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On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate a systematic handling of key aspects of television and radio.
Demonstrate practical skills relevant to the production of television and radio.
Critically evaluate the production process and the finished product.
Work effectively within a team to meet deadlines and utilise resources effectively.
Demonstrate application and understanding of the skills learned at Levels 4 and 5 by successfully undertaking a structured and monitored industry placement and a series of University-based live news days.
This module expands on skills learned in the Level 5 Broadcast Journalism module, and pulls in other relevant journalism skills from the two previous years overall. It stretches students to extend their news production skills and journalistic skills by engaging with the production of television and radio news artefacts and programmes.
The module will begin with a three week industry placement in the early part of Semester 1.
This placement will enable students to apply their learning from Levels 4 and 5 in the workplace, and students will be closely monitored throughout the attachment period to ensure that they use the opportunities offered to maximum advantage. To this end students will be required to maintain an attachment log in which they record their daily activity and reflect on their experience.
In television, students will go on to work toward longer-form television pieces which combine their news production skills learned in level 5 semester 1 with their feature news production skills learned in level 5 semester 2 and use them to produce a television news and current affairs programme which extends their news bulletin production skills and brings in more considered news features and programme production skills.
In radio, students will develop their production skills to produce longer form programme packages and, working as a team, a radio sequence programme (or programmes) in which each team member has a clearly identifiable contribution. This will require students to understand the conventions of packages, voice pieces, bulletins and/or location reports and similar devices in styles suitable for given audiences. Students must also apply an advanced understanding of the requirements, conventions and regulatory regimes applicable to different broadcasters and content providers.
During the module, students will take part in 18 live news days - 2 radio planning days and 1 production day in Semester 1, 5 multimedia days during Journalism Week and 10 TV newsdays (5 planning and 5 production) in Semester 2. These will be University-based and linked to either assessment production or live events.
Broadcast Journalism students will be given voice coaching in a mixture of group and individual sessions.
This module will be taught via a series of interactive workshops with culminate in a series of live news days during which students will put their skills to the test, working to a variety of news briefs and deadline requirements.
Workshops/newsdays
Hours: 170
Intended Group size: 15
Voice coaching (Broadcast Journalism students only)
Hours: 2
Intended Group size: Cohort plus individual
Industry placement
Hours: 3 weeks / 112.5 hours
Guided independent study
Hours: 115.5
Further details relating to assessment
Details of assessments will be available in the module handbooks.
Students must pass the live news days and industry placement in order to pass the module.
This module is exempt for Marginal Condonement of Failure.
001 Portfolio 1 (Radio) 4000 words during semester 1 30%
002 Portfolio 2 (TV) 4000 words equivalent during semester 2 70%
003 Industry Placement and live news days (before/during the academic year) 0%
Module Coordinator - Darren Harper
Level - 6
Credit Value - 40
Pre-Requisites - JOU5124 BROADCAST JOURNALISM OR EQUIVALENT
Semester(s) Offered - 6YL
