hospitals in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, reveals that partnership can be established if it begins with an intensive process of interaction including intermediary actors (i.e., persons approaching the private hospital and advocating the partnership program) for approaching the NTP and the hospital [ 16].
We begin with a very intensive screening process in which we get to know people and what they're about: their illnesses, what their fears and what their social support are like.
STRIDE began with a 6-month intensive group counseling phase followed by a less-intensive 6-month maintenance phase that included both group and individual contacts.
The training began with a week of intensive teaching (5 × 4 hours), combining interactive lectures, small group working, and role play sessions.
The outbreak began with a patient in the intensive care unit.
