2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
COMM3390 Live News Production
20 creditsClass Size: 48
Module manager: Kate Watkins
Email: k.watkins@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2017/18
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Objectives
This modules requires students to analyse news broadcast genres and to gain production expertise in multimedia news output .The module aims
1) To develop the skills to produce news programmes in a multimedia communications environment
2) To engage in the legal, ethical, and governance framework of multi news output,
3) To analyse the creative and editorial process required for the production of multimedia news, including the role of audience participation, viewer response and User Generated Content
4) To provide students with comprehensive instruction on radio and TV reporting and news production skills.
5) To enable students to understand the principles of Online journalism , and the employment of multimedia platform devices
Learning outcomes
On completion of the module students should be able to:
1. Produce news content to a clear brief across multiple media platforms
2. Work both individually and in a team, demonstrating and understanding of the live news production process
3. Make and justify editorial decisions in the context of live news production
4. Reflect critically on the process of live news production and their own experience of working in this context
Skills outcomes
On completion of this module students will have acquired a proficiency in multimedia reporting and key production techniques and skills.
This enables them to analyse the multimedia working environment and to reflect critically on the 24/7 deadlines required for modern journalists.
Syllabus
This module is an intensive, practical insight into Multimedia news and the decision making processes required for programme output. Students will be divided into news teams, and each team is responsible for developing a Tv or radio programme, and associated Online news output.
They will be required to demonstrate a proficiency in dealing with breaking news and further their skills in analysing how a story can be developed through different multimedia news treatments.
The students will be required to write news output which will demonstrate;
- a competence in the operational aspects of multimedia news production..
- the ability to engage in the route from research to the editing of a news story in this genre.
- the ability to engage in the editorial and production decision making process for a range of programme formats.
- the skills required to devise a programme running order to a strict deadline and to a specific length.
- Students will be required to analyse critically the output of each task through a weekly blog
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Practical | 15 | 8.00 | 120.00 |
Private study hours | 80.00 | ||
Total Contact hours | 120.00 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200.00 |
Private study
Private study –newsday preparation and individual critical evaluationOpportunities for Formative Feedback
Three practice multi media news production sessions followed by six assessed newsdays. Students are assigned an individual task within a tv or radio programme or produce associated online news output. They select evidence of work across all multimedia disciplines for the portfolio submissionMethods of assessment
Coursework
Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
Project | a weekly news blog of 250 words assessing the editorial challenges faced on a newsday | 20.00 |
Practical Report | 6 MULTIMEDIA NEWSDAYS – individual assessment by portfolio of work and continuous assessment by log | 80.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 |
Report: resit would be individual written exercise. Practical: resit would be individual written exercise. Either a radio bulletin, TV script or online report of 1000 word equivalence
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 28/07/2017
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