Course Coordinator:Faith Valencia-Forrester (fvalenciaforre@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
Moving pictures lead to content that is informative, exciting, engaging and entertaining. This course will introduce you to the skills necessary to create video for digital platforms and broadcast journalism. You will develop the writing, technical and presenting skills necessary to produce dynamic media content, for broadcast and digital environments. This is a highly practical course where you will learn content planning and create professional industry products. By completing the activities, you will gain an appreciation of the skills required for successful broadcast journalism and video creation for the web. Voice and presentation skills are also covered.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
Blended learning | |||
Learning materials – Self-directed, online, pre-workshop learning material | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – On-campus, scheduled, face-to-face workshop | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
Online | |||
Learning materials – Self-directed, online, pre-workshop learning material | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Interactive, scheduled, online workshop (Recorded) | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
Writing for television and video
Broadcast industry conventions
Interviewing for video news
Shooting video
Editing video
Presenting to camera
Voiceover
Ethics in broadcast and video
(Mature content MAY be included depending on the news of the day.)
200 Level (Developing)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
1 | Apply news judgement in a broadcast/digital journalism environment and observe legal and ethical obligations. |
Knowledgeable Empowered Ethical |
2 | Effectively manipulate technology to produce broadcast/digital journalism products. |
Creative and critical thinker Empowered Ethical |
3 | Independently plan and create high quality, accurate and engaging television/video stories. |
Empowered Ethical Engaged |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
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This is a second level course so a demonstrated understanding of broadcast news writing, media ethics, news values and video production is required. This course builds upon radio newswriting, and video shooting and editing skills equivalent to those acquired in introductory level courses.
Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
A short online quiz must be completed prior to the end of Week 3. Formative feedback and peer review of writing exercises will be provided in workshops.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | Individual | 25% | 1 minute |
Week 5 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 2 | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | Individual | 25% | 1-minute video with corresponding video script and intro. |
Week 9 | Online Submission |
All | 3 | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | Individual | 50% | 1 minute 20 second edited television story, and script, plus 15 second newsreader intro (script-only). |
Exam Period | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1:Vox Pop Video Story | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | Demonstrate the ability to identify, gather and edit video material within a defined time period to create an engaging video vox pop. Also demonstrate an understanding of the principles of broadcast scripting. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | ||||||||||||||||||
Format: | Vox pop video and script |
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Generic Skills: | Applying technologies, Information literacy |
All - Assessment Task 2:Social Media News Video and Script | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | Demonstrate an understanding of the way social media is used for news and how elements of technology are implemented in television/video journalism practice. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | ||||||||||||||||||
Format: | Social media clip and transcript |
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Generic Skills: | Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies |
All - Assessment Task 3:Television/Video News Production | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | Independently plan, research and create an engaging video story, demonstrating an understanding of news values, format conventions and technology in broadcast journalism. Demonstrate proficiency with shooting and editing technology and software. Produce appropriate presentation elements. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format: | Video news package with script This task is being used for measuring assurance of learning towards Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. The following Program Competency will be assessed: PC Entrepreneurial and innovative thinking and collaboration. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Collaboration, Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies |
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Students undertaking the workshops FACE-TO-FACE will be required to bring headphones to every class. You will be required to bring a hard drive or very large capacity USB to every class. You may use a video camera provided by the university or a mobile phone to record video. If you choose mobile (highly recommended), you will need a cable to transfer files from your mobile phone to a computer at each class - this is typically your charging cable. Students undertaking the workshops ONLINE will require a mobile phone or video recording device and will require a cable to transfer video footage from the device to a computer. Access to a tripod and microphone is highly recommended. Details will be available on Canvas. This course requires some commercial software or hardware which is provided at USC campuses for student use. If you elect to do this course ONLINE, you may either: attend a campus at which it is available, discuss alternative open source solutions with your course coordinator that would enable you to demonstrate the learning outcomes, or if you prefer, you may acquire this software and / or hardware at your own expense.
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