Internship 2026 · Noble Arts and Entertainment
Inside the Internship: Lights, Camera, Social Change at NAEC
By Let's Talk Tech · August 2026 · 7 min read
On the studio floor at Noble Arts and Entertainment, Bamenda.
Five Let's Talk Tech graduates spent two weeks at Noble Arts and Entertainment and were handed real work on day one. They came out with a documentary credit, a company signpost they designed, and back-end code on the organisation's website.
NAEC uses arts, filmmaking and creative skills to push social change and community development. It trains young people in filmmaking, editing and cinematography so they can earn from creative services, and it is one of the few organisations in Cameroon built around arts for social change. Ngawe Pelly, Sakina Gambo, Kelly Nicheng, Kawep Godwill and Ngong Sylvanus joined that studio for the August 2026 placement.
What they did at NAEC
5
Interns placed at NAEC
2 weeks
August 2026 placement
4
Kinds of design work produced
1
Documentary they worked on
24 hours
Spent on one movie poster
11
Skill areas they came away with
Straight into content creation
Setting up the lights before a shoot.
The first thing NAEC taught them was how a shot is built. They were taken through shooting angles and what each one does to an audience, then through writing a script and drawing a storyboard before a camera is ever switched on.
Then they had to prove it. The group produced a content video of their own, which is where the planning, the creativity and the organising stopped being advice and started being the reason the thing worked.
Design work the company kept
On set during a studio production.
Graphic design took up a large share of the two weeks. They produced flyers, banners, movie posters and a poster for the company's signpost, which is work that goes out of the building with NAEC's name on it.
Mr Fabrice, the Graphics Lead, worked beside them throughout. He set the creative direction, reviewed each design and told them plainly where it was falling short, which is how they learned what the discipline actually expects.
“I spent nearly twenty-four hours on a single movie poster. I assumed it would take barely thirty minutes.”
One of the interns, on learning what design really costs
“I spent nearly twenty-four hours on a single movie poster. I assumed it would take barely thirty minutes.”
One of the interns, on learning what design really costs
Into the back end of the website
Reviewing shots between takes.
Web work ran alongside the creative work. They were given website tasks, had them reviewed, made the corrections they were told to make, and were then trusted with the back end of the website itself.
For the software engineers in the group that was the moment the placement connected what they already knew to what a working organisation actually needs built.
Leadership, and a skill none of them had met
On camera duty during the studio shoot.
Mr Randy, the CEO, ran two sessions with them himself. The first was on leadership, teamwork and carrying responsibility for other people's work.
The second was tender calling, which none of them had come across. It is a skill businesses need and few young creatives have, and it widened their picture of the industry well past the camera.
The photoshoot, and what came out of it
The studio put them on a live photoshoot. They worked the cameras, directed subjects, handled the lighting and learned how a backdrop, a pose and a lens choice add up to a usable frame.
These are the frames that came out of it, lit, shot and finished in the NAEC studio.
Learning to be corrected
They also joined the production of a documentary and took real roles in it, shot video projects of their own and edited them, and sat a video editing class that walked them from raw footage to a finished cut. On the writing side they were sent to watch a film and pull it apart the way a scriptwriter would, scene by scene.
Running through all of it was review. Their work went in front of the CEO and the facilitators regularly and came back marked. That is the part the group singled out in their report: being corrected stopped feeling like failure and started being the fastest way to get better.
Questions about this placement
What is Noble Arts and Entertainment?
A Bamenda organisation that uses arts, filmmaking and creative skills for social change and community development. It trains young people in filmmaking, editing and cinematography so they can earn from creative services, and it is one of the few organisations in Cameroon focused on arts for social change.
What did the interns actually produce?
A content video from their own script and storyboard, flyers, banners, movie posters and a poster for the company signpost, website work that reached the back end, a role in a documentary production, their own shot and edited video projects, and a studio photoshoot.
How do I join the next Let's Talk Tech cohort?
Get in touch with the Let's Talk Tech team through the contact page. Every cohort ends with a two-week placement inside a local organisation, like this one.
With thanks
Thank you, Noble Arts and Entertainment
Our thanks to Noble Arts and Entertainment for opening its doors to five of our trainees, and to Mr Randy team lead at Naec and Mr Fabrice for giving them real work and real responsibility rather than a seat in the corner. A placement only teaches anything when the host is willing to make room, answer questions and let people get things wrong on the way to getting them right. We are grateful they did.
Let's Talk Tech Internship 2026
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