Background:
The Feed the Future Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity, funded by USAID and implemented in Northeast Nigeria, facilitates economic recovery and growth in vulnerable, conflict-affected areas. Its primary purpose is to help people overcome chronic vulnerability and poverty by providing expanded and sustainable economic opportunities. In Borno State, the Activity has been instrumental in facilitating trade in agricultural commodities and attracting investments exceeding US$20 million between 2019 and 2024. This has created or improved economic opportunities for 260,000 people in the state during the same period. By adding jobs along various value chains, the Activity has significantly contributed to employment opportunities and livelihood improvement for rural households.
Additionally, the Activity provided direct cash assistance to 9,213 participants to fund agricultural inputs for farmers and working capital for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This financial support has played a vital role in enabling agricultural production and promoting entrepreneurship, thereby strengthening the local economy.
The Activity aligns closely with the Borno Delivery Support Unit (BDSU), which is spearheading the translation of the state’s five Sustainable Development Goals. This alignment presents a significant opportunity for collaboration, including co-hosting a private sector day in the state. The private sector day will facilitate the sharing of insights and scaling up of successful initiatives implemented by the Activity that promote economic recovery and growth—key areas that align with the government’s development strategy. The collaboration aims to create synergies between Mercy Corps’ development interventions and the State’s broader development plan, maximizing impact towards sustainable economic growth in Borno.
Purpose / Project Description:
The purpose of the Photo-Videographer is to facilitate smooth videography and photography services of the Rural Resilience Activity’s Partnership Day. The professional videographer and photographer will deliver on the below close-out related objectives and deliverables.
Photo-Videographer Activities:
Pre-event:
- The Event Committee holds a meeting with the video photographer alongside the event planner to understand the planning committee’s expectations, target audience, and what elements of the event are considered most important.
- Visit the venue a day before the event to plan shots, angles, and movement routes
- Make sure all equipment for the event is working.
During event:
Videography
- Capture all relevant sessions of the event
- Keynote speakers: Record speeches and reactions, including crowd engagement.
- Panel discussions: Cover wide-angle shots, as well as individual speakers
- Audience reactions: Record reactions like applause, laughter, and Q& A sessions.
- Exhibition booth/floors: Capture exhibition booths, attendee interactions with exhibitors, and product displays.
- B-roll: Capture additional footage that can be used for transitions, background, or cutaways.
Photography
- Capture professional-quality headshots of keynote speakers, panelists, and the audience (where applicable)
- Photograph key moments e.g. when the audience is saying the National Anthem etc.
- Candid shots of engaged listeners during sessions, standing ovations, etc.
- Photograph high-quality images of exhibition booths, displayed products, and attendees’ interactions with exhibitors.
- Photograph the venue, hall decoration, branding and visibility materials, etc
- Capture unscripted moments such as people networking, laughing, and engaging exhibitors.
Post-event:
- Immediately back up all the data
- Editing: sort and edit footage and photos according to the planning committee’s needs and specifications (as indicated in the “During event” heading).
- Submit a 59-second video of the whole event
- Submit a video reel of the event
- Submit a full video of the event
- Send the data to the client for review, feedback, and approval.
- Deliver the final products (videos and photos in soft copy) in the adequate format (4k Mpeg4, Jpeg, etc) on a Hard drive of not less than 1TB
Photo-Videographer Deliverables:
- Be at the venue an hour before the event starts to capture the set-up of the event.
- Attend coordination meetings
- Provide multimedia coverage (videography and photography) for the event.
- Video Recording of all the sessions (to be split into categories e.g. Opening remarks, panel discussions, etc.) and pictures of the event should be provided in soft copy through any storage device e.g. flash drive or hard disk.
Qualified Photo-Videographer should send the below-required document to
| Evaluation Criteria | Score |
| Company profile (5 pages max) detailing history, mission, and services rendered | 10% |
| Provide three (3) samples of similar coverage and/or multimedia produced. | 20% |
| Excellent technical capacities (for example, state-of-the-art filming, recording devices and post-production editing platform, in High Definition). (Attach list of equipment and their composition to be used for Photography and videography of the event) | 30% |
| Proof of previous work experience in videography and photography with other clients, from reputable organizations, (evidence should be in the form of award letters or Job orders, Contracts, MOU, or accessible links. (Attach at least 2 copies of work experience) | 20% |
| Financial proposal | 20% |
| Total | 100% |
Deadline for Submission: 25th July 2024
Submissions: Interested applicants should submit their documents to the mail:
[email protected] using the subject ‘Photo-Videographer for RRA Partnership Day” as the subject of the mail.
