Course overview
To enable students to develop foundational understanding of and practical skills for use in news-based scriptwriting, audio and video production and editing, and an understanding of the importance of narrative in broadcast storytelling. Through developing news gathering, writing and broadcast skills – generating broadcast story ideas, conducting interviews, recording voice-overs and vision – students use software to edit and create a range of audio and video news stories. They develop transferable skills for use in a range of sound and visual platforms, and gain an understanding of legal and ethical obligations associated with broadcast journalism.
- Fundamentals Of Broadcast
- Broadcast News
- Telling Broadcast Stories
Course learning outcomes
- Understand and apply the distinct features of broadcast journalism formats and identify different presentation styles within radio/audio, TV/video and podcasts.
- Examine and demonstrate an understanding of diverse scriptwriting and storytelling techniques for radio/audio and television/video.
- Apply the basics of producing and editing audio and video broadcast packages, utilising industry standard audio and video production software.
- Demonstrate transferable skills for use in a broad range of audio and video formats
- Understand key ethical and legal requirements of broadcast interviewing and reporting.
- for radio/audio and television/video
Availability
Class details
Magill
Class number 30710
Section LE01
Size 70
Available 54
Class number 25648
Section TU01
Size 18
Available 11
Class number 25647
Section TU02
Size 18
Available 9
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